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U.S. banks are scrambling to persuade Washington policymakers to extend the Dec. 31 expiry of an accounting waiver that has allowed lenders to give struggling borrowers more leeway on their loans, several bankers and lobbyists said.

Heres whats happening Tuesday in Election 2020 and President-elect Joe Biden's transition.

The Federal Reserve's policymakers face an unusual conundrum as they meet this week: A shortterm economic outlook that is worsening even while the longerterm picture is brightening thanks to the emergence of coronavirus vaccines.

The BJP leader said, "More than 99 per cent farmers in the country are with the Modi government and if there is confusion among the rest, we will sit and the confusion will be removed."

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Mamata Banerjee has termed the whole incident as a 'drama' and claimed that it was staged by the saffron brigade to attract political attention before the state assembly elections.

While lockdown life has kept time standing still for nearly everyone through 2020, Wall Street has been locked in at super fastforward.

The Governor took a serious note of CM Mamata Banerjee's statement where she had said the attack on BJP president JP Nadda's convoy was nothing but a 'staged drama'.

Industrial and communication services companies helped push stocks mostly lower on Wall Street Thursday, extending the market's losses from a day earlier.

The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, with many Republicans signing onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.

Within 48 hours of him opposing the farm bills and extending support to the ongoing agitation, Gowda’s son and former chief minister did a somersault by voting with the BJP on the farm bills and staying away from the agitation.

The operator of U.S. online platform Weedmaps, where users rate cannabis sellers, is nearing a deal to go public at a $1.5 billion valuation through a merger with a blankcheck acquisition firm, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The United States on Wednesday crossed an ominous new threshold of 3,000 lives lost to COVID19 in a single day while public health officials stepped up preparations for a vaccine campaign of historic scope ahead of imminent regulatory approval.

Optimism is surging among U.S. stock investors, as Wall Street indexes hit records at the end of a year marred by a global pandemic that sent the U.S. economy into a tailspin.

Presidentelect Joe Biden introduced the team to lead his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, emphasizing the mass distribution needed to achieve his goal of 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days in office.

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