Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Take Five: Retail, PMIs and a timely tantrum anniversary
1/ RETAIL HEAVEN As a strong U.S. first-quarter reporting season winds up, retailers are getting started - Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, L Brands and Ralph Lauren release results next week. The...
May 14, 2021
Taking the call in Gaza before Israel takes out the building
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The building watchman spoke on his mobile intently, pacing up and down a quiet street in Gaza. In video footage caught by an onlooker, ...
May 14, 2021
China urges ride hailing firms to charge fees fairly -state media
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's regulators on Friday urged companies with ride hailing services to charge fees fairly and transparently, state media reported. Companies including Didi Chuxing, Meituan's r...
May 14, 2021
UK to flex vaccine rollout to tackle Indian variant
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will adapt its vaccine rollout to protect people more quickly in areas where a coronavirus variant first detected in India has emerged, the country's vaccine minister said o...
May 14, 2021
Turkey’s Karpowership shuts down power to Lebanon
By Edmund Blair and Can Sezer BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's Karpowership, which provides electricity to Lebanon from two barges, said on Friday it was shutting down supplies over payment arrear...
May 14, 2021
Mizuho profit beats estimates, sees credit costs halving this year
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mizuho Financial Group Inc reported on Friday its net profit more than doubled for the fourth quarter, during which it suffered some system failures and booked a trading loss...
May 14, 2021
Japan’s exports seen posting largest monthly gain since 2010 – Reuters poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports likely grew more than 30% year-on-year in April, the most in more than a decade, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, but the base effect was a major factor after last ye...
May 14, 2021
Exclusive: TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is weighing plans to pump tens of billions of dollars more into cutting-edge chip factories in the U.S. state of Arizona than it had...
May 14, 2021
Big promises, few doses: why Russia’s struggling to make Sputnik V doses
By Polina Nikolskaya and Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Transforming the site of what once was a Soviet-era car factory into a state-of-the-art facility churning out Russia's COVID-19 vaccine Sputn...
May 14, 2021
Origins of COVID-19 need to be investigated further, leading scientists say
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and there is not yet enough evidence to say conclusively if it occurred naturally or was caused by a labora...
May 14, 2021
