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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline People who have been fully inoculated against coronavirus with the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines may need a booster shot within a year in order to maintain immunity against coronavirus, Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said Tuesday, though other experts…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Chinese financial officials announced Tuesday that the country would crack down on financial institutions conducting cryptocurrency business or offering related services in light of the market’s recent volatility, marking another blow to the nascent market reeling from one of its biggest sell-offs ever after booming institutional adoption helped…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured outside the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo By Julie Gordon and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Price volatility is keeping cryptoassets from being widely accepted as a means of payment, the Bank of Canada said on Thursday, though the…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo (Reuters) – About two-thirds of U.S. banks are either already taking measures to limit the growth in their balance sheets or would take steps to cap them if they continue growing, a…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Banco Santander’s chairwoman Ana Patricia Botin speaks during the annual results presentation at the bank’s headquarters in Boadilla del Monte, outside Madrid, Spain January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo By Jesús Aguado and Rachel Armstrong MADRID (Reuters) – Santander (MC:SAN) expects to triple revenues in its payments business PagoNxt to around…
Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) has appointed UBS’ Italian head of ultra-high net worth clients Gabriele D’Agosta as head of private banking in the country as it seeks to expand in the domestic wealth market, it said on Wednesday.”Gabriele’s drive and experience will help further develop our team in Italy,” Credit Suisse’s European wealth management head Robert…
Latin American gym chain SmartFit has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) to raise funds for its expansion, a Brazilian securities filing showed.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dropped further below 500,000 last week, suggesting job growth picked up this month, though companies still are desperate for workers.
Drillers in New Mexico have set aside only a tiny fraction of the money they will eventually need to clean up their wells, pipelines and other infrastructure in the state, leaving taxpayers at risk of footing some of the balance, according to a study published on Thursday.Concerns are growing about who will pay for the…





