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U.S. Treasury Department seeks to water down Trump’s Chinese securities ban – FT
(Reuters) - The United States Treasury Department is seeking to water down an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump that bars Americans from investing in Chinese companies with suspected ti...
Dec 17, 2020
SEC sues California biotech company for misleading investors about COVID-19 tests
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Decision Diagnostics Corp and its chief executive for allegedly misleading investors by promising the biotechnology company could ...
Dec 17, 2020
Twitter planning to create label for automated ‘bot’ accounts
By Katie Paul PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is planning to create a new type of account for bots next year that will identify them as automated, the company said in a blog post on Thursday finaliz...
Dec 17, 2020
FedEx profit leaps on rate hikes, e-commerce shipments
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. delivery firm FedEx Corp on Thursday said quarterly profit almost doubled after rate hikes and spiking volume helped lower the cost of delivering pandemic-fueled e-commerc...
Dec 17, 2020
IMF steering committee names Swedish finance minister as next chair
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday said its steering committee has chosen Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson as the panel's chair, returning a European t...
Dec 17, 2020
BOJ set to hold fire, extend fund programmes to ease pandemic strain
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to extend on Friday a package of steps aimed at easing corporate funding strains caused by the coronavirus, as a renewed spike in infect...
Dec 17, 2020
Canada expects end to Boeing 737 MAX flight ban in January, approves design changes
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada expects to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX jetliner in January, the country's aviation regulator said on Thursday, after it approved design cha...
Dec 17, 2020
Former Nomura trader avoids prison, in defeat for U.S. in bond sales probe
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A former Nomura Holdings Inc trader has avoided prison after being convicted of lying to customers about bond prices, in a defeat for U.S. prosecutors in their largely ...
Dec 17, 2020
Super Saturday could see over 150 million shoppers this year- NRF
(Reuters) - Over 150 million American shoppers could take advantage of Super Saturday this holiday season, with over 2 more million people compared to last year, the National Retail Federation said on...
Dec 17, 2020
U.S. bans utilities supplying defense facilities from buying power grid items from China
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. energy secretary on Thursday signed an order prohibiting electric utilities that supply critical defense facilities from importing certain power syst...
Dec 17, 2020
