Category Archives: Syndicated
Global hedge fund liquidations surge as coronavirus hurts returns: data
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - More hedge funds went out of business during the first three months of 2020 than at any other time since 2015 as the coronavirus led to heavy losses and inves...
Jun 30, 2020
Biden says he will consider asking for a classified briefing on possible Russian bounties
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Tuesday he will consider asking for a classified briefing on allegations that Russia offered bounties for the killing o...
Jun 30, 2020
Philippines keeps partial restrictions in the capital to fight virus
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday kept partial restrictions in the capital for another two weeks as he tries to contain the spread of the new coronavirus while reducin...
Jun 30, 2020
Top U.S. House Republican resists extending coronavirus unemployment benefits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday it would not be productive to extend extra unemployment benefits that were included in coronavirus relief...
Jun 30, 2020
U.S. farmers cut back corn plantings on COVID fears, weather problems
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. corn acreage will be 5.4% smaller than initially forecast, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, with farmers in key production states cutting back on their plantings as the no...
Jun 30, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 2,581,229 coronavirus cases
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 2,581,229 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 35,664 cases from its previous count, and said that the num...
Jun 30, 2020
Turkey’s Halkbank to seek removal of U.S. judge in Iran sanctions case
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Halkbank will ask the U.S. judge overseeing a criminal case accusing it of helping Iran evade American sanctions to recuse himself, a lawyer for the Turkish ba...
Jun 30, 2020
GM should repay $60 million in state tax credits: Ohio AG
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said Tuesday that General Motors Co should repay $60 million in state tax credits after it closed its Lordstown Assembly plant in March 2019. In ...
Jun 30, 2020
Weekly coronavirus death toll in French nursing homes down to nine
PARIS (Reuters) - The number of people who died from coronavirus infection in France rose by 30 to 29,843 on Tuesday, as the health ministry included weekly data for the death toll in nursing homes. T...
Jun 30, 2020
Russia says Venezuela will increase debt repayment five-fold from 2023
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday disclosed terms of a previously agreed debt restructuring with Venezuela that show annual payments from Caracas to Moscow increase five fold starting in 2023. The ...
Jun 30, 2020
