Category Archives: Syndicated
Use of battery power storage seen accelerating to 2030 and beyond: WoodMac
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The use of batteries for energy storage is expected to grow faster than that of other flexible assets in the period to 2030 and beyond, as renewable energy generation expands, co...
Jun 02, 2020
Europe’s Gaia-X cloud computing platform takes shape
BERLIN (Reuters) - A proposed European cloud computing platform that seeks to break the continent's reliance on Silicon Valley will take shape in the coming weeks when a group of 22 French and German ...
Jun 02, 2020
Illinois to sell debt in first deal with Fed’s muni liquidity facility
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois announced on Tuesday an agreement to tap a new Federal Reserve borrowing program, marking the first state or local government to access funding to address revenue shortfal...
Jun 02, 2020
Perils for Pentagon as Trump threatens to militarize response to civil unrest
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Battlespace" was the word U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper used to describe protest sites in the United States. The top U.S. general then reinfo...
Jun 02, 2020
Britain sets out review criteria for travel quarantine plans
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will review its quarantine procedures based on the economic impact they are having and actions being taken by other countries as ministers try to limit the risk of importing...
Jun 02, 2020
Brazil’s real surges 3%, biggest rise in two years
By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's real extended its rally in dramatic fashion on Tuesday, taking advantage of improving global market sentiment and demand for riskier assets to chalk up ...
Jun 02, 2020
U.S. hopes to expand strategic minerals initiative
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department hopes to expand a strategic minerals initiative aimed at ensuring supply chains for metals critical for batteries and wind and solar...
Jun 02, 2020
No race cancellation even if driver has COVID, says F1 boss
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One will not cancel a race even if a driver tests positive for COVID-19, chief executive Chase Carey said on Tuesday. The American was speaking after the spo...
Jun 02, 2020
Two centrally run committees to shape UK’s COVID-19 approach in shake-up: Telegraph
(Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is aiming to take "direct control" of the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak in a Downing Street shake-up, The Telegraph newspaper repor...
Jun 02, 2020
George Floyd, a ‘gentle giant,’ remembered in hometown Houston march
By Ernest Scheyder HOUSTON (Reuters) - George Floyd's hometown of Houston held a memorial march for him on Tuesday, where attendees recounted a "gentle giant" whose legacy had helped the city largely ...
Jun 02, 2020
