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Brazil’s finance ministry lifts 2024 inflation estimate
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's finance ministry on Tuesday lifted its 2024 inflation forecast to 3.63%, from 3.52%, and kept its estimate for growth in Latin America's largest economy unchanged at 2.3%...
May 23, 2023
Record solar power generated in New York state -grid operator
(Reuters) - New York state's power grid met about 20% of its electricity demand with energy from the sun for one hour last week, marking the highest ever output from solar generation, the grid operato...
May 23, 2023
Vedanta raises about $850 million via JPMorgan, Oaktree loan – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Vedanta Group, the promoter of metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta Ltd, has signed a five-year loan for about $850 million with JPMorgan and Oaktree, Bloomberg News reported, citing people ...
May 23, 2023
JPMorgan accuses US Virgin Islands of harboring Jeffrey Epstein for two decades
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co on Tuesday sought to shift blame for failing to snuff out sex crimes committed by the late Jeffrey Epstein, accusing the U.S. Virgin Island...
May 23, 2023
Illinois dioceses tolerated decades of abuse by clergy, report finds
By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) - Some 2,000 Illinois children were sexually abused by Roman Catholic clergy between the 1950s and 2010s, the state attorney general said in a report released on Tuesday th...
May 23, 2023
Tesla to pick location for new factory this year -Musk
(Reuters) -Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Tuesday the automaker would probably pick a location for a new factory by the end of this year. When the Wall Street Journal's Thorold Ba...
May 23, 2023
Purdue Pharma to sell consumer business for $397 million
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt Purdue Pharma received a U.S. judge's permission on Tuesday to sell its consumer health business for $397 million to a subsidiary of Arcadia Consumer H...
May 23, 2023
Police investigating armed robbery of postal worker
PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria Police say a postal worker was robbed at gunpoint Monday. Police say it happened near Ayres and Western Avenues around 12:30 p.m. The postal worker told investigators two j...
May 23, 2023
New Chinese ambassador to US acknowledges challenges in relations
By Echo Wang and Michael Martina NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's new ambassador to Washington Xie Feng said on Tuesday that he will seek to enhance China-U.S. cooperation, but that relations face serious...
May 23, 2023
Brazil finance minister says fiscal reforms will calm investors, central bank
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Tuesday said that the government's new fiscal rules and a tax reform should calm investors and the central bank and that there is cons...
May 23, 2023
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