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Finnish parliament approves healthcare reform in bid to control costs
HELSINKI (Reuters) -The Finnish parliament approved on Wednesday a government proposal for legislation to reform the social and healthcare system, a tally of assembly members' votes showed. The decisi...
Jun 23, 2021
Central bank digital currencies get full BIS backing
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank for International Settlements has given its full backing to the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), saying they are needed to modernise fi...
Jun 23, 2021
U.S. House panel to take up Big Tech antitrust bills amid vociferous criticism
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Judiciary Committee will take up a package of six antitrust bills on Wednesday, many aimed at reining in Big Tech, with heated debate expected on both sides of the iss...
Jun 23, 2021
Boeing faces rocky path to gaining approval for 737 MAX return in China
By Norihiko Shirouzu, Stella Qiu and Jamie Freed BEIJING (Reuters) - Trade power tensions, regulatory hurdles and attempts by the West to counter Chinese competition are delaying a return of the 737 M...
Jun 23, 2021
U.S. solar developers see opportunity in America’s post-industrial lands
By Dane Rhys and Nichola Groom HURLEY, Virginia (Reuters) - On a recent spring morning, coal mine operator Dale Murray stood atop a stretch of land in western Virginia that had been dozed flat by moun...
Jun 23, 2021
Russian forces fire warning shots at British destroyer in Black Sea – Interfax cites defence ministry
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian military ship fired warning shots at British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender after it entered Russian waters in the Black Sea and a Russian jet dropped bombs in its path...
Jun 23, 2021
Bostic: Fed should avoid ‘prematurely’ declaring win in jobs battle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A spell of high inflation in the U.S. could last as long as 9 months, but the central bank should still avoid declaring victory too soon in the battle to regain 7.5 million jobs ...
Jun 23, 2021
Missing the deadline, EU citizens will receive 28-day notice for UK residency
LONDON (Reuters) - European Union citizens will be given a formal 28-day notice if they fail to apply for settled status in Britain in what the government bills as its pragmatic approach to a post-Bre...
Jun 23, 2021
U.S. panel to review heart inflammation cases after Pfizer, Moderna vaccines
By Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) - Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are set to meet on Wednesday to assess the possibility of a link between rare cases of heart inf...
Jun 23, 2021
Crypto is ‘rat poison’, a third of mainstream investment firms tell JPM
LONDON (Reuters) - Only 10% of institutional investment firms surveyed by JPMorgan trade cryptocurrencies, with nearly half labelling the emerging asset class as "rat poison" or predicting it would be...
Jun 23, 2021
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