Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Alkermes lifts shares with plan after Elliott pressure
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Biopharmaceutical company Alkermes responded to pressure from activist investment firm Elliott Management on Thursday with a broad plan designed to boost retu...
Dec 10, 2020
At home of climate accord in Paris, campaigners demand action
PARIS (Reuters) - Campaigners on Thursday unfurled a vast mocked-up poster in front of the Eiffel Tower of French President Emmanuel Macron turning his back on a planet in flames, to press for more ac...
Dec 10, 2020
Bank of England relaxes COVID curbs on bank dividends and bonuses
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's banks can resume paying some dividends and bonuses as they appear well capitalised and resilient to any further fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic, the Ba...
Dec 10, 2020
U.S. withheld evidence in ex-Goldman banker’s 1MDB Malaysia corruption case, lawyer claims
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for a former Goldman Sachs banker charged with involvement in the looting of billions of dollars from Malaysia's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund accused U....
Dec 10, 2020
Taylor Swift ‘just kept writing’ for second surprise album of 2020
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Taylor Swift on Thursday announced the arrival of a second complete surprise album in five months, saying "we just couldn't stop writing songs." Swift told her 141 million foll...
Dec 10, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court allows Muslim men to sue over ‘no-fly’ list placement
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday let three American Muslim men sue several FBI agents who they accused of placing them on the government's "no-fly list" for refusing to b...
Dec 10, 2020
Mnuchin to recommend next Treasury secretary sell $700 million YRC loan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he will recommend that his successor next year consider selling to a third party the $700 million emergency government lo...
Dec 10, 2020
Boxing-Joshua says prepared to go to final bell against Pulev
LONDON (Reuters) - World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua said he is prepared to go to the final bell when he puts his WBA, IBF and WBO belts on the line against Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev on Saturday....
Dec 10, 2020
Nesos raises funding for medical device to ‘hack’ the brain
By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - San Francisco-based startup Nesos raised $16.5 million on Thursday to fund a medical device that it hopes can train parts of the brain to treat inflammatory diseases such a...
Dec 10, 2020
UN experts call for release of Saudi women’s rights activist
GENEVA (Reuters) - Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul appeared before a special terrorism court in Riyadh on Thursday, her family said, on charges U.N. human rights experts called "spur...
Dec 10, 2020
