Category Archives: Syndicated
Cigna’s Express Scripts offers discounted drugs for U.S. newly unemployed
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Express Scripts is offering discounted $25 and $75 prescription drug prices to the newly uninsured, a stop-gap measure aimed at Americans who lose their jobs and health insurance ...
May 07, 2020
Indonesia reports 338 new coronavirus cases, 35 deaths: health ministry official
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 338 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number to 12,776, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto told reporters on Thursday. Thirty-five more people who ...
May 07, 2020
UnitedHealth to issue premium credits as part of $1.5 billion spending plan
By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc said on Thursday it plans to spend $1.5 billion on its customers in part by issuing credits against some commercial he...
May 07, 2020
Australian inquiry found Pell should have reported child sex abuse
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian government-appointed inquiry into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church and other institutions found former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell w...
May 07, 2020
Italy to inject 3 billion euros in new Alitalia: industry minister
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government will inject fresh capital worth at least 3 billion euros ($3.24 billion) in the ailing carrier Alitalia, which is being nationalised following financial problems, I...
May 07, 2020
Black and Pakistani people more likely to die from COVID-19: UK data
LONDON (Reuters) - Black people and those of Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnicity have a significantly higher chance of dying from COVID-19 than white people, even when adjusting for deprivation, the B...
May 07, 2020
Coronavirus-wary Japan tries to take business card ritual online
By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's time-honoured ritual of exchanging business cards face-to-face is under pressure as the government promotes a "new lifestyle" to combat the coronavirus. Experts...
May 07, 2020
H&M sales fall 57% year-on-year in March through early May
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish fashion retailer H&M said on Thursday its sales tumbled 57% from a year ago in local currencies during the March 1 to May 6 period as the novel coronavirus pandemic and r...
May 07, 2020
Japan’s Mizuho cuts profit estimate by 5% amid coronavirus outbreak
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group Inc , Japan's third-largest lender by assets, on Thursday cut its full-year estimate for group net profit by 5.3% as it books credit-related costs amid the cor...
May 07, 2020
GSK sells $3.35 billion stake in Hindustan Unilever
By Scott Murdoch and Anshuman Daga HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline said on Thursday it sold its stake in Unilever's Indian business for $3.35 billion, which Refinitiv says is the large...
May 07, 2020
