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Belgium tightens curbs, but avoids lockdown as COVID cases peak
By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium tightened its coronavirus restrictions for the third consecutive week on Friday to fight one of Europe's worst spikes of COVID-19 cases, but stopped s...
Dec 03, 2021
U.S. Treasury tells new German government: Be bold, keep spending
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Friday kept Germany on its Monitoring List for problematic currency practices and urged the incoming coalition government to keep up its "b...
Dec 03, 2021
Taiwan blames China-U.S. trade war, pandemic for U.S. trade imbalance
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's trade surplus with the United States is due to the China-U.S. trade war and pandemic driving tech demand, a central bank official said on Friday, after the U.S. Treasury sa...
Dec 03, 2021
U.S.-listed Chinese shares take a knock as Didi to exit NYSE
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S.-listed shares of Alibaba, Baidu, JD.com and other Chinese firms fell on Friday as ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc's decision to delist from the New York Stock Exchan...
Dec 03, 2021
Special Report: Pro-Trump news site targets election workers, inspiring wave of menace
By Peter Eisler and Jason Szep (Reuters) - The story had a bombshell headline: "Thousands of fake votes" had been discovered in Madison, Wisconsin, two weeks after Democrat Joe Biden narrowly beat the...
Dec 03, 2021
Ford aims to be world’s #2 electric vehicle maker within two years – COO
(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co expects to be the world's second largest electric vehicle manufacturer within two years, with annual production capacity of nearly 600,000, a top company executive said Frida...
Dec 03, 2021
Negotiations on future of Volkswagen CEO could drag into next week – sources
HAMBURG (Reuters) - A decision on the future of Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, previously expected by the end of the week, could be delayed further, three sources close to negotiations told Reuters on ...
Dec 03, 2021
Fewer Americans staying on job sidelines due to COVID, survey shows
(Reuters) - The number of Americans not looking for jobs over the previous four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic dipped in November but remained well above one million people, a Labor Department...
Dec 03, 2021
Slower U.S. job gains may prove no barrier for faster Fed taper
(Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers look likely to accelerate the winddown of their bond-buying program when policymakers meet later this month, despite November job gains that came in short of e...
Dec 03, 2021
Pope to facilitate re-location of 50 migrants, Cyprus says
By Philip Pullella and Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus said on Friday that 50 migrants in the country would be re-located as part of an initiative by Pope Francis coinciding with his visit t...
Dec 03, 2021
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