LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) will this week name Philip Hampton, who currently chairs Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), as its next chairman, a person close to the process said on Wednesday.
Hampton is expected to join the GSK board as a non-executive director late this year or early...
(Reuters) - Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith won a U.S. Senate special election runoff in Mississippi on Tuesday, the Associated Press projected, defeating a black challenger after a campaign that recalled the state’s history of racist violence.
Hyde-Smith, a white former state lawmaker who was appointed to the Senate in April, overcame...
According to data released by the Brazilian National Geographic and Statistics Agency (IBGE) on the 12th local time, Brazil's inflation rate in 2020 was 4.52%, which was higher than the median government control target of 4% that year, marking the highest in 4 years.
Data showed that in 2020, the...
DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit Institute of Arts is prepared to sue to prevent the sale of its collection if Detroit’s plan for exiting bankruptcy is not approved, the museum’s chief operating officer told U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Thursday.
When Detroit filed for the largest-ever U.S. municipal bankruptcy 14 months...
(Reuters) - Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith won a U.S. Senate special election runoff in conservative Mississippi on Tuesday, defeating a black challenger after a campaign that recalled the history of racist violence in the deep South state.
The white former state lawmaker, who was appointed to the Senate in April, overcame...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) has hired a former top official at the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions office, people familiar with the matter said, part of the French bank’s effort to build up its compliance department after its record settlement over sanctions violations.
Sean Thornton, a former chief...
Wall Street's major averages climbed on November 4 as investors await the outcome of the U.S. election.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 367.63 points, or 1.34 percent, to finish at 27,847.66. The S&P 500 was up 74.28 points, or 2.20 percent, to 3,443.44. The Nasdaq Composite Index increased 430.21...
PARIS (Reuters) - BNP Paribas SA’s (BNPP.PA) board will decide on the departure and the successor of its chairman Baudouin Prot this week, French daily newspaper Le Figaro reported on Monday.
The report follows weeks of speculation about the departure of Prot, who was the bank’s chief executive at the...
