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Weil distress index shows UK companies at highest level since June 2020
By Chiara Elisei LONDON (Reuters) - Corporate distress levels in Britain accelerated in the three months to February to their highest since June 2020, an index compiled by law firm Weil Gotshal & Mang...
Mar 23, 2023
Brazil’s markets cool to central bank’s hawkish stance
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian markets responded coldly on Thursday to the central bank's decision to maintain a hawkish stance and keep interest rates unchanged in the face of rising...
Mar 23, 2023
Secretary of State’s office gives out grants to combat carjacking and vehicle thefts
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Peoria-area is receiving funding to try and combat carjackings and vehicle thefts. The Greater Peoria Auto Crimes Task Force is receiving $2,150,700 in grant money from S...
Mar 23, 2023
Pentagon probes lapse in Boeing security credentials for Air Force One – WSJ
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is scrutinizing why Boeing Co employees worked on current and future Air Force One planes without the security credentials required for the highly clas...
Mar 23, 2023
UBS races to seal Credit Suisse deal as soon as late April, sources say
By Elisa Martinuzzi, Saeed Azhar and Stefania Spezzati LONDON (Reuters) - The Swiss authorities and UBS Group AG are racing to close the takeover of Credit Suisse Group AG within as little as a month,...
Mar 23, 2023
Union workers can’t sue under Illinois biometric law, court rules
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Illinois' top court on Thursday said U.S. labor law bars unionized workers from suing their employers for violations of the state's biometric privacy law, which can expo...
Mar 23, 2023
Analysis-Fed pause before European peers to lift Treasuries, European stocks
By Yoruk Bahceli and Naomi Rovnick (Reuters) - As markets bet banking turmoil will prompt the Federal Reserve to pause rate hikes before Europe, U.S. bonds and European equities are tipped to win from...
Mar 23, 2023
Pro-DeSantis group brings on top political strategist as campaign heats up
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Republican strategist and adviser to the governor of Virginia has joined a high-dollar fundraising group aimed at getting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis el...
Mar 23, 2023
House passes bill prohibiting book bans
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois House passed a bill Wednesday that would prohibit libraries from banning books or other material because of partisan or doctrinal pressure, pro...
Mar 23, 2023
Yellen, caught between financial markets and US Congress, pleases neither
By Heather Timmons and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will sit for her third congressional hearing in a week on Thursday, where, once again, she's likely to be pre...
Mar 23, 2023
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