Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Fed’s Kaplan says central bank needs to be conscious of financial stability risks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve needs to keep an eye on how its efforts to stabilize markets and promote stronger jobs growth could be encouraging some investors to take on excess debt and ot...
Aug 28, 2020
Malaysia extends coronavirus movement curbs until end-2020
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will continue with certain movement control restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus until Dec. 31, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Friday. Malay...
Aug 28, 2020
Russia releases secret footage of 1961 ‘Tsar Bomba’ hydrogen blast
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago. The ...
Aug 28, 2020
Floods kill 23 in Pakistan financial hub amid house collapses, power cuts
By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's flooded financial capital of Karachi was plunged into chaos on Friday with power cuts, streets under water and cellphone outages caused by ...
Aug 28, 2020
U.S. consumer spending beats expectations in July
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending increased more than expected in July, strengthening expectations for a sharp rebound in economic growth in the third quarter, though momentum is likely to...
Aug 28, 2020
Exclusive: Germany seen revising upward its 2020 GDP forecast, says source
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is set to revise upward its economic growth forecast for this year to a decline of less than 6% from a previous estimate of -6.3%, a coalition source told Reut...
Aug 28, 2020
Deadly firefight in Lebanon prompts warnings of more trouble
By Michael Georgy KHALDEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shi'ites overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financi...
Aug 28, 2020
Take Five: Sayonara Abenomics?
1/ THE END OF THREE ARROWS Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest serving premier and author of the signature shock-and-awe "Abenomics" stimulus strategy, has resigned for health reasons. Sweeping to power in la...
Aug 28, 2020
Lithuania will work towards Belarus sanctions, despite boycott threat: presidential spokesman
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania will continue working towards sanctions on Belarus officials, despite a threat by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to boycott its port, the spokesman for Preside...
Aug 28, 2020
Norway PM says will not ease COVID-19 restrictions yet
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will not yet ease restrictions designed to counter the novel coronavirus even though the spread has been slower recently, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Friday. "Even if t...
Aug 28, 2020
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