By Stefania Spezzati, Iain Withers and Sam TobinLONDON (Reuters) -Barclays chairman Nigel Higgins believed the bank’s former CEO Jes Staley’s ties with the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein did not warrant a board discussion in the summer of 2019 after Britain’s financial regulator inquired over the matter, according to court documents. Staley, who took to the witness box on Monday an ...
Investing.com -- U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday that more arrests will follow after a Palestinian graduate student, who was involved in pro-Palestinian protests, was taken into custody at Columbia University in New York.The student’s arrest is the first of many, according to the president. He stated that there are other students across universities in the U.S. who are participat ...
By Johann M Cherian and Pranav Kashyap(Reuters) -The tech-heavy Nasdaq led sharp losses among major U.S. stock indexes on Monday, plunging 4% to a near six-month low, on fears that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies would spark an economic slowdown.The benchmark S&P 500 has fallen over 8% from its February high. The Nasdaq confirmed a correction last week, having tumbled more than ...
By Lewis KrauskopfNEW YORK (Reuters) - Fears that uncertainty over trade tariffs will spark an economic downturn are causing investors to flee equities, in a major shift for Wall Street which had been fired-up by the prospect of President Donald Trump’s agenda.Stocks continued their steep decline on Monday, with the benchmark S&P 500 down 2% in mid-day trade and the Nasdaq Composite sliding ...