Author Archives: Syndicated Content
IMF may need ‘exceptional measures’ to facilitate pandemic response: Georgieva
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The IMF may need to step outside its comfort zone and consider "exceptional measures" to help countries deal with the coronavirus pandemic and mitigate its econ...
Apr 20, 2020
Italy sees its virus-hit economy falling 8% in 2020: sources
By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Treasury expects the economy to contract by around 8% this year, two sources close to the matter told Reuters, underscoring the negative impa...
Apr 20, 2020
UK coronavirus deaths rise by 449 to 16,509
LONDON (Reuters) - A total of 16,509 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospitals in Britain, an increase of 449 in 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday. The number of con...
Apr 20, 2020
Europe’s banks want regulators to match U.S. leverage plan
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Banks are calling on European regulators to match the U.S. Federal Reserve's plan to relax a rule that measures a bank's capital reserves to promote the flow of cash to...
Apr 20, 2020
NatWest presses ahead with more job cuts in face of coronavirus crisis
By Lawrence White and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) - British state-backed lender NatWest is pressing ahead with further job cuts, axing more than 30 jobs in its digital ventures arm despite rivals ha...
Apr 20, 2020
Bristol Myers says Opdivo performs well in kidney, lung cancer trials
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb Co said on Monday that its blockbuster cancer immunotherapy Opdivo performed well in two separate late-stage trials, prolonging survival in previously untreat...
Apr 20, 2020
Hungary to have plan by May 3 on return to normal from virus lockdown: PM
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday he expected to present a plan early next month for a gradual return to normal life from the country's coronavirus lockdown, na...
Apr 20, 2020
Lesotho government has agreed to ‘dignified retirement’ for PM
MASERU (Reuters) - Lesotho's coalition government has agreed with South African mediators and political parties to implement a "dignified retirement" for prime minister Thomas Thabane, a joint stateme...
Apr 20, 2020
Hundreds protest in southern Russian against coronavirus curbs
By Alexander Marrow and Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protested against regional authorities in southern Russia on Monday over what they said were restrictive and unnecessary c...
Apr 20, 2020
Coronavirus puts missile showdown between Turkey and U.S. on hold
By Dominic Evans and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's plans to switch on its new Russian missile defence systems have been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak but it does not intend to rever...
Apr 20, 2020
