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India’s coronavirus infections surge again after dip
By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's coronavirus infections surged again on Wednesday, a day after falling to their lowest figure in almost a month. In the last 24 hours, there were 83,347 ne...
Sep 23, 2020
BOJ Kuroda stresses readiness to ease further, warns of high uncertainty
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Wednesday the central bank was ready to ramp up stimulus, as the coronavirus pandemic keeps the economic outlook highly uncertain. "The...
Sep 23, 2020
Panasonic weighs options over Tesla new battery production
TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp is studying options for new electric car battery production with partner Tesla after the U.S. carmaker unveiled a plan to expand output and halve the price of the key ...
Sep 23, 2020
Czech Republic reports second highest daily rise in COVID-19 cases
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic recorded 2,394 new infections in its second highest daily rise since the coronavirus pandemic began, Health Ministry data showed on Wednesday. New cases have doub...
Sep 23, 2020
FDA tells Novartis to gather more data on Zolgensma in older patients
ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis will do a new study of its $2.1 million-per-patient gene therapy Zolgensma on older spinal muscular atrophy patients getting the medicine via a spinal infusion, the Swiss d...
Sep 23, 2020
Relief Therapeutics seeks U.S. emergency approval for drug against COVID-19
ZURICH (Reuters) - Relief Therapeutics said on Wednesday it and U.S. partner NeuroRx asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency approval for a drug it aims to repurpose against COVID-19...
Sep 23, 2020
Euro zone growth and inflation outlook steady, ECB’s Mersch says
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The growth and inflation outlook in the euro zone has not deteriorated since the European Central Bank decided earlier this month to keep policy unchanged, ECB board member Yves ...
Sep 23, 2020
Bank of East Asia to launch sale of insurance business in strategy overhaul
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia Ltd (BEA) said on Wednesday it had decided to initiate a sale of its insurance business following the completion of a review of its portfolios a...
Sep 23, 2020
Australia counts record 470 stranded whales as rescue continues
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rescuers were racing against the tide on Wednesday to free whales beached off the Australian coast, with more than half the estimated 470 mammals in the country's bigg...
Sep 23, 2020
Singapore’s deflation extends to seventh month in core gauge
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's main price gauge contracted for the seventh consecutive month in August, data showed on Wednesday, with prices falling 0.3% from a year earlier. Core inflation - the ...
Sep 23, 2020
