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White House’s Hassett expects June turning point in U.S. employment: CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Adviser Kevin Hassett said on Friday he expects that May will mark another dismal month for U.S. employment, but June could mark a turning point for the massive jobl...
May 22, 2020
Canadian retail sales plunge record 10% in March, led by car sales
By Kelsey Johnson OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian retail sales plunged a record 10% in March as officials shuttered many non-essential businesses to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Statistics...
May 22, 2020
NetEase and JD.com set dates for $5 billion Hong Kong listings
By Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese technology company NetEase plans to carry out a secondary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on June 11, which will be followed one week lat...
May 22, 2020
Chile’s central bank says looking at more options to jumpstart economy: minutes
By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's central bank will consider further monetary impulse measures including non-traditional avenues to bolster the economy as the world's no. 1 copper produce...
May 22, 2020
Default then deal? Argentina hits payment deadline with distance left in talks
By Adam Jourdan and Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina faces a hard deadline to make $500 million in already delayed bond interest payments on Friday, which investors expect it will mis...
May 22, 2020
Surge in UK debt-to-GDP ratio driven by fall in output: OBR
LONDON (Reuters) - A jump in Britain's debt-to-GDP ratio in April to its highest since 1963 largely reflects the big fall in output that the coronavirus is expected to have caused, rather than last mo...
May 22, 2020
Mexico inflation accelerates more than forecast in early May
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican inflation picked up faster than expected in the first half of May, giving the central bank some food for thought as policymakers move to cut borrowing costs to alleviat...
May 22, 2020
ECB ‘fully prepared’ to up bond purchases in June: accounts
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is ready to expand its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Scheme as early as June, if economic data warrant such a move, policymakers concluded in their April ...
May 22, 2020
Japanese investors back extra multi-billion dollar bonds to save economy
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Many bond investors favor issuing an extra 1.5 trillion yen ($13.96 billion) in bonds a month as part of a second stimulus budget to try to limit the economic da...
May 22, 2020
Wall Street Week Ahead: Investors look beyond drug makers as hunt for Covid-19 treatment heats up
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are diversifying bets in the healthcare sector, as the rush to develop treatments for Covid-19 has driven up prices for some pharmaceutical stocks. A re...
May 22, 2020
