TOKYO (Reuters) -Goldman Sachs Group plans to establish a desk in Tokyo to start trading Japanese power derivatives, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. More foreign energy companies and banks are seeking access to the Japanese power market, which was launched in 2016 in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster…
(Reuters) – Satellite images taken on Tuesday afternoon by Maxar Technologies showed extensive flooding in southern Ukraine with the region’s Nova Kahkovka dam and hydroelectric station largely destroyed. The critical dam, which lies along the Dnipro River in the parts of Ukraine’s Kherson region now held by Russia, collapsed on Tuesday, flooding a swathe of…
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – HESTA, one of Australia’s largest pension funds, on Wednesday froze work with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia, the latest fund to blacklist the firm amid a national scandal over its misuse of confidential government tax plans. The A$72 billion ($48 billion) fund is “very concerned” and will “restrict consideration of PwC…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Planned Parenthood on Tuesday sued to block a new Kansas law requiring healthcare providers to tell patients that medication abortion can be reversed, a potentially dangerous claim not supported by evidence. The lawsuit in the District Court of Johnson County, filed against state and local authorities on behalf of a…
By Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) – The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development told Vietnam last week that handouts to big firms to offset higher levies under a global overhaul of tax rules would be problematic, a person familiar with the discussions said. Reuters exclusively reported last week that Vietnam was planning subsidies worth hundreds…
By Steve Gorman and Tyler Clifford (Reuters) -A man who fatally shot two Missouri jail guards in 2000 was executed on Tuesday after the governor and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, even though several jurors in the case petitioned for a reduced sentence. Michael Tisius, 42, was convicted in 2001 of murdering Randolph…
By Akriti Sharma and Kanjyik Ghosh (Reuters) -Salesforce Inc CEO Marc Benioff has shuffled the top management, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, a move that follows after the software company reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth since 2010. Miguel Milano has been appointed as the chief revenue officer, the source…
(Reuters) – Netflix Inc’s co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos is planning to visit South Korea, a Seoul-based Netflix official said on Wednesday. Sarandos is expected to meet Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and other key officials during his two-day visit from June 20, news agency Yonhap reported, citing key officials. The Netflix official declined to comment…
By Bharat Gautam and Yana Gaur (Reuters) – Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released the first episode of his new show on Twitter on Tuesday, weeks after being taken off the air by the network following a damaging defamation lawsuit over false claims of election fraud. In a roughly 10-minute video captioned “Ep.1” he…
By Angus Berwick and Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) – Two offshore trading firms controlled by Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao lie at the centre of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit launched against the world’s largest crypto exchange, which highlights concerns over client funds. Swiss-registered Sigma Chain received customer funds from Binance, the…
