Новости за 04.03.2020

By Howard Schneider CHAMPAIGN, Ill (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's emergency decision to slash interest rates this week in response to the coronavirus outbreak was actually fairly straightforward,

By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Kristin Tassi bought her house in Chicago two years ago, she was disappointed to get an interest rate of 4% on her mortgage.

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday said he will introduce legislation banning federal employees from using social media app Tik Tok on their devices,

By Tracy Rucinski CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines Holdings Inc announced on Wednesday it is cutting domestic, Canadian and international flying and implementing a series of cost-cutting

By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, on Wednesday pleaded not guilty in a New York federal court to new charges in a 2018

By Laura Sanicola PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The United Steelworkers union (USW) is considering designating a new lead negotiator in the National Oil Bargaining process, the union's president said on

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Chief Justice John Roberts has fired back at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who appeared to threaten several justices on Wednesday. Roberts claimed Schumer’s recent comments about Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh were “inappropriate and dangerous.”

By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc's self-driving unit is open to using technology from competitors in the industry, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has launched a new ad campaign to expose the similarities between Democrat politicians and well-known socialist dictators. Using examples from Cuba and Venezuela, the ad showed how socialism leads to economic collapse and takes away citizens’ freedoms.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has criticized Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for releasing new waves of migrants into Europe. According to Kurz, Erdogan’s decision to release hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into Europe was an attack on both Greece and the European Union.

California congressional candidate Eric Early is currently in position to challenge Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for his seat in the House. Results from Super Tuesday showed the Republican attorney ahead of six other challengers and just behind Schiff.

First Lady Melania Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented the International Women of Courage Awards on Wednesday. The pair honored a dozen women from across the world during a ceremony in Washington D.C.

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representatives from some of the nation's top airlines met with U.S.

By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent said on Wednesday that policymakers may need to give extra help to Britain's businesses until the disruption from the

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - The resurgence of former Vice President Joe Biden in the race for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination could help support a stock market that has been

By Paul Lienert (Reuters) - General Motors Co's self-driving unit Cruise said its test vehicles experienced a rapid rate of improvement in the second half of 2019, enabling it to edge past Alphabet

By David Milliken and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England should wait until it has more clarity about the economic hit from the coronavirus outbreak before making any decision to

The road to the White House may be coming to an end for Elizabeth Warren. According to a campaign aide Wednesday, the senator is taking a day to assess whether she still has a path to the Democrat nomination after a dismal Super Tuesday.

By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro sent out a trumpet-playing, banana-throwing impersonator to work a crowd in Brasilia on Wednesday, before joining him for a

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish economy is operating at a "very high level of momentum," Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said on Wednesday, citing the Central Statistic Office's evaluation of the final

LONDON (Reuters) - The global release of the new James Bond film "No Time to Die" was postponed on Wednesday by seven months amid the coronavirus disruption that has closed movie theaters in China and

KIEV (Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne on Wednesday urged Tehran to allow access to the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down

(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc will take a hit due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday, while its food delivery business will benefit from the