© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats who narrowly control the U.S. Congress will confront twin threats to advancing President Joe Biden’s agenda as they return to Washington from a break this week: United opposition…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Tips, money collected from a customer donation fund and a last paycheck for employees laid off from Farley’s East cafe, that closed due to the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), sits on a counter at the cafe in Oa 2/2 By Koh Gui Qing and Pete Schroeder…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque 2/2 By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden reacted on Friday to a disappointing April jobs report by saying the…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Treasury Department is pictured in Washington, U.S., April 25, 2021. REUTERS/Al Drago By Dan Burns (Reuters) – A bruising bond market sell-off earlier this year appears to remain high on the minds of Federal Reserve officials, who in a report on Thursday singled out the event as illustrative of continuing…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Brazilian Real and U.S. dollar notes are pictured at a currency exchange office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this September 10, 2015 photo illustration. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s real surged on Thursday to close at its highest in almost four months against the dollar, a…
3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks in a flooded field after Hurricane Delta, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S., October 10, 2020. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo 2/3 By Trevor Hunnicutt LAKE CHARLES, La. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said a corporate tax rate between 25% and 28% could help pay for badly needed infrastructure, suggesting…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Swiss bank Credit Suisse is seen at its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann By Shariq Khan and Matt Scuffham (Reuters) – Credit Suisse (SIX:CSGN) Group AG has told customers in recent months it will no longer execute transactions in shares of cannabis companies with…
10/10 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics centre in Boves 2/10 By Jeffrey Dastin and Akanksha Rana (Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc posted record profits from pandemic shopping and indicated sales would keep growing even as customers emerged from their homes in the reopening U.S. economy. Since the start…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: The remains of a Tesla vehicle are seen after it crashed in The Woodlands, Texas By Hyunjoo Jin and David Shepardson (Reuters) -The U.S. transport safety board is working to publish as soon as possible a preliminary report on a recent Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) vehicle crash in Texas in which local police…
© Reuters. Summers Sees Signs of Scarce Workers as Harbinger of Inflation (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden’s $4 trillion plans to overhaul the role of government in American lives is aimed at the right targets but risks inflation in an economy that’s recovering fast from the pandemic, said former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. “I…