Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Oil companies, union reach agreement on U.S. refinery workers contract -sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil companies led by Marathon Petroleum and the United Steelworkers union (USW) agreed to a new national contract on Friday for 30,000 U.S. workers in refineries, chemical plants, a...
Feb 25, 2022
Biden pick preserves Supreme Court’s even split – between Harvard and Yale
By Karen Sloan (Reuters) - The addition of Ketanji Brown Jackson will not change the grip that Harvard and Yale Law alumni hold on the U.S. Supreme Court. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Jacks...
Feb 25, 2022
BA says website hit by technical issue, not cyber attack
LONDON (Reuters) -British Airways said on Friday its website and app was suffering from a technical issue, with no suggestion that it was a cyber attack, after passengers complained on social media of...
Feb 25, 2022
Canada’s Ontario province orders Russian liquor off store shelves
(Reuters) - Canada's Ontario province directed the Liquor Control Board Of Ontario on Friday to withdraw all products produced in Russia from store shelves. "The people of Ontario will always stand ag...
Feb 25, 2022
New U.S. COVID guidelines allow most Americans to go mask-free indoors
By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday dramatically eased its COVID-19 guidelines for when Americans should wear masks indoors, a move that mean...
Feb 25, 2022
Russia-Ukraine volatility hits hard already hammered U.S. credit
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. credit markets have been churning with more volatility spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, on top of uncertainty around monetary policy shifts, hurti...
Feb 25, 2022
EU could cut Russia off from SWIFT system, senior official says
(Reuters) - The European Union could exclude Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system in a fresh round of sanctions, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Friday. "Putin ...
Feb 25, 2022
Bulgaria parliament approves 2022 budget with 4.1% deficit target
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament on Friday rubber-stamped the 2022 budget bill that targets a fiscal deficit of 4.1% of economic output this year, planning for an increased public investment to...
Feb 25, 2022
Bank sanctions are a sharper sword than cutting Russia off SWIFT, German minister says
BERLIN (Reuters) -The package of banking sanctions that the European Union is imposing will hit Russian President Vladimir Putin's government harder than excluding Russia from the SWIFT payments syste...
Feb 25, 2022
Exclusive-Sartorius in $11 billion bid for COVID vaccine reagent vendor Maravai -sources
By Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) - Laboratory supplies vendor Sartorius AG has approached Maravai LifeSciences Holdings Inc, a U.S. provider of capping reagents for COVID-19 vaccines, with an $11 billion...
Feb 25, 2022
