By Kirstin Ridley and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) – Barclays, NatWest and Lloyds are among seven banks to share customer data with the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the largest project of its kind worldwide to tackle criminal gangs, money laundering and “dirty money” flowing through the country. Reuters revealed one year ago that more […]
Reuters | July 26, 2024
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. business activity climbed to a 27-month high in July, but firms appeared to have some difficulty sustaining higher prices for their goods and services amid resistance from consumers, offering a further boost to the inflation outlook. S&P Global said on Wednesday that its flash U.S. Composite PMI Output Index, which tracks […]
Reuters | July 24, 2024
By David French (Reuters) -Wall Street’s three benchmarks ended higher on Monday as investors returned to megacap growth stocks, helping both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite recover from their worst weekly performance since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was also back in positive territory, breaking a two-session skid since hitting an all-time closing […]
Reuters | July 22, 2024
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar climbed on Friday and was set to snap a two-week streak of declines as a worldwide cyber outage that affected banks, airlines and broadcasters unnerved investors, although volatility in the currency markets was largely contained. A software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike crippled industries from travel […]
Reuters | July 19, 2024
-Discover Financial Services will sell a portfolio of student loans to buyout giants Carlyle and KKR for up to $10.8 billion, the credit card-focused lender said on Wednesday. The loans will be sold at a premium to their principal balance of nearly $10.1 billion, the company said. Discover, which had been weighing a sale of […]
Reuters | July 17, 2024
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