GLOBAL MARKETS-Dollar slides, stocks rise after dovish Fed statement
* Euro up 1 pct vs USD; Nikkei futures dip as yen strengthens (Updates with reaction to Fed statement, U.S. market close)
* Euro up 1 pct vs USD; Nikkei futures dip as yen strengthens (Updates with reaction to Fed statement, U.S. market close)
March 16 (Reuters) - Shareholders of J.P.Morgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc will get to vote on whether the two banks should break up into smaller pieces, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Jailed Niger opposition leader Hama Amadou was flown to Paris for medical treatment on Wednesday, days before he is due to face a run-off election against President Mahamadou Issoufou.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, the former trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for conspiracy to rig Libor interest rates, told a London court on Wednesday that he had paid for about half of his seven-bedroom country house with cash earned privately from spread-betting.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, the former trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for conspiracy to rig Libor interest rates, told a London court on Wednesday that he had paid for about half of his seven-bedroom country house with cash earned privately from spread-betting.
LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, the former trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for conspiracy to rig Libor interest rates, told a London court on Wednesday that he had paid for about half of his seven-bedroom country house with cash earned privately from spread-betting.
Stocks moved higher after the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, and indicated fewer hikes were likely this year than previously expected. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Stocks moved higher after the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, and indicated fewer hikes were likely this year than previously expected. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Stocks moved higher after the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, and indicated fewer hikes were likely this year than previously expected. Bobbi Rebell reports.
March 16 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc raised Chief Executive Michael Corbat's pay by about 27 percent in 2015, a year in which the bank's profit more than doubled.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A group of Syrian political activists at peace talks in Geneva issued the first public position paper on Syria's transition on Wednesday, reiterating the need to abide by U.N. resolutions and calling for change and national reconciliation.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For more than half a century, scientists have scratched their heads over the nature of an outlandishly bizarre creature dubbed the Tully Monster that flourished about 307 million years ago in a coastal estuary in what is now northeastern Illinois.
The Guinness World Records confirms that the oldest living man on earth is one hundred and twelve-year-old Holocaust survivor Israel Kristal who survived Auschwitz. Gavino Garay reports.
The Guinness World Records confirms that the oldest living man on earth is one hundred and twelve-year-old Holocaust survivor Israel Kristal who survived Auschwitz. Gavino Garay reports.
The Guinness World Records confirms that the oldest living man on earth is one hundred and twelve-year-old Holocaust survivor Israel Kristal who survived Auschwitz. Gavino Garay reports.
The Guinness World Records confirms that the oldest living man on earth is one hundred and twelve-year-old Holocaust survivor Israel Kristal who survived Auschwitz. Gavino Garay reports.
Reuters Health - If you eat right, exercise and take care of your heart, you may also be doing good things for your brain, a U.S. study suggests.
Reuters Health - If you eat right, exercise and take care of your heart, you may also be doing good things for your brain, a U.S. study suggests.
IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) - Refugees stuck at the closed border crossing between Greece and Macedonia have little hope that a summit of EU leaders on the migrant crisis this week will lead to any improvement in their desperate plight.
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley is throwing her support behind U.S. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to win the GOP nomination now that her original choice, U.S. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, dropped out after losing his home state Tuesday.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday neither her finance Minister nor central bank chief would leave the government following the appointment of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as a minister, denying local media reports.
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KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, March 16 (Reuters) - Top OPEC producer Saudi Arabia fully supports an emergency meeting for oil producers in the Qatari capital Doha in April, a Saudi oil source said on Wednesday.
DHAKA, March 16 (Reuters) - The cyber thieves who stole $81 million from Bangladesh Bank appear to have hid their tracks by manipulating a central bank computer and printer that connect to the SWIFT messaging system to hide evidence of the heist, according to a report filed with local police.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina House has passed a bill requiring colleges to post violations committed by fraternity and sorority members to publicize the groups’ record before students join.