Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Chinese industrial profit contracts in 2022 on COVID woes
BEIJING (Reuters) - Profit at China's industrial firms in 2022 fell 4% from a year earlier, official data showed on Tuesday, squeezed by the impact of strict COVID-19 containment measures and a slump ...
Jan 30, 2023
Asian stocks slip as investors eye central bank hikes
By Julie Zhu (Reuters) - Asian shares traded cautiously and bonds nursed small losses on Tuesday as investors braced for an eventful week that includes central bank meetings, a slew of earnings report...
Jan 30, 2023
China economic activity swings back to growth in January – official PMI
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economic activity swung back to growth in January, official data showed on Tuesday, after a wave of COVID-19 infection passed through the country faster than ex...
Jan 30, 2023
Australia’s nuclear safety agency joins hunt for radioactive capsule
By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's nuclear safety agency said on Tuesday it had joined the hunt for a radioactive capsule missing in the west of the country. Australian Radiation Prot...
Jan 30, 2023
Oil steadies after falling on rate hike worries, Russian crude flows
By Laila Kearney (Reuters) - Oil prices steadied in early Asian trade on Tuesday after falling by more than 2% in the previous session on the threat of further interest rate hikes and continued Russia...
Jan 30, 2023
Emerging markets growth slowdown bottomed out in 2022, but risks remain – IMF
By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Monday raised its output growth estimate on emerging markets for this year, with projections now showing the economic slowdown...
Jan 30, 2023
IMF slashes UK growth outlook, adding pressure on finance minister Hunt
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is the only Group of Seven nation to have suffered a cut to its 2023 economic growth outlook in International Monetary Fund forecasts published on Tuesday, adding to pressur...
Jan 30, 2023
‘Laverne & Shirley’ actress Cindy Williams dies at 75, AP reports
(Reuters) - Cindy Williams, who played Shirley alongside Penny Marshall's Laverne in "Laverne & Shirley," one of the most popular U.S. TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at 75, the AP reported ...
Jan 30, 2023
Brazil’s Lula cold-shoulders Germany’s Scholz on Ukraine support
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday said Moscow made a mistake invading Ukraine, but speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz he kept clear of condemni...
Jan 30, 2023
Biden says no F-16s for Ukraine as Russia claims gains
By Tom Balmforth and Nandita Bose KYIV, Ukraine/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not provide the F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine has sought in its battle against Russia, President Joe Bide...
Jan 30, 2023
