Por Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NUEVA YORK, 21 dic (Reuters) -El yen cayó el miércoles, después de subir casi un 4% en la sesión anterior, cuando el Banco de Japón (BOJ) modificó inesperadamente una política clave, dejando más margen de movimiento a los rendimientos de la deuda pública. * El martes, el Banco de Japón decidió …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday finalized new emissions standards to drastically cut smog- and soot-forming emissions from heavy-duty trucks, the first of a series of actions planned to cut vehicle pollution. The new standards, the first update to clean air standards for heavy duty trucks in more …
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By Mark Trevelyan and Jake Cordell (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the Russian army must learn from and fix the problems it had suffered in Ukraine, promising to give the military whatever it needed to prosecute a war nearing the end of its 10th month. In a speech to defence chiefs in …
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By Nia Williams and Rod Nickel (Reuters) – The U.S. pipeline regulator launched a review this year of its special permits that waive certain operating requirements for pipelines, following a government report into spills on TC Energy’s Keystone oil pipeline, a source familiar with the matter said. The review for U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials …
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – FedEx’s plan to slash almost $4 billion in expenses has begun sheltering profits, but analysts say the uncertain economy points to the need for more surgical cuts at the global delivery firm. “The company has stemmed the bleeding,” Stifel analyst Bruce Chan wrote after FedEx reported a smaller-than-expected drop in earnings …
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By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on Wednesday marks a high point in ties between Ukraine and its most important ally, putting the spotlight on a relationship strengthened by Russia’s invasion, but not without some friction along the way. The visit, which …
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By Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch health technology company Philips said on Wednesday independent tests on its respiratory devices involved in a major global recall had shown limited health risks. The company rocked investors last year by recalling millions of breathing devices and ventilators used to treat sleep apnea, because foam used to dampen …
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By Thomas Peter and Alessandro Diviggiano BEIJING (Reuters) – Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the capital braces for a surge of cases. After widespread protests, the country of 1.4 billion people …
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By Thomas Escritt and Alexander Ratz BERLIN (Reuters) -Berlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday, the first foreign coronavirus vaccine to be delivered to the country. No details were available on the timing and size of …
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MADRID, 21 dic (Reuters) – El Senado español dio la aprobación final el miércoles a un impuesto sobre las ganancias extraordinarias a los bancos y las grandes empresas energéticas, diseñado para aliviar la crisis del costo de vida, aunque dejó fuera en gran medida a las instituciones locales más pequeñas y las unidades de los …
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