WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday met with Ukrainian refugees and urged the need to confront Russian brutality as she visited Poland ahead of a meeting of finance ministers for the Group of Seven leading economies. Yellen applauded Poland for helping refugees fleeing the fighting and working with neighboring countries…
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday renewed British threats to break a Brexit agreement with the European Union, blaming it for a political crisis that’s blocking the formation of a new government in Northern Ireland. Johnson said there would be “a necessity to act” if the EU doesn’t agree to overhaul post-Brexit…
(Reuters) – Thales won a ten-year contract to deliver advanced tactical radios to the U.S. Army as one of two vendors in a deal with an overall volume of $6 billion, the French defence group said on Monday. “This contract was awarded as part of an effort (of the U.S. Army) to retire its outdated…
-A small but growing number of companies, including Amazon.com and Tesla Inc, are rolling out policies to offer benefits to U.S. employees who may need to access abortion services as some state legislatures impose tighter restrictions. An unprecedented leak of a draft opinion earlier this month suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court is set to…
By Marcy de Luna and Bianca Flowers HOUSTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Skyrocketing natural gas prices have raised manufacturing and transportation costs across many U.S. industries, and the situation should persist as the United States exports more gas to Europe to make up for Russian supplies lost to sanctions. U.S. natural gas futures have doubled this year,…
Starbucks said Monday it will pay the travel expenses for U.S. employees to access abortion and gender-confirmation procedures if those services aren’t available within 100 miles of a worker’s home. The Seattle coffee giant said it will also make the travel benefit available to the dependents of employees who are enrolled in Starbucks’ health care…
(Add details, analyst comments) By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Factory activity in New York state slumped in May for the third time this year amid a collapse in new orders and shipments, though manufacturers were slightly upbeat about business conditions over the next six months. But the survey from the New York Federal Reserve…
(Reuters) – New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said on Monday selling mortgage-backed securities could be an option for the central bank to consider down the road in its goal to orient its balance sheet largely around holdings of Treasuries. Williams said MBS sales are not under consideration for the first stages of…
Russia will take control of French car manufacturer Renault’s operations in the country and resurrect a Soviet-era auto brand, officials said Monday, marking the first major nationalization of a foreign business since the war in Ukraine began. Renault said it would sell its majority stake in Avtovaz, a Russian car company best known for its…
BOSTON (Reuters) – Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholders Services on Monday recommended that McDonald’s Corp shareholders vote for the company’s directors instead of the two candidates activist investor Carl Icahn has proposed. “The dissident campaign has not made a sufficient case, on an issue-specific or broader view of ESG, that the immediate replacement of incumbent…
