Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Top U.S. House Republican confirms deal reached on small business loan bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday that a deal had been reached to replenish funding for an emergency program that extends loans to small bu...
Apr 21, 2020
COVID-19 epidemic could fragment euro zone, single market: Eurogroup head
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic, if not properly addressed, could cause fragmentation of the European Union economy, undermining the bloc's single market and single currency, the head of...
Apr 21, 2020
Speculative bet or inflation hedge? Bitcoin in the coronavirus crisis
By Tom Wilson and Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin has fared better than stocks but worse than gold and U.S. Treasuries during the coronavirus pandemic, with investors ascribing its performa...
Apr 21, 2020
Coronavirus tests at Abu Dhabi hospital draw hundreds to queue in sun
By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A queue outside an Abu Dhabi emergency department stretches across a road as hundreds of mostly low-income migrant workers wait, two meters apart, to be tes...
Apr 21, 2020
UK coronavirus deaths in hospitals rise by 828 to 17,337
LONDON (Reuters) - A total of 17,337 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospitals in Britain, an increase of 828 on the figure published 24 hours earlier, health ministry data sho...
Apr 21, 2020
Why Brent oil won’t follow U.S. WTI futures below zero
By Julia Payne LONDON (Reuters) - Brent oil futures are set for extreme volatility when the front-month June contract expires next week, but they will avoid the historic plunge below zero that U.S. pe...
Apr 21, 2020
Swedish health agency says virus has peaked in Stockholm, no easing of restrictions yet
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Around one-third of Stockholm's 1 million people will have had the novel coronavirus by the start of May and the disease may have already passed its peak in the capital, Sweden's...
Apr 21, 2020
Bluetooth phone apps for tracking COVID-19 show modest early results
By Aradhana Aravindan and Sankalp Phartiyal SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with...
Apr 21, 2020
Dash for emergency cash provokes fund industry backlash
By Simon Jessop, Sinead Cruise and Abhinav Ramnarayan LONDON (Reuters) - As companies pull the emergency cash cord to help them through the coronavirus crisis, shareholders have been split by an easin...
Apr 21, 2020
Latin America and Caribbean poised for worst crisis in decades as pandemic bites: U.N. agency
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean will contract by a record 5.3% in 2020 as the impacts of coronavirus ravage the region, unleashing the worst social and economic c...
Apr 21, 2020
