- December 13, 2021 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Stefano Rebaudo NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar firmed on Monday ahead of a slew of central bank meetings this week led by the Federal Reserve with investors expecting the U.S. central bank to announce it will wrap up its bond purchases sooner than expected, as they look for […]
- December 13, 2021 HOUSTON (Reuters) – Motiva Enterprises on Monday began restarting the second-largest crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 607,000 barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations. A Motiva spokesperson did not reply to a request for comment. The 195,000-bpd VPS-4 was among units shut at the Motiva refinery, the […]
- December 13, 2021 By Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) -NatWest has been fined 265 million pounds ($350.9 million) for failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds, capping the first criminal money laundering case against a British bank. The fine would have been north of 300 million pounds, but a deduction was made for […]
- December 13, 2021 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – One crew member of a Danish ship which capsized after being struck by a larger British freighter in the Baltic Sea off the south coast of Sweden has been found dead, authorities said on Monday. The Swedish Maritime Administration said in a statement the crew member had been found […]
- December 13, 2021 By Gessika Thomas, Ivan Alvarado and Daina Beth Solomon PORT-AU-PRINCE/PEUMO, Chile (Reuters) – Like thousands of other Haitian migrants, Eric Jean Louis gave up his house and job in Chile earlier this year to trek thousands of miles to the United States after hearing he could receive asylum under President Joe Biden’s […]
- December 13, 2021 By Lisa Shumaker and Andrea Januta (Reuters) -Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and heatwaves. Farmers struggled with drought, and in some cases with locust plagues. Wildfires set new records for carbon emissions, while swallowing forests, towns and homes. Many of these events were […]