Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Turkey announces weekday, weekend lockdown against coronavirus
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will impose curfews on weekdays and full lockdowns over weekends to combat the spread of the coronavirus, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, after new cases and death...
Nov 30, 2020
Swiss investigating SBM Offshore subsidiaries over past corruption
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Swiss authorities said on Monday they had launched a criminal investigation into three subsidiaries of Netherlands-based SBM Offshore for allegedly failing to prevent past corrup...
Nov 30, 2020
Bulgarian doctors exhausted as COVID deaths hit record
By Tsvetelia Tsolova and Stoyan Nenov SOFIA (Reuters) - With coronavirus death rates surging to record levels in Bulgaria, doctors and nurses in a health service already weakened by decades of emigrat...
Nov 30, 2020
U.S. housing, manufacturing data suggest economic recovery slowing
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes fell for a second straight month in October as an acute shortage of properties pushed up prices, though the housin...
Nov 30, 2020
Shares of Chinese EV maker Kandi down after short-seller report
(Reuters) - Shares of Kandi Technologies Group Inc fell more than 19% on Monday, after the short-selling research house Hindenburg alleged that the Chinese electric vehicle maker used fake sales to ta...
Nov 30, 2020
U.S. pending home sales unexpectedly fall in October
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes fell for a second straight month in October as an acute shortage of properties pushed up prices, though the housing market remains s...
Nov 30, 2020
Vietnam steps up online crackdown, jailed activists at record high: Amnesty
HANOI (Reuters) - The number of political prisoners in Vietnam has reached its highest on record, according to a tally by Amnesty International, which in a report on Tuesday accused Facebook and Googl...
Nov 30, 2020
Dutch government says 2020 debt-to-GDP to hit 57.4% due to coronavirus support
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government expects its debt-to-GDP ratio to have risen to 57.4% by the end of 2020 as a result of heavy spending to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic,...
Nov 30, 2020
With vaccines within reach, U.S. braces for post-Thanksgiving coronavirus surge
By Doina Chiacu and Peter Szekely WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a Thanksgiving weekend when the number of people traveling through U.S. airports reached its highest since mid-March, a top government of...
Nov 30, 2020
Barkin: No ‘huge drop’ yet in real time measures of economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. recovery is facing near term risks from the surging number of coronavirus cases and the end of unemployment benefits for many workers, but there are better medium term ...
Nov 30, 2020
