Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Vietnam says to secure 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this year
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam aims to obtain 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this year, including 30 million through the WHO-led COVAX scheme, 30 million from AstraZeneca and the rest from negotiations ...
Feb 24, 2021
Iran says up to U.S. to move first on saving nuclear deal
VIENNA (Reuters) - It is up to the United States to make the first move in saving the Iran nuclear deal, Iran's ambassador in Geneva told the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament on Wednesday. "Th...
Feb 24, 2021
Column: U.S. spillover risks stifling Europe and spurring ECB into action
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - When U.S. interest rates sneeze, Europe catches a cold. Market anxiety about the inflationary impact of the U.S. government's massive planned spending boost is driving...
Feb 24, 2021
HSBC, Barclays challenged over bond linked to Vietnamese coal project
By Simon Jessop, Melanie Burton and Aaron Sheldrick LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC and Barclays, which have pledged to stop financing new coal projects, have been challenged by a legal group over a Japanese ...
Feb 24, 2021
German economy to shrink some 1.5% in early 2021: DIW
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's economy could shrink by around 1.5% in the beginning of the year, the DIW research institute said on Wednesday, as lockdown measures to restrict coronavirus infections tak...
Feb 24, 2021
Exhausted by COVID-19 fight, Portuguese nurses want pay not applause
By Catarina Demony and Pedro Nunes LISBON (Reuters) - At midnight nurse Ines Lopes and her colleagues are about to start the night shift taking care of patients in a COVID-19 intensive care unit in th...
Feb 24, 2021
Biden rushes to address global computer chip shortage via latest executive order
By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday aimed at addressing a global semiconductor chip shortage that has forced U.S. aut...
Feb 24, 2021
Indian central bank has "major concerns" over cryptocurrencies: Governor Das
By Swati Bhat and Nupur Anand MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's central bank has "major concerns" about cryptocurrencies, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Wednesday, flagging potential risks to financial sta...
Feb 24, 2021
Kuroda says BOJ will seek ways to make ETF buying more effective
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the central bank is already buying exchange-traded funds (ETF) flexibly, but will seek ways to make the programme more eff...
Feb 24, 2021
Deutsche Bank upgrades U.S. GDP forecast on stimulus push
(Reuters) - Deutsche Bank economists have upgraded their 2021/2022 forecasts for U.S. GDP growth on expectations of a bigger stimulus package in the world's largest economy, a strategist at the German...
Feb 24, 2021
