Author Archives: Syndicated Content
BOJ should tailor ETF purchases to reduce distortions, says government panel member
By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan has room to be more creative in how it buys exchange-traded funds (ETF) to mitigate market distortions caused by the programme, sa...
Feb 17, 2021
Pandemic hitting German wages harder than financial crisis
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans' nominal earnings fell for the first time in over a decade, the statistics office said on Wednesday, releasing data that showed the coronavirus pandemic having a more severe...
Feb 17, 2021
Japan’s Olympic minister Hashimoto is preferred candidate to succeed Mori: NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto has emerged as the preferred candidate to succeed Yoshiro Mori as president of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee after he stepped down last...
Feb 17, 2021
Britain says: UAE should show the world Dubai’s Sheikha Latifa is alive
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday that it would like to see proof that Sheikha Latifa, one of the ruler of Dubai's daughters, is still alive after the BBC published a "deeply troubling" vid...
Feb 17, 2021
Russia detains 19 militants planning attacks: security service
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday it had detained 19 suspected Islamist militants planning attacks in the North Caucasus. The FSB said it had seized a suicid...
Feb 17, 2021
UK inflation up by 0.7% in January
LONDON (Reuters) - British inflation rose a little more than expected in January as the country went back into a coronavirus lockdown, official data showed on Wednesday. Consumer prices rose 0.7 in an...
Feb 17, 2021
Great Escape: UK could be back to work by July, Daily Mail says
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering a staged exit from COVID-19 lockdown that would see pubs and restaurants reopen in May, and hospitality and domestic holiday indu...
Feb 17, 2021
Australia seeks hefty fines from media over breach of gag order in Pell case
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Prosecutors asked an Australian court to set hefty penalties for media firms that pleaded guilty to breaching a 2018 suppression order on reporting of the convicti...
Feb 17, 2021
European new car sales drop by 25.7% year-on-year in January: ACEA
BERLIN (Reuters) - European car registrations dropped in January, industry data showed on Wednesday, as measures to restrict a second coronavirus wave hit sales in the region's largest markets. New ca...
Feb 17, 2021
EU civil rights groups want ban on biometric surveillance ahead of new laws
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Civil and digital rights groups on Wednesday launched a petition seeking the support of one million Europeans to help pressure the European Union to ban biometric ...
Feb 17, 2021
