Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Ex-Wall Street quantitative analyst pleads guilty to U.S. insider trading charge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Wall Street quantitative analyst pleaded guilty on Wednesday to insider trading for making nearly 2,900 trades after learning his employer would soon make the same trades...
Dec 15, 2021
Fed's Powell: No call yet on when balance sheet would shrink
By Dan Burns (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday said that while policymakers have decided on a swifter end to the asset purchases that have been padding its easy-money policy...
Dec 15, 2021
Brazil registers 301 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil registered 301 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday and 5,446 additional cases, according to data released by the nation's Health Ministry, though the statistics were incompl...
Dec 15, 2021
Apple delays return to office - Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Apple Inc is delaying its return to the office indefinitely, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing a memo sent by Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook. The company did not immediately r...
Dec 15, 2021
Qantas says competition to intensify, will report large H1 loss
By Jamie Freed SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas Airways Ltd said on Thursday it expects domestic competition to intensify in the second half of the financial year as state borders open, after forecasting a f...
Dec 15, 2021
Omicron thrives in airways, not lungs; new data on asymptomatic cases
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified...
Dec 15, 2021
New Zealand GDP shrinks 3.7% in Q3 due to Delta lockdowns
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 3.7% in the third quarter from the previous quarter, the second largest decline on record, as the economy was hit by an outbrea...
Dec 15, 2021
Lennar profit rises 35% on robust housing demand, price boom
(Reuters) -Lennar Corp reported an about 35% rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday, as the No.2 U.S. homebuilder benefited from consistently high demand for houses and surging prices. Demand for housi...
Dec 15, 2021
Biden nominates JFK's daughter Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Australia
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to be U.S. ambassador to Australia and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize, the White H...
Dec 15, 2021
Biden taps two for U.S. CFTC -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Biden on Wednesday nominated Summer Mersinger and Caroline Pham to be members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the White House said. Mersinger has ser...
Dec 15, 2021
