WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden intends to nominate election law attorney Dara Lindenbaum to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the regulatory agency tasked with enforcing U.S. campaign finance law, the…
By Marcela Ayres and Bernardo Caram BRASILIA – Brazil’s government will veto 3.1 billion reais ($568 million) in discretionary expenditures and congressional appropriations in the 2022 budget to allow those…
By David Shepardson and Paul Lienert WASHINGTON/DETROIT -General Motors and a joint venture with LG Energy Solution are to set announce investments of more than $6.5 billion next week in…
By Maria Caspani NEW YORK -New coronavirus cases are falling in parts of the United States hit hardest by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, according to a Reuters analysis of public…
By Nancy Lapid – The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden called on U.S. mayors on Friday to use more of their state and local COVID-19 aid funds to boost worker training and…
By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK -Oil prices slid for a second day in a row on Friday, pressured by an unexpected rise in U.S. crude and fuel inventories while investors…
WASHINGTON -Alphabet Inc’s Google asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the majority of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas and other states that accused the search giant of…
By Simon Lewis GENEVA -The top U.S. and Russian diplomats made no major breakthrough at talks on Ukraine on Friday but agreed to keep talking to try to resolve a…
By Elvira Pollina MILAN – Telecom Italia (TIM) on Friday appointed veteran manager Pietro Labriola as chief executive, in a move that could complicate a takeover approach by U.S. private…
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Postal Service has begun shipping free at-home rapid COVID-19 tests after millions of orders were placed through a new federal website launched this week, the White House…
– Pilgrim’s Pride Corp said on Friday it would raise starting wages for workers at its Mayfield, Kentucky, production facility by $2 to $16.50 per hour after the area was…
By Ron Bousso LONDON -Shell officially changed its name on Friday, ditching “Royal Dutch”, which has been part of its identity since 1907, following plans to scrap its dual share…
By Tim Hepher PARIS -Airbus on Thursday raised the stakes in a dispute with major customer Qatar Airways over grounded and undelivered A350 jets by announcing it had revoked a…
FRANKFURT – Commerzbank on Friday said its fourth-quarter earnings would be impacted by provisions made at its Polish mBank subsidiary but that it would still post a net profit for…
LONDON – A potential invasion of Ukraine by neighbouring Russia would be felt across a number of markets, from wheat and energy prices and the region’s sovereign dollar bonds to…
By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE – Serbian politicians on Friday blasted environmentalists for forcing them to scuttle Rio Tinto Plc’s proposed $2.4 billion lithium project, warning the move could hurt efforts…
VILNIUS – Lithuania is setting up a 130 million euros loan fund for businesses hit by Chinese action as the country faces economic pressure from Beijing after allowing Taiwan to…
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday said two years of universal early childhood education and an expanded income tax credit were critical…
-A federal judge in Texas ruled on Friday that President Joe Biden could not require federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and blocked the government from disciplining employees who…
WASHINGTON -The U.S. House of Representatives will soon introduce a bill to increase U.S. competitiveness with China and boost federal spending on semiconductors, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday as…
By Arunima Kumar and Liz Hampton – Schlumberger beat expectations with a rise in fourth-quarter profit on Friday as higher crude and natural gas prices drove demand for the world’s…
– GlaxoSmithKline and U.S. partner Vir Biotechnology will boost production of their antibody-based COVID-19 treatment by adding a second manufacturing plant to help meet soaring demand in the United States.…
By Christian Kraemer and Holger Hansen BERLIN -The German government will cut its economic growth forecast for this year to 3.6% from its October estimate of 4.1%, according to a…
– Hong Kong is permitting airline operators to restart the use of Boeing Co’s 737 Max aircraft in the city’s airspace, its Civil Aviation Department (CAD) said in a directive…