Author Archives: Syndicated Content
COVID-19 cases in England rose by 51,900 per day last week: ONS
LONDON (Reuters) - New COVID-19 cases in England increased by around 51,900 each day last week, a steep increase on the 35,200 daily cases the week before, a survey by the Office for National Statisti...
Oct 30, 2020
Ford eyes first-year sales of 100,000 vehicles with hands-free driving system
(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said on Friday it expects to sell 100,000 cars and trucks equipped with the company's new hands-free driving system in the first full year of availability. The catch is, only...
Oct 30, 2020
Walmart unit Sam’s Club partners with DoorDash to deliver medicines
(Reuters) - Warehouse chain Sam's Club, a unit of Walmart Inc, said on Friday it will provide prescribed medicines to patients through delivery firm DoorDash Inc, as customers turn to digital orders d...
Oct 30, 2020
Citigroup issues largest-ever private sector social bond
By Imani Moise (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said on Thursday it had issued the largest-ever private-sector social bond for affordable housing, part of a more than $1 billion initiative announced earlier ...
Oct 30, 2020
Qatar government says invasive searches of women at airport ‘illegal actions’
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Invasive searches on female passengers from 10 aircraft at Doha's Hamad airport violated standard procedures, a preliminary report by the Qatar government found, s...
Oct 30, 2020
Lowe’s to hire 20,000 workers across U.S. stores before holiday season
(Reuters) - Lowe's Companies said on Friday it would hire 20,000 associates across its U.S. stores and regional distributors, anticipating higher customer demand during the holiday season. The home-im...
Oct 30, 2020
Greta Thunberg takes climate strike online again as Sweden’s COVID-19 cases mount
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday she will stop her regular protest outside Sweden's parliament because of the surge in COVID-19 infections, and return to only campa...
Oct 30, 2020
Online giants will have to open ad archives to EU antitrust regulators
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dominant tech companies will have to explain how their algorithms work under proposed new EU rules and also open up their ad archives to regulators and researchers...
Oct 30, 2020
Funds favor bonds over stocks in run-up to U.S. election: Reuters poll
By Rahul Karunakar and Tushar Goenka BENGALURU (Reuters) - Global fund managers recommended the lowest exposure to equities and the highest share of bonds in portfolios in over a decade this month, ci...
Oct 30, 2020
AbbVie raises 2020 profit forecast as COVID-19 hit eases
(Reuters) - Drugmaker AbbVie Inc posted better-than-expected quarterly sales and raised its full-year adjusted profit forecast on Friday, as demand for its Botox and other treatments showed signs of r...
Oct 30, 2020
