Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Philippine police to look into government admission of drug war failures
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police said on Thursday they were looking into a government review of thousands of killings in the country's "war on drugs", after the justice minister made an unpreceden...
Feb 25, 2021
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall more than expected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fewer Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week amid falling COVID-19 infections, but the near-term outlook for the labor market is unclear after winter sto...
Feb 25, 2021
Netflix to spend $500 million more to line up original shows, movies in South Korea
(Reuters) - Netflix Inc said on Thursday it plans to invest $500 million on original movies and TV shows in South Korea this year, as the streaming giant expands in one of the fastest growing markets ...
Feb 25, 2021
Moderna expects $18.4 billion in COVID-19 vaccine sales in 2021
By Manojna Maddipatla and Manas Mishra (Reuters) - Moderna Inc said on Thursday it expects COVID-19 vaccine sales of $18.4 billion this year, above the $15 billion in sales forecast by Pfizer Inc for ...
Feb 25, 2021
EY Germany head steps down in wake of Wirecard scandal
BERLIN (Reuters) - EY Germany said its head, Hubert Barth, was stepping down and announced plans for a programme to help restore trust in its work as an auditor following the collapse of payment servi...
Feb 25, 2021
Nasdaq futures slide 1% on tech sell-off; jobless claims in focus
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq index fell 1% on Thursday, sliding for seven out of the last eight sessions, as investors rotated out of technology-related stocks into shares tha...
Feb 25, 2021
Japan government to end state of emergency in five prefectures at end of month: Kyodo News
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government will end a state of emergency in five prefectures west of Tokyo at the end of this month, a week earlier than scheduled, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursda...
Feb 25, 2021
Health authorities call for common approach around COVID-19 treatments: EU
(Reuters) - Europe's drugs regulator said on Thursday international cooperation over COVID-19 vaccines and treatments was required to respond to emerging variants of the virus, improve access to pregn...
Feb 25, 2021
World trade bounces back to pre-coronavirus levels: CPB monitor
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - International trade recovered at the end of 2020 to pre-coronavirus levels, making up for the sharp hit from the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of the year, Dutch economic p...
Feb 25, 2021
Czech PM says France to provide country 100,000 vaccines
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will get 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from France by mid-March, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis told CTK news agency on Thursday. Th...
Feb 25, 2021
