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By Chris Prentice and Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is finalizing settlements with around two dozen Wall Street firms to resolve investigations into record-keeping lapses, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The settlements with broker-dealers and investment advisers would mark the latest enforcement action in the SEC’s two-year crackdown on Wall Street’s use of WhatsApp and other unapproved messaging apps that […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Trading in shares of China Evergrande were suspended on Thursday after a report its chairman had been placed under police surveillance, intensifying concerns over the developer’s future as it struggles with a growing threat of liquidation. On Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported that Hui Ka Yan, who founded Evergrande in 1996, was taken away by police this month and was being monitored at a designated location The report […]

By Chris Prentice and Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is finalizing settlements with around two dozen Wall Street firms to resolve investigations into record-keeping lapses, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The settlements with broker-dealers and investment advisers would mark the latest enforcement action in the SEC’s two-year crackdown on Wall Street’s use of WhatsApp and other unapproved messaging apps that […]

(This Sept. 26 story has been corrected to say ‘the court of Western District of Washington state’ instead of ‘the court of the District of Columbia’ in paragraph 19) By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday and asked the court to consider forcing the online retailer to sell assets as the government accuses Big Tech of monopolizing […]

(This Sept. 26 story has been corrected to say ‘the court of Western District of Washington state’ instead of ‘the court of the District of Columbia’ in paragraph 19) By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday and asked the court to consider forcing the online retailer to sell assets as the government accuses Big Tech of monopolizing […]

By Mushtaq Ali PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – In a small workshop in the bustling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a dozen Afghan women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on a sewing machine. The skills centre was set up last year by Peshawar resident Mahra Basheer, 37, after seeing the steady influx of people from neighbouring Afghanistan where they face an economic crisis and growing restrictions […]

(This Sept. 26 story has been corrected to say ‘the court of Western District of Washington state’ instead of ‘the court of the District of Columbia’ in paragraph 19) By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday and asked the court to consider forcing the online retailer to sell assets as the government accuses Big Tech of monopolizing […]

By Lucila Sigal and Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s next government would not ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for any new loans if center-right presidential hopeful Patricia Bullrich prevails in next month’s general election, a top advisor to the candidate told Reuters. Instead, the IMF’s top debtor nation with a long history of defaults would only seek to manage existing debt with the global lender, Facundo Martinez Maino […]

By Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has adopted a constitutional amendment to enshrine its policy on nuclear force, state media reported on Thursday, as the country’s leader pledged to accelerate production of nuclear weapons to deter what he called U.S. provocations. The North’s rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People’s Assembly, unanimously adopted at a two-day meeting which ended on Wednesday the revision of the constitution to stipulate […]