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Over a million UK workers furloughed due to coronavirus: finance minister
LONDON (Reuters) - More than a million British workers have been put on temporary leave by their companies, based on applications in the first eight hours that a government wage support scheme has bee...
Apr 20, 2020
Carrefour halves dividend due to coronavirus outbreak
PARIS (Reuters) - Carrefour , Europe's largest retailer, said on Monday it was halving its 2019 dividend and would hold its May 29 annual shareholders meeting behind closed doors due to the coronaviru...
Apr 20, 2020
Vivendi shareholders approve dividend of 0.60 euro per share
PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi's shareholders approved on Monday the payment of a dividend of 0.60 euro per share for the fiscal year 2019, with 99.52% of shareholder votes supporting the plan. The amount ...
Apr 20, 2020
Atlantia unit eyes govt guarantee scheme to fight virus impact – sources
MILAN (Reuters) - The motorway unit of Italian infrastructure group Atlantia is considering tapping government-backed liquidity to temper the impact of coronavirus on its business, two sources with kn...
Apr 20, 2020
Investor groups call for UK firms to provide a virtual AGM
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest listed companies have been urged to hold 'virtual' annual general meetings after two-thirds of the firms to announce meetings so far opted to hold them behind clos...
Apr 20, 2020
IMF may need ‘exceptional measures’ to facilitate pandemic response: Georgieva
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The IMF may need to step outside its comfort zone and consider "exceptional measures" to help countries deal with the coronavirus pandemic and mitigate its econ...
Apr 20, 2020
Italy sees its virus-hit economy falling 8% in 2020: sources
By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Treasury expects the economy to contract by around 8% this year, two sources close to the matter told Reuters, underscoring the negative impa...
Apr 20, 2020
Europe’s banks want regulators to match U.S. leverage plan
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Banks are calling on European regulators to match the U.S. Federal Reserve's plan to relax a rule that measures a bank's capital reserves to promote the flow of cash to...
Apr 20, 2020
NatWest presses ahead with more job cuts in face of coronavirus crisis
By Lawrence White and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) - British state-backed lender NatWest is pressing ahead with further job cuts, axing more than 30 jobs in its digital ventures arm despite rivals ha...
Apr 20, 2020
One in 10 Austrians registered for scheme aimed at preventing layoffs
VIENNA (Reuters) - Roughly a tenth of Austria's population is registered for a government scheme aimed at preventing lay-offs that enables employers to keep staff on their books while only paying for ...
Apr 20, 2020
