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Iceland says defunct banks could be made bankrupt unless creditors take haircut

August 25, 2021 at 12:20 a.m.

By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Iceland's defunct banks could be put into bankruptcy if creditors do not agree to a haircut on debts owed by Kaupthing, Glitnir and Landsbanki,...

Higgs boson, key to the universe, wins Nobel physics prize

August 24, 2021 at 4:09 p.m.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains...

Swedish capital returning to normal after week of violence

August 24, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's capital was relatively calm on Saturday night with only isolated incidents of violence by youths after nearly a week of car-burnings and vandalism that have highlighted...

Analysis: China’s 4G bonanza to shake up mobile gear vendor market

August 24, 2021 at 8:41 a.m.

STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese telecom operators will start awarding contracts for super-fast mobile networks this year, kicking off the third wave of a global investment cycle that is reshaping the...

Ericsson confident after Samsung fires back on patents

August 24, 2021 at 1:15 a.m.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish telecoms gear maker Ericsson said on Wednesday it was confident it would win a dispute over patents with Samsung after the Korean firm filed a counter-claim...

U.S. economists win Nobel for applying match-making

August 23, 2021 at 3:52 p.m.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Life-saving kidney exchanges and ways for schools to select students are just two practical applications of the market-matching theories for which U.S. economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd...

U.S. economists win Nobel for applying match-making

December 24, 2018 at 9:07 p.m.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Life-saving kidney exchanges and ways for schools to select students are just two practical applications of the market-matching theories for which U.S. economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd...

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