by iwd | Jul 30, 2024 | General
By David LawderBELEM, Brazil (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen launched on Saturday a new effort with Amazon basin governments to disrupt illicit finance that fuels nature crimes, including illegal harvesting of trees and other plants, minerals...
by iwd | Jul 30, 2024 | General
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris launched a $50 million advertising blitz on Tuesday, capitalizing on the momentum of a fledgling campaign against Republican rival Donald Trump with a one-minute spot titled...
by iwd | Jul 30, 2024 | Business
By Mike Scarcella and Jody Godoy(Reuters) -Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their...
by iwd | Jul 29, 2024 | Economy
(Reuters) -Investment firm Sixth Street will acquire Enstar for $5.1 billion, in a deal backed by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and billionaire J Christopher Flowers, the insurer said on Monday.The deal will allow Sixth Street, an existing Enstar investor...
by iwd | Jul 29, 2024 | Business
By Michael Erman(Reuters) -Pfizer’s, GSK’s and Moderna’s competition for arms for their new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines is on Wall Street’s watch list for when the companies report earnings later this week.Investors and analysts...
by iwd | Jul 29, 2024 | Business
(Reuters) -Abbott Laboratories’ shares fell nearly 7% premarket, while British peer Reckitt Benckiser slumped 9% on Monday, after the U.S. healthcare firm was ordered to pay $495 million in damages related to its formula for premature infants.A jury late on...
by iwd | Jul 29, 2024 | General
By Kanishka SinghWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s election campaign said on Sunday it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.President...
by iwd | Jul 26, 2024 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Indivior reached an $86 million settlement to resolve the company’s role in spreading opioid addiction across the United States, New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Friday.James said Indivior improperly targeted sales of...
by iwd | Jul 26, 2024 | Business
MILAN (Reuters) – An Italian unit of Amazon is being investigated by Milan prosecutors for suspected tax evasion, two sources said on Friday, but the inquiry was not linked to a multi-million euro seizure from another of the group’s Italian units this...
by iwd | Jul 26, 2024 | Business
(Reuters) – Warner Bros Discovery and its sports division, Turner Broadcasting System, filed a lawsuit on Friday against the National Basketball Association in New York over the league’s rejection of its matching bid for media rights.The media company...
