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Oil heads for third straight weekly loss as economic worries persist
By Arathy Somasekhar (Reuters) - Oil prices held steady in early trading on Friday, but were set for a third straight week of losses after markets witnessed dramatic drops on fears of a weakening U.S....
May 04, 2023
On ‘Star Wars’ day, Carrie Fisher receives posthumous star on Walk of Fame
By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - May the 4th, the annual unofficial "Star Wars" day, was bittersweet for fans in Hollywood as Princess Leia actress Carrie Fisher, who died at age 60 in 2016, rece...
May 04, 2023
U.S. settles landmark Alabama environmental justice case
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - Alabama authorities discriminated against Black residents of a rural county by denying access to adequate sewage systems and fining them for sanitation problems beyond their ...
May 04, 2023
Aussie competition watchdog rejects Virgin Australia-Alliance Aviation charter deal
(Reuters) - Australia's competition regulator said on Friday it has rejected an application by Virgin Australia and Alliance Aviation Services to reauthorise their agreement to jointly provide fly-in ...
May 04, 2023
UK mobile users spending millions on smartphones they’ve already paid for, Virgin Media O2 says
LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers are spending 530 million pounds ($666 million) a year for smartphones they already own because they are not switching out of bundled contracts once their fixed ter...
May 04, 2023
Geely’s London black cab unit unveils new large EV platform
By Nick Carey ANSTY, England (Reuters) - Geely unit London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC) on Friday unveiled a new, large electric-vehicle (EV) platform for vehicles ranging from people-movers to com...
May 04, 2023
Australia’s Medibank served with class-action suit regarding cyber incident
(Reuters) - Australian health insurer Medibank Private Ltd said on Friday a class action suit has been filed against it by Slater & Gordon related to the cybercrime incident last year in which persona...
May 04, 2023
Macquarie’s commodities unit strength lifts annual profit to record high
(Reuters) - Australia's Macquarie Group on Friday posted a 10.1% rise in full-year profit to log another record year, as robust trading income from supply and demand woes in North American energy mark...
May 04, 2023
ANZ’s half-year profit tops estimates but outlook downbeat
(Reuters) - ANZ Group Holdings Ltd on Friday edged past expectations with a 22.8% rise in first-half profit but warned of a tough second half amid stiff competition in retail banking and rising cost p...
May 04, 2023
Capita warns some pensions data likely taken in cyber attack -FT
(Reuters) -British outsourcing company Capita has confirmed to pension clients that some data it processed was likely to have been hacked during a recent cyber incident, the Financial Times reported o...
May 04, 2023
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