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CRYPTOVERSE: Bitcoin squeezes smaller rivals to its crown
By Medha Singh and Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) - Bitcoin is beginning to reassert its dominance over challengers to its cryptocurrency crown. The original digital coin was assailed by thousands o...
Feb 01, 2022
UBS plans to boost profitability, logs smaller-than-expected Q4 profit fall
ZURICH (Reuters) -UBS announced more ambitious profitability goals and a continued plan to pare back costs on Tuesday, while also reporting a smaller-than-expected 18% slide in fourth-quarter earnings...
Jan 31, 2022
China Jan new home prices slip 0.01% mth/mth – research firm
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's new home prices in January fell by less than in the previous month, data released by a private-sector reseatch firm showed on Tuesday, pointing to slightly improved sentime...
Jan 31, 2022
Rio Tinto report finds ‘disturbing’ culture of sexual harassment, racism and bullying
By Praveen Menon (Reuters) - A report released by Rio Tinto on Tuesday outlined a culture of bullying, harassment and racism at the global mining giant, including 21 complaints of actual or attempted ...
Jan 31, 2022
Oil refiners offer union workers 9% pay raise over three years -sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. oil refiners have offered union oil and chemical workers a 9% pay raise over three years, according to people familiar with the matter, as talk on a new labor contract near a ...
Jan 31, 2022
U.S. federal prisons locked down after deadly gang fight
(Reuters) - All federal prisons in the United States were locked down on Tuesday after a deadly gang brawl involving several inmates at a penitentiary in Texas. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) wrote in an...
Jan 31, 2022
U.S. FTC to review Microsoft deal for Activision – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - An antitrust review of Microsoft Corp's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc will be handled by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Bloomberg News reported late on Monday, ...
Jan 31, 2022
Science podcaster calls Spotify’s support of Joe Rogan a ‘slap in the face’
By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) - The executive producer and host of Gimlet Media's Science Vs podcast said she would devote her fact-checking show exclusively to contradicting misinformation on other p...
Jan 31, 2022
Australia’s Boral to return A$3 billion to shareholders, shares rise
(Reuters) - Building material maker Boral Ltd will return A$3 billion ($2.12 billion) to its shareholders using mostly proceeds from the sale of several North American businesses that helped it refocu...
Jan 31, 2022
Australia’s central bank ends bond buying, in no rush to hike rates
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's central bank kept its cash rate at a record low of 0.1% on Tuesday and ended its A$275 billion ($194.40 billion) bond buying campaign as expected, but push...
Jan 31, 2022
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