Category Archives: Syndicated
Sweden’s daily tally of new COVID-19 cases falls to lowest since May
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's daily tally of new COVID-19 cases fell to its lowest since late May on Tuesday, a sharp reversal from June when expanded testing fuelled record numbers in a country that...
Jul 07, 2020
Longer, greener, broader: strategies for a world awash in new bonds
By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) - Century bonds and green bonds, the first 20-year U.S. Treasury issue in decades, securities for mom-and-pop investors and with growth-linked payouts -- a borrowi...
Jul 07, 2020
Congo health workers reduce coronavirus services in pay protest
By Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) - Health workers responding to the coronavirus outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital have cut their services to a minimum in protest against unpaid bon...
Jul 07, 2020
Dubai hotels ready to welcome foreign visitors as emirate reopens
By Jacob Greaves and Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI (Reuters) - In Dubai's Atlantis resort, at the head of a palm tree-shaped island, workers in face masks clean cushions, sofas and king-size beds in luxury s...
Jul 07, 2020
India’s Sovereign Pharma dispatches first batch of remdesivir to Cipla
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's Sovereign Pharma said it has dispatched the first batch of generic remdesivir for drugmaker Cipla Ltd, as the country recorded more than 22,000 new coronavirus cases on T...
Jul 07, 2020
Canada’s Ivey PMI shows purchasing activity expanding for first time in four months
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian purchasing activity expanded in June for the first time in four months, according to Ivey Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) data released on Tuesday, providing another sign ...
Jul 07, 2020
Fed’s Bostic: Business ‘getting nervous again’ as virus surges
(Reuters) - The surge in U.S. coronavirus cases has made business owners "nervous again," Atlanta Federal Reserve president Raphael Bostic said on Tuesday, and has prompted him to focus on company dec...
Jul 07, 2020
ECB’s Costa calls for TARP-style bad debt fund to relieve banks
By Andrei Khalip and Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Europe needs a scheme similar to the U.S. Troubled Asset Relief Programme (TARP), adopted during the 2008 subprime crisis, to help its banks co...
Jul 07, 2020
Young Gaza amputees play soccer again after coronavirus curbs eased
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Young Palestinian soccer players, all amputees and many on crutches, were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions w...
Jul 07, 2020
Senegal slave island, moved by George Floyd’s death, renames Europe Square
By Aaron Ross DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's Goree Island, which for centuries served as a way station in the Transatlantic slave trade, has changed the name of its Europe Square in response to the death...
Jul 07, 2020
