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Stakes are high as megacap companies highlight big earnings week
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are hoping a flood of U.S. quarterly reports next week, including those from megacap growth titans, will confirm a solid profit outlook for corporate ...
Apr 22, 2022
Fed to go even bigger on rate hikes, traders bet
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve is poised to follow a half-of-a-percentage point interest rate hike in May with two even bigger rate hikes at subsequent meetings, traders were betting on Friday, one day a...
Apr 22, 2022
Trump ‘some responsibility’ for Jan. 6 shortly after attack, McCarthy said -NYT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump acknowledged "some responsibility" for what happened the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy told ...
Apr 22, 2022
Sri Lanka says India, World Bank consider $2 billion bridge finance
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's finance minister said on Friday that its neighbour India and the World Bank are considering extending about $2 billion in bridge finance so it can ...
Apr 22, 2022
McDonald’s beats back challenge to settlement with U.S. labor agency
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Friday defeated a union-backed organizing group's challenge to a settlement with a U.S. labor agency over claims that the company helped franchisees a...
Apr 22, 2022
Starbucks eyes changes to mobile app, drive-thrus, taps ex-McDonald’s exec
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks has hired a former McDonald's executive to oversee technology as returning CEO Howard Schultz explores changes to the coffee chain's drive-thru, mobile or...
Apr 22, 2022
The golden ticket: Will Trump’s endorsement in Ohio race burnish or tarnish his star power?
By James Oliphant CORTLAND, Ohio (Reuters) - Josh Mandel, a leading contender to win the nomination in the U.S. Senate Republican primary battle in Ohio, expressed confidence this week that victory wa...
Apr 22, 2022
ECB’s Lagarde sees strong chance of a rate hike this year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The European Central Bank is likely to end its bond purchase scheme in early third quarter and raise rates before the end of the year, European Central Bank President Christine L...
Apr 22, 2022
Heirs to Nazi-looted painting win U.S. appeal in case against Spanish museum
MADRID (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Jewish family that is trying to reclaim a Camille Pissarro painting seized by the Nazis in 1939 and now owned by a leading Spanish mu...
Apr 22, 2022
BOJ’s Kuroda vows to ‘persistently’ continue aggressive monetary easing
By Dan Burns NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday the central bank should "persistently" continue with its current aggressive monetary easing, despite an expected ...
Apr 22, 2022
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