Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Analysis: Why Biden's securities regulator faces climate crackdown challenges
By Chris Prentice and Ross Kerber WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - With Democrats at the helm, the U.S. securities regulator is pledging to crack down on companies and funds that mislead investors over c...
Mar 17, 2021
Kazakhstan faces medicine shortages after forcing price cuts
ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan faces shortages of essential medicines such as aspirin after the Central Asian nation's government tried to pressure drug makers and distributors into cutting prices, ind...
Mar 17, 2021
Lumentum raises takeover offer for Coherent to $6.9 billion
(Reuters) - Coherent Inc said on Wednesday optical fiber firm Lumentum Holdings Inc had raised its offer for the company to $6.9 billion following a three-way takeover battle for the laser firm. Under...
Mar 17, 2021
U.S. far-right leaflets and posters surged last year, Anti-Defamation League says
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. far-right and white supremacist groups sharply stepped up their distribution of racist or anti-Semitic fliers, posters banners and other forms of physical...
Mar 17, 2021
Hopes and fears raised in rural West Virginia by push for $15 minimum wage
By Jason Lange and Makini Brice (Reuters) - At the Custard Stand restaurant in Webster Springs, West Virginia, Angie Cowger worries Democrats' goal of raising the hourly minimum wage to $15 would be t...
Mar 17, 2021
How a Petrobras sacking ended Bolsonaro's free-market flirtation
By Sabrina Valle, Gram Slattery and Lisandra Paraguassu RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - For many investors, President Jair Bolsonaro killed the dream of Brazil's free-market renaissance with a Friday night...
Mar 17, 2021
'Clean' investment funds less vulnerable to climate shocks, says EU watchdog
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Funds that invest in 'brown' or polluting companies would be hit far harder than environmentally-friendly 'green' funds in a climate-related market shock, the European ...
Mar 17, 2021
As Republicans attack Biden on immigration, poll shows support from their voters
By Chris Kahn and David Morgan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican voters in the United States are increasingly hostile toward illegal immigrants, Reuters/Ipsos polling shows, an unease that the Republica...
Mar 17, 2021
Judge to query jurors in George Floyd murder trial about $27 million settlement
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - The judge in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in last year's arrest of George Floyd, will ask jurors on Wednesday about th...
Mar 17, 2021
Taiwan's Delta put chip orders in early, impact of shortage limited
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Delta Electronics Inc, a supplier of power components to companies such as Apple Inc, said on Wednesday it had put its orders in early and so was not seeing much impact fro...
Mar 17, 2021
