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Exclusive: Italy picks Bank of America and Orrick to advise on MPS privatization, sources say
By Giuseppe Fonte, Pamela Barbaglia and Valentina Za ROME/LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Italy has picked Bank of America and Orrick as financial and legal advisers to help the Treasury secure a merger deal...
Nov 21, 2020
Saudi Arabia plans to launch special economic zones in 2021, minister says
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Minister of Investment Khalid al-Falih said on Saturday the Gulf state plans to launch special economic zones in 2021. Speaking to a G20 panel, Falih also said the kin...
Nov 21, 2020
Delta, WestJet scrap planned joint venture after U.S. demands
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines and Canada's WestJet said late on Friday they had scrapped a proposed U.S.-Canada joint venture after the U.S. government demanded changes th...
Nov 20, 2020
G20 to discuss post-pandemic world, back debt relief
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Leaders of the 20 biggest world economies (G20) will debate this weekend how to deal with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic that has caused a global recessio...
Nov 20, 2020
G20 determined to use all tools to contain pandemic, save jobs, incomes
By Jan Strupczewski and Andrea Shalal BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - G20 nations are determined to continue doing everything possible to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, warning in a draft communique t...
Nov 20, 2020
Senate leader McConnell seeks to ‘repurpose’ expiring Fed lending for coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Funding for an expiring Federal Reserve lending program that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin terminated should be "repurposed" for a new round of coronavirus aid that the U.S....
Nov 20, 2020
Germany agrees women quotas for company boards
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will make it compulsory for most listed and cooperative companies to have at least one woman on their boards after representatives of the ruling conservative and Social Demo...
Nov 20, 2020
U.S. economy faces looming test as coronavirus wildfire rages
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The uneasy balance between the wildfire-like spread of the coronavirus in the United States and an economy that remains largely open may be tested in coming ...
Nov 20, 2020
U.S. company Hershey grabs cocoa stocks from exchange, avoids African price premium
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co has positioned itself to receive a sizeable amount of cheap cocoa from futures exchange ICE, a move that highlights difficulties African pro...
Nov 20, 2020
Fed’s George sees recovery headwinds from energy sector
(Reuters) - The U.S. recovery from the coronavirus crisis could face some headwinds from the energy sector, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George said on Friday, as massive cuts in ...
Nov 20, 2020
