Mar 06, 2024
Egypt signs expanded $8 billion loan deal with IMF

By Aidan Lewis (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday it would increase its current loan programme with Egypt by $5 billion, as the central bank let the pound plummet and said it would allow the currency to…

Mar 06, 2024
Trump, Biden dominate Super Tuesday contests as they march toward rematch

By Nathan Layne and Alexandra Ulmer PALM BEACH, Florida/HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump swept to victory in statewide nominating contests across the country on Tuesday, setting up a historic rematch in November's…

Mar 06, 2024
Elon Musk’s X escapes much of lawsuit over copyrighted songs

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, on Tuesday won the dismissal of most of a lawsuit by 17 music publishers that accused it of infringing copyrights on nearly 1,700 songs by letting people…

Mar 05, 2024
Mounting US rate cut bets fuel gold to record highs

By Anjana Anil and Ashitha Shivaprasad (Reuters) - Gold scaled a record high on Tuesday, moving further above $2,100 per ounce in a rally sparked by growing bets for a U.S. interest rate cut in June and on safe-haven demand…

Mar 05, 2024
Taylor Swift urges US fans to vote in Super Tuesday elections

By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Pop megastar Taylor Swift encouraged her millions of fans on Tuesday to vote in Super Tuesday primary contests across the U.S., but did not endorse any specific candidate. The 14-time Grammy award winner, whose…

Mar 05, 2024
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram back up after global outage

By Jaspreet Singh and Aditya Soni (Reuters) -Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally. The disruptions started…