Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Wall St. opens higher as focus turns to stimulus, corporate earnings
(Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Thursday, as investors looked to corporate earnings and signs of progress on a pandemic-relief package after data suggested the labor market was...
Feb 04, 2021
U.S. productivity posts biggest drop since 1981 in fourth quarter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. worker productivity fell at its steepest pace since 1981 in the fourth quarter, but the trend remains solid as the COVID-19 pandemic weighs heavily on the less productive i...
Feb 04, 2021
Short-seller Hindenburg takes aim at Palihapitiya-backed Clover Health
(Reuters) - Well-known short-selling specialist Hindenburg Research published a critical report on Thursday on Chamath Palihapitiya-backed insurance firm Clover Health, sending the company's shares do...
Feb 04, 2021
Sweden COVID death toll tops 12,000 as health agency warns of third wave
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden, which has attracted global attention for its soft-touch pandemic response, registered 89 new COVID-19 related deaths on Thursday, taking the total above 12,000, Health Ag...
Feb 04, 2021
Meet Robby Megabyte, Bosnia's first robot rock band musician
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's most popular rock band, Dubioza Kolektiv, has a new recruit who sings and plays musical instruments - a humanoid robot called Robby Megabyte. Students...
Feb 04, 2021
Yellen says wants to "understand deeply" GameStop frenzy before taking action
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday that before she and financial market regulators took any action, they needed to "understand deeply" what ha...
Feb 04, 2021
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall more than expected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits decreased last week, suggesting that the labor market was stabilizing as authorities started to loosen ...
Feb 04, 2021
Brazil's new Senate leader aims for tax reform within eight months
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's new Senate leader said on Thursday he aims to approve tax reform in six to eight months and that he is working urgently to extend aid to millions of the country's poores...
Feb 04, 2021
Hit by shortage, Volkswagen demands boost to Europe chip sector
By Jan Schwartz and Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe needs to stump up cash to boost its chip industry, a board member of the continent's largest carmaker Volkswagen said, pointing to a g...
Feb 04, 2021
Sputnik-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trials to start in Azerbaijan, MidEast
By Polina Nikolskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - Human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine combining a British shot from AstraZeneca and Oxford University with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine will begin next week in Azerb...
Feb 04, 2021
