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Bank 'risk transfer' boom needs close monitoring, Basel Committee warns
By Tommy Reggiori Wilkes LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Banks are increasingly turning to bespoke deals with private investment funds to shed credit risk, but the market needs close monitoring as it spawn...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
Berkshire-owned PacifiCorp, citing liquidity, sells Washington assets to Portland General Electric for $1.9 billion
By Jonathan Stempel and Katha Kalia Feb 17 (Reuters) - PacifiCorp, a utility owned by Berkshire Hathaway, is selling wind, natural gas generation and distribution assets and infrastructure in central ...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
AT&T sued by New York City pension funds for excluding diversity proposal
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - AT&T was sued on Tuesday by four New York City public pension funds, which accused it of wrongly refusing to let shareholders vote on their proposal to...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
Drop in unauthorized immigration slows job growth, SF Fed paper finds
Feb 17 (Reuters) - The recent drop in unauthorized immigration to the United States has slowed employment growth, particularly in construction and manufacturing, and those trends are likely to continu...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
Fed's Barr says central bank likely on hold for some time as it watches for easing inflation
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said on Tuesday that another central bank interest rate cut could come somewhere well down the road amid ongoing ...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
US releases another $77 million in frozen New York tunnel funding
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has released another $77 million in frozen federal funding for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, New York Governor Kath...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
Canadian dollar hits 11-day low as cooler inflation boosts rate cut bets
By Fergal Smith TORONTO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar weakened against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday, as the greenback posted broad-based gains and domestic inflation data raised prospects...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
Bayer CEO says Roundup settlement is important addition to Supreme Court case
BERLIN, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Bayer's U.S. class settlement aimed at resolving current and future claims that Roundup weedkiller caused nonHodgkin lymphoma is an important addition to its Supreme Court c...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
Mississippi holds hearing on xAI data center amid environmental lawsuit threat
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Mississippi regulators will host a public hearing on Tuesday over plans by Elon Musk's xAI to build a gas-fired power plant to power its Colossus II...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026
Tripadvisor engages with Starboard as activist seeks board control, sale
By Abhinav Parmar Feb 17 (Reuters) - Tripadvisor said on Tuesday its board and management held multiple discussions with activist investor Starboard Value, which owns about 9% of the company and has a...
Thomson Reuters Feb 17, 2026



