Author Archives: Syndicated Content
NBA’s Silver, NFL’s Goodell among those advising Trump on sports restart
By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, NFL chief Roger Goodell and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban are among the 14 sports figures advising the U.S. government on when to resume w...
Apr 14, 2020
Baseball: League employees, families invited to COVID-19 test study
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball employees and their families were invited to participate in an independent community testing study for COVID-19 in order to gauge the presence of the disease...
Apr 14, 2020
Trump’s name to be on stimulus checks going to Americans: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department has ordered President Donald Trump's name to be printed on checks the Internal Revenue Service is planning to send to tens of millions of Americans,...
Apr 14, 2020
Chilean court upholds conviction of former Pinochet aide Labbe
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean court on Tuesday ratified a three-year prison sentence handed to Cristian Labbe, a former aide to dictator Augusto Pinochet, for torturing a detainee i...
Apr 14, 2020
Trump says close to plan to reopen economy possibly, in part, before May 1
By Jeff Mason and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is close to completing a plan to end the coronavirus shutdown and reopen the battered U.S. economy wi...
Apr 14, 2020
China central bank will conduct medium-term lending facility operation on Wednesday: sources
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's central bank will conduct medium-term lending facility (MLF) operations on Wednesday, traders with direct knowledge of the matter said. There is no MLF loans due to expire...
Apr 14, 2020
New Zealand’s Ardern, ministers take 20% pay cut for six months due to coronavirus impact
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, ministers in her government and public service chief executives will take a 20% pay cut for the next six months given the economic imp...
Apr 14, 2020
Arizona to test 250,000 first responders, healthcare workers for COVID-19
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - Arizona on Tuesday said it would provide coronavirus antibody tests for 250,000 health-care workers and first responders in the largest such testing in the United States to d...
Apr 14, 2020
Glade Brook pitches ‘extraordinary opportunity’ in tech debt amid coronavirus
By Lawrence Delevingne and Joshua Franklin BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Glade Brook Capital Partners LLC, the venture capital firm led by Paul Hudson, is pitching a new fund to investors targeting the ...
Apr 14, 2020
Oil rallies on hopes for unprecedented stockpile purchases
TOKYO (Reuters) - Benchmark U.S. crude rose more than 3% in early trade on Wednesday, recovering from a 10% slump the previous session on hopes for purchases by consumer countries for their strategic ...
Apr 14, 2020
