Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Italy's Meloni and daughter targeted by online death threat
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her 6-year-old daughter have received online death threats from an unemployed man angry over government plans to cut an anti-poverty subsidy,...
Dec 07, 2022
AIIB signs $200 million facility with TSKB for climate mitigation efforts
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) said on Wednesday it signed a $200 million on-lending facility with Industrial Development Bank of Turkey for Turkey t...
Dec 07, 2022
Bank of Canada set to hike rates, may signal it is near end of tightening cycle
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada is expected to hike its benchmark overnight rate on Wednesday to its highest level in 14 years as it seeks to tame inflation, and it may signal i...
Dec 07, 2022
Voting opens in key UAW test to organize U.S. battery plants
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Workers begin two days of voting on Wednesday to decide whether to unionize at a General Motors-LG Energy battery cell manufacturing joint venture in Ohio. W...
Dec 07, 2022
Swedish self-driving truck start-up Einride raises more cash
By Marie Mannes (Reuters) - Swedish electric self-driving truck start-up Einride said on Wednesday it had agreed to raise capital of $500 million from debt, equity and the conversion of earlier loans,...
Dec 07, 2022
Republicans target judicial scrutiny of elections at U.S. Supreme Court
By Andrew Chung and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a Republican appeal that could transform U.S. elections by giving politicians more power over...
Dec 07, 2022
Marketmind: Crude deflation?
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan. With everyone on Wall St seemingly hand wringing about stagflation next year, the price of crude oil has plummeted by up to 10% this...
Dec 07, 2022
Kremlin says U.S. defence budget "confrontational" towards Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday said that a U.S. military aid spending bill providing $800 million to Ukraine approved by U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday was "confrontational" towards Russia. In...
Dec 07, 2022
EU agrees law to make airlines pay more to pollute
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union reached a deal in the early hours of Wednesday on a law to increase the price that airlines have to pay when they emit planet-heating carbon diox...
Dec 07, 2022
Factbox-China's rigid zero-COVID-19 policy starts to thaw
BEIJING (Reuters) - China unveiled new measures to ease some of the world's toughest COVID-19 curbs on Wednesday, after three years of a "zero-COVID" policy that triggered widespread protests and hamm...
Dec 07, 2022
