Category Archives:

GPEDC CEO: Economic recovery depends on who you ask
PEORIA, Ill. – Are local businesses recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic? Yes, and no. That’s according to Greater Peoria Economic Development Council CEO Chris Setti, who tells WMBD̵...
Will Stevenson Oct 11, 2021
South African metalworkers’ strike hits output at BMW plant
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Output at luxury carmaker BMW's main vehicle assembly plant in South Africa has been hit by a wage strike in the engineering sector by the country's biggest metalworkers union, a...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
France bans plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables
By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) - France will ban plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from January 2022 in a bid to reduce plastic waste, the environment ministry said on Monday. ...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
Accused Colorado supermarket shooter deemed mentally incompetent
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Psychologists who evaluated a 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Colorado grocery store in March have found him incompetent to stand trial, ...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
Facebook’s oversight board to meet with whistleblower Frances Haugen
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's oversight board, a body set up by the social network to give independent verdicts on a small number of thorny content decisions, said on Monday it would meet with former emp...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
White House stands by calls for OPEC+ to do more on oil prices -official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House stands by its calls for oil-producing countries to "do more" to support the global economic recovery, an official said on Monday as crude prices hit multi-year p...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
Brazil’s Embraer sells 100 aircraft to NetJets, shares rise
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Embraer has signed a deal valued at more than $1.2 billion to sell an additional 100 aircraft to NetJets, the Brazilian planemaker said on Monday, sending its s...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
Europe’s top development banks agree to deepen cooperation outside EU
LONDON (Reuters) - The EU's lending arm, the European Investment Bank, and the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Monday they would deepen their cooperation outside ...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
Column: Hedge funds’ dollar policy: longer for longer
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The dollar is at a crossroads after a 5% rally in four months, as many investors assess how much of the Fed's bond purchase taper and future rate hikes are ...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
Zimbabwe’s biggest business group warns local currency could collapse
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's currency is in danger of collapsing as companies resort to the U.S. dollar for transactions, the country's main business group said in a letter to its members, amid a cra...
Syndicated Content Oct 11, 2021
Weather information is not currently available at this location.
