Author Archives: Syndicated Content
No health pass, no cinema or museum: France tightens COVID-19 rules
By Emilie Delwarde PARIS (Reuters) - Where's your health pass? Visitors heading to museums, cinemas or swimming pools in France will be denied entry from Wednesday if they cannot show the document tha...
Jul 21, 2021
Some Hong Kong banks decline mortgages for Evergrande’s off-plan projects
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some banks in Hong Kong, including HSBC and Standard Chartered, are declining loans to buyers of Chinese property developer Evergrande Group's two uncompleted residential project...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics-Tennis-Adjusting to Games atmosphere main challenge, says Swiatek’s psychologist
By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Adjusting to COVID-19 protocols in Tokyo may be easy for globe-trotting tennis players, but adjusting to the social environment at the Olympics will be a real chal...
Jul 21, 2021
Upbeat earnings, recovery optimism lift Wall St futures
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday, helped by upbeat quarterly results and forecasts from companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Harley Davidson, while shares linked...
Jul 21, 2021
For most emerging market central banks, the only way is up
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - While top central banks such as the Federal Reserve, the ECB and the Bank of Japan may be sitting on their hands as inflation rises, many of their peers in the big dev...
Jul 21, 2021
No. 2 U.S. diplomat Sherman to visit China July 25-26 -State Dept
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will visit China next week as part of a larger Asia trip, the State Department said on Wednesday, marking the highest-level visit by...
Jul 21, 2021
Netflix’s gaming foray will cost time and money -Wall St
By Nivedita Balu and Akanksha Rana (Reuters) - Wall Street analysts welcomed Netflix's planned plunge into mobile gaming on Wednesday, calling it a sensible move to keep users' eyes on screens while w...
Jul 21, 2021
Basketball-‘Incredible Giannis!’ Greeks celebrate Bucks’ NBA victory
ATHENS (Reuters) - The Milwaukee Bucks won their first NBA championship in 50 years on Tuesday and a nation is cheering their success. In Greece, home of forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, who scored 50 p...
Jul 21, 2021
Pfizer/BioNTech strike South Africa COVID-19 manufacturing deal with Biovac
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE on Wednesday said they had struck a deal for South Africa's Biovac Institute to process and distribute over 100 million doses a year of their COVID-19 vaccine fo...
Jul 21, 2021
Israel’s National Security Council ‘looking into’ NSO spyware allegations
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to "look into" proliferating allegations that spyware sold by a Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global sc...
Jul 21, 2021
