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Norway fund excludes firms over human rights violation risk
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund said it has excluded Taiwan's Formosa Chemicals and Fibre , Formosa Taffeta and India's Page Industries from its portfolio, saying they posed an "unac...
Aug 31, 2020
Slovenia second quarter GDP shrinks 13% as spending, exports fall
By Marja Novak LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia's economy shrank by 13% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2020, the statistics office said on Monday, after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic reduce...
Aug 31, 2020
Forty percent of Americans back Trump executive order on TikTok: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Raphael Satter and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forty percent of Americans back President Donald Trump's threat to ban videosharing app TikTok if it is not sold to a U.S. buyer, acco...
Aug 31, 2020
Danish Finance Ministry sees 4.5% contraction in economy this year
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's Finance Ministry said on Monday it forecasts GDP to fall 4.5% this year, compared to its May forecast of a 5.3% contraction. The ministry also said it expected GDP to ...
Aug 31, 2020
Credit Suisse applied for banking licence in Spain after Brexit
MADRID (Reuters) - Credit Suisse has applied for a licence to set up an investment bank hub in Madrid after Britain has left the European Union, a spokesman said on Monday confirming a report from Spa...
Aug 31, 2020
China central bank to improve benchmark interest rate system
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Monday it will make interbank repo rates by depository institutions (DR) a key reference for monetary policy adjustment and financial market price-sett...
Aug 31, 2020
Damaged WTO now leaderless as chief Azevedo steps down
By Emma Farge and Philip Blenkinsop GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization's director-general Roberto Azevedo steps down on Monday, leaving the already-damaged global watchdog leader...
Aug 31, 2020
China starts anti-dumping investigation on certain glycol ethers imports from U.S.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's commerce ministry said on Monday it has launched an anti-dumping probe into imports from the United States of certain monoalkyl ethers of ethylene glycol and propylene glyc...
Aug 31, 2020
Spain’s Economy minister calls for parties responsibility to approve budget soon
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's economy minister Nadia Calvino called on Monday for all parties' responsibility to allow the approval of a budget as soon as possible to cope with coronavirus pandemic. "It ...
Aug 31, 2020
Japan investors bet on Suga’s Abenomics 2.0, buy travel stocks
By Hideyuki Sano and Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese investors are putting their money on Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga taking over as Japan's next prime minister, and extending the ...
Aug 31, 2020
