Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Top safety official at Waymo self-driving unit stepping down
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Waymo self-driving unit said on Thursday that its chief safety officer, Debbie Hersman, was stepping down but would remain as a consultant to ...
May 21, 2020
U.S. doctors call for remdesivir data to guide coronavirus treatment
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - U.S. doctors and others in the scientific community are calling for the release of data that convinced health regulators to authorize emergency use of Gilead Sciences Inc'...
May 21, 2020
Bank of Japan to create its version of Fed’s ‘Main Street’ lending scheme
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's central bank will create its own version of the U.S. Federal Reserve's "Main Street" lending programme to channel more money to small businesses, in a bid to ...
May 21, 2020
U.S. meat inventories tightened as virus shut slaughterhouses: USDA
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. frozen pork inventories fell in April, when they typically rise, and beef inventories dropped more than normal as the coronavirus pandemic shut slaughterhouses...
May 21, 2020
Marfrig, Minerva’s Brazil cattle processing plants operational despite COVID-19 cases
By Nayara Figueiredo SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian meat producers Marfrig Global Foods and Minerva SA have registered coronavirus cases among workers in cattle processing plants this week but the un...
May 21, 2020
‘I’ve not yet signed Renault loan’, says French finance minister
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he has not signed off on a 5 billion euro ($5.47 billion) state-guaranteed loan to help Renault cope with the fallout from the coronavir...
May 21, 2020
Brazil emergency measures to have 4.7% of GDP impact on budget: official
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's emergency measures to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic will have a 344.6 billion reais ($62 billion) impact on this year's primary budget balance, wort...
May 21, 2020
Hewlett Packard to cut costs by $1 billion, reduces CEO pay by 25% on pandemic woes
(Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Thursday unveiled a plan to cut costs by at least $1 billion by 2022 and said it would reduce the base salary of its chief executive officer by 25%, in respon...
May 21, 2020
Pakistani police arrest cousin of two girls murdered over social media kissing video
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested the cousin of two teenage girls whom he is suspected of killing after a video of the girls kissing a man went viral on social media, offic...
May 21, 2020
Federal inmates with COVID-19 in Louisiana continued working for days, union says
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The union for corrections officers at one of the U.S. federal prisons hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic has filed a U.S. Labor Department complaint alleg...
May 21, 2020
