Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Maduro seeks to speed up digital payments as Venezuela runs out of cash
By Corina Pons and Mayela Armas CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is pressing banks to implement digital payment systems as hyperinflation prompts chronic shortages of cash in th...
Mar 15, 2021
China to strengthen anti-trust regulatory powers: state media
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will strengthen anti-trust regulatory powers, and push forward healthy, sustainable development of internet platforms, state CCTV television quoted President Xi Jinping as sa...
Mar 15, 2021
Tesla names Musk ‘Technoking’ in cryptic regulatory filing
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc added "Technoking of Tesla" to billionaire Chief Executive Elon Musk's list of official titles on Monday in a formal regulatory filing that also named finance chief Zachary Kirkh...
Mar 15, 2021
Canada’s Rogers to acquire Shaw Communications in $26 billion deal
(Reuters) - Canadian telecom operator Rogers Communications Inc said on Monday it has reached an agreement to acquire Shaw Communications Inc in a deal valued at about $26 billion. (Reporting by Eva M...
Mar 15, 2021
Analysis: Buyers return but Dubai real estate faces long road to recovery
By Yousef Saba and Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) - Fancy working from home in a poolside villa, bathed in year-round sun? Prime Dubai properties have been snapped up in the past few months by buyers...
Mar 15, 2021
Big questions loom ahead of Biden’s next spending push, like ‘what is infrastructure?’
By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - With a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package finally passed, U.S. President Joe Biden's next big spending push is already on the horizon - repairing th...
Mar 15, 2021
Exclusive: U.S. Congress launches probe into multibillion-dollar ‘clean coal’ tax credit
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is investigating a multibillion-dollar subsidy for chemically treated coal that is meant to reduce smokestack pollution, after evidence emerged t...
Mar 15, 2021
Indonesia holds off on AstraZeneca vaccine, awaits WHO review
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will delay the administering of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine due to reports of blood clots among some recipients in Europe and would await a review from the World Healt...
Mar 15, 2021
Volkswagen to switch EV battery type, leaving supply deals in doubt: sources
SEOUL (Reuters) - Volkswagen plans to gradually switch the type of battery used in its electric vehicles, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday, leaving its supply deals with LG En...
Mar 15, 2021
Southwest expects April revenue to pick up, sees lower cash burn in first quarter
(Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co said on Monday it was expecting its operating revenue for March and April to improve due to a rise in passenger traffic. The U.S. airline also expects average core ca...
Mar 15, 2021
