By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jes Staley, the onetime asset management chief at JPMorgan Chase, is set to be questioned under oath over the weekend about his ties to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deposition, which is not public, is part…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Apple and Amazon.com must face a consumer antitrust lawsuit in U.S. court accusing them of conspiring to artificially inflate the price of iPhones and iPads sold on Amazon’s platform, a federal judge in Seattle ruled on Thursday. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour rejected bids from Apple and…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Donald Trump, was indicted alongside the former Republican president on Thursday, Trump said on his social media network on Friday. Nauta, a former military valet, worked for Trump at the White House before accompanying the former president to work for him at…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to pay $500 million to New Mexico to settle claims that its pharmacies helped fuel opioid addiction in the state by failing to stop illegal pill sales, lawyers for the state announced on Friday. The settlement, the largest obtained by New Mexico against a single company…
By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA (Reuters) -At least 20 people have died in fighting in a camp for displaced people in South Sudan, a medical aid group said on Friday. Tensions started rising last week when women from different groups tussled at a water point in the camp in Upper Nile State’s capital Malakal, according…
By Sruthi Shankar and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit fresh 2023 highs on Friday before paring some gains, as a jump in Tesla and technology stocks outweighed jitters around the Federal Reserve’s policy outcome and inflation data next week. Tesla Inc shares climbed 4.9% and were set for their…
DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring sides have agreed a nationwide, 24-hour ceasefire from Saturday morning, U.S. and Saudi Arabian mediators said, following a week of intensified fighting after a previous truce deal lapsed. The mediators said the ceasefire was “an effort to break the cycle of violence” between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces…
By Shreyashi Sanyal and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -European shares slipped on Friday, rounding off a lacklustre week that saw investors step to the sidelines ahead of crucial updates from the U.S. Fed and European Central Bank (ECB), while Croda slid on a tepid profit outlook. The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed 0.2% down and…
By Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) – Minority-owned banks in the U.S. have stayed resilient during this year’s industry turmoil thanks in part to government and industry support, despite concerns that they would struggle to survive, executives said. Minority depository institutions, or MDIs, “have emerged stronger now coming out of the pandemic and the recent…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two lawyers representing former U.S. President Donald Trump, who was federally indicted for illegally retaining classified documents, obstruction and other crimes, have resigned, according to a statement released Friday. “This morning we tendered our resignations as counsel to President Trump, and we will no longer represent him on either the indicted case…
