Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Futures gain as Fed calms inflation worries
By Shashank Nayar (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday after remarks from Federal Reserve officials helped calm inflation worries, while a recent dip in bond yields supported Nasdaq ...
May 26, 2021
Belgium says halts J&J COVID jab for under 41s after one dies
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Belgian government said on Wednesday it was suspending vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine for people under the age of 41 following the de...
May 26, 2021
Factbox: The cost of ten years of devastating war in Syria
AMMAN (Reuters) - What started as peaceful protests against President Bashar al Assad's rule in Syria has spiralled into a decade-old multi-sided conflict that has sucked in neighbours and world power...
May 26, 2021
Michael Kors parent forecasts annual revenue above expectations
(Reuters) - Capri Holdings Ltd on Wednesday forecast annual revenue above Wall Street expectations, betting on shoppers returning to stores in the United States following speedy vaccinations and pent-...
May 26, 2021
Stinkweed to false flax: oilseeds race to reap biofuel bonanza
By Karl Plume and Rod Nickel ARENZVILLE, Illinois (Reuters) - A disparate group met in an Illinois field on a windy spring morning to study a crop some call stinkweed. Botanists, businessmen, farmers ...
May 26, 2021
Factbox: Who are Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s foes?
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's foes range from dissidents inside the country and Western-backed political opponents in exile, to Turkey-backed fighters in northwest Syria and U.S...
May 26, 2021
U.S. a top target for foreign and domestic influence operations, says new Facebook report
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - The United States topped a list of the countries most frequently targeted by deceptive foreign influence operations using Facebook between 2017 and 2020, the social ...
May 26, 2021
Factbox-AstraZeneca’s deals to produce and supply its COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca signed a deal on Wednesday in Japan to produce the COVID-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria, that it developed with Oxford University. AstraZeneca has signed manufacturing deals with at lea...
May 26, 2021
Tokyo 2020 CEO says cancellation not discussed after sponsor’s editorial
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto said on Wednesday it was only natural for news organisations to have different views on the Olympics Summer Games, when asked about an editorial from a sp...
May 26, 2021
Defiant Belarus leader accuses West of waging ‘hybrid war’
By Tom Balmforth and Maria Kiselyova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday a journalist pulled off a plane that landed in Minsk had been plotting a bloody rebe...
May 26, 2021
