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IAG rejigs board after Brexit deal, British Airways gets $2.7 billion loan
(Reuters) - Airline group IAG revamped its board to ensure a majority of independent non-executive directors are from the European Union and rolled out plans to comply with ownership rules of the econ...
Dec 31, 2020
Trump to forgo New Year’s Eve in Florida for early return to Washington
By Jeff Mason WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday was due to fly back to Washington a day earlier than planned, as he continued his fight with Congress over a defe...
Dec 31, 2020
Brexit brings sadness for the shopkeepers of Calais
CALAIS, France (Reuters) - Shopkeepers in the French port of Calais expressed sadness on Thursday in the hours before Britain's final exit from the European Union. After clinching a last-gasp trade de...
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall for second straight week
(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week but remain elevated more than nine months into the health and economic crisis trigger...
Dec 31, 2020
Futures muted in the last trading session of 2020
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were muted in the last trading session of a tumultuous year on Thursday, as investors digested big market gains and hoped that more stimulus and coro...
Dec 31, 2020
Tech, cross-border activities set to drive Asia M&A next year
By Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Coronavirus-spurred growth in the technology sector will help drive M&A activity in the Asia Pacific next year, bankers and lawyers predict, with the potential easing ...
Dec 31, 2020
Fewer companies caught the deal bug in the year of the pandemic
By Joshua Franklin and Pamela Barbaglia (Reuters) - Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity fell to a three-year low in 2020, as companies grappled with the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pa...
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. stocks in 2020: A year for the history books, in charts
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - The year 2020 was a wild one for Wall Street, bookended by the end of the longest bull market in history with the battering of equities by the COVID-19 shutdo...
Dec 31, 2020
Emergency cash calls, tech IPO frenzy push 2020 banker fees to record high
By Abhinav Ramnarayan, Clara Denina and Elizabeth Howcroft (Reuters) - Emergency corporate fundraising and a clamour for tech stock market listings pushed equity capital market volumes to over $1 tril...
Dec 31, 2020
EU wants swift resolution of aircraft dispute with Biden
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Thursday that new U.S. tariffs on EU products disrupted ongoing negotiations with Washington to resolve a 16-year battle over aircraft subsidies an...
Dec 31, 2020
