Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Trump suggests U.S. states re-open economies in three phases in new guidelines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Parts of President Donald Trump's guidelines for re-opening the U.S. economy amid the coronavirus pandemic trickled out on Thursday afternoon, revealing a three-phase plan that ...
Apr 16, 2020
Verizon snaps up Zoom rival BlueJeans for less than $500 million
By Supantha Mukherjee and Munsif Vengattil (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday agreed to buy BlueJeans Network Inc, a rival of Zoom Video Communications Inc , for less than $500 million...
Apr 16, 2020
Backing Trump, U.S. Republicans call for WHO chief to resign
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. lawmakers called on President Donald Trump on Thursday to withhold payments to the World Health Organization until its director general resi...
Apr 16, 2020
Georgia bans private traffic until April 21, tightening coronavirus lockdown
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia has banned the movement of all private vehicles from Friday until April 21, tightening a state of emergency in an effort to prevent spread of the coronavirus, the governmen...
Apr 16, 2020
Exclusive: Apollo readies IPO of cloud company Rackspace – sources
By Joshua Franklin and Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Apollo Global Management Inc has registered Rackspace Holding Inc for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value...
Apr 16, 2020
Fed’s Bostic: U.S. small business may need up to $500 billion monthly in support through crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. small businesses may need up to $500 billion a month to ensure their survival through the coronavirus crisis, the head of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday ...
Apr 16, 2020
Fed’s bond purchase program closing price gaps in ETF market
By April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's unprecedented asset purchase program is easing pricing gaps in the $863 billion market for U.S. bond exchange-traded funds, a phenomenon that...
Apr 16, 2020
FDA cautions slower drug review activity due to reallocation of staff to COVID-19
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration cautioned on Thursday that with a lot of its staff allocated to the coronavirus crisis, it may not be able to sustain its current level of timely review...
Apr 16, 2020
U.S. coronavirus relief bill to add $1.8 trillion to deficit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The coronavirus response bill passed by the U.S. Congress last month will increase the federal budget deficit by about $1.8 trillion over the next decade, the Congressional Budg...
Apr 16, 2020
U.S. gives $5 million to Palestinians amid pandemic, after years of aid cuts
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The United States is giving $5 million to the Palestinians to help them fight the coronavirus epidemic, a U.S. envoy said on Thursday. The donation announced by U.S. Am...
Apr 16, 2020
