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U.S. Treasury warns cyber insurers payments to hackers may violate sanctions
By Suzanne Barlyn (Reuters) - Cyber insurers and other financial institutions that facilitate payments to hackers to end cyberattacks risk running afoul of sanctions rules, the U.S. Treasury Departmen...
Oct 01, 2020
Amazon discloses virus count: 19,000, or 1.44%, of U.S. frontline workforce
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its U.S. frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44% of the total, a disclosure long sought by la...
Oct 01, 2020
Universal Health Services says its network is being restored after malware incident
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) - Universal Health Services Inc said on Thursday that its corporate network is being restored after a malware incident knocked it out for five days. In a statement, the hea...
Oct 01, 2020
50 U.S. senators call for talks on trade agreement with Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifty U.S. senators from both parties called on Thursday for President Donald Trump's administration to begin negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan, part of a push...
Oct 01, 2020
From hungry squirrels to cyberattacks, exchange outages roil markets
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was brought to a standstill by a hardware failure on Thursday, in the worst-ever outage for the world's third-largest equity ma...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. oil producers on pace for most bankruptcies since last oil downturn
By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Arathy S Nair NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oasis Petroleum Inc and Lonestar Resources US Inc's bankruptcy filings are the latest in a slew of restructurings that put oil-and-gas pr...
Oct 01, 2020
Coal baron Murray seeks U.S. benefits to treat his black lung disease – report
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. coal baron Robert Murray, whose company Murray Energy filed for bankruptcy last year, has applied for federal benefits to treat his black lung disease ...
Oct 01, 2020
Gap to hire virtually for fulfillment, customer centers this holiday season
(Reuters) - Gap Inc said on Thursday it will virtually hire seasonal staff for the busy holiday months to help the apparel retailer fulfill online orders and man its customer contact centers as consum...
Oct 01, 2020
Bed Bath & Beyond posts surprise profit on booming online business
(Reuters) - Bed Bath & Beyond Inc on Thursday posted a surprise quarterly profit and its first comparable sales growth in nearly four years, boosted by strong online demand for home furnishing and dec...
Oct 01, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall; consumer spending solid in August
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits drifted lower last week, though remaining at recession levels, underscoring the need for another government rescue...
Oct 01, 2020
