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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
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
Honda resumes production at plants hit by suspected cyber attack
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Honda Motor Co has resumed production at automobile and motorcycle plants in the United States and other countries after they were hit by a suspected cyber attack this week, ...
Jun 12, 2020
Pandemic heightens chance Japan slides back into deflation: Reuters poll
By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has raised the chance Japan's economy will slip back into deflation as social curbs to halt the spread of the disease hits businesses and con...
Jun 11, 2020
Japan’s economy is bottoming out, eyes on recovery: finance minister
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy appears to have hit bottom and is eyeing a recovery from the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, its finance minister said, underscoring cautio...
Jun 11, 2020
China set to complete Beidou network rivalling GPS in global navigation
By Ryan Woo and Liangping Gao BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese Beidou navigation network will be complete this month when its final satellite goes into orbit, giving China greater independence from U.S...
Jun 11, 2020
Asian shares, oil slump as coronavirus fears take hold
By Stanley White and Chibuike Oguh TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian shares fell sharply on Friday after Wall Street and oil tumbled over growing concerns that a resurgence of coronavirus infections co...
Jun 11, 2020
