Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Funds favor bonds over stocks in run-up to U.S. election: Reuters poll
By Rahul Karunakar and Tushar Goenka BENGALURU (Reuters) - Global fund managers recommended the lowest exposure to equities and the highest share of bonds in portfolios in over a decade this month, ci...
Oct 30, 2020
AbbVie raises 2020 profit forecast as COVID-19 hit eases
(Reuters) - Drugmaker AbbVie Inc posted better-than-expected quarterly sales and raised its full-year adjusted profit forecast on Friday, as demand for its Botox and other treatments showed signs of r...
Oct 30, 2020
Austria’s daily COVID infections surge past 5,000 to new record
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's daily tally of new coronavirus cases has risen by more than 1,000 to a new record of 5,627, data from the interior and health ministries showed on Friday. Thursday's tally...
Oct 30, 2020
EU won’t delay sustainability disclosures for banks despite lack of guidance
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Banks and insurers must comply with a new European Union law on sustainability-related disclosures from March even though detailed guidance on how it should work in pra...
Oct 30, 2020
Belgian COVID cases climb as government mulls lockdown
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium, one of worst affected European countries by the new coronavirus, recorded an average of 15,316 new infections per day in mid-October, health officials said on Friday, hou...
Oct 30, 2020
Congolese husband of Angola’s Isabel dos Santos dies in diving accident: colleague, relatives
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Sindika Dokolo, the Congolese businessman and art collector husband of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, has died in a diving accident in Dubai, a colleague and two family me...
Oct 30, 2020
Exxon posts third straight loss as pandemic hits energy demand, prices
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp posted its third straight quarterly loss on Friday and detailed deeper spending cuts to come, as the oil major reels from the COVID-19 impact on energy demand and prices. ...
Oct 30, 2020
November month of truth for German coronavirus numbers: minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - The spread of the coronavirus in Germany is accelerating so the government must take drastic measures and November will be critical in terms of infection numbers, Finance Minister O...
Oct 30, 2020
Malaysia’s Mahathir denies promoting violence with ‘right to kill French’ posts
By A. Ananthalakshmi and Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday denied promoting violence by saying that Muslims have a right to "kill milli...
Oct 30, 2020
Swiss ramp up contact-tracing in face of COVID surge
By Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) - Masked staff sit hunched over computer screens in an open-plan office in downtown Geneva racing to track down every new person infected with COVID-19 and the fri...
Oct 30, 2020
