Category Archives:
Powell, with ethics move, clears decks for Nov meeting and maybe his renomination
By Howard Schneider and Jonnelle Marte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a sensitive policy meeting less than two weeks off and a renomination hanging fire in the White House, Fed Chair Jerome Powell's tigh...
Oct 21, 2021
Mexico’s Grupo Televisa reports 77% drop in third-quarter net profit
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Grupo Televisa, Mexico's largest broadcaster, reported on Thursday a 77.3% drop in net profit in the third quarter compared with the same period a year earlier. The company pos...
Oct 21, 2021
Oslo opens museum to “The Scream” painter Munch
By Victoria Klesty OSLO (Reuters) - "The Scream", arguably the most iconic image in art, is the centrepiece of a new museum dedicated to its creator Edvard Munch that opens in Oslo on Friday, but visi...
Oct 21, 2021
Dental records confirm human remains found at Florida wilderness park those of Brian Laundrie – FBI
(Refile to fix letter case in headline) LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dental records conducted on human remains found in a Florida wilderness park have identified them as belonging to Brian Laundrie, the bo...
Oct 21, 2021
Blinken spoke to Bogota embassy staff affected by Havana syndrome
BOGOTA (Reuters) - United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday met with U.S. embassy staff in Bogota who had been affected by anomalous health incidents - known as Havana syndrome - a ...
Oct 21, 2021
Tri-County COVID Update: Outbreak at long-term care facility could have been worse; pediatric COVID vaccines ordered
PEORIA, Ill. – The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Tri-County region continues to average less than 100 per day, but that’s counting what officials say is an outbreak at a loc...
Oct 21, 2021
Biden town hall will address voters on infrastructure next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will hold a CNN town hall event in Baltimore, Maryland, on Wednesday to promote his economic plans as Democrats scramble to cement legislation that is at the...
Oct 21, 2021
Factbox: Fed Chair Powell may need to sell millions in bonds under new rules
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell may need to sell as much as $3 million in bonds to comply with new rules issued by the U.S. central bank on Thursday, a review of his financial disclosu...
Oct 21, 2021
Fed ethics office encouraged months-long ‘trading blackout’ by officials last year – memo
(Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve officials were strongly encouraged to observe a trading blackout for "several months" in the spring of 2020 as the central bank was embarking on a course of extraordin...
Oct 21, 2021
Fed-backed Libor replacement SOFR holds at lower level amid cash deluge, Treasuries volatility
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. secured overnight financing rate (SOFR), the Libor replacement preferred by the Federal Reserve that measures the cost of overnight cash in th...
Oct 21, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
69 °F Overcast
