Highlights from the Fed review of SVB oversight

(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve issued a detailed and scathing assessment on Friday of its failures to identify problems and push for fixes at Silicon Valley Bank before the regional U.S. lender’s March 10 collapse, and called for stricter rules for banks. Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr called the review “unflinching,” describing the…

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US judge denies Google’s motion to dismiss advertising antitrust case

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied Google’s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology, saying the government’s case was strong enough to go forward. The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit in January, has argued that Google should be forced to sell its ad manager…

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Foreign tourism to Portugal has best first quarter ever

LISBON (Reuters) – The number of foreign tourists visiting Portugal surpassed 2.8 million from January through March, making it the best first quarter on record despite high global inflation and interest rates, data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Friday. Measuring only foreigners staying in Portuguese hotels, the number by far topped 1.8…

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TIM to seek new round of higher bids for landline grid – sources

MILAN (Reuters) – Telecom Italia (TIM)’s CEO Pietro Labriola is expected to propose to directors to seek further improvements of multi-billion bids for the company’s landline grid at a board meeting on May 4, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. Rival suitors KKR and a consortium comprising Italian state lender CDP and…

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