All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 15 2022 // SHANGHAI – Over 90% of U.S. multinational firms surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Shanghai have cut their annual revenue projections in the wake of the city’s grueling two-month lockdown, the...
Jun 14 2022 // As Western wildfires force evacuations in Arizona and California – on the heels of an early and severe wildfire season in New Mexico – insurers are increasingly eyeing the growing risks.“Insurers are very much...
Jun 14 2022 // A U.S. judge on Monday said shareholders can sue Deutsche Bank for allegedly hiding shortfalls in its internal controls while doing business with risky, ultra-rich clients like the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian...
Jun 14 2022 // Binance U.S. and its CEO were sued on Monday by a U.S. investor who alleges the cryptocurrency exchange falsely marketed Terra USD as a safe asset ahead of the so-called stablecoin’s collapse in value last...
Jun 10 2022 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Thursday said it was upgrading its probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles with its advanced driver assistance system Autopilot, a required step before it could seek...
Jun 9 2022 // As the U.S. West heads into the hot, dry summer months, a growing number of indications point to a potentially bad wildfire season.In the past two months, two analyses have emerged from fire weather experts using words...
Jun 9 2022 // A provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk and resilience is partnering with global environmental organization The Nature Conservancy to protect sensitive natural areas and provide estimates of future...
Jun 9 2022 // Assicurazioni Generali SpA’s asset management unit intends to buy investment firms specialized in U.S. credit markets and renewable energy, as the Italian insurance giant seeks to win outside money beyond its...
Jun 8 2022 // Business leaders and cybersecurity experts are pushing the Biden administration to step up efforts to quell big hacks against US companies.In a joint statement June 7, several of the groups said a public-private initiative...
Jun 8 2022 // A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday is holding a hearing on soaring American traffic deaths and efforts to build safer roads.Last year, traffic deaths jumped 10.5% to 42,915 marking the highest number...
Jun 8 2022 // The US Supreme Court decided Monday that it will not hear an appeal of a decision that denied coverage for losses caused by COVID-19 shutdown orders, effectively closing the last door for such claims in the federal court...
Jun 8 2022 // A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators unveiled a bill on Tuesday that would establish new rules for cryptocurrency, and hand the bulk of their oversight to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).The bill, introduced...
Jun 7 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a lawsuit from an Oklahoma Goodwill branch seeking coverage for COVID-19 business income loss.Goodwill Industries of Oklahoma had sought to appeal its lawsuit against Philadelphia...
Jun 7 2022 // McCathron Succeeds Founder Wand as CEOHome insurer Hippo reports it has appointed Richard McCathron as chief executive officer. McCathron has served on Hippo’s board of directors and as the company’s president...
Jun 7 2022 // Southwest Airlines Co. cannot force a baggage handler’s class action lawsuit over overtime pay into private arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a decision with costly potential implications for...
Jun 6 2022 // U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.5% in 2021 to 42,915 — the highest number killed on American roads in a single year since 2005, U.S. regulators said in its preliminary estimate.The yearly increase is the highest...
Jun 6 2022 // Following its successful placement of green bonds in 2020 and 2021, Munich Re has sucessfully placed its first green subordinated bond in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers in the U.S. market.By issuing...
Jun 2 2022 // NuScale Power Corp.’s design for a new kind of nuclear reactor is adequate to protect the project from damage by earthquakes, staff at the U.S. nuclear power regulator said in documents seen by Reuters on Friday.Last...
Jun 2 2022 // North Dakota farmer Dwight Grotberg wanted to plant more wheat this spring to capitalize on soaring prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cut grain exports and left the world short of millions of tonnes of wheat...
Jun 1 2022 // Over 900 million units were recalled during the first quarter in the United States in the automotive, consumer products, food and drink, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries according to Sedgwick’s latest...