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Euro zone retail sales rebound more than expected in December
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone retail sales rebounded more than expected in December as Christmas shopping for clothes and shoes caused a surge in sales compared to November, with France and Belgium r...
Feb 04, 2021
U.S. antitrust agencies temporarily suspend practice of early terminations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department's Antitrust Division, which determine if mergers are legal, will temporarily suspend the practice of granting early terminati...
Feb 04, 2021
Column-Escalating oil prices signal need for more output: Kemp
By John Kemp LONDON (Reuters) - Rapidly rising oil prices are signalling the need for more production in the second half of the year to halt the fall in global inventories and satisfy recovering consu...
Feb 04, 2021
Texas court considers hearing on changing venue of Google antitrust case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Texas court considering a state antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google is likely to hold a hearing on the company's request to move the trial to California, according...
Feb 04, 2021
January bankruptcies down 44% versus a year ago: Epiq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. bankruptcy filings continued their surprising decline in January, dropping 6% compared to the month before and 44% compared to January 2020, legal services firm Epiq report...
Feb 04, 2021
What price to fix the COVID-stricken U.S. economy? It’s complicated
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Judged from Idaho, Utah, Kansas or Alaska, home to U.S. senators arguing for a smaller next round of federal spending to fight the coronavirus recession, the...
Feb 04, 2021
Ford temporarily cuts output of some U.S. F-150 trucks amid semiconductor shortage
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said Thursday it is temporarily cutting shifts at two plants that built its flagship F-150 pickup trucks starting next week as a growing number...
Feb 04, 2021
Lufthansa raises 1.6 billion euros to repay German government aid
By Abhinav Ramnarayan and Arno Schuetze LONDON (Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa said it had issued a 1.6 billion euro ($1.92 billion) bond on Thursday, money that will be used to repay part of a b...
Feb 04, 2021
IDB president: it behooves U.S. to support capital increase
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It is incumbent on the United States to support a capital increase at the Inter American Development Bank, the bank's president said on Thursday. "The IDB is the lender of prefere...
Feb 04, 2021
U.S. charges head of NY money manager GPB Capital with Ponzi-like fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of a New York money manager that raised $1.8 billion from investors was criminally charged on Thursday with running a Ponzi-like fraud to cover up poor performance, and d...
Feb 04, 2021
