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Australia set for 3rd year of bumper wheat harvests, easing world supply woes
Date: June 2, 2022
By Naveen Thukral SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Australia is poised for a third year of near-record wheat production in 2022 as good weather boosts planting across its grain belt, easing concerns over tight global inventories. World wheat supplies have tightened after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year cut off shipments from one of the...
Big Tech ramps up efforts to quash milestone antitrust bill
Date: June 1, 2022
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Big tech has launched a media blitz aimed at derailing one of the most ground-breaking bipartisan bills in the U.S. that would bar tech companies, like Amazon.com Inc, from giving preference to their own businesses on their websites. Amazon lambasted the bill on Wednesday saying in a...
Dimon says brace for U.S. economic ‘hurricane’ due to inflation
Date: June 1, 2022
By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall and Niket Nishant (Reuters) – Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co described the challenges facing the U.S. economy akin to an “hurricane” down the road and urged the Federal Reserve to take forceful measures to avoid tipping the world’s biggest economy into a recession. Dimon’s comments...
Exclusive-U.S. plans to sell armed drones to Ukraine in coming days -sources
Date: June 1, 2022
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration plans to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones that can be armed with Hellfire missiles for battlefield use against Russia, three people familiar with the situation said. The sale of the General Atomics-made drones could still be blocked by Congress, the sources said, adding that...
Motor racing-Aston Martin’s Krack still smiling after bumpy start
Date: June 1, 2022
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) – New Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack has had a bumpy start to the season, like those Formula One drivers struggling to tame their bouncing cars in a time of change, but he is still smiling. The 50-year-old Luxemburger replaced Otmar Szafnauer, now principal of Renault-owned Alpine, at the...
U.S. jury mostly sides with Depp in defamation fight with ex-wife Heard
Date: June 1, 2022
By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -A Virginia jury on Wednesday ruled that actor Amber Heard defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp in a widely watched six-week trial that featured graphic testimony detailing the former Hollywood couple’s soured relationship. While the seven-person jury also ruled in favor of Heard on one count in her countersuit against Depp, the “Pirates...