Marketmind: Markets brace for Fed decision, earnings flood
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Brigid Riley All eyes are on the Federal
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Heirloom corn in a rainbow of colors makes a comeback in Mexico, where white corn has long been king
Small farmers in Mexico struggling to preserve colorful native corn varieties are finding new hope in the market
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How gang warfare jumped from Ecuador's prisons to the open street
Frantic purchases of ammunition, the daylight assassination of a mayor, and a growing body count inside Ecuador's prisons signal that the country's roiling security crisis is going from bad to worse.
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A Fed still wary of inflation is set to raise rates to a 22-year peak. Will it be the last hike?
Even after inflation has steadily eased this year, the Federal Reserve’s policymakers still think prices are rising too fast and are almost certain to lift their key interest rate by a quarter-point on Wednesday
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ESPN considers adding sports leagues as partners as it transitions from cable to digital
ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro says the network could take on a sports league as a minority partner as the network continues its transition from a cable channel to a digital company
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Canadian search teams find body of a child who died in flooding in Nova Scotia over the weekend
Canadian police say the body of a child who went missing when the province of Nova Scotia was hit with extreme flooding has been recovered
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Cigna health giant accused of improperly rejecting thousands of patient claims using an algorithm
A federal lawsuit alleges that health insurance giant Cigna used a computer algorithm to automatically reject hundreds of thousands of patient claims without examining them individually as required by California law
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Mexico's Televisa posts big Q2 miss on Univision JV drop, satellite disconnections
By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY Grupo Televisa reported a more than 95% slide in quarterly net profit on
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As Twitter fades to X, TikTok steps up with new text-based posts
The same day owner Elon Musk abruptly dropped Twitter's name and bird logo as part of its supposed transition to an “anything app,” TikTok impishly announced it will begin letting its users post — you guessed it — text-based messages
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Police K-9 handler who released dog that attacked an unarmed Black man in Ohio placed on paid leave while incident is under review, mayor says
A Circleville, Ohio, officer who was seen on video deploying a police K-9 that attacked an unarmed Black man while he was surrendering to authorities is on paid administrative leave as the incident is under investigation, the mayor said.
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Brazil regulates sports betting, taxes companies amid scandal
Brazil’s government has issued a provisional decree to authorize sports betting and tax companies’ revenues by 18%
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Japan's business services inflation slows in June
TOKYO Japan's business-to-business service inflation slowed in June, data showed on Wednesday, suggesting that companies remained slow in
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