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Suntory CEO says 20% of restaurants may fail as coronavirus slams Japan’s dining scene
By Ritsuko Ando TOKYO (Reuters) - Takeshi Niinami, the head of Japanese drinks and food group Suntory Holdings and a government adviser, predicted on Friday that more than 20% of bars and restaurants ...
Jun 05, 2020
Canada gains 289,600 jobs in May, unemployment edges up to 13.7 percent
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economy unexpectedly gained 289,600 jobs in May, mostly in full-time work, Statistics Canada said on Friday. The jobless rate edged up to 13.7%. Employment in the goods pro...
Jun 05, 2020
Take Five: Bulls charge past hurdles
June 5 (Reuters) - 1/CROUCHING TIGER Have HSBC and Standard Chartered "chosen profits over human rights" in backing China's national security law for Hong Kong, as some suggest? Or does it reflect the...
Jun 05, 2020
Exclusive: Angola cuts oil shipments to China as it seeks debt relief
By Julia Payne and Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON (Reuters) - Angola has cut the number of oil cargoes that it will ship to Chinese state firms to pay down debt to Beijing as it seeks to renegotiate repayme...
Jun 05, 2020
Japan’s Kirin orders probe of Myanmar beer joint ventures linked to military
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese beverage maker Kirin Holding Co on Friday said it had ordered an outside investigation of two Myanmar beer ventures it operates with a company linked to senior figures in th...
Jun 05, 2020
Malaysia says tech firms, hit by pandemic and trade war, keen to move to country
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Friday it had a pipeline of investment projects worth about $13 billion and that many local and foreign electrical and electronics (E&E) firms were looking to...
Jun 05, 2020
Half-freed from lockdown, Spaniards rush to shops, card payments show
By Clara-Laeila Laudette MADRID (Reuters) - The easing of Spain's coronavirus lockdown led Spaniards to spend with gusto in May after halting buying for a month and a half, bank-card transaction data ...
Jun 05, 2020
Irish hotels could reopen at end of June – Irish Times
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish hotels are set to be allowed to reopen at the end of the month, three weeks ahead of schedule, under a proposed speeding up of the government's post-coronavirus reopening plan...
Jun 05, 2020
Bargain-conscious Americans lift used-car sales in the coronavirus economy
By Nick Carey NAPERVILLE, Ill. (Reuters) - At the height of the coronavirus pandemic in mid-April, used-car dealer Alex Tovstanovsky had vehicles jammed six rows deep on his lot in the western Chicago...
Jun 05, 2020
Futures gain as recovery optimism lingers ahead of May jobs data
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday with S&P 500 futures hitting a three-month high, as investors focused on tentative signs of a post-coronavirus economic rebound ahead ...
Jun 05, 2020
