Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Broadway to light up again in September when shows set to return
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Live Broadway shows will return to the stage on Sept. 14 after an 18-month hiatus to fight the coronavirus pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced o...
May 5, 2021
U.S. SEC chief plans to scrutinize short-sellers, rein in ‘gamification’ following GameStop trading frenzy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. securities regulator is considering measures to boost transparency around "short-selling" and equity derivative bets and to rein-in retail "gamification" following Janu...
May 5, 2021
Mexican president says U.S. Vice President Harris to visit Mexico next month
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris would probably visit Mexico on June 8 after mid-term legislative election...
May 5, 2021
Exclusive: Credit Suisse stops custodian service for some U.S. cannabis stocks – sources
By Shariq Khan and Matt Scuffham (Reuters) - Credit Suisse Group AG has told customers in recent months it will no longer execute transactions in shares of cannabis companies with U.S. operations or h...
May 5, 2021
Peru signs deal to purchase 12 million additional doses of Pfizer vaccine
LIMA (Reuters) -Peru President Francisco Sagasti announced on Wednesday a fresh deal with Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE to purchase an additional 12 million doses of their vaccine against COVID-19 as a f...
May 5, 2021
Put idle capacity to work now making vaccines, says WTO head
GENEVA (Reuters) - The world cannot act soon enough to put idle manufacturing capacity to work making COVID-19 vaccines to help redress a massive imbalance in global supply, the head of the World Trad...
May 5, 2021
G7 scolds China and Russia over threats, bullying, rights abuses
By William James, Guy Faulconbridge and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - The Group of Seven scolded both China and Russia on Wednesday, casting the Kremlin as malicious and Beijing as a bully, but b...
May 5, 2021
G7 looks to expand rebuttal mechanism for disinformation
LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Wednesday agreed to expand and strengthen the rapid response mechanism it uses to fight threats to democracy such as dis...
May 5, 2021
First 50 freezers for COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Venezuela
CARACAS (Reuters) - The United Nations Children's Fund said Wednesday 50 freezer kits had arrived in Venezuela to boost the OPEC nation's capacity to store coronavirus vaccines. The freezers are the f...
May 5, 2021
U.S. administers 249.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 249,566,820 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 321,549,335 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
May 5, 2021
