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Facebook probe in final stages as FTC, U.S. states prepare lawsuits
By Diane Bartz and Paresh Dave WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan group of dozens of state attorneys general are in the final stages of filing one or more major antit...
Nov 19, 2020
Mnuchin pulls plug on some of Fed’s pandemic lending programs
By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday asked the central bank to return money earmarked under the March pandemic relief act for emergency lending ...
Nov 19, 2020
Biden says he has picked a Treasury secretary who will please all Democrats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden said on Thursday he had selected a person to run the Treasury Department and would reveal his choice as soon as next week. "We've made that decision," ...
Nov 19, 2020
U.S. Realtors settle federal lawsuit, to give consumers more information
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Association of Realtors (NAR) settled a federal lawsuit by agreeing to give potential home buyers more accurate information about commissions an...
Nov 19, 2020
EU leaders to continue talks on budget with Hungary, Poland: Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) - European Union leaders will continue to discuss the bloc's 1.8 trillion euro ($2.14 trillion) plan to recover from the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been veto...
Nov 19, 2020
Tyson Foods suspends employees after lawsuit alleges managers bet on workers catching COVID-19
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc said on Thursday it suspended employees without pay and hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct an investigation in response to a ...
Nov 19, 2020
Top Senate Democrat says Republican McConnell has agreed to resume COVID relief talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said on Thursday that Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to resume COVID-19 relief talks as cases surge across the country, ...
Nov 19, 2020
Verizon, Apple partner to swap out corporate-owned phones for 5G iPhones
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Verizon Communications on Thursday announced a program in which Verizon will subsidize the replacement of corporate customers' entire fleet of smartphones w...
Nov 19, 2020
Verizon to sell news website HuffPost to BuzzFeed
(Reuters) - Verizon Media, a unit of Verizon Communications Inc, said on Thursday it would sell its news website HuffPost to BuzzFeed, in a deal that will make it a minority shareholder in the online ...
Nov 19, 2020
Former CII head Bertsch joins PJT Camberview’s Advisory Council
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Ken Bertsch, who spent four years pressing large investors' concerns as the head of trade group Council of Institutional Investors, is reuniting with former c...
Nov 19, 2020
