Category Archives: Syndicated
South Korea’s March factory output expands unexpectedly as virus disrupts Chinese production
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's factory output unexpectedly expanded at its sharpest pace in nearly 11 years in March, official data showed on Wednesday, aided by virus-related production disruptions ...
Apr 28, 2020
Large investor backs activist Starboard’s push for board seats at GCP Applied Technologies
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - An investor group that owns almost one-quarter of GCP Applied Technologies is backing activist investor Starboard Value's plan to remove most of the chemical ...
Apr 28, 2020
Pompeo says U.S. ‘concerned’ over south Yemen separatist self-rule declaration
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday Washington was 'concerned' over the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a separatist group, declaring self-...
Apr 28, 2020
UK retailers cut non-food prices by most on record: BRC
LONDON (Reuters) - British retailers cut the prices of non-food items by the most since at least 2006 this month as they try to shift stock that they are struggling to sell due to the coronavirus, ind...
Apr 28, 2020
UK small firms use furlough scheme to avoid permanent job cuts: BCC
LONDON (Reuters) - Three of every four small British businesses have temporarily laid off staff using an emergency government scheme to pay their wages, minimising permanent job losses during the coro...
Apr 28, 2020
Henry cooks and waits for MLS to make decision on season
By Steve Keating (Reuters) - All Montreal Impact manager Thierry Henry says he can do is train, cook and wait to see when or if the Major League Soccer season will resume as countries ease novel coron...
Apr 28, 2020
NYSE to reopen options trading floor in San Francisco on May 4
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday said its NYSE Arca Options trading floor in San Francisco would partially reopen on May 4, but its New York-based trading floors would remai...
Apr 28, 2020
CDC reports 981,246 coronavirus cases, 55,258 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 981,246 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 23,371 cases from its previous count, and said the number of ...
Apr 28, 2020
Prague district mayor says he is under police protection against Russian threat
By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - The mayor of one of the Czech capital's districts said on Tuesday he had been put under police protection due to a threat that a Russian man had been sent to kill h...
Apr 28, 2020
Malawi launches $40 monthly cash transfers to combat coronavirus impact
BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Malawi will launch an emergency cash transfer programme targeting about 1 million people and small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic, President Arthur Peter Mutharik...
Apr 28, 2020
