Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Fed's Daly: 'Dangerous' to pick one metric for full employment
(Reuters) - San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly on Thursday said it would be dangerous to pick just one benchmark against which to measure the U.S. central bank's full employment goal, b...
Jan 07, 2021
Biden picks Rhode Island governor for Commerce, Boston mayor for Labor: sources
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo as his Commerce Department secretary and former union official and ...
Jan 07, 2021
Brazil passes 200,000 COVID-19 deaths amid record jump in cases
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil has registered more than 200,000 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, underlining the tragic scale of the outbreak in the country with the world's sec...
Jan 07, 2021
Trump awards Medal of Freedom to Sorenstam, Player, Zaharias
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, facing calls for his removal from office, turned from controversy to ceremony on Thursday as he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to golfers Annika Sor...
Jan 07, 2021
Boeing will pay $2.5 billion to resolve U.S. criminal probe into 737 MAX crashes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co will pay over $2.5 billion to resolve the Justice Department's investigation into two deadly 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people, the Justice Department said. The J...
Jan 07, 2021
Dominican Republic bans child marriage amid fears of global rise
By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Dominican Republic needs to change its culture so that women are seen as more than housewives for this week's ban on child marriage to wo...
Jan 07, 2021
Fed sees rising bond yields, inflation expectations as a possible win
By Jonnelle Marte, Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider (Reuters) - A recent rise in U.S. bond yields and market inflation expectations has bolstered Federal Reserve officials' hopes that the central bank'...
Jan 07, 2021
Trump team 'folds' on Georgia election challenge: state official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump campaign has dropped its legal challenge to Georgia's election results that gave Democrat Joe Biden a victory in the southern state, Georgia's top election official sa...
Jan 07, 2021
21.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed, 5.9 million administered: U.S. CDC
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 5,919,418 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 21,419,800 dos...
Jan 07, 2021
Trump has discussed pardoning himself: New York Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has said he is considering pardoning himself in discussions with aides since the November election, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The news...
Jan 07, 2021
