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Shrinking US cattle herd squeezes meatpacker profits
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. cattle producer Brad Kooima declined multiple, escalating bids from meatpackers seeking to buy his livestock to hold out for higher prices. His bargaining powe...
May 04, 2023
Analysis-Delta’s pilot deal turns up the heat on rival airlines’ union negotiations
By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Allison Lampert (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines' industry-changing pilot contract that offers $7 billion in higher pay and benefits is putting pressure on rival carriers to hand ...
May 04, 2023
Starbucks pushes appeal in Memphis union case; US labor tactics scrutinized
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp's lawyers on Thursday will urge a U.S. appeals court to rule that a lower court should not have forced the company to reinstate seven workers allegedly fi...
May 04, 2023
Would Fed’s Powell go full ‘loathsome’ to buffer against a debt default?
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, asked on Wednesday about what the Fed would do in the event of a U.S. debt default, repeated the mantra of Fed leaders o...
May 04, 2023
Impact Nano, chip materials startup, wins funding from Intel, Goldman Sachs
By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Impact Nano, a Massachusetts-based startup that makes specialty chemicals for the semiconductor industry and others, said on Thursday it raised $32 m...
May 04, 2023
Sberbank’s tech push shows Russia’s growing reliance on its top bank
By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) - Already Russia's dominant lender, state-owned Sberbank has become one of the country's leading technology players, taking on an increasingly important role as sa...
May 04, 2023
‘High wire act’: U.S. Congress gears up for immigration reform as Title 42 ends
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fresh push for bipartisan immigration reforms, coupled with enhanced border security, is emerging in the U.S. Congress, as thousands of migrants amass across ...
May 04, 2023
Water fight: Farms, wildlife at risk as Spanish wetland shrinks
By Elena Rodriguez and Guillermo Martinez EL ROCIO, Spain (Reuters) - Spain's Donana wetland has been a rich farming area for decades and a wildlife haven for centuries, but climate change is drying i...
May 04, 2023
Marketmind: Hike and hold, bank angst and Apple
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan If the Federal Reserve needs more information on what to do for its next move on interest rates, relentless stress in regional bank s...
May 04, 2023
Amid US debt-ceiling standoff, Senate Democrats to dissect Republican plan
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican plan to cut federal spending in exchange for lifting the federal government's debt ceiling will come under the microscope Thursday in the U.S. Sena...
May 04, 2023
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