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How a Burmese immigrant profited by flipping cheap oil leases from Trump auctions
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - A Myanmar-born U.S. perfume entrepreneur became a curiosity last year when she became the nation's top buyer of oil-and-gas leases at the Trump administration's federal au...
Mar 22, 2021
German economy is slumping on anti-virus curbs, Bundesbank says
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German economy is likely to shrink sharply this quarter as pandemic-fighting curbs hit the services sector and even the booming construction industry slows, the Bundesbank sa...
Mar 22, 2021
Two Lazard-backed SPACs aim to raise $500 million in IPOs
(Reuters) - Two special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) backed by investment bank Lazard Ltd are aiming to raise as much as $500 million in initial public offerings, according to regulatory fili...
Mar 22, 2021
Sustainability-linked bond market to swell up to $150 billion: JPMorgan ESG DCM head
By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) - The market for bonds that are linked to companies meeting certain environmental goals could grow 20-fold this year to between $120 billion and $150 billion, a se...
Mar 22, 2021
FINMA chief to head up German financial watchdog BaFin: Handelsblatt
BERLIN (Reuters) - Mark Branson, the head of Switzerland's financial markets regulator FINMA, is to be named the new President of German financial watchdog BaFin, German daily Handelsblatt reported on...
Mar 22, 2021
Exclusive: Low tips, long waits: DoorDash takes on drivers’ Walmart gripes
By Hilary Russ and Richa Naidu NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Third-party delivery firm DoorDash Inc is taking steps to address what it says are frustrations from independent drivers toting Walmart Inc ...
Mar 22, 2021
BOJ buys stock ETFs as usual after policy change, but changes may lie ahead
By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan bought around 50 billion yen of Japanese stocks exchange traded funds (ETFs) on Monday, in line with previous operations despite the central bank l...
Mar 22, 2021
Analysis: Fed hopes for inflation psych-out, stable expectations, as prices rise
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's mission is to maintain "stable prices," but Chair Jerome Powell's take on that may seem surprising: He doesn't really care if people pa...
Mar 22, 2021
Huawei lawyers to focus on witness refusal to testify in U.S. extradition
By Sarah Berman and Moira Warburton VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's U.S. extradition hearings on Monday are expected to focus on a former Canadian police officer wh...
Mar 22, 2021
‘Next phase’ of criminal probe into Trump finances: Finding witnesses
By Jason Szep and Peter Eisler (Reuters) - Investigators in a criminal probe of former U.S. President Donald Trump's real-estate business are combing through millions of pages of newly acquired record...
Mar 22, 2021
