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Tesla adds to wave of megacap stock splits
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Tesla's announcement on Monday that it will seek shareholder approval to increase its share count in order to enable a stock split adds to a recent wave of megacap compan...
Mar 28, 2022
Top U.S. Senate Republican rejects Biden budget as inadequate on defense
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell rejected President Joe Biden's budget request on Monday as a reflection of "far-left values" that falls "woefully short" on defense...
Mar 28, 2022
Four years after ‘Volmageddon’, new volatility ETFs to hit market
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two new funds that let investors place bets on stock market gyrations are expected to launch this week, potentially filling the void left by the implosion of ...
Mar 28, 2022
Film academy condemns Will Smith slap, starts review of Oscars incident
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that hands out the Oscars, said in a statement on Monday that it condemned Will Smith's slap of presenter Chris Rock ...
Mar 28, 2022
S&P Global forecasts 8.5% contraction in Russia’s economy in 2022
(Reuters) - S&P Global cut its 2022 GDP growth estimate for Russia by more than 11 percentage points to an 8.5% contraction, while its forecasts for Poland and Turkey were shaved by more than 1 percen...
Mar 28, 2022
In detecting alien life on a faraway planet, methane may be the key
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For humankind, evidence for life beyond Earth is unlikely to be as dramatic as an alien spaceship landing, say, next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It is more like...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. exchanges defeat high-frequency trading lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday dismissed long-running litigation accusing seven U.S. stock exchanges of defrauding ordinary investors by quietly allowing high-frequ...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. trade officials to consider tariffs on solar imports from Southeast Asia
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - U.S. trade officials on Monday said they will launch an investigation into whether to impose tariffs on solar energy equipment from four Southeast Asian nations, a blow to...
Mar 28, 2022
Bayer shareholder Union Investment says CEO should stay on
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer shareholder Union Investment on Monday came out in support of the drugmaker's chief executive serving out his full term after the CEO came under renewed pressure over the c...
Mar 28, 2022
Stoller keeps heat on Democrats regarding COVID-19 debt repayment plan
PEORIA, Ill. – Republican leaders in the Illinois Senate are continuing to say the way Democrats are spending federal COVID-19-related money to pay down various debts, including in the stateR...
Mar 28, 2022
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