By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar index rose on Wednesday following comments from a host of global central bank leaders, including Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who did not rule out the possibility of another rate hike by the Fed at its next meeting in July. Powell, speaking at a European Central…
By Max Hunder KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Two 14-year-old twin sisters were among at least 11 people killed in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kramatorsk, officials said on Wednesday. Emergency services said the bodies of 11 people had been recovered from the rubble by early Wednesday evening, nearly…
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) – Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX sued one of its former top lawyers, accusing him of aiding fraud by company founder Sam Bankman-Fried and silencing whistleblowers who reported wrongdoing at the company. The complaint, filed on Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, describes Daniel Friedberg, a former chief compliance officer at…
(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a broker at Spartan Capital Securities traded on confidential information about planned mergers and acquisitions illegally obtained from Morgan Stanley, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Jordan Meadow’s communications with five people, including a former Morgan Stanley employee, are under the scanner, the report said, citing people familiar…
(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a broker at Spartan Capital Securities traded on confidential information about planned mergers and acquisitions illegally obtained from Morgan Stanley, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Jordan Meadow’s communications with five people, including a former Morgan Stanley employee, are under the scanner, the report said, citing people familiar…
(Reuters) – White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has been in touch with Moscow to discuss the respective Russian and U.S. embassies, and the two sides are in talks on the subject, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. The two countries’ embassies have been severely and reciprocally scaled down in recent years as…
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In December, during a heated U.S. Supreme Court oral argument involving a collision between free speech protections for business owners and LGBT rights, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who had joined the bench only about two months before, raised the most memorable question of the day….
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum leads the contest to be a candidate for Mexico’s ruling party in the 2024 presidential election, a survey published on Wednesday showed, while another poll put her in a virtual dead heat but advancing. A survey by polling firm Buendia & Marquez for newspaper El Universal…
By Michael Martina and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China criticized U.S. presidential contender Nikki Haley over her threats to drastically limit Sino-U.S. trade relations, saying those who blamed Beijing for problems would end up on the “ash heap of history.” Haley, a U.N. ambassador during the Trump administration, staked out one of the most hawkish…
By Jorgelina do Rosario LONDON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund executive board will meet on July 12 to complete the first review of its $1.3 billion extended fund facility (EFF) programme for Zambia, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The board meeting comes after Africa’s second-biggest copper producer clinched a deal…
