Category Archives: Syndicated
Most optimistic Brazil GDP outlook in over a month: central bank survey
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The gloom surrounding Brazil's economy lifted for a fifth week in a row, a central bank survey of economists showed on Monday, with the average forecast for 2020 gross domestic pr...
Aug 03, 2020
Cycling: Start of Tour de France in Denmark moved to 2022
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's staging of the Tour de France's start, known as the 'Grand Depart', has been pushed back a year to 2022, Danish organisers said in a statement on Monday. The Danish or...
Aug 03, 2020
Location of TikTok headquarters is a matter for ByteDance: PM Johnson’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - The location of TikTok owner ByteDance's headquarters is a commercial decision for the company to make, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, respondi...
Aug 03, 2020
Earnings, Microsoft set to boost Wall St. as investors await stimulus
By Sagarika Jaisinghani and Medha Singh (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes were set to open higher on Monday as Microsoft's pursuit of TikTok's U.S. operations and a clutch of upbeat quarterly ear...
Aug 03, 2020
Flash floods kill two in Thailand, storm heads for Myanmar
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Flash floods killed at least two people and swept through hundreds of houses in northern Thailand, authorities said after tropical storm Sinlaku dumped heavy rains on 18 provinces ...
Aug 03, 2020
Long bond demand raises prospect of whole curve yielding below 1%
By Ross Kerber and Karen Pierog BOSTON/CHICAGO, August 3 (Reuters) - A decline in U.S. Treasury yields over recent weeks has investors eyeing the approach of an unusual phenomenon - the entire U.S. yi...
Aug 03, 2020
Islamic State storm Afghan jail, freeing hundreds of prisoners
KABUL (Reuters) - More than 300 prisoners were at large on Monday after an attack by Islamic State on an Afghan prison, the governor's spokesman said on Monday, as clashes continued between prisoners ...
Aug 03, 2020
Brazil’s central bank says Whatsapp payment tests have begun
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank said on Monday that tests had begun to trial payments via Facebook Inc's messaging service WhatsApp in the country, calling them an "important advance....
Aug 03, 2020
Portfolio trading grows in choppy bond markets: JP Morgan
LONDON (Reuters) - Portfolio trading is gaining significant momentum as market turmoil picks up, with J.P. Morgan's credit trading desk already handling more than three-quarters of the volume of trade...
Aug 03, 2020
Tyson Foods appoints executive Dean Banks as CEO
(Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc on Monday named President Dean Banks as its next chief executive officer to replace Noel White at time when the company is navigating unprecedented production challenges du...
Aug 03, 2020
