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Euro zone business activity ground to near-halt in April: PMI
LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone business activity almost ground to a halt last month as government-imposed lockdowns to stop the spread of the coronavirus forced factories to shut, shops and restaurants ...
May 06, 2020
Coronavirus lockdown batters German services in April: PMI
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's services sector recorded its weakest ever performance in April due to the coronavirus pandemic, pulling down overall private sector activity in Europe's largest economy to...
May 06, 2020
Coronavirus lockdown plunges French services into record slump: PMI
PARIS (Reuters) - French service providers saw an unprecedented collapse in business activity last month due to a nationwide coronavirus lockdown that force all but non-essential firms to close, a mon...
May 06, 2020
UK faces bumpy ride on inflation as COVID hits price data
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will likely offer some volatile inflation readings in the months ahead because the coronavirus shutdown has prevented statisticians from getting any prices on a wide range i...
May 06, 2020
Italy service sector shrinks at steepest rate on record in April: PMI
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's service sector shrank at the fastest rate in more than 22 years in April, a survey showed on Wednesday, as a lockdown imposed to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic shutte...
May 06, 2020
China’s BGI gets Australian foothold through mass coronavirus test delivery
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia says its purchase of 10 million coronavirus test kits from Chinese genomics company BGI will not risk patient privacy, as researchers hope for greater pr...
May 06, 2020
European shares flat as mixed earnings, U.S.-China tensions weigh
(Reuters) - European shares opened little changed on Wednesday as a batch of mixed earnings reports and simmering U.S.-China tensions added to doubts about a swift economic recovery even as many count...
May 06, 2020
Amber Capital: no plans to sell Lagardere stake and it may even raise it
PARIS (Reuters) - The founder of activist investment company Amber Capital, which lost out this week in a bid to shake up the governance at French group Lagardere , said on Wednesday he had no plans t...
May 06, 2020
Russia to raise more debt as GDP seen shrinking 5%: Siluanov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to dig deeper into its rainy day fund and to double state borrowings this year as it expects a 5% fall in gross domestic product (GDP), Finance Minister Anton Siluanov ...
May 06, 2020
China April exports, imports set to plummet as virus crushes global demand: Reuters poll
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's exports and imports are expected to record double-digit declines in April after a tentative recovery in March as the coronavirus pandemic batters global demand and disrupts...
May 06, 2020
