Category Archives: Syndicated
Smartphone shipments in China up 17% in April, signalling likely rebound: government data
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Smartphone shipments from China's factories to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same month a year ago, according to government data released on Tuesday. The numbers sugge...
May 12, 2020
Ryanair to recommend face masks on board, ban toilet queues
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair is to recommend that all passengers wear face masks on board when it reopens 40% of its route network on July 1 and customers will be required to ask crew to use the toilet,...
May 12, 2020
Vodafone meets full-year expectations, pulls guidance on COVID-19 uncertainty
LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone , the world's second largest mobile operator, met expectations with a 2.6% rise in full-year core earnings to 14.9 billion euros ($16.10 billion), but did not give a curren...
May 12, 2020
Once taboo, investors begin to imagine negative U.S. rates
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Tom Westbrook NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Negative interest rates in the United States were once unimaginable. The coronavirus has changed that. While the Federal Reserve h...
May 12, 2020
Honda posts 13% drop in annual operating profit
TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co on Tuesday posted an 13% decline in annual operating profit as the coronavirus pandemic started to take its toll on global car demand. Operating profit for the year en...
May 12, 2020
South Korea investigators comb digital data to trace club coronavirus cluster
By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities were combing through mobile phone data, credit card statements and CCTV footage on Tuesday to identify people who visited nightc...
May 12, 2020
Overloaded ventilator fire kills five coronavirus patients in Russia: media
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire apparently started by an overloaded ventilator killed five novel coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in a Russian hospital on Tuesday, news agencies reported. Russ...
May 12, 2020
Spark New Zealand to manage part of country’s 5G allocation
(Reuters) - Spark New Zealand Ltd said it will manage part of the country's allocation of 5G spectrum as it prepares for a rollout of the mobile technology over the next year. The Kiwi telecom and dig...
May 12, 2020
On this day: Born May 13, 1914: Joe Louis, American boxer
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Boxing fans and historians will always argue over the greatest heavyweight of them all but even Muhammad Ali was willing to admit he might have met his match in Jose...
May 12, 2020
China announces new list of U.S. imports eligible for tariff waivers
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's finance ministry announced on Tuesday a new list of 79 U.S. products that will be eligible for import tariff waivers for one year. The ministry said the waivers will take e...
May 12, 2020
