Leading Spanish banks reported a slight recovery in third quarter domestic earnings compared to the second quarter as net fees and interest income rose, boosted by larger loan and fixed income books. However, new restrictions that have been imposed in Spain to fight the second wave of Covid-19 are likely to increase loan loss provisions […]
ATLANTA, GA – NOVEMBER 04: Members of an adjudication review panel look over scanned absentee ballots at the Fulton County Election Preparation Center on November 4, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images European stocks advanced Thursday, extending gains as traders reacted to the possibility of a dividend U.S. government. Up 2% on Wednesday, the […]
(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 17, 2020 A pedestrian walks past the Bank of England in London on June 17, 2020. tolga akmen/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Bank of England on Thursday decided to extend the size of its bond purchase program by £150 billion as it warned output would fall in the […]
Tourists wearing protective face masks disembark from a cruise boat in Corsica. The CDC has outlined the steps cruise lines must take to resume operations out of American ports. Photo by PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA/AFP via Getty Images Public-health officials have given cruise lines the green light to begin a phased reopening in the U.S. following months […]
Joe Biden speaks at a rally in Cleveland on Monday. Getty Images Hours after the U.S. officially pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Joe Biden said that if elected president, he would immediately rejoin it. “Today, the Trump Administration officially left the Paris Climate Agreement. And in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will […]
Apple has a triple-camera design on its newly announced iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max phones. Apple Inc. Apple Inc. may face a shortage of critical power-management chips in its new iPhones and other devices, raising questions about its ability to meet holiday-season demand, Bloomberg News reported late Wednesday. Citing unnamed people with […]
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, said Wednesday that President Trump’s attempts to stop votes from being counted in Pennsylvania and Michigan are “un-American” and “wrong.” “I’m grateful and truly grateful that so many Republicans, so many conservative Republicans, have repudiated his remarks as being inappropriate — I’ll say un-American — because to a […]
As President Trump’s reelection prospects continued to dim on Wednesday, his campaign launched an aggressive yet questionable strategy to keep Joe Biden from winning the state of Pennsylvania. Trump’s campaign announced on Wednesday afternoon that it was suing to prevent the state from proceeding with tallying ballots there “to stop Democratic election officials from hiding […]
Support for the Democratic presidential candidate reached a new low among Black men this year, according to the NBC News poll of early and Election Day voters. Eighty percent of Black men supported Joe Biden, down slightly from Hilary Clinton’s 82 percent in 2016 but significantly down from Barack Obama’s level of support among Black […]
The United States Postal Service refused to listen to U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, and he isn’t happy about it. After the USPS revealed more than 300,000 ballots had entered postal processing plants but subsequently failed to receive “exit scans,” indicating they might have been misplaced within the mail system, Sullivan ordered the Postal […]