At 5:41 p.m. Eastern on Thursday afternoon, the 162-year-old news agency accidentally published reporter Todd Eastham's prewritten obituary for Soros, complete with dummy text for the place and time of his future death:

(Reuters) - George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for years against the same sort of free-wheeling capitalism that made him billions.

As the words "predatory" and "free-wheeling" suggest, the 1,122-word notice is not especially kind to Soros or the work to which he devoted his life.