Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Bitcoin touches record above $29,000, extending 2020 rally
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - The price of Bitcoin topped $29,000 on Thursday for the first time, with the digital currency almost quadrupling in value this year amid heightened interest from i...
Dec 31, 2020
More than 2.8 million have voted early in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 2.8 million Georgians have voted so far in a U.S. Senate runoff election, according to state data published on Thursday about the closely watched race t...
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. stock funds record $354 million inflow in week -Lipper
(Reuters) - U.S.-based equity funds in the week ended Wednesday posted inflows of $354 million, according to Lipper. Taxable bond funds attracted $9.527 billion, the biggest inflow in eleven weeks, wh...
Dec 31, 2020
After golden year for precious metals, silver set to shine in 2021
By Peter Hobson (Reuters) - After a spectacular year, precious metals are set for further gains in 2021, with silver tipped to outperform, but analysts are growing more cautious about the prospects fo...
Dec 31, 2020
Ontario finance minister resigns amid outrage over Caribbean holiday
By Maiya Keidan TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario's Finance Minister Rod Phillips resigned on Thursday after public outrage over a Caribbean vacation he took earlier this month in violation of his own gover...
Dec 31, 2020
Former Viacom shareholders can sue Shari Redstone over ViacomCBS merger
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A Delaware judge ruled this week that former Viacom shareholders may pursue a lawsuit accusing Shari Redstone of engineering a "patently unfair" merger that created Via...
Dec 31, 2020
Colombia heads into 2021 with calls for quarantines to fight pandemic uptick
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - A holiday season uptick in coronavirus infections will give Colombia a rocky start to 2021, Health Minister Fernando Ruiz said on Thursday, while doctors called fo...
Dec 31, 2020
Times Square barricaded, quiet for New Year's Eve
By Dan Fastenberg and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's Times Square was barricaded on Thursday, with only a handful of invited guests, including health care workers and others from ...
Dec 31, 2020
France's new daily COVID-19 cases a little down but still close to 20,000
PARIS (Reuters) - The French health ministry reported 19,927 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours on Thursday, down from Wednesday's more than one-month high of 26,457 but still far from ...
Dec 31, 2020
SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code: Microsoft blog post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft and access some of the company's source code, the firm said on Thursday. In a blog post, the ...
Dec 31, 2020
