December 1, 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Advocacy groups, including the Open Markets Institute and National Farmers Union, on Thursday asked U.S. antitrust enforcers to stop Kroger Co’s planned $25 billion purchase of rival grocery …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu reached a coalition deal with the far-right Religious Zionism party, bringing him closer to securing a new government after an election last month, …

By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc unlawfully steered dozens of hiring ads from trucking companies and other advertisers to mostly one gender or age group, an …

By Shariq Khan NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices rose about a dollar per barrel on Thursday after top crude importer China eased COVID curbs in two major cities, while the …

By Mehnaz Yasmin and Niket Nishant (Reuters) -Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Bank of Montreal and Toronto-Dominion Bank on Thursday joined their bigger peers in setting aside more money …

(Reuters) -Kyiv’s mayor told residents on Thursday to stock up on water, food and warm clothes in case of a total blackout caused by Russian air strikes, and said residents …

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Real interest rates in the euro zone have already risen “quite a bit”, the European Central Bank’s chief economist said on Thursday, in comments suggesting he thought …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative James Clyburn on Thursday was elected to be assistant House Democratic leader starting in January, after Representative David Cicilline dropped his bid for the job …

(Reuters) -Coinbase Global Inc said on Thursday customers using Apple Inc’s iOS will not be able to send non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the cryptocurrency exchange’s wallet anymore. “Apple’s claim is …

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer spending increased solidly in October, while inflation moderated, giving the economy a powerful boost at the start of the fourth quarter as …

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday they would not file an appeal regarding the outcome in the trial over the 2014 downing of Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, making …

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy this week appeared to be out-of-step with his own party’s progressive message of erasing colonial American history where wealthy white landowners and …

By Susan Mathew and Devik Jain (Reuters) -Europe’s STOXX 600 index closed above a three-month high on Thursday, as investors cheered U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s hints of smaller …

By Hannah Lang and Chris Prentice (Reuters) -A leading U.S. financial regulator on Thursday urged lawmakers to act quickly to install a regulatory framework for digital assets following the spectacular …

ELKRIDGE, MD – A food truck employee was robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday. Howard County Police Department detectives said the El Sopon Mexican Food Truck, in the 6100 block of Meadowridge …

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Facebook owner Meta reached out to EU antitrust regulators some time back in an attempt to settle investigations into its use of customer data …

NEWARK, NJ – Police in Newark are hoping the public can help detectives identify a suspect wanted in a burglary that took place on Sunday. Fritz G. Fragé, Director of …

By Dan Burns NEW YORK (Reuters) – The underlying health of the U.S. economy is quite strong and massive investments being made in manufacturing and infrastructure will help bring inflation …

By Peter Thal Larsen (Reuters) – London Stock Exchange Group Plc Chief Executive David Schwimmer said on Thursday that large spikes in volume associated with algorithmic trading have worsened recent …

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Several fintech companies that facilitated high volumes of pandemic-related loans to businesses in 2020 had inadequate processes to detect fraud, according to a new report from …

By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. banks reported a 3.2% rise in third-quarter net income from a year earlier, but an uptick in early delinquency and higher unrealized …

WILLINGBORO, NJ – Futuro houses were all the rave in the early 1970s. The Futuro house, also known as the Futuro pod, was designed by Finnish Architect Matti Suuronen. Less …

By Lucia Mutikani and Jonathan Cable WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Global factory output fell widely last month with U.S. manufacturing activity contracting for the first time in 2-1/2 years and the impact …

LONDON (Reuters) – Credit rating firm S&P Global has warned that speculative-grade U.S. and European corporate default rates are likely to double and might even treble next year as rising …