Americanas SA, the Brazilian retailer backed by billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, filed for bankruptcy protection at a court in Rio de Janeiro citing liabilities of about 43 billion reais ($8.2 billion).
(Bloomberg) — The Treasury Department is beginning the use of special measures to avoid a US payments default, after the federal debt limit was reached Thursday.
The Democratic National Committee’s Black Caucus backs proposed changes to the presidential primary calendar that would put South Carolina ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire, supporting a plan from President Joe Biden that aims to elevate the Black voters who helped him win the nomination in 2020.
The stark divide in health expectations between the UK’s rich and poor was laid bare in official data released Thursday.
Argentina’s plan to repurchase $1 billion of its deeply distressed dollar bonds has emerging-market investors scratching their heads.
Empowered by their new US House majority, Republicans are acting swiftly to hold hearings in February and obtain documents on what they describe as a crisis at the US-Mexico border under the policies of President Joe Biden and his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
(Bloomberg) — Bank of America Corp. got ahead of where it wanted to be on staffing as the lender’s attrition rate started to cool over the past year, Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said.
Things may get a whole lot tougher for New Zealand’s governing Labour Party after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared she won’t lead it into this year’s election.
China’s Covid-19 infections have fallen to a “relatively low” level, a top official said ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, when hundreds of millions of Chinese will be in close contact with each other on the nation’s public transport systems and at festival gatherings.
(Bloomberg) — Nexstar Media Group Inc.’s CW Network will be the television and streaming home of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series under a new multiyear agreement starting this season.
