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U.S. business groups call on President Biden to restart trade talks with China – WSJ
(Refiles to correct typo in first paragraph) (Reuters) - Nearly three dozen of the United States' most influential business groups have asked President Joe Biden's administration to restart trade talk...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. oil set for biggest weekly loss since October as Delta variant fans demand worries
By Naveen Thukral SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures were on track for their biggest weekly decline since late October on Friday, with prices coming under pressure as top consumers impose tr...
Aug 05, 2021
S&P Global downgrades China Evergrande, subsidiaries
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - S&P Global has downgraded the ratings of heavily indebted developer China Evergrande Group and its subsidiaries, citing an escalating risk of non-payment of debt. S&P downgraded E...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission criticized Facebook Inc on Thursday for making "misleading claims" to explain why it had disabled the accounts of researchers studying politica...
Aug 05, 2021
Exclusive: U.S. starts flying migrant families into Mexico far from border – source
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday began flying Central American and Mexican families to southern Mexico in an effort to deter migration by bolstering a COVID-era expul...
Aug 05, 2021
Factbox: CBO estimate leaves U.S. budget shortfall for infrastructure bill backers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congressional Budget Office on Thursday issued its long-awaited judgment that a $1 trillion infrastructure bill being debated in the U.S. Senate will be far from fully ...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. senators to reintroduce bill targeting Cambodian officials on rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. senators said on Thursday they plan to reintroduce legislation that would provide for sanctions to freeze assets of senior Cambodian officials who undermine democra...
Aug 05, 2021
Indonesian blockbuster IPO to set tone for Southeast Asia tech sector
By Anshuman Daga and Fransiska Nangoy SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The first listing of a multibillion-dollar Southeast Asian tech company in Indonesia on Friday will set the benchmark for IPO hopefuls in a ...
Aug 05, 2021
Silicon Valley workers vote down union at SoftBank-backed MapBox
By Julia Love SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Workers of location data startup Mapbox said on Thursday that they had lost their bid to form a union to represent the company's U.S.-based employees, in a setb...
Aug 05, 2021
‘A cautionary tale’: Louisiana doctors face a different COVID-19 surge
By Brad Brooks NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Doctors in Louisiana have been through it before: the exhaustion, the grief, and the overflowing intensive care units. But this new surge of COVID-19 cases drive...
Aug 05, 2021
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