Author Archives: Syndicated Content
JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley bet on Colombia sinking further into junk after S&P move
LONDON (Reuters) - Wall Street banks JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley predicted on Thursday that Fitch would downgrade Colombia's credit rating to junk before the year is out and spark forced selling after...
May 20, 2021
Russia’s Lavrov calls for military dialogue between Arctic states
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday called for Arctic states to include military issues in talks between them about the future of the region. "It is important to ...
May 20, 2021
S.Korea says to run mix-and-match trial of COVID-19 vaccines
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Thursday said it will conduct a clinical trial that mixes COVID-19 vaccine doses developed by AstraZeneca Plc with those from Pfizer Inc and others. The ...
May 20, 2021
Current COVID vaccines appear protective against variants, WHO Europe says
LONDON (Reuters) - COVID-19 vaccines currently being deployed in the fight against the pandemic in Europe appear able to protect against all variants that are circulating and causing concern, the Worl...
May 20, 2021
Lebanese scuffle with Syrians voting abroad in support of Assad
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Scuffles erupted on Thursday between Lebanese and Syrians, who were on their way to cast votes at their embassy in Lebanon in favour of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as polling ...
May 20, 2021
Kohl’s raises 2021 forecast as apparel demand surges
(Reuters) -Kohl's Corp raised its forecast for 2021 sales and profit on Thursday, as the department store operator bets on a shopping boom after a coronavirus pandemic hit last year. A surge in online...
May 20, 2021
Germany, U.S. want closer ties after Nord Stream 2 sanctions waiver – Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and the United States are in talks to intensify their economic ties after the Biden administration waived sanctions on the company behind Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline...
May 20, 2021
UK factories boom but bottlenecks pushing up prices – CBI
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British manufacturers reported the fastest growth in orders since December 2017 in May but fear supply-chain bottlenecks will cause their costs to rise sharply, acc...
May 20, 2021
Hungarian woman with COVID awakes from coma to find she’s a mother – RFE
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian mother Szilvia Bedo-Nagy only found out she had given birth to baby daughter Napsugar when she was brought out of an induced coma more than a month later, having tested ...
May 20, 2021
Oil boom in New Mexico could stick taxpayers with cleanup costs -study
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - Drillers in New Mexico have set aside only a tiny fraction of the money they will eventually need to clean up their wells, pipelines and other infrastructure in the state,...
May 20, 2021
