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Holocene Advisors says Merck’s offer undervalues Acceleron
(Reuters) - Investment management firm Holocene Advisors said it will not tender its shares in Acceleron Pharma Inc into Merck & Co's proposed $180 per share offer for the drugmaker, as it significant...
Oct 13, 2021
Brazil’s Itau lures 10 million clients to its digital bank
By Aluisio Alves SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's biggest lender Itau Unibanco Holding SA has lured 10 million consumers to its digital bank iti, tripling its client base since January, a bank executive...
Oct 13, 2021
Union Pacific to comply with COVID vaccine deadline for U.S. workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Union Pacific Corp said on Wednesday it will require its 31,000 U.S. employees to be vaccinated under President Joe Biden's executive order requiring that federal contractors ma...
Oct 13, 2021
White House heeded pressure to reopen Canada border -U.S. lawmaker
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressman from New York said on Wednesday that political pressure had persuaded the White House to end a historic 19-month closure of its land borde...
Oct 13, 2021
Column-How a historic Social Security hike will affect Americans
By Mark Miller CHICAGO (Reuters) - (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters) A 6 percent raise does not come along often these days for most Americans, but a bump ...
Oct 13, 2021
Mixing COVID-19 booster shots safe, says NIH study
(Reuters) - Mixing booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines currently authorized in the United States was found to be safe in adults, a study by the National Institutes of Health showed on Wednesday. (Repor...
Oct 13, 2021
IMF chief economist backs exemptions to German debt brake, Handelsblatt reports
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany should apply its debt brake more flexibly and suspend it again if needed to favour investment, particularly in green technologies and digitalisation, the International Monet...
Oct 13, 2021
U.S. planning offshore wind farms from Maine to California
(Reuters) -The United States plans to hold up to seven offshore wind auctions in the next four years and will extend its ambitions to areas that have yet to be developed such as off the coast of Calif...
Oct 13, 2021
Biden’s Supreme Court commission to issue preliminary report Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's commission studying potential U.S. Supreme Court changes such as expanding the number of justices or imposing term limits on them will release its prelimin...
Oct 13, 2021
Top U.S. steelmaker sees prices easing, urges policymakers to keep curbs on imports
By Timothy Aeppel (Reuters) - Steel prices, driven to nosebleed highs by surging demand, should start to "erode" by the first part of next year as COVID-related supply bottlenecks ease and new domesti...
Oct 13, 2021
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