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U.S. seizes more than one ton of cocaine in biggest NY-area bust in a decade
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement officials seized more than one ton of cocaine allegedly shipped to the New York area from Puerto Rico, the largest bust of the drug in the region...
Nov 02, 2021
Facebook will shut down facial recognition system
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc announced on Tuesday it is shutting down its facial recognition system which automatically identifies users in photos and videos, citing growing societal concerns about the us...
Nov 02, 2021
Italy seeks ‘long’ extension to Monte dei Paschi deadline
By Giuseppe Fonte and Valentina Za ROME (Reuters) - The extension of the deadline to return Italy's Monte dei Paschi (MPS) to private hands will be "sufficiently long" to ensure the bank can relaunch ...
Nov 02, 2021
PACVB busy promoting the Peoria area’s best assets
PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria area has so much to offer its visitors. JD Dalfanso, President and CEO of the Peoria Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, says he’s seeing a trend of more people ...
Nov 02, 2021
Facebook working on ways to protect users in the ‘metaverse’ -senior exec Clegg
By Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said the company was working on ways to protect users in the metaverse, speaking in an interview with Reuters on Tu...
Nov 02, 2021
Investors look to U.S. inflation measures, eye bond gyrations as taper looms
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are watching everything from bond volatility to inflation measures as they try to gauge how an expected unwind of the U.S. Federal Reserve's easy mo...
Nov 02, 2021
Analysis-With Fed taper expected, investors brace for rate hikes on horizon
By Karen Pierog and Saqib Iqbal Ahmed (Reuters) - As the U.S. Federal Reserve gears up to taper its huge asset purchases, investors reeling from gyrations in the bond market are scanning the road ahea...
Nov 02, 2021
U.S. rental vacancy rate tightens in third quarter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. residential rental vacancy rate dropped further in the third quarter as the economy continued to normalize after severe disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, pot...
Nov 02, 2021
Cuba’s crypto artists put new spin on the genre
By Mario Fuentes HAVANA (Reuters) - Artists in Cuba have announced a new spin on the fast-expanding world of crypto art for online collectors, with plans to sell 1,492 digital portraits of Cubans thro...
Nov 02, 2021
UK’s Sunak not mulling change to BoE reserve remuneration
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday he had not considered changing the remuneration of cash reserves that banks hold at the Bank of England, as thi...
Nov 02, 2021
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