Author Archives: Syndicated Content
French anti-crisis package to cost 110 billion euros: finance minister
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has hiked the expected cost of its measures to support the economy though the coronavirus crisis to 110 billion euros ($120.6 billion), its finance minister sai...
Apr 15, 2020
U.S. may need to extend social distancing for virus until 2022, study says
(Reuters) - The United States may need to endure social distancing measures adopted during the coronavirus outbreak until 2022, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. The stu...
Apr 15, 2020
Activist hedge fund Starboard pounces on U.S. companies in turmoil
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) - Most activist shareholders have refrained from challenging the boards of U.S. companies during this season of annual shareholder meetings, as businesses reel from th...
Apr 15, 2020
Japan’s Abe pressed to pay out more cash as coronavirus hits economy
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is under pressure to take bolder steps to soften the economic blow of the coronavirus, with calls from his political partners to ha...
Apr 15, 2020
EU’s Centeno doesn’t rule out use of eurobonds to tackle coronavirus crisis: paper
ROME (Reuters) - Joint debt issuance is a possible euro zone response to tackle the coronavirus emergency, Eurogroup President Mario Centeno said in an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera daily...
Apr 15, 2020
U.S. opposition seen stalling major IMF liquidity boost
By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. opposition is expected to prevent the International Monetary Fund this week from deploying one of its most powerful tools to help countrie...
Apr 15, 2020
Coronavirus to push China’s first-quarter GDP into first decline on record: Reuters poll
By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - The coronavirus health crisis likely knocked China's economy into its first decline since at least 1992 in the first quarter, raising the heat on authorities to do mor...
Apr 15, 2020
French retail sales plunged 24% in March: central bank
PARIS (Reuters) - French retail sales sank 24% in March from February as a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic left many shops shuttered, data from the central bank showed on Wednesday...
Apr 15, 2020
Latest on the spread of the coronavirus around the world
(Reuters) - More than 1.97 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 128,445 have died, according to a Reuters tally as of 02:00 GMT on Wednesday. DEATHS A...
Apr 15, 2020
Mexico’s ruling party suffers first senate resignation
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican lawmaker on Tuesday became the first senator to quit from the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, dealing another...
Apr 15, 2020
