Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Global money market funds see massive inflows in week to December 9, Lipper says
(Reuters) - Global money market funds saw huge inflows in the week ended Dec. 9, Refinitiv Lipper showed, as investors withdrew some money from equity funds after extensively buying them in the past f...
Dec 11, 2020
Turkey rejects ‘biased and illegal’ EU approach at summit
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey rejects the European Union's "biased and illegal" approach at its summit this week and calls on the bloc to act as an honest broker in an ongoing dispute in the eastern Medit...
Dec 11, 2020
Ethiopia government denies war impeding aid, agencies report staff deaths
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's government on Friday denied that the war in its northern Tigray region was preventing aid reaching civilians, as two foreign aid agencies confirmed some staff had be...
Dec 11, 2020
BofA says its clients increase equity allocation to near record levels
LONDON (Reuters) - BofA said on Friday that its wealth management clients further increased allocation to equities in their portfolios last week, closing in on the record levels seen in March 2015, as...
Dec 11, 2020
German COVID-19 lockdown can’t wait until Christmas: minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany must go into a hard lockdown immediately to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer was quoted as saying on Friday. "The only chance to...
Dec 11, 2020
ECB’s Lagarde bags hard-won deal, but battle with hawks has only begun
By Francesco Canepa, Balazs Koranyi and Frank Siebelt FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde brokered a difficult compromise this week to secure backing for a new pand...
Dec 11, 2020
Impending release of South Korea child rapist ignites outrage
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - The imminent release of a man convicted for the rape of a child in South Korea has re-ignited a debate over what to do with criminals who escape harsher punishment by u...
Dec 11, 2020
Russia says new U.S. sanctions blacklist is ‘clumsy’ PR
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday criticised a new round of U.S. sanctions over alleged human rights abuses, saying they were not backed up with hard evidence of wrongdoing and describing them as "c...
Dec 11, 2020
Vietnam courts sentences ex-Hanoi chairman to jail amid crackdown on graft
HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced the former head of Hanoi's governing body to five years in jail for misappropriating secret state documents and misusing assets in a case that ...
Dec 11, 2020
ADB launches $9 billion COVID-19 vaccine facility for developing members
MANILA (Reuters) - The Asian Development Bank said on Friday it has launched a $9 billion facility to help members access and distribute COVID-19 vaccines. Called the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facil...
Dec 11, 2020
