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In Bolsonaro’s backyard, Brazil central bank pressures banks to hew to greener line
By Carolina Mandl and Jamie McGeever SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank is preparing to require banks to account for potential losses from climate change-related phenomena such as dr...
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Financial regulators urgently need to get a grip on ‘Big Tech’ – BIS
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks and financial regulators urgently need to get to grips with the growing influence of 'Big Tech', according to top officials from central bank umbrella gr...
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Teenage girls in northern Nigeria ‘open their minds’ with robotics
By Seun Sanni and Nneka Chile KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Teenage girls in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are learning robotics, computing and other STEM subjects as part of an innovative project th...
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The robot apocalypse is hard to find in America’s small and mid-sized factories
By Timothy Aeppel CLEVELAND (Reuters) - When researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology visited Rich Gent's machine shop here to see how automation was spreading to America's small and...
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U.S. Senate works to push $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to passage
By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will try to complete work this week on a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill that would bring long-awaited improvements ...
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U.S. labor revival in doubt as Delta raises worries about ‘back to school’
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In April, almost a year after she was laid off from her hospitality firm due to the pandemic, Sara Gard was still barely finding her feet with...
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Dorsey-led $29 billion deal delivers prompt payday for Afterpay founders
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - A tweet by Kim Kardashian promoting Afterpay as a way to buy her beauty products may have proved pivotal for the Australian buy now, pay later pioneer, whose founders ...
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UK factories lose a bit more pace in July, prices rising-PMI
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's factories reported a further slowing of growth in July - although it was still one of the fastest paces on record - as they struggled with staff shortages and supply chain...
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Remote Illinois driver’s license renewal to be expanded
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Secretary of State’s office has noticed an increase in foot traffic in its Driver Services facilities. The office is responding by expanding its remote ren...
Ed Hammond Aug 02, 2021
Australia’s deal boom set to intensify on cheap cash, pandemic confidence -bankers
By Scott Murdoch and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Australia's record merger-and-acquisition (M&A) boom can only intensify in the near term as ultra-low interest rates and confidence that the economy ...
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