Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
After market storm, hedge funds launch to catch the recovery wave
By Olga Cotaga and Maiya Keidan LONDON (Reuters) - At least eight European hedge funds are launching portfolios betting on a recovery in corporate debt and emerging markets after the coronavirus pande...
Apr 17, 2020
Developing countries unlock key industries to safeguard earnings and jobs
By Helen Reid and Tanisha Heiberg (Reuters) - From Africa to Asia and Latin America, emerging countries disproportionately bruised by the COVID-19 pandemic are allowing some key industries to start ba...
Apr 17, 2020
P&G sales rise about 5% amid pandemic stockpiling
(Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co on Friday reported an about 5% rise in quarterly sales as consumers stocked up on everything from diapers and detergents to toilet rolls amid sweeping lockdowns around ...
Apr 17, 2020
AT&T investors denied a dial-in as annual meeting goes online
By Ross Kerber BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investors say telecommunications pioneer AT&T Inc won't take their calls for its upcoming annual meeting, reinforcing their concerns that the shift of the ga...
Apr 17, 2020
Trump administration working to ease drilling industry cash crunch
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is seeking to ease a severe cash crunch in the drilling industry by raising loan limits available under a coronavirus stimulus packag...
Apr 17, 2020
Futures jump on Trump’s restart plan, coronavirus drug hopes
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures jumped on Friday as President Donald Trump laid out plans to re-open the economy from coronavirus-induced lockdowns and on reports of encouraging da...
Apr 17, 2020
In a coronavirus world, Biden seeks ways to close money gap with Trump
By Elizabeth Culliford, Trevor Hunnicutt and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden is starting to get the help he needs to compete with President Donald Trump's massive election war chest, a...
Apr 17, 2020
Wary of public transport, coronavirus-hit Americans turn to bikes
By Timothy Aeppel (Reuters) - Add fear to the list of reasons people ride bikes. "I'm 51 and healthy, but I don't want to get on the subway," said John Donohue, a Brooklyn-based artist who bought a bi...
Apr 17, 2020
Venture-backed startups line up for U.S. government stimulus loans after weighing risks
By Jane Lanhee Lee and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic arrived just as Respond Software CEO and co-founder Mike Armistead was trying to sell automated cyber security software to new clien...
Apr 17, 2020
Iran parades medical gear, not missiles, for Army Day amid outbreak
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Friday paraded disinfection vehicles, mobile hospitals and other medical equipment as it marked its national Army Day, to underscore the military's role in battling the coron...
Apr 17, 2020
