Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK PM Johnson condemns Myanmar coup and imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday he condemned the coup in Myanmar after the military in the Asian country seized power, saying Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
Silver swept up by GameStop retail frenzy, prices soar
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Silver prices surged to a five-month high on Monday, silver-mining stocks leapt and coin-selling websites were swamped as small-time investors piled in to the me...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
Five things to watch in retail stocks’ trading frenzy
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Silver has become the latest focus of a frenzied online movement by retail traders to push up values of assets that big fund managers had bet against. The populist trading rally,...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
UK minister: We hope record fundraiser Captain Tom pulls through
LONDON (Reuters) - A British minister said she was hoping centenarian Captain Tom Moore, who raised millions of pounds for the health service in last year's lockdown, would pull through after the reco...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
AstraZeneca vaccine to arrive in France by next week – minister
PARIS (Reuters) - The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which was approved by the European Commission last week, will start arriving in France next week at the latest, French European Affairs Minister Cle...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
Germany’s stricter lockdown sinks retail sales in December
BERLIN (Reuters) - German retail sales plunged far more than expected in December as a decision to tighten lockdown measures in the COVID-19 pandemic choked consumer spending in Europe's largest econo...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
Tennis-Gauff fends off Teichmann to advance at Gippsland Trophy
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Coco Gauff was rusty on serve and struggled to produce her best tennis but the American prodigy prevailed 6-3 6-7(6) 7-6(5) over Swiss Jil Teichmann to reach the second round of ...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
NFC beats AFC in first-ever virtual Pro Bowl
Capping a challenging season played amid a global pandemic, the NFC won the first-ever virtual Pro Bowl 32-12 over the AFC Sunday in a game played on the Madden 21 video game, with NFL players and cel...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
‘Loved ones, not numbers’: Inside a British funeral business as COVID deaths surge
By Andrew R.C. Marshall LONDON (Reuters) - It was a normal busy winter for British funeral director Matthew Uden until the second week of January. "Then it was like someone flicked a switch," he said....
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021
Nintendo upgrades full-year forecast for Switch sales to 26.5 million units
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd on Monday hiked the full-year sales forecast for its Switch console to 26.5 million units from 24 million units previously after a bumper end to...
Syndicated Content Feb 01, 2021

