Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Analysis: German stimulus fails to turn anxious savers into big spenders
By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - German consumers remain gloomy ahead of the traditionally big-spending Christmas season and a temporary reduction in sales tax worth up to 20 billion euros has f...
Nov 27, 2020
Steak out: China’s coronavirus testing chokes beef trade
By Hallie Gu and Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) - In a supermarket in downtown Beijing, refrigerator shelves normally filled with steak from around the world sit empty as tougher testing for the n...
Nov 27, 2020
Japan’s ANA to raise $3.2 billion in shares to weather pandemic, pay for planes
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's biggest airline ANA Holdings said on Friday it will issue new shares to raise 332 billion yen ($3.2 billion) to pay for Boeing 787 jets it has ordered and help weather a plun...
Nov 27, 2020
Top 25 roundup: No. 1 Gonzaga too much for No. 6 Kansas
Forward Drew Timme scored a career-high 25 points on 11-of-15 shooting as top-ranked Gonzaga opened its season with a 102-90 victory against No. 6 Kansas on Thursday afternoon at the Fort Myers Tip-Of...
Nov 27, 2020
Scotland’s Sturgeon wants independence referendum as soon as 2021: Times
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a second independence referendum as soon as next year, The Times newspaper reported. The Scottish National Party l...
Nov 27, 2020
Tokyo daily coronavirus cases hit record 570
TOKYO (Reuters) - Coronavirus infections in Tokyo hit a record daily 570 cases, topping the previous high of 539, the Tokyo metropolitan government said on Friday. It comes with a record 9,792 tests c...
Nov 27, 2020
ECB must enable governments to spend their way out of pandemic: report
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank must keep borrowing costs super low to enable governments to spend their way out of a pandemic-induced recession, which threatens to hollow out producti...
Nov 27, 2020
China’s factory growth likely edged up in November: Reuters poll
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity likely expanded at a slightly faster pace in November, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, as the world's second-largest economy steadily recovers from the co...
Nov 27, 2020
Fists and pig guts fly in Taiwan parliament debate on U.S. pork
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Legislators from Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party threw pig guts and exchanged punches with other lawmakers in parliament on Friday as they tried to stop the premier ...
Nov 27, 2020
Ukraine reports record high for daily coronavirus cases: minister
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine registered a record 16,218 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, health minister Maksym Stepanov said on Friday, surpassing the previous day's record of 15,331. Tot...
Nov 27, 2020
