Por Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, 23 ene (Reuters) – La presidenta de la Reserva Federal de Kansas City instó a sus colegas a llegar a un acuerdo “más pronto que tarde” sobre un plan para que el banco central abandone el mercado de valores respaldados por hipotecas (MBS) y sea más explícito sobre cómo las compras …
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s National Grid said it would pay customers to use less power on Monday and Tuesday evenings this week, the first time it has used a new scheme designed to help prevent power shortages. More than a million households and business are signed up to the Demand Flexibility Service (DFS), which rewards people, …
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KABUL (Reuters) -The United Nations’ aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women’s education and work with the Taliban administration’s acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered NGOs not to allow most female employees to work, prompting many aid agencies to partially suspend …
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Por Stephanie Kelly NUEVA YORK, 23 ene (Reuters) -Los precios del petróleo subieron alrededor de un 1% el lunes, alcanzando máximos de siete semanas, ampliando las ganancias de la semana pasada gracias a unas perspectivas más alentadoras por la recuperación económica prevista para este año en China, principal importador de petróleo. * El crudo Brent …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Arkansas man who famously was photographed putting his feet up on a desk inside then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol was convicted on eight counts by a Washington jury on Monday, the Justice Department said. The guilty verdict …
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Inflation in Venezuela hit 234% in 2022, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on Monday, representing a slowdown from the previous year, as the South American country struggles with a deep and lengthy economic crisis. Rodriguez provided the inflation rate during a meeting with Turkish and Venezuelan business leaders. Venezuela’s central bank infrequently …
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By Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Americanas SA three largest shareholders, the billionaire founders of 3G Capital, said on Sunday they had not known of $4 billion in accounting ‘inconsistencies’ at the Brazilian retailer. In their first official statement since Americanas filed for bankruptcy this month, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Alberto Sicupira and Marcel …
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(Reuters) -Abbott Laboratories’ Michigan plant, which was at the center of the U.S. baby formula shortage last year, faces a criminal investigation by the Justice Department, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Panicked parents emptied baby formula aisles at supermarkets last year as a recall of formulas by Abbott due to complaints of bacterial …
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By Victoria Waldersee and Christina Amann BERLIN (Reuters) -Ford Motor Co plans to cut up to 3,200 jobs across Europe and move some product development work to the United States, Germany’s IG Metall union said on Monday, vowing action that would disrupt the carmaker across the continent if the cuts go ahead. Rising costs for …
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By Hadeel Al Sayegh, Oliver Hirt and Andrew Mills DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has increased its stake in Credit Suisse to just under 7%, becoming the Swiss bank’s second-largest shareholder after Saudi National Bank, in a sign that its Gulf investor base is growing in importance. The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) bought …
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