Thursday, May 20, 2021

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As-it-happens update May 20, 2021
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Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Five years after the 2016 referendum that dealt it a heavy blow, the pound is less than ten cents below its pre-Brexit exchange rate against the dollar. But making up that final stretch of ground could prove tough. FILE PHOTO: Wads of ...
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Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Oil Corp, the country's top refiner, said on Thursday it would resume purchases of Iranian oil if Washington lifts sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme. FILE PHOTO: An Indian Oil tanker driver waits ...
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Bloomberg
For Josh Harris, the end of his three decades as a dealmaker at Apollo Global Management Inc. came swiftly. Just four months after he was passed over for the top job at the private equity giant, Harris threw in the towel and relinquished his day-to-day role.
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Bloomberg
In its annual Financial System Review, the Ottawa-based central bank said Thursday there are signs people are buying houses in some regions of the country with the expectation prices will continue to rise, which creates unsustainable dynamics.
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Bloomberg
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Forbes
The future of oil. There's close alignment across the scenarios. In our AET-2 scenario, oil demand falls by 70% to 35 million barrels per day (b/d) by 2050, decline setting in as electric vehicles and hydrogen disrupt road transportation, while recycling limits the ...
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CNBC
U.S. stock futures turned positive Thursday after three days of losses as tech names and bitcoin bounced higher. Dow component Cisco Systems dropped 4% in Thursday's premarket, trimming bigger overnight losses, one day after the data center networking ...
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Reuters
The dollar lost ground on Thursday, hovering just above a multi-month low following Wednesday's bounce prompted by the release of U.S. Federal Reserve meeting minutes. In those minutes, from the Fed's most recent monetary policy meeting, several ...
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Bloomberg
Nerves of steel. That's what cryptocurrency investors needed Wednesday as tokens such as Bitcoin dropped 31% in the morning only to surge 33% hours later. Initially, it seemed like the moment skeptics had been warning about. Tesla CEO Elon Musk ...
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Bloomberg
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is taking another shot at trying to make health care less expensive for companies and better for workers in the U.S.. The largest U.S. bank is launching a business called Morgan Health aimed at improving employee benefits and ...
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MarketWatch
Many Americans have focused on spending less and paying off debt throughout the COVID crisis, rather than taking out new loans. Many Americans have limited their spending to essentials like groceries during the pandemic, causing a reduction in demand ...
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Forbes
Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) is poised for a solid 2021 as it ramps up sales of its much sought-after Covid-19 vaccine. The company is on track to deliver between 800 million to 1 billion doses of the shot this year and based on its advance purchase ...
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Bloomberg
Broker app Trade Republic Bank GmbH, founded by former Merrill Lynch banker Christian Hecker, has become one of Germany's biggest fintech firms by valuation. The Berlin-based company finished a $900 million financing round with investors including ...
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Bloomberg
Daimler AG's sprawling truck division sketched out plans to turn its unrivaled global scale into better financial results ahead of its spinoff from Mercedes-Benz luxury cars later this year. The division showcased its strategy for electrification, self-driving ...
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The New York Times
To understand why inflation is so worrying to so many people, you could look at price charts for lumber or used cars or New York strip steaks. There is no doubt that the prices of many of the things people buy are rising at an uncomfortably rapid rate.
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Reuters
(Reuters) - Zhang Yiming will step down as chief executive of TikTok-owner ByteDance, leaving the task of navigating a rising number of Big Tech regulations worldwide to college roommate, long-time colleague and current human resources head Liang ...
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MarketWatch
Mortgage rates jumped higher in response to hints that the Federal Reserve may soon alter its approach to the economy in light of high inflation. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3% for the week ending May 20, up six basis points from the previous ...
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Barron's
Wood watchers—and tech investors—hope she hasn't lost her Midas touch. The ARK Innovation ETF is still up 67% over the last 12 months, outpacing the S&P 500's 39% rise. The ETF has returned about 36% a year on average for the past three years, about ...
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Motley Fool
In case you hadn't heard, 70 is the new 60 with respect to retirement. And that's not entirely anecdotal. A study from Stony Brook University confirms that as lifespans increase, people are staying healthier into older ages. That's a great thing, because it gives ...
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Business Insider
Soaring lumber costs and a shortage of building lots are holding homebuilders back. The lack of housing supply is driving home-price inflation to levels that are weighing on buying plans. Millennials are set to drive demand even higher, but soaring costs ...
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CNBC
BJ's Wholesale (BJ) – The warehouse retailer reported quarterly earnings of 72 cents per share, 15 cents a share above estimates. Revenue beat estimates as well. The retailer's comparable-store sales ex-fuel fell by 5%, but that was smaller than the 8.3% drop ...
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Motley Fool
Leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) is finally hitting a rough patch. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk backtracked on allowing customers to use the digital currency to purchase vehicles, and regulators in China have reeled in crypto trading ...
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Barron's
Known for its oat milk that can be used in coffee and cereals, Oatly raised $1.4 billion late Wednesday. The Swedish company sold about 84.4 million American depositary shares at $17 each, the top of its $15 to $17 price range, a person familiar with the matter ...
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CNN
(CNN) — With most of the world still off-limits to British travelers, MSC Cruises is launching the first of many planned UK summer "staycation sailings" that promise to introduce UK travelers to the joys of their own coastline. The MSC Virtuosa is setting sail from ...
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MarketWatch
Next, the sales data show that Uber is much bigger. In fact, Uber is the largest on-demand ride-sharing provider in the world (outside of China). Analysts expect Uber to post $3.6 billion in sales for the second quarter, compared to $698 million at Lyft.
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MINING.com
SANTIAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - Chilean miner SQM, the world's No. 2 producer of lithium, said on Wednesday its sales volumes of the battery metal had jumped 180% in the first quarter on rising demand from the electric vehicle industry, prompting it to ...
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The Mercury News
A member of the Philadelphia Fire Department administers the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to a person at a vaccination site setup at a Salvation Army location in Philadelphia, Friday, March 26, 2021.
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Reuters
The Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecoms industry's biggest annual gathering, can go ahead as planned after Spanish authorities approved its health and safety plan, its organisers said on Thursday. MWC, which will be one of the first big technology ...
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Reuters
Over 900 broadband providers have agreed to take part in the program that provides lower-income Americans or people impacted by COVID-19 with discounts on monthly internet service and on purchasing laptops or tablet computers. Some ...
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Barron's
Ford Motor is getting into the electric-vehicle battery business. Investors are cheering the news. The company announced a joint venture with SK Innovation (ticker: 096770.Korea) to make enough batteries to power the equivalent of 600,000 all-electric ...
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Seattle Times
NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl's raised its financial outlook for the year after a solid rebound in the first quarter from the devastating impact of the pandemic. But those raised expectations fell short of what many industry analysts had been expecting and shares ...
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Bloomberg
The former chairman has "no right to fair compensation, transitional compensation or arrears of salary" since no employment contract existed between him and Nissan-Mitsubishi BV, an Amsterdam-based joint venture called NMBV, the district court in the Dutch ...
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Barron's
Iovance Biotherapeutics shares took a quick pair of hammer blows on Tuesday and Wednesday, dropping nearly 40% on bad news from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, followed by the unexpected departure of the company's CEO. The CEO's ...
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Reuters
(Reuters) -Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd on Thursday reiterated its commitment to buy Kansas City Southern and asked the U.S. railroad operator to reject rival Canadian National Railway's takeover offer. Kansas City last week accepted Canadian National's ...
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Today.com
Now we're asking magazine experts what we should have in our skin care routine to prepare us for summer. Real Simple Beauty Director Heather Muir Maffei joined the 3rd Hour of TODAY to reveal seven must-have products to beat the heat and protect us from ...
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Motley Fool
For anyone who bought into the Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) IPO in April, it hasn't been a fun month. Shares of the cryptocurrency trading platform are now trading below their IPO price of $250, and they've been practically cut in half from their all-time high.
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WRCB-TV
UPDATE: On Thursday, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said that another 7,405 Tennesseans filed new unemployment claims for the week ending May 15, 2021. Continued claims in the state increased to 50,901.
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MarketWatch
A previous version of the story had incorrect figures for the subcomponents in May and April. The report has been corrected. The numbers: The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's business activity index fell to 31.5 in May from a nearly 50-year high of 50.2 in the ...
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Barron's
Morgan Stanley announced a set of leadership changes Thursday that provide hints at who will eventually succeed CEO James Gorman. Long-serving employees Ted Pick and Andy Saperstein were named co-presidents of Morgan Stanley (ticker: MS), with ...
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Reuters
Certain existing challenges with conducting clinical studies, such as low patient enrollment and inconvenient trial sites, show the need to improve the current model, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Troyen Brennan, the chief medical ...
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MarketWatch
Ralph Lauren Corp. blew past earnings estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday, and said it may close more stores in fiscal 2022. The retailer reported a fiscal fourth-quarter net loss totaling $74.1 million, or $1.01 per share, after a loss of $249.0 ...
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MarketWatch
That was larger than the average increase of 67 billion cubic feet forecast by analysts polled by S&P Global Platts. Total stocks now stand at 2.1 trillion cubic feet, down 391 billion cubic feet from a year ago and 87 billion cubic feet below the five-year average, ...
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Reuters
Adjusted earnings per share are expected to rise to more than 1.75 euros ($2.13) by 2024, compared to 1.20 euros in 2020, the Bonn-based telecoms group, with operations in Europe and the United States, said ahead of a two-day strategy presentation.
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Fast Company
Charlotte Newman filed a suit against Amazon in March alleging sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and "down-leveling" her job. Here she explains what she says she experienced and her hopes for Amazon's future.
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Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several states filed a lawsuit against Frontier Communications on Wednesday, accusing them of lying about internet speeds, in one of the first cases the regulator has overseen since net ...
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Food Business News
ST. LOUIS — Panera Bread Co. has unveiled a new bakery-cafe design featuring enhanced digital capabilities, personalized options and more drive-thru access, as well as a focus on the company's craft bakery experience. "Innovation is core to who we are ...
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CNN
Dive Brief: · In its next big product expansion, sustainable shoe brand Rothy's on Thursday launched into the men's category with two styles: a sneaker and a loafer. · The shoes are machine washable and made from recycled materials, including plastic water ...
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TravelPulse
The 999 successful entrants were drawn through an independent ballot and are now scheduled to sail onboard Anthem of the Seas during a series of four-night Ocean Getaways taking place in early July. ADVERTISING.
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KABC-TV
In the face of a sprawling congressional inquiry and sustained scrutiny over its handling of a contract to help develop coronavirus vaccines, an executive of the beleaguered biotech firm Emergent BioSolutions told lawmakers on Wednesday that he hopes to ...
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Entrepreneur
If you look closer at the report, you'll also see a list of other ways parents and students pay for college. A retirement savings withdrawal (including 401k, Roth IRA or another type of IRA) made up 2% of sources parents used to pay for college.
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