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U.S. withdraws Trump-era land deal in Alaska wildlife refuge
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Tuesday it rescinded a land swap deal struck by former President Donald Trump's interior secretary that would have allowed a new road to c...
Mar 14, 2023
Hunt, hemmed in by debt, set to focus on growth in UK budget
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Jeremy Hunt will announce on Wednesday how he will try to speed up the world's sixth-biggest economy after the shocks of Brexit, a heav...
Mar 14, 2023
Green groups sue Biden admin over approval of Alaska Willow oil project
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday over the Biden administration's approval of ConocoPhillips' Willow oil and gas project in Alaska, which th...
Mar 14, 2023
KPMG stands by audits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank – FT
(Reuters) - KPMG's U.S. boss, Paul Knopp, said the accounting firm stood behind its audits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Knopp said KPMG's audit w...
Mar 14, 2023
Goldman Sachs bought SVB’s bond portfolio, lender says
(Reuters) -Troubled lender SVB Financial Group said on Tuesday Goldman Sachs Group Inc had bought its bond portfolio before federal regulators took the bank into receivership. The portfolio, consistin...
Mar 14, 2023
NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $112 million contract for far-side moon lander
(Reuters) - NASA on Tuesday said it had picked U.S. rocket builder Firefly Aerospace to put a lander on the moon's far side in 2026, under a nearly $112 million contract. "The commercial lander will d...
Mar 14, 2023
TikTok mulls splitting from ByteDance if proposal with U.S. fails – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) -China's TikTok is considering separating from parent ByteDance to help address U.S. concerns about national security risks, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with t...
Mar 14, 2023
Brazil development bank aims to pay out sums totaling 2% of GDP by 2026
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - An executive at Brazilian state development bank BNDES said on Tuesday the bank aims to pay out the equivalent of 2% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2026. B...
Mar 14, 2023
Explainer-Why Japan’s ‘shunto’ spring wage talks are a big deal this year
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Every March, management of major Japanese firms meet with unions for wage talks across industries that set the tone for employees' pay in the ne...
Mar 14, 2023
U.S. Senate’s banking panel chairman: Congress unlikely to tighten banking rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress should enact financial regulations to strengthen stress tests and capital and liquidity standards for banks, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown sa...
Mar 14, 2023
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