Author Archives: Syndicated Content
T-Mobile Netherlands, KKR to invest 700 million euros in fibre optic
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - T-Mobile Netherlands said on Wednesday it will invest at least 700 million euros ($832 million) to build and offer fibre optic networks in Dutch cities together with Open Dutch F...
Apr 07, 2021
Deliveroo ticks up as retail investors join trading
LONDON (Reuters) - Deliveroo shares opened slightly higher on Wednesday, the first day of unrestricted trading when retail investors were allowed to trade the shares bought during the food delivery gr...
Apr 07, 2021
European stocks hover near record high, UK outperforms
(Reuters) - European stocks hovered near record highs on Wednesday as investors awaited data on services sector activity for the region, while optimism over speedy vaccination drives and a weaker poun...
Apr 07, 2021
Sweet-toothed Britons spend 150 million pounds more on Easter treats: NielsenIQ
LONDON (Reuters) - Britons spent 439 million pounds ($608 million) on confectionaries ahead of Easter in the four weeks to March 27, a 34% rise compared with the same period in 2020, industry data sho...
Apr 07, 2021
Governor of Japan’s Osaka to cancel Olympic torch relay on prefecture streets
TOKYO (Reuters) - The governor of Japan's major western prefecture of Osaka, Hirofumi Yoshimura, said he would cancel Olympic torch runs slated to take place on the public streets due to a surge in CO...
Apr 07, 2021
Finnish nurse squeezes extra vaccine doses with air-bubble technique
(Corrects to identify speaker in final paragraph) By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish nurse Sari Roos is teaching her colleagues a vaccination technique that enables her to squeeze more doses ou...
Apr 07, 2021
Analysis: High stakes at sea in global rush for wind power
By Susanna Twidale and Nora Buli LONDON(Reuters) - Global competition for offshore wind power is so hot that licence auctions now resemble the oil and gas competitions of just a few years ago, and som...
Apr 07, 2021
Pandemic drives Germany to highest deficit in 30 years: statistics office
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's public sector deficit reached 189.2 billion euros ($225 billion) in 2020 thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the first deficit since 2013 and the highest budget shortfall ...
Apr 07, 2021
Rakuten CEO Mikitani says hosting Tokyo Games this summer ‘too risky’
TOKYO (Reuters) - Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten Inc, said on Wednesday it was "too risky" to hold the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer, as the nation struggles ...
Apr 07, 2021
Exclusive-India’s Shilpa Medicare can make 100-200 million doses of COVID-19 shot, says executive
By Sachin Ravikumar BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian drugmaker Shilpa Medicare Ltd has the production capacity to make 100-200 million doses of a recombinant vaccine for COVID-19, a company executive told...
Apr 07, 2021
