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Payday loans are not covered by the payment freeze scheme, and neither are cars bought on a hire purchase or through a finance deal. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said: “We are looking at these areas, and other specialist types of lending, and expect to announce specific proposals in due course.” Additionally, peer-to-peer loans do […]
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Joe Biden spoke with people at a George Floyd protest site on Sunday and then met with a group of community leaders at a Delaware church on Monday morning. Biden's campaign shared an image of the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee kneeling with a young black man and little girl at a protest site in […]
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As the struggle over President Donald Trump’s use of social media continues, a half-dozen Facebook executives have taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing the company’s permissive stance on Trump’s messages. Twitter has flagged tweets by Trump in recent days. An infamous one warning that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” was appended with […]
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Varney: Riots set back America’s coronavirus recovery a few years FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on how riots over George Floyd’s death have caused a huge setback to American recovery amid coronavirus. Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Continue Reading Below FOX Business’ Stuart Varney, in […]
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(CNN)Demonstrators filled the streets across the US on Sunday to once again protest police brutality and the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis. From Philadelphia to San Diego, crowds wearing masks to ward off coronavirus clogged streets and stopped traffic. What started […]
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Facebook is donating $10 million to groups fighting racial inequality as mass protests sweep across the United States after an unarmed black man died at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “We stand with the black community,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post late Sunday, adding the […]
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Sign up here for our daily coronavirus newsletter on what you need to know, and subscribe to our Covid-19 podcast for the latest news and analysis. Russia is preparing to provide hospitals with a coronavirus drug developed with the sovereign wealth fund’s backing after gaining initial approval from the Health Ministry amid a global race […]
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President Donald Trump spent Sunday out of sight, reportedly in an underground, presidential bunker in White House as violent protests raged outside over the death of George Floyd in police custody. However, the White House has scheduled two meetings chaired by Trump at the Oval Office and Situation Room for Monday morning. On Friday night, […]
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Senior Facebook Inc. employees took to Twitter over the weekend to express their dismay at Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to take action on incendiary comments posted to the social network by U.S. President Donald Trump. After the president tweeted a message with the words “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” in […]
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Three buyout funds offered to acquire Spanish carrier Masmovil Ibercom SA for 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion), in one of the largest private equity deals since the global coronavirus pandemic began in March. Its shares surged the most on record. KKR & Co., Cinven Ltd. and Providence Equity Partners LLC offered 22.5 euros a share […]
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