Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Walmart boosts industry-leading U.S. trucker pay to $110,000, starts retraining program
By Lisa Baertlein and Arriana McLymore LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walmart said it is boosting starting pay for its 12,000 long-haul truck drivers who deliver merchandise to its stores and Sam's Clubs loc...
Apr 07, 2022
Brazil’s OECD accession to require reforms no matter who wins October election
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's accession to the OECD will require whoever wins the presidential election in October to continue the reforms needed to meet membership requirements, Myron Brilliant, hea...
Apr 07, 2022
Russia says rouble appreciations poses no threat to fiscal policy
(Reuters) - The recent sharp strengthening of the rouble "does not pose a risk to Russia's fiscal policy," the finance ministry said on Thursday. The rouble firmed sharply in Moscow trade on Thursday ...
Apr 07, 2022
Fed’s Bostic, Evans back rate rises with dovish overtones
(Reuters) - As expectations rise that the Federal Reserve will step up its efforts to contain inflation with bigger interest rate hikes, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and Atlanta Fed President R...
Apr 07, 2022
Explosion in a bar kills eight at Congolese military camp
KINSHASA (Reuters) - An explosion in a bar at a military camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed eight people and wounded three more on Thursday, Congo's government spokesman, Patrick Muya...
Apr 07, 2022
U.S. EPA denies 36 refinery biofuel waivers; gives most of them some relief
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied 36 petitions from oil refiners seeking exemptions to the nation's biofuel blending laws for the 2018 complia...
Apr 07, 2022
Ireland says two diplomats expelled from Russia
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's ambassador to Russia was summoned to Moscow's foreign ministry on Thursday and told that two diplomats have been asked to leave the country, Irish Foreign Minister Simon C...
Apr 07, 2022
Factbox – Just how bad is Lebanon’s economic meltdown?
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday it had reached a preliminary agreement with Lebanon for a four-year extended fund facility that would only get full approval f...
Apr 07, 2022
Amazon objects to union’s victory in Staten Island, alleging interference
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc alleged without providing evidence that the union that Staten Island workers voted to join had threatened staff to vote in favor of organizing, as part of objections the ret...
Apr 07, 2022
Russian Nobel Peace laureate Muratov says he was attacked with red paint
(Reuters) - The Russian co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, Dmitry Muratov, was attacked on a train with red paint on Thursday, he said, in an apparent protest at his newspaper's coverage of R...
Apr 07, 2022
