Author Archives: Syndicated Content
East European designers sashay onto the catwalks of high fashion
By Michael Kahn and Silvia Recchimuzzi PRAGUE/GDANSK (Reuters) - With celebrities such as Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Billie Eilish wearing its designs, Hungarian fashion house Nanushka has stardust ma...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
Africa calls for climate finance tracker after donors fall short
By Alessandra Prentice LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African countries want a new system to track funding from wealthy nations that are failing to meet a $100-billion annual target to help the developing wor...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
Indian fintech firm CRED valued at $4 billion in new funding round
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's CRED said on Tuesday it had raised $251 million in a new funding round led by existing investors and private equity firms Tiger Global and Falconedge, valuing the fintech...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
Bitcoin nears record high ahead of futures ETF listing
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bitcoin hit a six-month high and was within striking distance of a record on Tuesday as traders bet an anticipated listing of a futures-based U.S. exchange traded fund could hera...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
Africa's glaciers to melt, millions of poor face drought, floods, U.N. says
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades, 118 million poor people face immanent drought, floods or extreme heat, and climate change could also ...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
Marketmind: Fast and furious
A look at the day ahead from Sujata Rao It took two weeks for UK money markets to go from expecting no interest rate rises this year to betting on a cumulative 35 basis-point moves in November and Dec...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
UK watchdog to launch investigation into music streaming
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator said on Tuesday it planned to launch an investigation into the music streaming market to see whether it was functioning properly for consumers. The C...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
Czechs report highest daily tally of COVID-19 cases since April
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic detected 2,521 new cases of COVID-19 on Oct. 18, the highest daily tally since late April, data from the Health Ministry showed on Tuesday. The Czech government h...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
NBA-Playing low minutes isn't good for me, says Lakers' James
(Reuters) - Fit-again Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James suggested limiting his game time would not bring the best out of him in what will be his 19th NBA season, as his coach said he had yet to wor...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
Man falls to death from hot air balloon in Israel
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A man dangling from the basket of a hot air balloon fell to his death onto a road in Israel on Tuesday, police said. It was not immediately clear why he was holding onto the bask...
Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2021
