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Argentina’s Buenos Aires extends $7 billion debt deal deadline to January 4

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Buenos Aires province has extended an already-delayed deadline to Jan. 4 for bondholders to agree a deal to restructure some $7 billion in foreign debt, the local government said in a statement late on Monday. The extension comes as the latest deadline came and went on Friday without an agreement with its creditors. "The Ministry of...

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Apple could block apps that don’t comply with new privacy feature

By Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) threatened on Tuesday to remove apps from its widely-used App Store if they don't comply with an upcoming private feature allowing users to block advertisers from tracking them across different applications. The new feature, dubbed App Tracking Transparency, was initially planned to debut this year, but was delayed to...

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DHL wins German regional contract to deliver COVID vaccines

BERLIN (Reuters) - Deutsche Post (DE:DPWGn) DHL has won a contract from Germany's western state of Lower Saxony to store and deliver 2.2 million COVID-19 shots to vaccination centres and hospitals, the German logistics company said on Tuesday. Germany is struggling to turn the tide of a second wave of the coronavirus. Partial lockdown measures have resulted in a levelling...

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V-Day, FDA Data Dump, Uber’s Self-Driving Haircut – What’s up in Markets

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- The FDA releases a data dump on the Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) Covid-19 vaccine two days ahead of a meeting that may authorize the drug for emergency use. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) plans to sell billions of dollars in stock; Uber (NYSE:UBER) takes a big haircut on a long-running money loser, and oil is weaker ahead of the latest...

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UK, Norway and Iceland sign trade continuity deal

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, Norway and Iceland have signed a trade continuity agreement as an interim before the countries complete negotiations over a comprehensive free trade agreement due to come into force in 2021, said the UK in a statement. The agreement signed on Tuesday means that the majority of trade in goods between the countries will remain tariff-free. The trade...

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U.S. Futures Down 150 Pts; Covid Cases and Lockdowns Increase

By Peter Nurse    Investing.com - U.S. stocks are seen opening lower Tuesday, as investors weigh up rising numbers of Covid-19 cases and the associated lockdowns with a vaccine rollout and potential fiscal stimulus.   At 7:15 AM ET (1205 GMT), the Dow Futures contract fell 150 points, or 0.5%, S&P 500 Futures traded 20 points, or 0.6%, lower, and Nasdaq 100 Futures dropped 46...

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