Author Archives: Syndicated Content
BOJ to hold fire in hope extending aid programmes will keep pandemic pain at bay
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to keep monetary policy steady on Friday and hope the extension of an existing fund-aid package will give companies enough time to weath...
Dec 16, 2020
Novartis gets FDA Breakthrough Therapy tag for experimental iptacopan
ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis got the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Breakthrough Therapy tag for its experimental medicine iptacopan, which the Swiss drugmaker hopes wins approval to treat the rar...
Dec 16, 2020
Novartis’ bid to boost Entresto sales beyond $5 billion gets FDA panel lift
ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis' bid to pump up sales of its Entresto heart failure medicine beyond $5 billion annually got a boost when a U.S. Food and Drug advisory panel recommended it be used to treat...
Dec 16, 2020
Analysis: A currency manipulator tag for Switzerland may not deter FX approach
By Saikat Chatterjee, John Revill and David Lawder LONDON/ZURICH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The threat of being named a currency manipulator by the U.S. Treasury may be an embarrassment for Switzerland, b...
Dec 16, 2020
Fed faces tricky act balancing impact of vaccines against economic pain
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will offer its first glimpse of how a coronavirus vaccine has changed the U.S. economic outlook, and whether businesses, wor...
Dec 16, 2020
Analysis: As Fed meeting looms, investors brace for higher Treasury yields in 2021
By Kate Duguid and April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are betting that longer-dated Treasury yields are headed higher in the near term, reflecting expectations that the Federal Reserve is unl...
Dec 16, 2020
Top 25 roundup: Hokies pin first loss on No. 24 Clemson
Tyrece Radford scored 10 of his 15 points in the second half to lift Virginia Tech to a 66-60 victory over No. 24 Clemson on Tuesday in Blacksburg, Va. Radford also flustered the Tigers last season, s...
Dec 16, 2020
LeBron, AD to make preseason debuts vs. Suns
LeBron James and Anthony Davis will make their preseason debuts on Wednesday when the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers meet the Phoenix Suns. James and Davis sat out the Lakers' first two preseas...
Dec 16, 2020
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Britons oppose plan to relax rules for Christmas, survey says More people in Britain oppose the government's plans to relax co...
Dec 16, 2020
Germany’s confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 27,728 – RKI
BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 27,728 to 1,379,238, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Wednesday. The rep...
Dec 16, 2020
