Author Archives: Syndicated Content
EU ready to help restore democracy to Myanmar: high representative
PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union is ready to offer its support to all parties to help restore democracy in Myanmar, the bloc's high representative told ASEAN states on Friday. Southeast Asian lead...
Apr 30, 2021
Singapore's hot housing market faces risk of cooling curbs
By Aradhana Aravindan and Chen Lin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Ishwinder Kaur and her husband spent more than two years looking to buy their first home in Singapore, hoping property prices would dip during ...
Apr 30, 2021
AstraZeneca expects higher H2 sales as Q1 sales, earnings beat forecasts
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca said on Friday it expected higher sales in the second half of the year, as it reported first-quarter profit and sales ahead of analysts' average expectations, including $275 mi...
Apr 30, 2021
Darktrace prices IPO at 250 pence, valuing firm at $2.4 billion
LONDON (Reuters) - British cybersecurity company Darktrace said on Friday it had set the price of its shares at 250 pence in its London listing, around the midpoint of the range, giving the company a ...
Apr 30, 2021
UBS seeking to boost stake in China JV, CEO tells newspaper
ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS wants to boost its stake in its securities joint venture in China, Chief Executive Ralph Hamers told Swiss newspaper NZZ in an interview published on Friday, as the world's bigg...
Apr 30, 2021
Record number of Chinese to travel over Labour Day break, but stick close to home
By Sophie Yu and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - A record-breaking wave of Chinese tourists will hit the road for the Labour Day break, and with borders still shut many will be travelling domestically, t...
Apr 30, 2021
Japan's ANA Q4 loss almost doubles as COVID slump persists
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's biggest airline, ANA Holdings, posted on Friday a fourth quarter operating loss of 102.37 billion yen, according to Reuters' calculations, versus a loss of 58.8 billion yen a...
Apr 30, 2021
UK house prices jump by most since 2004 as tax break extended
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices jumped by 2.1% in April, their biggest monthly rise in more than 17 years, after finance minister Rishi Sunak unexpectedly extended a tax break...
Apr 30, 2021
Barclays Q1 profit more than doubles as bad loans shrink
LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays reported first quarter profits more than doubled, despite not releasing cash set aside to cover bad loans from the COVID-19 pandemic as its British peers had done. Barclays...
Apr 30, 2021
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
(Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Mumbai runs out of vaccines as India hits another record All vaccination centres in India's financial capital of Mumbai were s...
Apr 30, 2021
