Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Kazakh activist released after being held for spreading false information
ALMATY (Reuters) - A nationalist politician in Kazakhstan who has criticised the government was released on Monday after two days detention on accusations of spreading false information during the cor...
Apr 20, 2020
Exclusive: India’s stiffer foreign investment rules aimed at China to include Hong Kong – sources
By Aftab Ahmed and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's new rules to more closely scrutinise foreign investments from companies based in neighbouring countries will also apply to Hong Kong, two ...
Apr 20, 2020
Belgium says COVID-19 peak passed, starts looking at lockdown exit
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's immediate coronavirus crisis appears to have passed its peak as the number of people admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 fell to its lowest level in a ...
Apr 20, 2020
Major asset managers reject Argentina debt restructuring proposal
By Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) - A group of Argentina's major creditors rejected the government's proposal aimed at overhauling $66.2 billion of its foreign-law debt, saying it inflicted an unju...
Apr 20, 2020
Brazil set to start QE cautiously but may need to bring out ‘bazooka’
By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil appears set to embark cautiously on unconventional monetary policy using small interventions to tackle dysfunction in bond markets, as it does with foreig...
Apr 20, 2020
Distressed Farmers Getting Relief
by Kevin Zimmermann UNDATED (WHBL) - Wisconsin’s signature dairy industry has seen tough times before, but nothing like the times created by the coronavirus pandemic. Milk had...
Apr 20, 2020
Halliburton books $1.1 billion charge, cuts spending amid oil rout
(Reuters) - Halliburton Co on Monday recorded $1.1 billion in impairment charges during the first quarter, lowered its spending forecast for the year, and gave a bleak outlook for North America activi...
Apr 20, 2020
Swiss authorities say positive coronavirus tests rise by 204 to 27,944, deaths at 1,142
ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss death toll from the new coronavirus has reached 1,142, the country's public health ministry said on Monday, rising from 1,135 people on Sunday. The number of positive test...
Apr 20, 2020
DuPont sees better-than-expected quarterly results on coronavirus-led demand
(Reuters) - Industrial materials maker DuPont said on Monday it expects to report first-quarter results well above analysts' estimates, as the coronavirus outbreak lifted demand for its products used ...
Apr 20, 2020
Actor Idris Elba launches U.N. coronavirus fund for poor farmers
By Megan Rowling BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British actor and filmmaker Idris Elba launched a new United Nations fund on Monday to help farmers in poorer nations, calling on richer econo...
Apr 20, 2020
