Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Political furore in Italy after League councillor kills Moroccan
ROME (Reuters) - A member of Italy's rightist League party was placed under house arrest on Wednesday after shooting dead a Moroccan immigrant following an altercation in a bar. Massimo Adriatici, a L...
Jul 21, 2021
Crypto miner Core Scientific to go public via $4.3 billion SPAC deal
(Reuters) -Core Scientific Holding Co said on Wednesday it would go public through a merger with a blank-check company backed by BlackRock Inc, in a deal that values the cryptocurrency miner at $4.3 b...
Jul 21, 2021
Norway scrambles warplanes to escort Russian bombers
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Norway scrambled warplanes on Wednesday to escort Russian strategic bombers over the Barents and Norwegian seas, the Russian defence ministry said, quoted by TASS new agency. The Ru...
Jul 21, 2021
Five U.S. senators want to ensure Verizon TracFone deal does not raise prices
(Reuters) - Five Democratic U.S. senators on Wednesday urged the Federal Communications Commission ensure Verizon's proposed $6.9 billion acquisition of TracFone does not raise prices or impact govern...
Jul 21, 2021
Intel raises to $600 million planned Costa Rica chip plant investment
SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Intel Costa Rica said on Wednesday that it almost doubled a proposed investment in a micro chip plant in the Central American country to $600 million, and aims to triple the numbe...
Jul 21, 2021
Norway, Lithuania swap J&J, Pfizer vaccines to speed up inoculation
By Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) - Norway on Wednesday signed a deal to swap 100,000 doses of its unused shots made by Johnson & Johnson with Lithuania in return for an equal number of doses from Pfizer in...
Jul 21, 2021
Daimler nominates Olaf Koch, Helene Svahn for supervisory board
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler is proposing former Metro Chief Executive Olaf Koch and former Haldex Chief Executive Helene Svahn join its supervisory board, the carmaker said on Wednesday. Shareholder...
Jul 21, 2021
Italy investigates Blackstone-owned LIA insurer over tax evasion allegations -sources
MILAN (Reuters) - Milan prosecutors are investigating Lombard International Assurance (LIA), a Luxembourg-based insurer owned by U.S. fund Blackstone, due to allegations of tax evasion and money laund...
Jul 21, 2021
What, me worry? Fed chief’s emotional tone can drive markets, study suggests
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jerome Powell took over as head of the Federal Reserve in 2018 pledging a plain-spoken, language-of-the-people approach to talking about monetary policy. It ...
Jul 21, 2021
Factbox-Hear it for yourself: How Fed chiefs’ emotions come through
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a machine learning study of Federal Reserve chiefs, former Chair Ben Bernanke had several news conferences when his answers were all judged to have been delivered with a posi...
Jul 21, 2021
