Author Archives: Syndicated Content
French parliament to vote on COVID-19 tracing app
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has decided to allow lawmakers to vote on its plan to launch a contact-tracing app to fight the coronavirus outbreak, lawmakers and the prime minister's office ...
Apr 21, 2020
UK insurance industry working with Pool Re to develop pandemic cover
(Reuters) - The UK insurance industry has formed a steering committee comprising several top insurance company bosses who will work with government-backed terrorism reinsurance fund Pool Re to develop...
Apr 21, 2020
In Spain, asparagus lies unpicked as lockdown shuts out migrant workers
TORRE DEL BURGO, Spain, April 21 (Reuters) - About half of farmer Jaime Urbina's asparagus crop lies unpicked in his fields in central Spain as border closures to curb the coronavirus block Eastern Eu...
Apr 21, 2020
Coronavirus likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests that the novel coronavirus originated in bats in China late last year and it was not manipul...
Apr 21, 2020
India’s virus lockdown gives world’s most polluted capital clear skies, clean air
By Neha Arora and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Residents of New Delhi are experiencing the longest spell of clean air on record, according to government data, as a stringent lockdown to preve...
Apr 21, 2020
London Stock Exchange committed to Refinitiv deal in pandemic-hit markets
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The London Stock Exchange said on Tuesday it was committed to completing its $27 billion takeover of data company Refinitiv in the second half of the year, with no plan...
Apr 21, 2020
Coronavirus very likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation – WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests that the novel coronavirus originated in bats in China late last year and it was not manipul...
Apr 21, 2020
Japan waiting for Golden Week to decide on extending coronavirus emergency: sources
By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will decide during its Golden Week holiday between April 29 and May 6 whether to extend its month-long state of emergency to fight a widening coronavirus ...
Apr 21, 2020
Oil price plunge below zero sends ‘oil tourists’ on wild ride
By Devika Krishna Kumar and Tim McLaughlin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jackson Ryder, a self-employed accountant based in Lubbock, Texas, first took up positions in a fund that tracks the oil futures market ...
Apr 21, 2020
German investors see light at end of ‘very long tunnel’ – ZEW
BERLIN (Reuters) - The mood among German investors improved in April as concerns about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Europe's largest economy seemed to have eased, a survey showed on Tuesd...
Apr 21, 2020
