Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Hedge fund body alarmed by retail investor frenzy 'distortions'
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Wall Street's retail trading frenzy has distorted markets, global hedge funds industry body AIMA said on Monday, adding it was concerned that lawmakers were encouraging...
Feb 01, 2021
U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to prom...
Feb 01, 2021
Blinken weighs possible sanctions North Korea as Russia, Iran loom: NBC News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration would consider new sanctions against North Korea as well as other possible actions against Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a tele...
Feb 01, 2021
EU repeats Pfizer/BioNTech to deliver 75 million extra vaccine doses in Q2
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Pfizer and German partner BioNTech will deliver 75 million extra doses of their COVID-19 vaccine in the second quarter of the year, European Commission President Ur...
Feb 01, 2021
Lebanon army arrests 18 Lebanese, Syrians linked to Islamic State: statement
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's army said on Monday it had arrested 18 people, some Lebanese and others Syrian, with links to Islamic State. The arrests came in "field operations" that took place over th...
Feb 01, 2021
UK PM Johnson says must keep up restrictions to lower COVID rates further
LONDON (Reuters) - British infection rates flattening and possibly beginning to fall, but they remain at a high level which means there can be no premature easing of COVID-19 restrictions, Prime Minis...
Feb 01, 2021
Stock futures bouce back as small-time traders pile into silver
By Devik Jain and Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures bounced 1% on Monday following a steep sell-off on Wall Street last week, as a shift in the retail trading frenzy to silver drove up ...
Feb 01, 2021
Russian prosecutors seek Navalny jail term as Kremlin tells U.S. to back off
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state prosecutors said they would back an effort to jail opposition politician Alexei Navalny for up to three and a half years at a court hearing on Tuesday, as the Kremlin ...
Feb 01, 2021
Britain detects South African variant in people with no travel links
LONDON (Reuters) - Two people in southern England have tested positive for the South African variant of the coronavirus without having any links to people who have travelled recently, prompting "surge...
Feb 01, 2021
Mexicans defy pandemic blues with record remittance surge
By Lizbeth Diaz and Abraham Gonzalez JANTETELCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Alberto Burgos is one of thousands of Mexican migrants living in the United States who dug deep and sent extra money to family back ...
Feb 01, 2021
