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UK retailers suffer record fall in April amid COVID lockdown
LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales fell by the most on record in April as much of the sector was shuttered by the government's coronavirus lockdown, official figures showed on Friday. Sales volum...
May 22, 2020
Japan factory output, retail sales seen falling more sharply in April: Reuters poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's factory output and retail sales likely fell at the fastest pace in years in April as the coronavirus outbreak hurt the world's third-largest economy, a Reuters poll found on ...
May 22, 2020
Argentina to amend $65 billion debt offer, talks on ‘positive’ course: minister
By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina is planning to amend its offer to creditors to restructure $65 billion in foreign debt, with talks on a positive course despite there being an "imp...
May 22, 2020
Full disclosure? Hedge funds navigate COVID health questions
By Maiya Keidan and Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - As the hedge funds once clustered in London's Mayfair negotiate gyrating markets, they are facing a new line of investor questioning: who has cont...
May 22, 2020
India plans scrutiny of new portfolio investors from China, Hong Kong: sources
By Aftab Ahmed and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has drafted rules proposing tighter scrutiny of new Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) from China and Hong Kong, three government sources to...
May 22, 2020
Roche buys U.S. gene sequencing tech company Stratos Genomics
ZURICH (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical group Roche has acquired U.S.-based Stratos Genomics to further develop DNA-based sequencing for diagnostic use, it said on Friday. "The acquisition provides Roche ac...
May 22, 2020
German tax revenues fall 23.5% due to coronavirus pandemic
BERLIN (Reuters) - Tax revenues of the German government and the 16 federal states declined by 23.5% in April from a year earlier to around 39 billion euros ($43 billion) due to the coronavirus pandem...
May 22, 2020
Rudderless after a rally, stock markets look for next catalyst
By Saikat Chatterjee, Sujata Rao and Megan Davies LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets have shuffled up about 1% this month despite the world starting to re-open after the coronavirus-dri...
May 22, 2020
Why bond investors are willing to bet on money-losing Pemex after oil price crash
By Stefanie Eschenbacher and Rodrigo Campos MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexico's state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos has seen investor sentiment improve in recent weeks despite sky-high d...
May 22, 2020
China to draft food security plan amid global coronavirus epidemic
By Hallie Gu and Tom Daly BEIJING (Reuters) - China will draft and carry out in 2020 a response plan for ensuring food security amid the global coronavirus pandemic, the country's state planner said o...
May 21, 2020
