Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Wall Street Week Ahead: Blow-out U.S. earnings suggest market has room to run
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies are leaping above expectations on first-quarter earnings, giving investors stronger confirmation that profit growth will be able to support...
Apr 30, 2021
Canadian athletes to have vaccine access before Tokyo Games
By Frank Pingue TORONTO (Reuters) - All Canadian athletes competing at this year's Tokyo Olympics will have access to COVID-19 vaccines before they head to the global event, the Canadian Olympic Commi...
Apr 30, 2021
Brooklyn artist hides ‘mini masterpieces’ for neighborhood residents to find
(Reuters) - Brooklyn artist Steve Wasterval loves Greenpoint, his New York neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn. He loves it so much, in fact, that he paints tiny Impressionist-style street scenes ...
Apr 30, 2021
NASA tells SpaceX to halt lunar lander work pending challenges by rivals
SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA has told Elon Musk's SpaceX to halt work under a contract to develop a lunar lander, pending the outcome of challenges by rival bidders at the U.S. Governmen...
Apr 30, 2021
California program overestimates climate benefits of forest offsets – study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California's forest carbon offset program has generated tens of millions of credits that have questionable value in fighting climate change, a nonprofit group of scientists said...
Apr 30, 2021
Pentagon to cancel Trump border wall projects using military funds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday said it was cancelling the construction of parts of former President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico that were being built using military funds, wi...
Apr 30, 2021
Venezuelans celebrate beatification of ‘doctor to the poor’
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans on Friday celebrated the beatification of Jose Gregorio Hernandez, a medic who became known as the "doctor of the poor" while treating the ill during the Spanish flu pa...
Apr 30, 2021
EU aims to cut foreign reliance on chips, pharma materials – document
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union aims to cut its dependency on Chinese and other foreign suppliers in six strategic areas including raw materials, pharmaceutical ingredients and...
Apr 30, 2021
Brazil calls on countries to share spare vaccines
By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Countries should share spare vaccine doses with Brazil to help the global fight against COVID-19 and meet the battered country's goal of inoculati...
Apr 30, 2021
U.S. hearing ‘huge demand’ from around world for vaccine doses – U.S. COVID-19 coordinator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is hearing "huge demand" from countries around the world for vaccines not needed by Americans, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for global COVID-19 resp...
Apr 30, 2021
