Category Archives: Syndicated
Cerberus demands changes at ‘disastrous’ Commerzbank
By Tom Sims and Patricia Uhlig FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. activist investor Cerberus is calling on Commerzbank to appoint two of its nominees to the supervisory board, cut costs and adopt a new strate...
Jun 10, 2020
Angry Birds maker Rovio looks to women to solve growth puzzle
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Rovio Entertainment launched "Small Town Murders", a new puzzle game aimed at women over 35, on Wednesday in its latest attempt to reduce its reliance on "Angry Birds". The Finnis...
Jun 10, 2020
Tiny Singapore replaces U.S. as India’s top market for engineering exports
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Singapore replaced the United States as India's biggest overseas market for engineering parts in April, with exports rising 95% to $553 million from a year earlier, a trade body ...
Jun 10, 2020
Japan’s Mizuho says virus-related loan requests have reached $155 billion
By Takashi Umekawa and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group Inc has seen coronavirus-related loan requests reach 17 trillion yen ($155 billion) since the outbreak, and is bracing ...
Jun 10, 2020
Bank of England ready to replenish its COVID-19 warchest
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England looks set to give itself at least another 100 billion pounds ($127 billion) in bond-buying firepower next week to try to stop the coronaviru...
Jun 10, 2020
Indonesia reports biggest daily rise in coronavirus infections
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported on Wednesday its biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases for a second successive day, with 1,241 new infections, taking its total to 34,316. There were 36 ne...
Jun 10, 2020
Spain says would be ‘good news’ if Economy Minister Calvino became Eurogroup chief
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Social Security Minister Jose Luis Escriva said on Wednesday that "it would be good news" if Economy Minister Nadia Calvino took the presidency of the Eurogroup, replacing d...
Jun 10, 2020
No prospective euro member meets accession criteria, ECB says
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - None of the countries now looking to join the euro meet all the accession criteria and some may be diverging from the long-set rules of euro membership, the European Central Bank...
Jun 10, 2020
Singapore approves Gilead’s remdesivir for COVID-19 treatment
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's Health Sciences Authority said on Wednesday it granted conditional approval for Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug remdesivir for the treatment of some patients wit...
Jun 10, 2020
U.S. aircraft intercept Russian nuclear-capable bombers near Alaska: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. fighter jets intercepted and escorted four Russian nuclear-capable bombers during a routine flight over neutral waters near the United States, the RIA news agency reported on W...
Jun 10, 2020
