FILE PHOTO: A view of Bourbon Street amid the outbreak

Wall Street jumps as hopes for easing lockdown offset earnings worry

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks jumped on Tuesday as optimism that the Trump administration could move to ease lockdowns from the coronavirus outbreak overshadowed worrying earnings reports from JPMorgan and Wells Fargo. White House adviser Larry Kudlow said President Donald Trump would make a number of announcements about reopening the U.S. […]

Remains of massacred student teacher identified in Mexico

Bone fragments found at a site called ‘Butchers Ravine’ near the dump where the bodies 43 students were burned. Mexican authorities said on Tuesday that they have identified the remains of a second of the 43 students who disappeared in September 2014. Omar Gomez Trejo, head of the special unit of the Attorney General’s Office […]

China to grant tariff exemptions on 696 U.S. goods to support purchases

By Stella Qiu and Se Young Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – China will grant exemptions on retaliatory duties imposed against 696 U.S. goods, the most substantial tariff relief to be offered so far, as Beijing seeks to fulfill commitments made in its interim trade deal with the United States. Tuesday’s announcement comes after the Phase 1 […]