Author Archives: Syndicated Content
European stocks skid from one-month high as Fed underwhelms
(Reuters) - European stocks fell from a one-month closing high on Thursday after an underwhelming response to the U.S. Federal Reserve's pledge to keep interest rates low for a prolonged period. The p...
Sep 17, 2020
Navalny team says he was poisoned by water bottle in hotel room, not at airport
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a bottle of water in his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, not at the airport as previously thought, his team said alongside a ...
Sep 17, 2020
ECB gives banks reprieve from leverage rule to withstand pandemic
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank said on Thursday it would let euro zone banks it monitors exclude some of their exposure to the ECB, including their deposits, from the calculation of a...
Sep 17, 2020
World Bank’s IFC warns of Asia-Pacific ‘financial crisis’
By Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Asia-Pacific region risks a damaging financial crisis from a surge of non-performing loans caused by rising insolvencies, a senior official from the World Bank Gr...
Sep 17, 2020
Hurricane Sally weakens to tropical storm, leaves massive floods on U.S. Gulf Coast
By Devika Krishna Kumar and Catherine Koppel PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) - Hurricane Sally moved northeast Thursday, where it was expected to bring more than a foot of rain to some areas, one day after ...
Sep 17, 2020
U.S. oil producers, exporters tally damages from Hurricane Sally, begin restarts
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - Storm-tossed U.S. offshore energy producers and exporters began clearing debris on Thursday from Hurricane Sally and booting up idle Gulf of Mexico operations after h...
Sep 17, 2020
Explainer: Why Singapore’s COVID-19 death rate is the world’s lowest
By John Geddie and Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has the lowest coronavirus case fatality count globally, with just 27 deaths among the more than 57,000 people who have been infec...
Sep 17, 2020
Deloitte hit with record 15 million pound fine for Autonomy audit
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's accounting regulator said on Thursday it has fined Deloitte a record 15 million pounds ($19.4 million) for its audit of software firm Autonomy that contained ...
Sep 17, 2020
France’s Le Maire: We will fight Bridgestone’s plan to close Bethune factory
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is looking into options to try to save jobs and prevent the closure of the Bethune tyre plant in northern France that Japan's Bridgestone plans to shut. "We are...
Sep 17, 2020
Spain’s COVID tracing app tries to balance public health with privacy
By Isla Binnie MADRID (Reuters) - "What does RadarCOVID not do?" a promotional video for Spain's contact-tracing app asks. The answer: while navigating the country's decentralised healthcare system, i...
Sep 17, 2020
