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GSK pledges sales boost after split from consumer arm
(Reuters) -New GSK, the pharmaceuticals business being separated from its consumer health operations, pledged to increase sales by more than 5% a year to 2026, the group said on Wednesday, as it publi...
Jun 23, 2021
Britain’s Lloyds axes further 44 branches
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Lloyds Banking Group is closing 44 bank branches across England and Wales this year, as lenders across the industry ramp up cost-cutting. Banks have stepped up branch closu...
Jun 23, 2021
Afterpay to let U.S. users ‘buy now, pay later’ at major U.S. merchants
(Reuters) - Afterpay said on Wednesday it will allow some of its U.S. users to shop at merchants the Australian 'buy now, pay later' (BNPL) firm does not partner with, such as Amazon, further squeezin...
Jun 23, 2021
U.S. Democrats vow ‘long march’ toward voting rights reforms
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress suffered a bruising defeat in their drive to pass a major election reform bill but said there are more tools at their disposal to...
Jun 23, 2021
Manufacturers have an answer to higher costs: Pass them on
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) - In 2018, Whirlpool Corp swung to a loss after a tariff-fueled rally in U.S. steel prices drove up its raw-materials costs. This year, it is paying $1 billion ...
Jun 23, 2021
Italy’s top court says production at Ilva plant can continue
ROME (Reuters) -Italy's top administrative court on Wednesday ruled that production at the Ilva steel plant in the southern city of Taranto can continue. The Council of State court said in a statement...
Jun 23, 2021
Vaccinated Israelis may need to quarantine because of Delta variant
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel empowered health officials on Wednesday to quarantine anyone deemed to have been exposed to an especially infectious variant of COVID-19, even if they were...
Jun 23, 2021
Explainer: What is the Delta variant of coronavirus with K417N mutation?
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Bhargav Acharya (Reuters) - India said on Wednesday it has found around 40 cases of the Delta coronavirus variant carrying a mutation that appears to make it more transmissi...
Jun 23, 2021
Alfi Inc shares set to fall from record highs, ‘meme stock’ Torchlight sinks
(Reuters) -Shares of software firm Alfi Inc fell 10% in early deals on Wednesday after more than doubling in value in the previous session, in a move evocative of the so-called "meme stock" frenzy tha...
Jun 23, 2021
Iran official says U.S. has agreed to lift oil, shipping sanctions
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday that Washington had agreed to remove all sanctions on Iran's oil and shipping, and take some senior figures off a blacklist, at talks to revive Tehran's 2015 n...
Jun 23, 2021
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