Kuwait to review feasibility of Bahrain's Ahli United Bank takeover -KUNA DUBAI, April 22 (Reuters) – Kuwait’s finance minister has asked its sovereign wealth fund to review the feasibility of the takeover of Bahrain’s Ahli United Bank by its subsidiary Kuwait Finance House, state news agency KUNA reported on Wednesday. The decision came due to […]
U.S. Senate's McConnell: reached bipartisan agreement on coronavirus bill WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell welcomed a bipartisan agreement on additional coronavirus relief on Tuesday and said he hoped the Senate would quickly pass it. McConnell, a Republican, said the deal had over $320 billion for a small business loan […]
Webster Financial Q1 Profit Down Webster Financial Corp.(WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank division, reported that its first-quarter earnings applicable to common shareholders declined to $36.0 million or $0.39 per share from $97.5 million or $1.06 per share in the prior year. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the […]
New York COVID-19 Death Toll Crosses 10,000 Coronavirus death toll in New York, the epicenter of the disease in the United States, crossed 10,000 on Monday. Adding New York’s 10,056 deaths, the national total has risen to 23,649. Of the 5,87,337 confirmed cases in the country, 1,95,655 were reported in New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo […]
Treasuries Show Moderate Move To The Upside Treasuries showed a moderate move back to the upside during trading on Monday following the pullback seen late in the previous session. Bond prices gave back some ground after an early advance but remained in positive territory. As a result, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which […]
UK TV host Eamonn Holmes' comments on COVID-19 and 5G 'ill-judged' – regulator LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) – Britain’s media regulator Ofcom said on Monday comments made by ITV presenter Eamonn Holmes about speculation linking COVID-19 and 5G mobile technology were “ill-judged and risked undermining viewers’ trust in advice from public authorities and scientific evidence”. […]
Twitter DOWN as mystery 'over capacity' error leaves users unable to log on A MYSTERIOUS Twitter outage has left many users unable to log on and check their feeds. The website appears to have stopped working on Monday, with an error message about the site being "over capacity" appearing. Twitter down – what's happened? According […]
Brighton’s Amex Stadium turned into coronavirus testing centre to help government cope with pandemic – The Sun BRIGHTON'S Amex stadium has been turned into a coronavirus testing centre to help the government cope with the pandemic. The Seagulls' ground is set to become the south coast’s biggest drive-in coronavirus testing centre. Coronavirus outbreak discovered near […]
Tom Hanks Details Coronavirus Symptoms, Including “Bad Body Aches” Days after briefly mentioning his coronavirus diagnosis on last weekend’s remote episode of Saturday Night Live, Tom Hanks is offering more insight into what he went through while quarantined in Australia. The Oscar-winning actor spoke with “The National Defense Radio Show” Thursday, and said the virus […]
Stock Alert: Lovesac Company Climbs 20% Shares of Lovesac Co. (LOVE) are climbing almost 20 percent or $1.49 in Friday’s trading at $9.00. The stock has traded in a range of $3.99 to $46.79 in the past 52 weeks. Stamford, Connecticut-based Lovesac Co. is a direct-to-consumer specialty furniture brand with 91 retail showrooms supporting its […]