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September 16, 2021 By Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose, David Brunnstrom and Colin Packham WASHINGTON/CANBERRA (Reuters) -China on Thursday denounced a new Indo-Pacific security alliance between the United States, Britain and Australia, saying such partnerships should not target third countries and warning of an intensified arms race in the region. Under the arrangement, dubbed AUKUS, the […]

Concreit, a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners.  Hyphen Capital also participated in the round, in addition to individual investors such as Betterment founder and CEO Jon Stein; Andy Liu, […]

New Zealand-based medtech startup HeartLab has raised $2.45 million in seed funding that it says will help the company expand its AI-powered heart scanning and reporting platform to cardiologists in the United States by early next year. HeartLab provides an end-to-end solution for echocardiograms, the ultrasound tests that doctors use to examine a patient’s heart […]

September 16, 2021 (Reuters) – Euro 2020 finalists England pushed world champions France out of the top three in world soccer body FIFA’s latest men’s soccer rankings published on Thursday. Belgium remained the top ranked side, followed by Brazil. European champions Italy, on a record unbeaten international run of 37 matches, are fifth with Argentina […]

September 16, 2021 By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – Erratic and volatile, with positioning swinging from one extreme to another: a new norm is taking hold in the world’s biggest debt markets which for years saw activity crushed by the hefty presence of central banks. Bond-buying stimulus remains a powerful downward force on borrowing costs, […]

September 16, 2021 By Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar climbed to the higher end of recent ranges against other major currencies on Thursday, as traders looked to next week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting for indications on how soon the U.S central bank will start to taper stimulus. The dollar index, which measures the […]

September 16, 2021 BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany (Reuters) – Four former employees of carmaker Volkswagen went on trial on Thursday over the Dieselgate scandal in which illegal software was used to cheat emission tests. The trial, being held in the city of Braunschweig, close to Volkswagen’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, started without former CEO Martin Winterkorn, whose separate […]

September 16, 2021 By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) -Oil held above $75 a barrel on Thursday, within sight of a multi-week high hit a day earlier, supported by a big drop in U.S. crude inventories and surging European natural gas prices. U.S. crude inventories fell by 6.4 million barrels last week, more than the 3.5 […]

September 16, 2021 By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – Wu Lei says his small construction company in central China has accepted commercial paper from property developer Evergrande as payment for two years but with that paper’s value now in doubt, his firm is on the verge of collapse. China Evergrande Group, saddled with more […]

September 16, 2021 By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British businesses have reported a sharp rise in recruitment difficulties within the space of just a few weeks – partly as a result of a continued lack of European Union workers, official figures showed on Thursday. Some 41% of companies with 10 or more staff reported […]

September 16, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) -Global markets struggled to gain momentum on Thursday and U.S. stock futures pointed to a slightly lower open for Wall Street, weighed by concerns about a possible slowdown in the economic recovery from COVID-19. European equities gained, bucking the trend from a weak Asian session. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index […]

September 16, 2021 (Reuters) -AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc boss Adam Aron said the theater chain would accept ether, bitcoin cash and litecoin alongside bitcoin for ticket purchases, as cryptocurrencies gain acceptance among mainstream investors and companies. “Cryptocurrency enthusiasts: you likely know @AMCTheatres has announced we will accept Bitcoin for online ticket and concession payments by […]

September 16, 2021 By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – A New Jersey state treasury official said on Wednesday it is set to divest $182 million in Unilever Plc stock and bonds held by its pension funds over the restriction of sales by the consumer giant’s Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. It […]

September 16, 2021 (Reuters) – The English Women’s soccer team will compete in a new annual international tournament on home soil starting in 2022, the national side announced on Thursday. The tournament will be staged in February next year, with England being joined by Germany and Spain, while a fourth competing nation will be announced […]

September 16, 2021 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has set up a cross-agency team, led by the country’s securities watchdog, to coordinate crackdown efforts against illegal activities in capital markets. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said on Thursday it recently held the first meeting with other team members, including the country’s propaganda department, supreme court, […]

September 16, 2021 By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -British retailers John Lewis Partnership and the Co-operative Group both warned that creaking supply chains would lead to higher prices on Thursday, as a dearth of truck drivers compounds disruption in global freight trade. A combination of the impact of Britain’s exit from the European Union on […]

September 16, 2021 By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – Security personnel in the Chinese city of Shenzhen on Thursday took away protesters who gathered outside the headquarters of cash-strapped real estate developer China Evergrande Group. The country’s second biggest property developer is wrestling with a liquidity crisis, scrambling to raise funds as it teeters […]

September 16, 2021 By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Poland must change its legal definition of rape to better protect women, Europe’s top rights watchdog said on Thursday in the latest challenge to the country’s ruling nationalists over human rights and democratic values. Despite mass protests, the government led by the socially conservative Law and […]

September 16, 2021 By John Irish and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – French military forces have killed the leader of a West African affiliate of Islamic State in an air strike, President Emmanuel Macron and other officials said on Thursday. Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi was head of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), a […]

September 16, 2021 By Ebrahim Harris LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) – The first plane carrying tourists in more than four months touched down on the Malaysian island of Langkawi on Thursday and was greeted by a twin water cannon “salute”, in the launch of a programme to revive a travel sector frozen by the pandemic. The […]