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RPT-SPECIAL REPORT-How Beijing humbled Britains mighty HSBC Reuters 17 hrs ago (Repeats story first published on Monday.) By Sumeet Chatterjee and Engen Tham HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, June 28 (Reuters) - On a rainy day last November, China Baowu Steel Group, the worlds largest steel maker, gathered its finance department for a training session on the outskirts of Shanghai. One highlight was a presentation featuring a sensitive slide: a "black list" of 60 lenders that the state-owned steel giant had...

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Special Report-Giant U.S. landlords pursue evictions despite CDC ban By Michelle Conlin Reuters ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Marvia Robinson was dead tired from a week of overnight long-haul trips when she nosed her Greyhound bus into the station in deep predawn darkness. Still, the 63-year-old driver kept a friendly lilt in her voice as she said goodbye to the riders filing past her and stepping off the bus. “Rough night,” she said minutes later, walking toward her Toyota Corolla in th...

By Michelle Conlin (Reuters) - As freezing temperatures settled over Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 28, Judge Jack Grate opened his online courtroom. ...

By Michelle Conlin (Reuters) - As freezing temperatures settled over Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 28, Judge Jack Grate opened his online courtroom. ...

8 Min Read (Reuters) - As freezing temperatures settled over Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 28, Judge Jack Grate opened his online courtroom. The first of 100 cases on his docket was that of Tonya Raynor, a 64-year-old who owed $2,790 in back rent and fees on an apartment on the city’s east side, a swath of vacant storefronts and boarded-up properties. Members of KC Tenants, an anti-eviction group, maintain a blockade at the Eastern Jackson County Courthouse in Independence, Missouri, U.S. Ja...

By Syndicated Content By Michelle Conlin (Reuters) - As freezing temperatures settled over Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 28, Judge Jack Grate opened his online courtroom. The first of 100 cases on his docket was that of Tonya Raynor, a 64-year-old who owed $2,790 in back rent and fees on an apartment on the city’s east side, a swath of vacant storefronts and boarded-up properties. “Miss Raynor, are you there?” asked Grate, a burly 71-year-old sporting a beard, a buzz...

5 Min Read (Reuters) - James Villalobos, a communications consultant for an insurance company in New York, downloaded the Robinhood online brokerage app back in September. FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, New York, U.S., October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo/File Photo He was hesitant about getting involved in the stock market – “I never understood what it was, what it did” – but a few months later he created an...