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Ida’s insurance impact likely to be boosted by pandemic pricing
By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK (Reuters) - Insurers are bracing for $15 billion to $30 billion in claims from Hurricane Ida, but the figure could jump higher, in part because of pandemic pricing that has pus...
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Nearly 30% of Brazil’s gold exports are illegal, report says
By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Roughly 28% of Brazilian gold exports in 2019 and 2020 likely came from illegal mines, a report by public prosecutors and the Federal University of Minas Ge...
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Google, Facebook, Microsoft top EU lobbying spending – study
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google unit, Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp are the three biggest lobbying spenders in Europe in a battle against tough new laws aimed at curbing U...
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SEC chairman says ban of payment for order flow ‘on the table’ – Barron’s
(Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler said a full ban of the controversial payment for order flow (PFOF) practice is "on the table," financial newspaper Barron...
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U.S. appeals court revives Madoff trustee lawsuit against Citigroup
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday said Citigroup Inc must face a $343.1 million clawback lawsuit by the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's former firm, who a...
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Robinhood shares tumble after PayPal news, SEC scrutiny of key revenue stream
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Robinhood Markets Inc, a popular gateway for trading meme stocks, tumbled on Monday on news that PayPal Holdings Inc may start an online brokerage and a ...
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Last U.S. forces leave Afghanistan after almost 20 years
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Monday said it had completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan in a chaotic airlift nearly 20 years after it invad...
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‘Everything collapsed’: Post-Katrina refuge rocked by Ida
By Devika Krishna Kumar LAPLACE, La. (Reuters) - LaPlace, a Louisiana town on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, sustained relatively little damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. That led some to view ...
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Zoom beats quarterly revenue estimates
(Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications Inc beat analysts' estimates for quarterly revenue on Monday as demand remained strong for its video-conferencing service from more companies embracing hybrid wor...
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U.S. urges lawyers to volunteer to fight feared surge of evictions
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday urged attorneys across the legal profession to volunteer their time to assist the crush of tenants expected to be forced out of homes now...
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