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Exclusive-Myanmar junta backs Telenor unit sale after buyer M1 pairs with local firm – sources
By Poppy McPherson and Fanny Potkin BANGKOK (Reuters) - Lebanon's M1 Group will partner with a Myanmar firm to take over Norwegian telco Telenor's business in the Southeast Asian country after its mil...
Jan 20, 2022
Banorte analyzing possible buy of Citi’s Mexico consumer bank
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Grupo Financiero Banorte is looking at whether to make an offer for Citigroup's Mexican consumer banking unit, its chief executive said on Thursday. "We are starting a...
Jan 20, 2022
Japan’s Dec consumer inflation hovers at near 2-year high
By Kantaro Komiya and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer prices rose 0.5% in December from a year earlier, increasing for a second month in a row at the fastest pace in nearly two ye...
Jan 20, 2022
Robinhood to start rolling out crypto wallets
(Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc is rolling out crypto wallets to a 1,000 users, allowing them to send and receive cryptocurrencies through their brokerage accounts, the company said in a blog post o...
Jan 20, 2022
New York exhibit celebrates world of Black comic books
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York museum is launching a new exhibit to celebrate Black comic books and a decade of its Black Comic Book Festivals. "Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black ...
Jan 20, 2022
Big U.S. banks say spending patterns show consumers are in good shape
By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top executives at the biggest U.S. banks have been optimistic about the nation's economic outlook this earnings season, pointing to healthy consumers w...
Jan 20, 2022
U.S. to require COVID vaccines for essential workers crossing borders
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is announcing Thursday it is requiring that non-U.S. essential workers such as truck drivers and nurses who ar...
Jan 20, 2022
Google U.S. lobbying jumps 27% as lawmakers aim to rein in Big Tech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google reported 27% higher U.S. lobbying expenditures for 2021 compared to 2020, spending $9.6 million for the year, according to the Senate lobbying disclosure d...
Jan 20, 2022
Nonprofit groups to rate U.S. vehicle driver monitoring systems
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two nonprofit bodies, Consumer Reports and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), said separately on Thursday they are reviewing safeguards put i...
Jan 20, 2022
Professor: Democrats need to move on from voting reforms and filibuster rules
PEORIA, Ill. – In spite of now-failed efforts to reform voting rights in the Senate, do elections need to be reformed? Bradley University Political Science Assistant Professor Megan Remmel says,...
Jan 20, 2022
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