Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China June industrial profits +0.8% yr/yr – statistics bureau
BEIJING (Reuters) - Profits at China's industrial firms rose 0.8% in June from a year earlier, compared to the 6.5% slump logged in May, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. Industrial...
Jul 26, 2022
Australian inflation speeds to 21-year high, peak still to come
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian consumer price inflation sped to a 21-year high last quarter and is likely to accelerate even further as food and energy costs explode, stoking speculation interest rates...
Jul 26, 2022
China reports 703 new COVID cases for July 26 vs 976 day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 703 new coronavirus cases for July 26, of which 120 were symptomatic and 583 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday. That compared with...
Jul 26, 2022
China’s Wuhan shuts some businesses, transport amid new COVID cases
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central metropolis of Wuhan temporarily shut some businesses and public transport in a district with almost a million people on Wednesday, as the city where the pandemic fi...
Jul 26, 2022
Euro fragile as Fed hike looms, gas risks weigh
By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The euro nursed losses on Wednesday after its sharpest drop in two weeks, as a cut in Russian gas supply sent energy prices soaring, while the dollar held ground ahead...
Jul 26, 2022
Thai businesses cash in on cannabis, from milk tea to toothpaste
By Chayut Setboonsarng and Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai businesses are cashing in with cannabis-infused products like toothpaste, tea, soaps and snacks after the government legalised t...
Jul 26, 2022
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Dolores in Philippines, strongly felt in Manila
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck near Dolores in Philippines on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, while a Reuters witness said it was strongly felt in the country's capital ...
Jul 26, 2022
Soup kitchens feed Sri Lanka’s poor amid bleak economic crisis
By Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) - With no fuel and no money for food, H. G. Indrani and her family of nine trudged for an hour to a community kitchen in Colombo, in hopes of finding a simple vegetar...
Jul 26, 2022
Oil rises on U.S. crude stock drawdown
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) - Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Wednesday as industry data showed a larger-than-expected drawdown in U.S. crude stockpiles. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) cru...
Jul 26, 2022
U.N. chief condemns deadly violence targeting U.N. in Congo
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned on Tuesday violence targeting the United Nations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that killed three peaceke...
Jul 26, 2022
