VIENNA (Reuters) – European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Robert Holzmann on Monday watered down his recent call for three further interest-rate increases of 50 basis points in quick succession. Holzmann, who heads the Austrian National Bank, told German business daily Handelsblatt two weeks ago the ECB should raise rates by 50 basis points at each …
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(Reuters) – California’s financial regulator said on Monday it will issue a report on a comprehensive review of its own oversight and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank by early May. “Through this review, we will examine how we can strengthen and update our system of financial regulation to meet emerging and evolving challenges,” the Department …
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By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks jumped on Monday after a deal to rescue Credit Suisse and central bank efforts to bolster confidence in the financial system relieved investors, while participants also weighed the likelihood of a pause in rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this week. UBS late on Sunday agreed …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Facebook content moderators in Kenya are suing the social media site’s parent company Meta and two outsourcing companies for unlawful redundancy, a rights group said on Monday. The 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union. They also say …
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(Reuters) -A former director of Tesla Inc’s Australian unit was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment and will be released immediately on the condition of “good behaviour”, Australia’s corporate watchdog said on Tuesday. The sentence follows the former director’s guilty pleas to two insider trading offences tied to a supply deal the electric-car …
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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd convinced a Los Angeles federal jury on Friday that its Galaxy S10 phones do not violate the trademark rights of a talent-management agency that also uses the “S10” name. The jury found that S10 Entertainment & Media LLC had not shown that Samsung’s popular smartphones were …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – Some of the world’s leading makers of flu vaccines say they could make hundreds of millions of bird flu shots for humans within months if a new strain of avian influenza ever jumps across the species divide. One current outbreak of avian flu known as H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b has …
Por Brad Brooks 20 mar (Reuters) – Filadelfia pagará 9,25 millones de dólares para resolver una demanda colectiva presentada por manifestantes a favor de la justicia racial que acusaron a la policía de cometer abusos contra ellos en una manifestación celebrada en 2020 tras el asesinato de George Floyd, informó el lunes la ciudad. El …
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Por Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, 20 mar (Reuters) – El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, firmó el lunes un proyecto de ley que obliga a la directora de Inteligencia Nacional, Avril Haines, a desclasificar la información relacionada con los orígenes del COVID-19, según informó la Casa Blanca. Biden dijo que compartía el objetivo del Congreso …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The annual U.S. report on human rights practices released on Monday listed “significant human rights issues” and abuses in India, including reported targeting of religious minorities, dissidents and journalists, the U.S. State Department said. The findings come nearly a year after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. …
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