Author Archives: Syndicated Content
IMF board approves emergency support for Burkina Faso, Niger: statements
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Executive Board has approved support for Burkina Faso and Niger under its Rapid Credit Facility to help the West African nations confro...
Apr 15, 2020
On this day: Born April 16, 1947: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is often overlooked in the debate over who is the greatest NBA player of all time as names like Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, LeBron J...
Apr 15, 2020
Darts: PDC takes video route with home competition announcement
(Reuters) - The world's top darts players will take part in a 32-night competition from within their own homes to entertain fans starved of live sports during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Professional D...
Apr 15, 2020
Ahead of the curve: South Korea’s evolving strategy to prevent a coronavirus resurgence
By Josh Smith, Hyonhee Shin and Sangmi Cha SEOUL(Reuters) - A smartphone tracking app for new airport arrivals. A "smart city" database of thousands of people infected by the new coronavirus and their...
Apr 15, 2020
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
