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Factbox – Who is Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal?
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Monday appointed technology chief Parag Agrawal as its chief executive officer, replacing Jack Dorsey. The social media networking platform joins tech giants Apple, Amazon a...
Nov 30, 2021
Karl Lagerfeld’s fingerless gloves to go under hammer
By Eric Gaillard MONACO (Reuters) - Personal belongings of the late designer Karl Lagerfeld, including his trademark fingerless leather gloves and the cushions his cat Choupette sat on, are to go on s...
Nov 30, 2021
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to face cross-examination at fraud trial
By Jody Godoy SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is expected to face cross-examination by a prosecutor on Tuesday, in what could be a pivotal moment in the fraud trial of t...
Nov 30, 2021
Volkswagen CEO, under fire over strategy, positive over recent talks
By Jan Schwartz HAMBURG (Reuters) - Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, currently under heavy fire from unions over strategy, struck an upbeat tone at a recent manager meeting on talks over the company's fi...
Nov 30, 2021
Fed’s Powell floats dropping “transitory” label for inflation
(Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday said the word "transitory" is no longer the most accurate term for describing the nature of the current high inflation rate. "It is prob...
Nov 30, 2021
Factbox – Fashion, family and horses – Inditex heiress takes the reins
MADRID (Reuters) - Marta Ortega will take the reins next year at fashion retail empire Inditex, the Spanish company founded by her father Amancio Ortega and that has made him one of the world's wealth...
Nov 30, 2021
Fed’s Powell: Appropriate to consider wrapping up taper sooner
(Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday said it would be appropriate for the central bank to consider wrapping up its "taper" of large-scale bond purchases more quickly based o...
Nov 30, 2021
Spain’s GDP to be hit by inflation, bottlenecks in Q4, early 2022, De Cos says
By Jess Aguado and Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish economy could be hit by supply bottlenecks, rising inflation and a surge of COVID-19 in Europe, prompting a slight downward revision of gr...
Nov 30, 2021
U.S. FDA evaluating effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against Omicron
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration said on Tuesday it was evaluating the effectiveness of authorized COVID-19 vaccines against the Omicron coronavirus variant and expects to have more inf...
Nov 30, 2021
Fed’s Powell says risk of higher inflation has increased
(Reuters) - The higher prices seen today are generally related to the pandemic, but some price increases are also being seen more broadly and the risk of higher inflation has increased, Federal Reserv...
Nov 30, 2021
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