Author Archives: Syndicated Content
ASEAN upgrades strategic ties with China, Myanmar an integral member – chair
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed with China to upgrade their relationship to the level of comprehensive strategic partnership, ASEAN chair ...
Oct 28, 2021
Before Lebanon’s current financial crisis, central bank faced a $4.7 billion hole in reserves – IMF memo
By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) - Lebanon's central bank had a $4.7 billion hole in its reserves by the end of 2015 that was not disclosed to the public, an early warning sign of the financial collap...
Oct 28, 2021
Hungary to require COVID-19 vaccinations at state institutions
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government will require employees at state institutions to be vaccinated against COVID-19 after a jump in new coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of s...
Oct 28, 2021
China’s top brokerage CITIC posts 46% third-quarter profit jump
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - CITIC Securities Co Ltd reported a 45.8% rise in third-quarter net profit, as China's biggest brokerage posted strong growth in commission fees after rapidly expanding its...
Oct 28, 2021
Tax rises and higher inflation to crimp UK living standards – IFS
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Higher inflation and rising taxation to fund growing demand for healthcare and other public services will cause living standards in Britain to barely rise over the...
Oct 28, 2021
Soaring U.S. business starts in pandemic show new normal evolving
By Howard Schneider ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) - The pandemic shuttered large parts of the U.S. economy in 2020 and may have driven hundreds of thousands of businesses into failure, but for entrepreneu...
Oct 28, 2021
Russia to relaunch troubled vaccination ad campaign – report
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to relaunch its troubled vaccination advertising and public information campaign amid surging COVID-19 infection and death rates, the daily Kommersant newspaper reporte...
Oct 28, 2021
Sport-Soccer again absent from Sports Book of the Year shortlist
LONDON (Reuters) - The six-title shortlist for the 30,000 pound ($41,241.00) William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize was published on Thursday with soccer conspicuous by its absence for the second ...
Oct 28, 2021
U.S. climate credibility on the line as Biden heads to COP26
By Jeff Mason and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden wants to show the U.N. climate conference in Scotland that the United States is back in the fight against global warming. B...
Oct 28, 2021
Saudi petrochemicals producer SABIC posts fivefold profit jump
DUBAI (Reuters) - Petrochemicals giant Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) on Thursday reported a fivefold increase in third-quarter profit helped by higher average selling prices. SABIC reported a po...
Oct 28, 2021
