* AstraZeneca vaccine news drives risk-on approach * Mexican peso hits strongest since March; EEM highest since 2018 * Gold hits four-month low (Updates prices) NEW YORK, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Stocks brushed against last week’s record high on Monday before trading little changed and an index of commodity prices…
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Donald Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien told officials in the Philippines and Vietnam that Washington would fight to keep the Indo-Pacific region free and open. The…
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Months of EU deliberation to decide which business activities can be marketed as green investments have produced a set of draft standards some finance officials and NGOs say are lax for the polluting shipping sector and challenging for buildings.Containers are loaded on a ship at the port…
People with pre-existing conditions that make them especially vulnerable to coronavirus complications are being asked to sign "do not resuscitate” orders by Swiss doctors. People who are over 60, for example, and those suffering from heart disease or diabetes, have been urged to sign the orders to ease pressure on…
The head of one of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturers had a problem. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, needed $850 million for everything from glass vials to stainless steel vats so he could begin producing doses of promising coronavirus vaccines for the world’s poor. Mr….
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The Brexit transition period will end in December with or without a trade deal between Britain and the European Union agreed. But during negotiations, concerns were raised…
Though you’re probably not splitting a slice of pie with a non-pod friend this Thanksgiving, you can still bake and share these single-serving desserts without the creeping anxiety of potentially getting anyone sick. Even the logistics of cutting a whole pie and handing out wedges can feel like a lot…
(Reuters) – U.S. business activity expanded at the fastest rate in more than five years in November led by the quickest pickup in manufacturing since September 2014, a survey showed on Monday in an indication the economy keeps making progress at clambering out of the COVID-19 recession even as infections…
Dear Amy: My wife and I have been together for 12 years. We started dating in high school and moved in together during college. After college she moved back into a hostile home environment of her parents’ dysfunctional marriage, adultery, alcoholism, constant fighting and blatant lying. I was on the…
Sixth Street-backed AvePoint to go public via $2 billion merger
(Reuters) – AvePoint Inc, a cloud data management company backed by investment firm Sixth Street, will go public via a merger with blank-check company Apex Technology Acquisition Corp, in a deal valued at $2 billion, the companies said. Apex shares were up more than 2% on Monday following the announcement….