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Schlumberger pushes COVID-19 vaccine disclosures as customer mandates grow
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) - Top oilfield services firm Schlumberger NV is asking U.S. employees to disclose their COVID-19 vaccine status and said more customers are mandating vaccinations as a conditi...
Aug 27, 2021
Kraft Heinz to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for office employees
(Reuters) - Kraft Heinz Co said on Friday all U.S. employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to offices in January, as the fast-spreading Delta variant batters the U...
Aug 27, 2021
Gun that killed Billy the Kid sells for $6 million
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The gun that killed American Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid sold for more than $6 million at auction on Friday in Los Angeles, more than double the pre-sale estimate. Bonhams a...
Aug 27, 2021
Affirm soars on buy now, pay later pact with Amazon
(Reuters) -Affirm Holdings Inc shares surged 43% on Friday after the company partnered with Amazon.com Inc to make its buy now, pay later (BNPL) service available to certain customers of the e-commerc...
Aug 27, 2021
Exclusive-Japan’s Inpex sells Venezuela oil and gas assets to local group -sources
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) - Japanese oil company Inpex Corp sold two Venezuelan oil and gas assets to Caracas-based Sucre Energy Group, three people familiar with the transaction said, as multinational f...
Aug 27, 2021
Powell’s wait-and-see speech reassures some investors
By Karen Pierog and Saqib Iqbal Ahmed CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Fed Chair Jerome Powell's wait-and-see approach in a much-anticipated address on Friday gave investors and market participants so...
Aug 27, 2021
Western Digital $20 billion all-stock offer for Kioxia poses valuation, cash challenge – analysts
By Chavi Mehta (Reuters) - A possible merger between storage hardware maker Western Digital Corp with its Japanese partner and chipmaker Kioxia Holdings could create a NAND memory chipmaking giant tha...
Aug 27, 2021
ESPN explores sports-betting deal worth at least $3 billion – WSJ
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's ESPN is looking to license its brand to major sports-betting companies for at least $3 billion over several years to take advantage of the booming online betting industry,...
Aug 27, 2021
U.S. aims to prevent Afghan aid going through Taliban coffers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will continue to be a "very generous" donor of humanitarian aid to the Afghan people and will aim to prevent any of its assistance from passing through Taliban...
Aug 27, 2021
U.S. reports world’s first deer with COVID-19
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Friday it had confirmed the world's first cases of COVID-19 in deer, expanding the list of animals known to have tested positive for the disease. The U....
Aug 27, 2021
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