Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Kenya's Equity Group says 9-month pretax profit up, loan loss provisions fall
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Equity Group Holdings said on Monday its nine-month pretax profit rose 85% to 36.6 billion shillings ($328.25 million), helped by rising interest income and falling provisi...
Nov 08, 2021
Tuvalu minister stands in sea to film COP26 speech to show climate change
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Tuvalu's foreign minister has given a speech to the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow standing knee-deep in seawater to show how his low-lying Pacific island nation is ...
Nov 07, 2021
New Zealand hosts virtual APEC leaders' summit, focusing on pandemic recovery
By Praveen Menon and David Brunnstrom WELLINGTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the Asia-Pacific trade group APEC will focus on the region's economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, emphasi...
Nov 07, 2021
Ant Group starts to differentiate consumer loan business Jiebei from bank loans
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Ant Group said on Monday that it is making efforts to "differentiate" part of its short-term consumer loan business Jiebei, as it pursues a Beijing-led restructuring aimed ...
Nov 07, 2021
Japan coincident indicator index falls for 3rd month in September
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's coincident indicator index extended its decline in September, the government said on Monday, cutting its view on economic conditions for the first time in more than two years...
Nov 07, 2021
New Zealand mosque shooter considers appealing life sentence
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at mosques in Christchurch is considering appealing against his life sentence, saying his guilty plea after the 2019 attack was obtained...
Nov 07, 2021
China builds mockups of U.S. Navy ships in area used for missile target practice
By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military has built mockups in the shape of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships, possibly as training targets, in the desert of Xinjiang, sa...
Nov 07, 2021
ETF's big splash in MSCI's new China index puts pressure on FTSE China A50
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Just months after MSCI introduced its China mega-cap index, the first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking the new index began trading in China on Monday, armed with $4 billion, ...
Nov 07, 2021
Golf-Webb honoured as Australia launches Women's PGA Championship
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's top women professionals will compete for the Karrie Webb Trophy when the inaugural Australian WPGA Championship takes place alongside the men's equivalent at Royal Queen...
Nov 07, 2021
Tennis-'Haters' will appreciate Djokovic after he retires: Medvedev
(Reuters) - World number one Novak Djokovic may not enjoy the same kind of adulation from fans as Roger Federer or Rafa Nadal but even the Serb's "real haters" will come to appreciate his records and ...
Nov 07, 2021
