Category Archives: Syndicated
Chinese online retailers offer discounts on iPhone 11 as country recovers from coronavirus
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Several Chinese online retailers have offered discounts on Apple Inc's iPhone 11, Reuters checks on Thursday revealed. The price drops come as the hardware company braces for an u...
Apr 09, 2020
Hong Kong tourism chief pins hopes on recovery starting by July
By Donny Kwok HONG KONG (Reuters) - The impact of the novel coronavirus on Hong Kong's tourism sector is unprecedented and the city can hope to start seeing things returning to normal by July, in part...
Apr 09, 2020
Fed’s Powell to update on economy and coronavirus crisis response
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell - one of the key architects of the unprecedented effort underway to shield the U.S. economy from the coronavirus outbreak...
Apr 09, 2020
U.S. weekly jobless claims seen hovering near record highs
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits in the last three weeks likely totaled a staggering 15 million as tough measures to control the novel cor...
Apr 09, 2020
Coronavirus derails southern Europe’s clean-up from the last crisis
By Valentina Za, George Georgiopoulos and Pamela Barbaglia MILAN/ATHENS/LONDON (Reuters) - This year was meant to mark a turning point for Greek and Italian banks as they finally laid the ghosts of th...
Apr 09, 2020
Germany’s coronavirus cases rise by 4,974, deaths by 246: RKI
BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Germany rose by 4,974 in the past 24 hours to 108,202 on Thursday, climbing for the third straight day after four previous days of ...
Apr 09, 2020
UBS and Credit Suisse to partially postpone dividend payout
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's two big banks, UBS and Credit Suisse , said they decided to pay out part of their dividend for 2019 later this year after financial markets watchdog FINMA had criticis...
Apr 08, 2020
World Bank says sub-Saharan Africa will enter recession in 2020
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The World Bank forecasts the sub-Saharan Africa region's economic growth for 2020 will contract because of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, going into a recession for the fi...
Apr 08, 2020
Catholic bishops, faith groups urge Trump to back debt relief for poor countries
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and an alliance of faith groups have urged President Donald Trump to champion a moratorium on debt payments for poor cou...
Apr 08, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. ambassador to South Korea is discussing plans to resign – sources
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris has said privately that he does not plan to stay on beyond the November U.S. presidential election, regardless of whether ...
Apr 08, 2020
