Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. Navy ship fires warning shots after close encounter with Iranian vessels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. military ship fired warning shots after three vessels from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came close to it and another American patrol boat in the G...
Apr 27, 2021
U.S. appeals court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s bail request
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's request for bail, as she prepares for trial on charges she procured teenage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epste...
Apr 27, 2021
Visa second-quarter profit falls as pandemic crimps travel spending
(Reuters) - Visa Inc reported a small fall in quarterly profit on Tuesday as the COVID-19 pandemic hurt large parts of the global travel and retail industries, hitting cross-border spending volumes fo...
Apr 27, 2021
Former Obama White House adviser charged in $218,000 theft from charter schools
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former White House education adviser under President Barack Obama was arrested on Tuesday and charged with stealing about $218,000 from a charter school netw...
Apr 27, 2021
Advanced Micro Devices forecasts current-quarter revenue above estimates
(Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, betting on strong demand for its chips used in data centers and personal computers. Shares...
Apr 27, 2021
Botswana president in self-quarantine, to miss meeting on Mozambique attacks
GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana's president will miss a Southern African regional meeting he had been due to chair on Thursday to discuss recent attacks on Mozambique after a staff member tested positiv...
Apr 27, 2021
Pinterest signals strong revenue growth on ad spending rebound
(Reuters) - Pinterest Inc forecast current-quarter revenue above estimates on Tuesday, betting on robust user growth and higher ad spending from businesses looking to cash in on the pandemic-driven on...
Apr 27, 2021
Mondelez quarterly sales beat estimates on snacking boom
(corrects paragraph 3 to say North American revenue grew to $1.98 billion, not $7.24 billion) (Reuters) -Mondelez International Inc beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, boo...
Apr 27, 2021
Microsoft beats quarterly revenue expectations on cloud strength
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly revenue on Tuesday, as the software giant benefited from demand for its cloud-based services during the pandemic-induced remote w...
Apr 27, 2021
Amgen first-quarter profit, sales fall; lower drug prices cited
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - U.S. biotech Amgen Inc on Tuesday said its first-quarter sales and profit fell due to a 7% drop in its net drug prices and the COVID-19 pandemic, which continued to limit ...
Apr 27, 2021
