Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Schools open, businesses closed as Portugal enters new lockdown
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal began the first day of a new lockdown on Friday with businesses closed and most people confined to their homes, although parents were able to take their children to school....
Jan 15, 2021
Pfizer has told EU it can still make vaccine deliveries in 1st qtr, Von der Leyen says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's chief executive said on Friday she had spoken to Pfizer and been reassured that scheduled COVID-19 vaccine deliveries will be made in the first quarter of 202...
Jan 15, 2021
Pfizer to deliver less COVID-19 vaccine to EU in coming weeks – Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - Pfizer has informed the European Union that it will temporarily reduce its deliveries of a COVID-19 vaccine to member states due to construction work at its plant in the Belgian tow...
Jan 15, 2021
Paraguay approves emergency use of Sputnik vaccine, Russian sovereign wealth fund says
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Paraguay has become the latest Latin American country to approve emergency use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus, Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund said o...
Jan 15, 2021
Six EU states say ‘situation unacceptable’ after Pfizer-BioNTech cuts vaccine deliveries
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Six European Union governments asked the executive EU Commission in a letter on Friday to pressure Pfizer-BioNTech, "to ensure stability and transparency of timely...
Jan 15, 2021
U.S. business inventories rise in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. business inventories increased in November, supporting expectations that inventory investment was likely the main driver of economic growth in the fourth quarter. Business ...
Jan 15, 2021
Oxygen arrives in Brazilian state overwhelmed by COVID-19
By Bruno Kelly MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's Air Force delivered emergency supplies of oxygen in the early hours of Friday to the jungle state of Amazonas, which is being overwhelmed by a second...
Jan 15, 2021
‘Spend as much as you can,’ IMF head urges governments worldwide
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Policymakers worldwide should embrace more spending to help revive their stuttering economies, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Friday at Russia's annual Gaidar e...
Jan 15, 2021
Canada says Pfizer vaccine delay unfortunate, death toll to spike
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Friday that Pfizer's decision to temporarily cut shipments of some COVID-19 vaccines was unfortunate but should not hit its inoculation program. Pfizer said it would ...
Jan 15, 2021
EU working on digital tax, WTO reform proposals, trade official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Union is working on a new proposal to try to resolve disputes with the United States over digital services taxes, EU Director General for Trade Sabine Weyand said o...
Jan 15, 2021
