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Hong Kong central bank raises interest rate after Fed hike
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) on Thursday raised its base rate charged through the overnight discount window by 75 basis points to 3.5%, hours after the U.S. Federal Re...
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UK’s top manufacturing body slashes forecasts for 2023
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's manufacturers association on Thursday slashed its forecast for growth in factory output next year, citing huge uncertainty around demand and energy prices. Make UK downgra...
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Bank of England set for second hefty rate rise in a row
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England looks set to raise interest rates by at least half a percentage point on Thursday in a bid to tame inflation that is just off a 40-year high, a...
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Star-studded ‘Amsterdam’ merges facts, fiction and team work
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Director David O. Russell got his starry cast involved in the creation of his new crime drama "Amsterdam". The five-time Oscar nominee reunited with his "The Fighte...
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United Airlines seeks to resume U.S. flights to Cuba
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Airlines said on Wednesday it is working to resume flights to Cuba later this year that it suspended in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. T...
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Brazil central bank holds interest rates after 12 straight increases
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank on Wednesday decided to keep interest rates unchanged, pausing an aggressive monetary tightening cycle even as policymakers in the United St...
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Banks close painful Citrix debt chapter with $700 million loss -source
By Abigail Summerville and Matt Tracy (Reuters) - Wall Street banks completed the sale of $8.55 billion in loans and bonds backing the leveraged buyout of business software company Citrix Systems Inc ...
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U.S. Senator Manchin releases permitting bill to speed energy projects
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin on Wednesday released an energy permitting bill to speed fossil fuel projects and power transmission for renewable energy. The bill i...
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Meet Japan’s cyborg cockroach, coming to disaster area near you
By Rocky Swift and Tom Bateman SAITAMA, Japan (Reuters) - If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them c...
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Another council member wants to be Pekin Mayor
PEKIN, Ill. – Another member of the Pekin City Council wants the top job. Dave Nutter has announced a run for mayor of Pekin, and will join Council Member Becky Cloyd on the 2023 election ballot...
Will Stevenson Sep 21, 2022
Peoria, IL, USA
51 °F Thunderstorm In Vicinity, Mist
