Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Volkswagen CEO tweets, Musk-style, on market-cap milestone
By Thyagaraju Adinarayan and Christoph Steitz LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - When the market value of Germany's Volkswagen rose above the 100-billion-euro mark on Wednesday for the first time since 2015...
Mar 03, 2021
Indigenous people sue retailer Casino over Amazon destruction
PARIS (Reuters) - Indigenous peoples from Brazil and Colombia sued retailer Casino in a French court on Wednesday over the selling of beef linked to land grabbing and deforestation in the Amazon, camp...
Mar 03, 2021
Vir, GSK to halt enrollment in U.S. COVID-19 antibody trial sub-study
(Reuters) - Vir Biotechnology and Britain's GSK said on Wednesday they would pause enrollment into a study testing their experimental COVID-19 antibody therapy, which is a part of a large U.S. trial. ...
Mar 03, 2021
U.S. service sector slows; businesses facing higher costs: ISM survey
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. services industry activity unexpectedly slowed in February amid winter storms, while a measure of prices paid by companies for inputs surged to the highes...
Mar 03, 2021
Citigroup seeks longer Revlon fund freeze during appeal over botched payment
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc wants a U.S. judge to extend a freeze on about $504 million that it mistakenly sent a group of Revlon Inc lenders, while it appeals his decision ...
Mar 03, 2021
Total studying all-electric LNG plant in Oman
LONDON (Reuters) - Total is considering building a fully electrified liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Oman in order to reduce the fuel's greenhouse gas emissions, the French energy group's chief e...
Mar 03, 2021
U.N. rights experts urge Saudi Arabia to release three young Shi'ites
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts called on Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to free three young Shi'ite Muslims whose death sentences for taking part in protests as minors have been commuted, cit...
Mar 03, 2021
Fed's Harker said building a more equitable economy is important
(Reuters) - Racial and gender disparities lead to trillions of dollars in lost economic activity and a full recovery from the crisis caused by the pandemic will require structural changes that make it...
Mar 03, 2021
U.S. officials have met Yemen's Houthis as Washington seeks end to war: sources
By Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI (Reuters) - Senior U.S. officials have held a first direct meeting with officials from the Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls Yemen's capital, two sources familiar wi...
Mar 03, 2021
Altice's SFR to cut up to 11% of staff in France in 2021
PARIS (Reuters) - Altice Europe's French unit SFR said on Wednesday it could cut up to 1,700 jobs or about 11% of its staff this year in France. SFR said in a statement that the departures would be on...
Mar 03, 2021
