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Biden administration studying whether biofuel waiver could ease food inflation -sources
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is studying whether waiving biofuel blending mandates could help offset a surge in prices for key food ingredients like corn an...
Mar 03, 2022
Icahn takes pig-welfare push global amid McDonald’s proxy fight
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Carl Icahn is broadening a push to get McDonald's Corp to improve suppliers' treatment of pigs raised for bacon and sausage. The billionaire activist investor, who ...
Mar 03, 2022
CDC: More than 90% of U.S. population in areas where can skip wearing masks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that more than 90% of the U.S. population is in a location where COVID-19 levels are low enough that people do...
Mar 03, 2022
Factbox-Stranded assets: How many billions are stuck in Russia?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - So far global companies, banks and investors have announced that they have exposure in some form to Russia of more than $110 billion. That number could rise. Data from research fi...
Mar 03, 2022
Canadian minister opposes Rogers’ deal to buy Shaw
(Reuters) - Canada's industry minister, Franois-Philippe Champagne, on Thursday opposed Rogers Communications Inc's buyout bid for Shaw Communications Inc and said it was incompatible with the governm...
Mar 03, 2022
Citibanamex to remodel Mexican branches, open at least 50 more in $68 million expansion
By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Citibanamex is spending 1.4 billion pesos ($67.8 million) to remodel more than 1,200 branches in Mexico with plans to expand, a top executive said on Thursday. T...
Mar 03, 2022
S&P drags Russia’s rating deeper into junk territory
(Reuters) - Ratings agency S&P on Thursday cut Russia's rating to "CCC-" from "BB+", pushing it further into "junk" territory less than a week after the last downgrade, as fresh international sanction...
Mar 03, 2022
New Jersey city votes to halt licenses of gas stations tied to Russia’s Lukoil
By Brendan O'Brien and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Reflecting growing animosity across the United States toward Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, lawmakers in New Jersey's largest city have voted...
Mar 03, 2022
Visa to cut consumer credit fees for U.S. small businesses by 10% – document
(Reuters) - Visa Inc will lower consumer credit interchange rates for small businesses in the United States by 10%, effective next month, to help merchants recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, accor...
Mar 03, 2022
Texas appeals order stopping it from investigating parents of transgender teen
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - Texas has appealed a judge's order that blocked the state from investigating the parents of a 16-year-old transgender girl for providing her with gender-affirming medic...
Mar 03, 2022
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