Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Hong Kong property enquiries up in street retail sector on stability hopes
By Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's street-level shops are seeing a surge of bargain buying and leasing interest in a sign that some believe the worst may be over for the protest-hit city, ...
Jun 12, 2020
Italy to decide on use of ESM bailout fund by July: PM to papers
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government will decide by July whether to ask for a loan from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund to help relaunch its coronavirus-battered economy, Prime Mini...
Jun 12, 2020
Australian clot-busting drug holds hope for COVID-19 treatment
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An experimental drug developed by an Australian researcher could help prevent deaths from COVID-19 by controlling the formation of blood clots responsible for breathing difficulties...
Jun 12, 2020
Exclusive: Netflix in talks to source local Indian content from Reliance affiliate Viacom18 – sources
By Aditya Kalra and Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. video streaming company Netflix is in talks with Viacom18, part of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries' media unit Network18, about a ...
Jun 12, 2020
UK economy shrinks by record 20.4% in April lockdown
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April from March as the country spent the month in a tight coronavirus lockdown, official data showed on Friday in what is likely to be...
Jun 12, 2020
Luxury food industry turns sour amid global coronavirus lockdowns
By Naveen Thukral, Yuka Obayashi and Sybille de La Hamaide SINGAPORE/TOKYO/PARIS (Reuters) - Global demand for premium foods like wagyu beef, bluefin tuna and caviar has plunged with thousands of rest...
Jun 12, 2020
Caveat emptor! Argentine stocks soar as investors shrug off crises
By Rodrigo Campos and Karin Strohecker NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Argentina's stocks are rocketing, outpacing equity market peers around the world in the second quarter as growing risk appetite has l...
Jun 12, 2020
Sport-On this day: Born June 13, 1982: Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia's three-time Olympic and five-time world champion Kenenisa Bekele is one of the African continent's finest athletes but he still wants to seal his golden legacy by becomin...
Jun 12, 2020
U.S. insurers use lofty estimates to beat back coronavirus claims
By Alwyn Scott and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. property and casualty insurers have cast the coronavirus pandemic as an unprecedented event whose massive cost to small businesses they are ...
Jun 12, 2020
Scrub that: Pandemic forces ship owners to shelve anti-pollution gear
By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - Ship owners are postponing or cancelling the installation of "scrubbers" that extract harmful sulphur emissions from their vessels as the coronavirus pandemic tight...
Jun 12, 2020
