Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Shell evacuates foreign staff from Iraq’s Basra Gas project: executives
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Shell has evacuated its foreign staff, numbering around 60, from Iraq's Basra Gas Company and flew them out of Iraq on Wednesday, two Basra Gas Company executives told Reuters....
May 21, 2020
UK says dealing with technical issues of track and trace app – minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is dealing with technical issues of its track and trace app that it hopes will help it keep the novel coronavirus outbreak under control, but will use traditional tracking m...
May 21, 2020
JPMorgan plans to hire a dozen research analysts for China brokerage: sources
By Sumeet Chatterjee and Michelle Price HONG KONG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co plans to hire at least 12 equity research analysts in China this year, two people with knowledge of the mat...
May 21, 2020
Generali first-quarter net profit down 85% after write-offs related to Covid-19 crisis
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's biggest insurer Assicurazioni Generali said on Thursday first quarter net profit fell 85% with respect to a year earlier after 655 million euros of impairments due to the impa...
May 21, 2020
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Rising infections in South America Global coronavirus cases have surpassed 5 million, with Latin America overtaking the United...
May 21, 2020
Cyclone leaves trail of devastation along coast of eastern India, Bangladesh
By Subrata Nagchoudhary Ruma Paul KOLKATA/DHAKA (Reuters) - Rescue teams searched for survivors in eastern India and Bangladesh a day after the most powerful cyclone in over a decade devastated coasta...
May 21, 2020
Explainer: Argentina’s race to solve $323 billion debt conundrum
By Adam Jourdan BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina is racing to avoid a messy ninth sovereign default as it firefights recession, stubborn inflation and increasingly wary investors, who have pushed th...
May 21, 2020
AstraZeneca gets first supply agreements for COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc said on Thursday it had received the first agreements to supply at least 400 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford. The Briti...
May 21, 2020
Wanted: New head of WTO. Must thrive under global pressure and conflict
By Emma Farge and Philip Blenkinsop GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, steep recession, intensifying U.S-China tensions and rising protectionism, the WTO needs to n...
May 21, 2020
Britons spurned by banks caught in a coronavirus credit crunch
By Sinead Cruise and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) - When a payroll glitch left Natalie Gallagher so short of cash this month she couldn't afford her bus fare to work, she turned to her usual lender A...
May 21, 2020
