Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Graphic: ‘Sustainable’ funds a safer harbour in coronavirus market meltdown
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - Funds focused on buying stocks that score well on environmental, social and governance-related metrics proved a safer harbour for investors during the coronavirus-fu...
Apr 06, 2020
North Indians turn on to Modi’s ‘lights off’ call, South Indians less swayed
By Sudarshan Varadhan CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Power demand around India shows how many nationwide heeded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to switch off their lights on Sunday and burn candles in...
Apr 06, 2020
CVS to launch two new drive-through COVID-19 testing sites
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - CVS Health Corp said that it will launch two new drive-through COVID-19 testing sites in Georgia and Rhode Island on Monday using new, faster tests than had previously bee...
Apr 06, 2020
On an empty Via Dolorosa before Easter, praying for the world’s sick
By Stephen Farrell and Rinat Harash JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Brown-robed Franciscans stride through a shuttered and deserted Jerusalem to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the global focus of the most im...
Apr 06, 2020
Safaricom, Vodacom finalise M-Pesa acquisition from Britain’s Vodafone
By Omar Mohammed NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's leading telecom firm Safaricom and South Africa's Vodacom said on Monday that they had completed the acquisition of popular mobile money platform M-Pesa fr...
Apr 06, 2020
Canada, U.S. farms face crop losses due to foreign worker delays
By Rod Nickel and Christopher Walljasper WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Mandatory coronavirus quarantines of seasonal foreign workers in Canada could hurt that country's fruit and vegetable ou...
Apr 06, 2020
Germany draws up plans to end lockdown after April 19
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has drawn up a list of measures, including an obligation to wear masks in public, limits on public gatherings and the rapid tracing of infection chains, that officials think...
Apr 06, 2020
EU targets more U.S. imports after U.S. metal tariff extension
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has drawn up a list of U.S. imports including lighters and plastic fittings for furniture that it will hit with tariffs in retaliation for an extension of U.S. ...
Apr 06, 2020
Vietnamese hat seller turns to homemade face shields in virus fight
By Yen Duong HANOI (Reuters) - For nearly three decades, Quach My Linh has sold hats at Ba Chieu market in Vietnam's bustling Ho Chi Minh City. But following a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread o...
Apr 06, 2020
Kia compact vehicles contractor suspends production
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean contract manufacturer for Kia Motors' compact vehicles has suspended production, a company official said on Monday, citing a drop in overseas demand as the coronavirus...
Apr 06, 2020
