Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Take Five: China GDP, earnings and a messy divorce
(Reuters) - 1/ LOOKING TO CHINA China's third-quarter growth data comes out on Monday and should show the effects of the pandemic receding. The world's second-largest economy is expected to have grown...
Oct 16, 2020
Barclays, Staveley spar in final lap of London trial
By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - A bitter High Court clash between Barclays and British businesswoman Amanda Staveley, over whether she was deceived while negotiating a financial lifeline for the ...
Oct 16, 2020
NIH tests therapies to help cut hospital stays for COVID-19 patients
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has started a late-stage trial to evaluate if immune-modulating therapies from three drugmakers can help reduce the need for ventilators for CO...
Oct 16, 2020
BTS manager Big Hit takes a beating as stock loses more than a fifth
By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - Big Hit Entertainment Co Ltd , the management agency of South Korean K-pop group BTS, saw its stock fall as much as 23% on Friday, extending losses from its debut the pr...
Oct 16, 2020
EU antitrust deadline for Google, Fitbit deal extended to Jan. 8
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have extended their investigation into Alphabet unit Google's $2.1 billion purchase of Fitbit to Jan. 8 from Dec. 23, a filing on the European Commission w...
Oct 16, 2020
Trump, Republicans raised $247.8 million in September: campaign manager
By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is lagging his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in fundraising in the final weeks before the Nov. 3 election, according to figures released...
Oct 16, 2020
England seeing 27,900 new COVID cases per day – ONS survey
LONDON (Reuters) - England saw an average of 27,900 new cases per day in the week to Oct. 8, sharply rising again as Prime Minister Boris Johnson bids to drive down a second wave of the coronavirus wi...
Oct 16, 2020
Exclusive: Only a quarter of BP’s 10,000 job cuts to be voluntary
By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) - BP is set to make around 7,500 compulsory redundancies after roughly 2,500 staff - or just over one in ten of those eligible - applied for volunt...
Oct 16, 2020
Shares of gun makers gain as Biden’s lead grows
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Shares of gun makers have been gaining ground as Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads polls, and if he wins the presidential election in November there are expectations o...
Oct 16, 2020
ECB’s Villeroy says mistake to set end date now for pandemic response
PARIS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should refrain from setting an end date to its monetary stimulus package launched this year in reaction to the coronavirus crisis, ECB policymaker Francois ...
Oct 16, 2020
