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World Bank approves $830 million in loans to Colombia
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will receive two loans totalling $830 million from the World Bank to fund COVID-19 pandemic recovery and education efforts, the country's government and the bank said on Th...
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China’s JD Logistics locks in $1.1 billion in capital raising
(Reuters) -China's JD Logistics will price its issue of new shares at HK$20.71 each to raise HK$8.53 billion ($1.09 billion), according to a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing on Friday. The deal consist...
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Core inflation in Japan’s capital hits 2-year high in March
By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose at the fastest annual increase in more than two years in March, propelled by soaring energy cost...
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Banks undermine their ‘net zero’ pledges through lobbying – report
LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty of the world's largest financial institutions are undermining their commitment to cutting carbon emissions by lobbying against climate regulation and by funding new fossil fu...
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Supreme Court justice Thomas’s wife urged Trump White House to overturn 2020 election -report
(Reuters) - Virginia Thomas, the wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn the results of the 2020 elec...
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Mexico’s president lets slip central bank’s announcement of rate hike to 6.5%
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's central bank on Thursday voted to raise its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 6.5%, a decision that was unexpectedly announced hours ahead of schedule by P...
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Hershey workers at Virginia plant vote against unionizing
By Praveen Paramasivam (Reuters) - Workers at Hershey Co's second largest U.S. manufacturing plant voted against unionizing, even as unionization efforts have gained momentum among low-paid workers at...
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Factbox-Swapping electric car batteries since the Gilded Age
By Paul Lienert and Nick Carey (Reuters) - Battery swapping - replacing a depleted battery with a freshly charged one - is not new: The first experiments with exchanging batteries in electric cars dat...
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Inside China’s electric drive for swappable car batteries
By Paul Lienert, Nick Carey and Norihiko Shirouzu DETROIT/BEIJING (Reuters) - A year ago Tesla dismissed the alternative path of electric car battery swapping as "riddled with problems and not suitabl...
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E-scooters fall head over wheels for battery swapping
By Nick Carey and Paul Lienert (Reuters) - While swappable batteries are slow-burners in the electric car market, they have been a quick hit for e-scooters and e-bikes, making it easier and cheaper fo...
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