Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Take Five: China, FAANGs, Turkey and Christmas fears loom large
Chinese growth and corporate earnings in the United States and Europe, including results from the big-hitting FAANGs, will give markets plenty to digest in the week ahead, while Turkey's central bank ...
Oct 15, 2021
Lebanese Judges Association rejects calls for blast judge’s replacement -NNA
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Lebanese Judges Association again rejected on Friday calls to dismiss the judge heading a probe into last year's massive blast in Beirut and defended the judiciary as the "last b...
Oct 15, 2021
Moscow says it is first to launch large-scale metro facial ID payment system
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's sprawling metro network on Friday launched a fare payment system using facial recognition technology at its more than 240 stations, an initiative the authorities said was t...
Oct 15, 2021
Suspected Kenyan serial killer believed killed by mob
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suspected Kenyan serial killer of children who said he drank the blood of his victims is believed to have been killed by a mob in his home town days after escaping custody, polic...
Oct 15, 2021
EU sends COVID-19 drugs, equipment to Romania to tackle health crisis
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries have sent COVID-19 drugs and equipment to treat patients in Romania, which is facing a surge in infections largely among the unvaccinated majority of the ...
Oct 15, 2021
China central bank official says spillover effect of Evergrande’s debt woes is controllable
BEIJING (Reuters) - The spillover effect of China Evergrande Group's debt problems on the banking system is controllable and individual financial institutions' risk exposures are not big, a central ba...
Oct 15, 2021
Denmark to begin inviting public for COVID-19 ‘booster’ shots
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Danish health authorities will next week start inviting citizens to receive a third vaccination shot against COVID-19, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said on Friday. Invitations...
Oct 15, 2021
Global bond funds see first weekly outflow in seven months, Lipper data shows
(Reuters) - Global bond funds faced their first weekly outflow in seven months in the week to Oct. 13, due to worries that higher inflation levels would prompt central banks to roll back their crisis-...
Oct 15, 2021
Man ram-raids motorbike shop in Australia, flees on digger
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man left a trail of destruction as he used a mechanical digger to smash his way into a motorcycle shop in Queensland, Australia on Friday, then fled with two bikes dangling from t...
Oct 15, 2021
Anti-Semitism has no place in EU, Brussels says on Slovenia PM tweet
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Anti-Semitism has no place in the EU, a spokesperson for the bloc's executive Commission said on Friday, reacting to a tweet by Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa that referred ...
Oct 15, 2021
