LIBOR successor in home stretch for transition in giant US swaps market

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) – A decade after a manipulation scandal turned global regulators and investors against the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as the global interest rate benchmark, major clearing houses are in the final weeks of the nearly $50 trillion transition of the U.S. rate swaps market to…

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Exclusive-Biden, Harris planning 1st 2024 fundraisers as soon as next week

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are gearing up for their first fundraising events as soon as next week to help kick off their 2024 reelection campaign, according to people briefed on the plans. Some of the events being planned for Biden include a reception and dinner…

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PacWest, Western Alliance shares tumble as regional bank fears persist 

By Niket Nishant and Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) – Shares of regional banks PacWest Bancorp and Western Alliance Bank plunged on Tuesday as the demise of First Republic Bank triggered investor concern about the financial health of other mid-sized lenders. JPMorgan Chase agreed on Monday to acquire a majority of First Republic’s assets in a $10.6…

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US Senate Republicans, Democrats squabble over debt ceiling as deadline nears

By David Morgan, Richard Cowan and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday called on President Joe Biden to accept their party’s debt-ceiling package or make a counter-offer, while a top Democrat said the Senate might try to advance a “clean” debt-ceiling hike next week. With barely a month to go…

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New U.S. military aid to Ukraine to include air-launched rockets -sources

By Mike Stone and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to announce as soon as Wednesday a new $300 million military aid package for Ukraine that will for the first time include a short-range air-launched rocket, two U.S. officials said. The Hydra 70 is an air-launched unguided rocket made by General Dynamics….

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Mexican President Lopez Obrador to meet with Biden adviser Tuesday

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet with White House Homeland Security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Tuesday morning in Mexico, Lopez Obrador’s office confirmed on Monday. The Mexican leader said earlier Monday he would meet with a representative for U.S. President Joe Biden to discuss migration, without saying who. On May…

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Group of EU states seeks to reduce dependency on China for pharmaceuticals

By Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A group of 19 European Union member states are pushing for measures to reduce the bloc’s dependency on Chinese imports of pharmaceutical ingredients, a paper dated May 2 showed. The move comes a week after the European Commission proposed an overhaul of the legislation governing its 136 billion euro…

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