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Total to increase investments in renewable energy production
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Total on Wednesday said it would hike its annual investments in renewable energy and electricity by 50% as it cuts its reliance on oil and aims to become a major low-carbon ...
Sep 30, 2020
Global funds hold even more bonds in a world fraught with risk
By Tushar Goenka and Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) - Global funds recommended cutting equity allocations to the lowest since early 2010 and increasing bond holdings to their highest since then, acco...
Sep 30, 2020
Poorest countries face tough choice over G20 debt relief plan
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The world's poorest countries could soon be facing a tough decision -- double up on debt relief from the G20 with the caveat they must default on private creditors, or...
Sep 30, 2020
U.S. tech giants face curbs on data sharing, digital marketplaces, under draft EU rules
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and other U.S. tech giants could be banned from favouring their services or forcing users to sign up to a bundle of s...
Sep 30, 2020
Facebook overhauls Instagram messaging, enabling cross-app chats with Messenger
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would start replacing the direct messaging service within Instagram with a version of its Messenger app, the first major step ...
Sep 30, 2020
UK’s Johnson says internal market bill protects jobs, growth and trade
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the controversial internal market bill, which sets out technical details for post-Brexit trade between the constituent parts of the United ...
Sep 30, 2020
Ally of Japan PM urges more fiscal, monetary stimulus to boost virus-hit economy
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should keep selling government bonds to the central bank to pay for the cost of reflating the economy out of a pandemic-induced slump, an academic close to...
Sep 30, 2020
U.S. airlines strap in for bailout suspense a day before furloughs
By Tracy Rucinski and David Shepardson CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day before mass furloughs, U.S. airline workers said they were gearing up for a full-court press to persuade Congress to pass a ...
Sep 30, 2020
Seattle approves minimum pay rate for Uber and Lyft drivers
(Reuters) - The Seattle City Council passed a minimum pay standard for drivers for companies like Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc on Tuesday. Under the ordinance, effective January, the drivers wil...
Sep 30, 2020
Alibaba cloud division to be profitable within FY2021: CFO
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant Alibaba's cloud unit expects to be profitable within 2021, a senior executive said on Wednesday. Maggie Wu, chief financial officer of Alibaba, made the remark...
Sep 29, 2020
