Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Thai March headline CPI falls 0.54% year-on-year, weakest in over four years
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's headline consumer price index (CPI) dropped 0.54% in March from a year earlier, the weakest in 51 months, but slightly better than expectations, commerce ministry data s...
Apr 06, 2020
New Zealand’s central bank adds local government debt to stimulus plan
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand's central bank on Tuesday said it would buy up to NZ$3 billion ($1.79 billion) of local government debt to ease liquidity strains in the funding market as it moves to cu...
Apr 06, 2020
Cyclone Harold tears through Vanuatu, bears toward Fiji
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tropical Cyclone Harold lashed the South Pacific island of Vanuatu for a second day on Tuesday, ripping off roofs and downing telecommunications, and was moving towards Fiji wher...
Apr 06, 2020
Japan to compile extra budget to fund coronavirus stimulus: draft
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will compile a supplementary budget worth 16.8057 trillion yen ($154.45 billion) to help fund stimulus spending to combat its coronavirus outbreak, according to a draft of the ...
Apr 06, 2020
No decision on resuming play before May, says Commissioner Silver
By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on Monday there will be no decision on ending the league's coronavirus shutdown until May at the earliest. Silver, speaking on the NBA's T...
Apr 06, 2020
Stock market auctions should drive broker innovation: Norway wealth fund
By Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) - The sharp rise in trading volumes during closing auctions at global stock markets requires more innovation by brokers to capture value for buy-side investors, one of ...
Apr 06, 2020
New Zealand demotes minister for coronavirus lockdown breach, extends emergency
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday she had rejected her health minister's offer to resign for breaching nationwide lockdown rules as doing so would jeopardise...
Apr 06, 2020
Philippines extends coronavirus lockdown, home quarantine to end-April
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday approved the extension of lockdown and home quarantine measures covering more than half of the population, a crisis panel official sa...
Apr 06, 2020
UPS employee dies of COVID-19 infection in Kentucky
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A United Parcel Service Inc worker employed in Kentucky died over the weekend from a COVID-19 infection, Gov. Andy Beshear said at a public health briefing on...
Apr 06, 2020
Indonesia approves large-scale social restrictions for Jakarta: media
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's health ministry has approved a request by the government of Jakarta to impose large-scale social restrictions in the city to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, med...
Apr 06, 2020
