Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China planning new policies to take on ageing population: state media
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is planning to include new measures to encourage more births and address its rapidly ageing population as part of its new 2021-2025 "five-year plan", state media reported on...
Nov 22, 2020
Singapore upgrades Q3 GDP, sees economy returning to growth next year
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's economy contracted much less than initially estimated in the third quarter due to gradual easing of COVID-19 lockdown measures and authorities expect the city-state t...
Nov 22, 2020
Global dividends forecast to inch back from coronavirus cliff edge
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Dividend payouts by the world's biggest firms in 2020 will fall by 17.5%-20%, equivalent to some $263 billion, as a result of the coronavirus crisis, a report on Monda...
Nov 22, 2020
Heat re-sign veteran G Dragic
The Miami Heat officially announced the re-signing Sunday of veteran guard Goran Dragic. The team did not disclose the terms, but The Athletic reported the deal was for two years and $37.4 million wit...
Nov 22, 2020
Chile's President Pinera seeks Constitutional Court help to head off pensions bill
By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Sunday his government would appeal to the country's Constitutional Court to halt an opposition measure aimed at allowin...
Nov 22, 2020
Dollar pinned near major support as vaccine progress weighs
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar marked time on Monday as the prospect of an early rollout of coronavirus vaccines was offset by concerns about economic restrictions to control the spr...
Nov 22, 2020
Siemens, Deutsche Bahn launch local hydrogen trains trial
MUNICH (Reuters) - Siemens Mobility and Deutsche Bahn have started developing hydrogen-powered fuel cell trains and a filling station which will be trialled in 2024 with view to replace diesel engines...
Nov 22, 2020
An heiress, a judge and a job: France's Sarkozy goes on trial for corruption
By Richard Lough PARIS (Reuters) - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on Monday accused of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling, one of several criminal investigations ...
Nov 22, 2020
Australian regulator launches probe into stock market outage
(Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator is investigating an outage at the country's stock exchange last week that hit trading systems and nearly wiped out an entire session, bourse operator ASX Lt...
Nov 22, 2020
Germany may start COVID-19 vaccine programme in December: health minister
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany could start administering shots of COVID-19 vaccines as soon as next month, Health Minister Jens Spahn was quoted as saying. "There is reason to be optimistic that there ...
Nov 22, 2020
