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Crown Resorts reports loss on pandemic curbs, regulatory costs
(Reuters) - Crown Resorts Ltd posted an annual loss on Monday, hurt by lockdown-led casino closures and regulatory costs, and said it was no longer talking to Oaktree Capital Group over the private eq...
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Dollar pinned as Powell plods toward tapering
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar was nursing losses on Monday and kept near multi-week lows after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell laid out a slower-than-expected path to rate hike...
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Asian shares rise on dovish Fed chair, oil up as hurricane batters Louisiana
By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian shares started the week with gains and the dollar was not far off two-week lows after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell struck a more dovish tone tha...
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Japan’s retail sales extend gains but COVID-19 challenges persist
By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's retail sales rose for a fifth straight month in July, beating expectations as the consumer sector continued its recovery, although a c...
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Oil rises as Hurricane Ida pounds U.S. crude patch, Louisiana
TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose around 1% on Monday after a powerful hurricane ploughed through the Gulf of Mexico https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gulf-coast-ports-close-loop-halts-oil-deliveries-a...
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New Orleans’ levees got a $14.5 billion upgrade. Will they hold?
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, the city went to work on building a $14.5 billion system of gates, flood walls and levees that would protect...
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Biden to welcome Zelenskiy to White House on Wednesday
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House on Wednesday in a show of solidarity between the two countries, th...
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Biden visits FEMA headquarters for Ida briefing
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Sunday visited the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington for a briefing about Hurricane Ida, which came barreling ashore in Louisiana...
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Over 500,000 people without power due to Hurricane Ida -Entergy Louisiana website
(Reuters) - More than 500,000 people were without power in Louisiana because of Hurricane Ida, Entergy Louisiana's website showed on Sunday. The energy company's outage map showed the number of affect...
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U.S. administers 368.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 368,863,734 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning and distributed 440,028,085 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
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