TOKYO / NEW YORK (Reuters) – Asian stocks rose to a four-month high on Friday due to strong data from the US payrolls taking. FILE PHOTO: The Shanghai Stock Exchange Building in the Pudong Financial District in Shanghai, China, February 28, 2020. REUTERS / Aly Song MSCI’s broader Asia-Pacific index …
Read More »Exclusive: JPMorgan removes the terms ‘master’, ‘slave’ from the internal technical and material code
NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) is removing terms such as “blacklist”, “master” and “slave” from its materials and internal technology code, as it seeks to address racism within the company, two sources with knowledge of the measure said. FILE PHOTO: The Dow Jones Industrial Average logo, …
Read More »The Fed’s balance sheet shrinks further, and there are still no Main Street loans
FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, USA, on March 19, 2019. REUTERS / Leah Millis (Reuters) – The massive reserve of bonds and other assets of the US Federal Reserve fell for the third consecutive week to its smallest size since mid-May, …
Read More »US Coronavirus Cases Reach New World Record, Increasing Over 55,000 in One Day
(Reuters) – The United States reported more than 55,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, the largest daily increase by any country, according to a Reuters count. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians in masks walk down the sidewalk in the Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, USA, July 1, 2020. REUTERS / …
Read More »2 Kansas City police officers shot in separate incidents
Officers had been responding to calls for help, according to Kansas City Police Chief Richard Smith. In one incident, the police were called to a riot near a McDonald’s. A witness told CNN affiliate KMBC that a man left the fast food restaurant with a gun. “He was acting like …
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