Mystery deepens: Police continue to investigate unidentified man found shot dead near Kew Gardens Road in 1994
QUEENS, N.Y. — Nearly 30 years after an unidentified man was found shot to death near Kew Gardens Road, authorities are renewing efforts to solve the cold case and uncover the victim’s…
Casas Bahia executive quits as crisis deepens at Brazil retailer
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A top executive of Casas Bahia has decided to quit after less than five months on the job, deepening a corporate crisis that has seen shares in one…
UK recession risk deepens but consumers stay unfazed
By Andy Bruce and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s economy displayed clear recession signals on Friday, a day after the Bank of England called a halt to its long run of interest…
Pentagon To Make Entrance Exams Even Easier As Recruiting Crisis Deepens
Pentagon To Make Entrance Exams Even Easier As Recruiting Crisis Deepens Jake Smith on August 19, 2023 The Pentagon will start allowing the use of calculators on the military’s entrance exam, making…
Marketmind: U.S. retail therapy as China funk deepens
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, financial industry and financial markets As investors switch attention to the health of the U.S. consumer, a…
Marketmind: China data deluge as EM turmoil deepens
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. As waves of volatility crashed over emerging markets on Monday, most notably…
Marketmind: China gloom deepens, Wall Street shines
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. The contrasting market fortunes between the U.S. and China are well known…
Analysis-Suspicion deepens as absence of China’s foreign minister persists
By Laurie Chen, Martin Quin Pollard and Kate Lamb BEIJING/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Days before a conference of foreign ministers this month, China told host Indonesia it was switching its representative due to…
UK factory downturn deepens in June despite lower costs: PMI
By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – The pace of decline in Britain’s manufacturing sector steepened in June and optimism faded despite weakening price pressures, a survey showed on Monday. The S&P Global/CIPS…
Navy Making Recruiters Work 6-Day Weeks As Recruiting Crisis Deepens
Navy Making Recruiters Work 6-Day Weeks As Recruiting Crisis Deepens Ailan Evans on June 29, 2023 The Navy’s head of recruiting has ordered the service’s recruiters to work six-day weeks and is…
Singapore bank DBS deepens focus on booming family office business
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore lender DBS Group is stepping up its focus on the business of family offices, where its assets have surged in the last two years. Southeast Asia’s largest bank…
Euro zone factory downturn deepens in May despite price cuts
LONDON (Reuters) – The downturn in euro zone manufacturing activity deepened in May as demand slumped despite factories cutting prices for the first time since September 2020, according to a survey which…
Analysis-Russia’s mercenary boss deepens fog of Ukraine war while deflecting blame
By Mark Trevelyan, Andrew Osborn and Jonathan Landay LONDON (Reuters) – An extraordinary announcement by Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin that his fighters will abandon the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut looks like…
Analysis-Russia’s arrest of reporter deepens Biden’s detainee challenge
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Even before Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Wednesday, the Biden administration was at an impasse over another American held by Moscow: Paul…
FTC deepens probe into Twitter’s privacy, security practices- Bloomberg News
(Reuters) – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is deepening its probe into Twitter Inc’s privacy and data security practices, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.…
Investors flock to short crypto funds, products as negative sentiment deepens -CoinShares
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Institutional investors rushed to crypto products that bet on price declines, posting record inflows, as the collapse of digital asset exchange FTX rippled across the…
UK downturn deepens, raising recession risk -flash PMI
LONDON (Reuters) – The downturn in British businesses steepened this month as they battled soaring costs and faltering demand, according to a survey on Friday that hammered home the rising risk of…
Wall Street’s ‘fear gauge’ creeps higher as stock sell-off deepens
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors’ anxiety about stock market turbulence is fast approaching levels associated with heightened fear as the S&P 500 looks set to wrap up its…
French maize crop rating tumbles as drought deepens
By Gus Trompiz and Forrest Crellin PARIS – French maize crop conditions declined steeply last week to their lowest level in at least a decade, data from farm office FranceAgriMer showed, as…
Polish manufacturing slump deepens as output plunges -PMI
WARSAW – The downturn in Polish manufacturing accelerated in July, a survey showed on Monday, as output and new orders fell sharply due to an uncertain economic outlook and high inflation. S&P…
Havana announces blackouts, cancels carnival as crisis deepens
By Marc Frank HAVANA – The Cuban capital of Havana will begin electricity blackouts in August, has canceled carnival and is taking other measures as the country’s energy crisis worsens, state media…
Nord Stream gas row deepens as Gazprom airs new complaints on turbine
MOSCOW -Delivery of a Nord Stream 1 gas turbine to Germany from Canada after maintenance was not in line with the contract, Gazprom’s senior manager said on Friday, stepping up criticism of…
Toyota deepens production cut for July to 5,200 vehicles on heavy rains
TOKYO – Heavy rains in western Japan will cost Toyota Motor Corp an additional 1,000 or so vehicles in lost production in July, the automaker said on Friday, bringing its total estimated…
Volkswagen to cut working hours, wages in Brazil as parts shortage deepens
SAO PAULO – Volkswagen AG is set to cut working hours and wages at its Sao Bernardo do Campo factory in Brazil as it grapples with a lack of auto parts and…
Stockpiling Russians buy electronics, pharmacy goods as crisis deepens -PSB
– Russians rushed to buy electronics and pharmaceuticals and spent more on clothes and food in the first week of March, Promsvyazbank (PSB) said, stockpiling goods as the rouble plunged in value…
Hardship deepens amidst Syria’s frozen conflict
DAMASCUS/BEIRUT – After her son was killed fighting for the Syrian government in 2013, the state began paying Amouna al-Berri a monthly salary which easily covered all her household expenses. Today, the…
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