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Mexican retailer Grupo Elektra embraces bitcoin for payments
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Grupo Elektra will accept bitcoin as payment for purchases, the latest retailer in Latin America to embrace the cryptocurrency as it grows in popularity. Elektra, a su...
Dec 17, 2021
Peru’s central bank expects economy to grow 3.4% in 2022
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's central bank said on Friday that it maintains its expectations that the country's economy will grow 3.4% in 2022, while it revised its guidance for 2021, saying the economy wil...
Dec 17, 2021
U.S. regulators flag climate change, stablecoins as potential systemic risks
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate change, the rapid growth of "stablecoins" and financial innovations that led to frenzied trading of GameStop Corp shares early this year are threats to...
Dec 17, 2021
Minnesota ex-cop testifies at trial over killing of Daunte Wright
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Kimberly Potter, the white former Minnesota police officer who killed Black motorist Daunte Wright in April after claiming she mistook her handgun for her Taser, took the s...
Dec 17, 2021
‘I’m counting on you,’ Biden tells Black college grads in South Carolina
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden renewed pledges to protect voting rights and reform law enforcement at a commencement speech at South Carolina State University, a h...
Dec 17, 2021
Canada’s TD Bank delays office return over Omicron fears
(Reuters) - Canada's Toronto-Dominion Bank is directing staff who are able to do so, to work from home until further notice, according to a memo on Friday, as concerns over the Omicron coronavirus var...
Dec 17, 2021
Italy’s DiaSorin sees 60% plunge in COVID-19 revenue next year
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian diagnostics firm DiaSorin forecast weaker 2022 sales and a near 60% plunge in COVID-19 revenue, with the rapid rollout of vaccines likely to bring the pandemic under control ...
Dec 17, 2021
‘Spider-man: No Way Home’ opens with $50 million at domestic box offices
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Spider-man: No Way Home" took in $50 million at U.S. and Canadian movie box offices on Thursday, the third-highest total for preview showings ahead of its opening weekend, dis...
Dec 17, 2021
U.S. fishing industry teams up with oil lobby to fight offshore wind
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - Members of the U.S. commercial fishing industry are teaming up with an oil industry-backed lobbying group to fight offshore wind energy development on the East Coast, acco...
Dec 17, 2021
SPAC boom fizzles as investors cash out on big names
By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Medha Singh (Reuters) - Several companies, including Grab Holdings and BuzzFeed, that merged with shell entities to go public have seen their shares tumble, as investors pu...
Dec 17, 2021
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