Category Archives: Syndicated
EU regulators halt LSE, Refinitiv probe, await data
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have temporarily suspended their investigation into the London Stock Exchange's $27 billion bid for data and analytics company Refinitiv while waiting for ...
Jul 17, 2020
Catalonia urges Barcelona residents to stay home to stem coronavirus
MADRID (Reuters) - Catalonia's regional authorities on Friday called on residents of Barcelona to stay home and not gather in groups of more than ten in order to fight an increase in coronavirus cases...
Jul 17, 2020
British PM Johnson: Normal life won’t come until November at the earliest
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that normal life would not return in full until November at the earliest, cautioning that nightclubs and soft play areas needed t...
Jul 17, 2020
UK government to drop work from home message in favour of employer discretion
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government will stop telling people to work from home and give more discretion to employers to decide whether its safe for staff to return to their workplaces, Prime Min...
Jul 17, 2020
Britain’s local councils given more powers to impose lockdowns, PM Johnson says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's local authorities will have more powers to impose local coronavirus lockdowns from Saturday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. He said councils will be able to close spec...
Jul 17, 2020
UK orders review into potentially unreliable England COVID-19 death data
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health minister Matt Hancock has ordered a review into how deaths from coronavirus are reported in England after academics said the daily figures may be unreliable and inc...
Jul 17, 2020
U.S. aircraft carriers return to South China Sea amid rising tensions
By James Pearson HANOI (Reuters) - For the second time in two weeks, the United States has deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy said on Friday, as China and the United ...
Jul 17, 2020
Exclusive: Pact to aid poor cocoa farmers in peril as COVID-19 hits demand
By Maytaal Angel and Ange Aboa LONDON/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The steepest dive in cocoa demand in a decade has thrown into jeopardy a plan by top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana to guarantee some two mil...
Jul 17, 2020
BlackRock quarterly profit jumps 21%
(Reuters) - BlackRock Inc , the world's largest asset manager, reported a 21% jump in quarterly profit on Friday, as investors poured money into its fixed-income funds and cash management services. Th...
Jul 17, 2020
Analysts raise short-term EU carbon price forecasts: survey
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - Analysts have increased their European carbon market short-term price forecasts on expectations that financial speculators will continue to buy permits and compan...
Jul 17, 2020
