By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the oldest member of Congress, has been released from the hospital after being treated for shingles, she said on Tuesday, though she did not specify when she would be able to return to Washington. Democrats control the Senate by a narrow 51-49 margin, meaning …
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By Gabriella Borter and Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Republican lawmakers in Florida filed bills on Tuesday to outlaw most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a ban that would severely undercut access to the procedure in the U.S. South if passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. The bills, filed on the opening day of the legislature’s …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday defeated a proposed class action lawsuit on behalf of nearly 7,000 workers in California that claimed the company should have reimbursed employees who worked remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic for home office expenses. U.S. District Judge Vincent Chhabria in San Francisco said the named plaintiff, David …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China will set up a new financial regulatory body consolidating oversight, which analysts said was aimed at closing loopholes with multiple agencies monitoring different aspects of trillions of dollars’ worth of its financial services industry. The government will also set up a bureau responsible for coordinating the sharing and development of data resources, …
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By Tim Hepher and Federica Mileo PARIS (Reuters) – European planemaker Airbus narrowed a jetliner delivery gap compared with last year after a sharp increase in February and turned the page on a major legal dispute with Qatar Airways by reinstating billions of dollars of plane orders. The world’s largest planemaker said on Tuesday it …
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By Echo Wang and Lance Tupper NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sales of shares in publicly listed U.S. companies had their strongest showing last week in more than a year, as companies and some of their shareholders, such as private equity firms, capitalized on the risk appetite of stock market investors. Stock sales reached $4.97 billion …
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Por Chuck Mikolajczak NUEVA YORK, 7 mar (Reuters) -Los rendimientos de los bonos del Tesoro a corto plazo subían el martes, mientras que una parte de la curva de rendimiento mostró su inversión más profunda en más de 40 años, después de que las declaraciones del presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, indicaron que …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Orange and MasMovil’s $19 billion Spanish telecoms merger faces a full-scale EU antitrust investigation, three people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, in a test of whether EU regulators might ease up on deals in the sector. The tie-up between Spain’s second and fourth largest telecoms operators is …
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By Foo Yun Chee and Oliver Hirt BRUSSELS/ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss fragrance and flavour maker Givaudan said on Tuesday that it was being investigated by European Union and Swiss antitrust authorities after the EU announced earlier it had raided several companies on concerns of a cartel in the supply of fragrances and fragrance ingredients. The UK …
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Por Bharat Gautam 7 mar (Reuters) -Los precios del oro cayeron más del 1% el martes, ya que el dólar escaló después de que el presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, indicara que las alzas de tasas podrían acelerarse por parte del banco central estadounidense en su testimonio ante un comité del Congreso. * …
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