Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK faces skills shortage as COVID-19 splits job market, McKinsey says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will face a growing skills shortage over the next decade if it does not start retraining and reskilling workers for the shift to a digital-based economy which has been sped ...
Nov 16, 2020
Where social distancing comes naturally: Finland keeps coronavirus in check
By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) - While many countries struggle with a second wave of the coronavirus, Finland has halted a rise in new infections at Europe's lowest level, helped by the fact that...
Nov 16, 2020
European Union in talks about further measures against Belarus: Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and the European Union are looking into ways to raise the pressure on the Belarusian leadership after hundreds of protesters were detained during mass demonstrations there o...
Nov 16, 2020
Virgin Galactic reschedules test flight due to New Mexico lockdown
(Reuters) - Virgin Galactic has rescheduled a test flight planned from its New Mexico spaceport later this week after the U.S. state imposed fresh COVID-19 restrictions, billionaire Richard Branson's ...
Nov 16, 2020
Lonza to supply ingredients for 400 million doses of Moderna’s COVID vaccine annually
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss contract manufacturer Lonza's facilities in Switzerland and the United States will be able to produce ingredients for 400 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine annually,...
Nov 16, 2020
Uber to accept fast payments in Brazil in partnership with Ebanx
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc started on Monday to take instant payments in Brazil in partnership with payments startup Ebanx, both companies said. More than 60 million people had alread...
Nov 16, 2020
Home Depot to buy HD Supply Holdings in $8 billion deal
(Reuters) - Home Depot Inc said on Monday it would buy industrial goods wholesaler HD Supply Holdings in a deal valued at about $8 billion. (Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini...
Nov 16, 2020
ECB’s Centeno calls for more focused support for jobs, companies
LISBON (Reuters) - European countries need to provide more focused support to the coronavirus-battered economy, prioritising investment projects already under way that would benefit both companies and...
Nov 16, 2020
Support for MAX brand wavers as Boeing jet nears green light
By Eric M. Johnson and Tracy Rucinski SEATTLE/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boeing Co is set to win approval for its grounded 737 MAX this week, but chinks are appearing in the brand as the most traumatic chapt...
Nov 16, 2020
ECB’s De Cos says governing council should increase monetary accommodation
MADRID (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's governing council should further increase monetary accommodation to potentially avoid problems of market fragmentation given a worsening outlook for both...
Nov 16, 2020
