Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Exclusive: Goldman money funds’ liquidity buffer swells before U.S. election
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Two Goldman Sachs Group Inc money-market funds, whipsawed in March by billions of dollars of investor withdrawals, have steadily amassed a liquidity cushion much l...
Oct 30, 2020
Kenyan court jails two men for 2013 Westgate mall attack
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - A court in Kenya sentenced two men on Friday to 18 years in prison for helping al Shabaab gunmen in a 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall that killed...
Oct 30, 2020
Hospital beds, oxygen run short in Russia’s regions as COVID-19 cases surge
By Anton Zverev, Maria Tsvetkova and Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ekaterina Saraichenko, who lives in Saratov, posted a video on Russian social media this month, describing her mother's ordeal wi...
Oct 30, 2020
U.S. consumer spending beat expectations; outlook uncertain
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending increased more than expected in September, but decreasing benefits for millions of unemployed Americans and a resurgence in COVID-19 cas...
Oct 30, 2020
Belarus leader threatens to leave protesters ‘without hands’ as strike rumbles
KYIV (Reuters) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to leave protesters "without hands" on Friday, sharpening his rhetoric as hundreds marched through the streets and rallied outside un...
Oct 30, 2020
OPEC oil output rises more on Libya restart, Iraq: Reuters survey
By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC oil output has risen for a fourth month in October, a Reuters survey found, as a restart of more Libyan installations and higher Iraqi exports offset full adhere...
Oct 30, 2020
Everything’s bigger in Texas: Early vote surpasses total 2016 turnout
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With four days remaining in the U.S. presidential campaign, more than 9 million people have cast ballots in Texas, eclipsing total turnout from 2016, the Texas secretary of stat...
Oct 30, 2020
As Algeria heads for constitution vote, enthusiasm in short supply
By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's leaders see Sunday's referendum on a new constitution as a key part of their strategy to move beyond last year's popular unrest, but few people in the st...
Oct 30, 2020
Waymo releases Phoenix area self-driving car incident score card
By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Self-driving tech company Waymo, which this month opened its driverless taxi service in the Phoenix suburbs to the public, on Friday said its autonomous v...
Oct 30, 2020
Four dead, 120 injured in earthquake: Turkey’s disaster management authority
ANKARA (Reuters) - Four people died and 120 people were injured in an earthquake that struck the Aegean coast of Turkey, the country's disaster management authority said on Friday. One of those who wa...
Oct 30, 2020
