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By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK -Ben & Jerry’s independent board said parent company Unilever Plc, with which it is locked in a dispute over the sale of its Israeli business, …

By Michael Erman and Manas Mishra (Reuters) – Moderna Inc on Wednesday maintained its full-year COVID-19 vaccine sales forecast of $21 billion as canceled orders from low- and middle-income nations …

By Christoph Steitz MUELHEIM AN DER RUHR, Germany -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday said Russia had no reason to hold up the return of a gas turbine for the …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -Automakers want Democratic Senator Joe Manchin to revisit his proposal to restructure the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit, raising fears it could be largely unworkable because …

By Manya Saini and Niket Nishant (Reuters) – Wall Street has lowered earnings expectations for once high-flying fintechs Coinbase and Block, as a chill in the cryptocurrency market adds more …

By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON – A new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would make the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) the direct regulator of the biggest cryptocurrencies. The measure, …

By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – A deal among U.S. Senate Democrats that would provide faster approvals for fossil fuel projects in exchange for party-line support for a spending bill focused …

KYIV -Ukraine said on Wednesday that Russia had started creating a military strike force aimed at President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih and warned that Moscow could be preparing …

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Anisha Sircar (Reuters) – European shares rose on Wednesday as a slate of upbeat earnings from companies including Infineon, AXA and Just Eat Takeaway offset …

COPENHAGEN -Shares in Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk fell on Wednesday as news about its new obesity drug disappointed investors, even though the firm lifted its sales and operating profit forecasts …

By Natalie Grover and Ludwig Burger LONDON -The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is recommending Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine carry a warning of the possibility of two types of heart inflammation, an …

(Reuters) – L’ATTITUDE Ventures on Wednesday closed its first institutional fund raising over $100 million with an anchor investment from Wall Street giant JPMorgan Chase and initial investments from Trujillo …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden next Tuesday will sign a bill to subsidize the U.S. semiconductor industry and boost efforts to make the United States more competitive …

By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO -A major affiliate of Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp falsified emissions data on some engines going back to at least 2003, more than a decade earlier than …

By John Davison BAGHDAD – Iraqi activists who demonstrated three years ago against powerful parties and militias that run the country have watched with resentment as those same groups now …

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON -U.S. crypto firm Nomad has been hit by a $190 million theft, blockchain researchers said on Tuesday, the latest such heist to hit the digital asset …

(Reuters) -Steelmaker Ternium expects revenue per ton to decrease in the third quarter of 2022 due to lower benchmark steel prices, the company said in a presentation following second-quarter results …

By David Lawder WASHINGTON – Five former U.S. Treasury secretaries – four Democrats and one Republican — on Wednesday voiced support for a proposed $430 billion drugs, energy and tax …

By Mrinalika Roy (Reuters) -Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said on Wednesday it expects demand for blockbuster eye drug Eylea to remain strong in the third quarter even in the face of emerging …

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Medha Singh (Reuters) – Shares of AMTD Digital plunged 40% on Wednesday to snap an eye-popping rally fueled by retail investors this week that briefly …

By Luiza Ilie CONSTANTA, Romania – At the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta dockers have worked for months to ship out Ukrainian grain in addition to their usual loads …

By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has launched an investigation into whether Morningstar Inc violated a state consumer-protection law through its evaluations of environmental, social and …

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones told a Texas jury on Tuesday that he never intended to hurt parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy …

By David Brunnstrom TOKYO – The prospect of U.S. house speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan was raised with the Chinese government’s top diplomat recently and there are no plans for …

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM -Just Eat Takeaway.com, Europe’s largest meal delivery company, on Wednesday reported a smaller loss for the first half of 2022 and maintained growth and margin forecasts …