Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Dollar Tree misses holiday-quarter sales estimates on increased big-box competition
(Reuters) - Dollar Tree Inc missed market estimates for holiday-quarter sales on Wednesday as competition from big-box retailers increased, while demand for party supplies and other non-essential prod...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
Cyprus to lift veil of secrecy with register of company owners
By Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus plans to launch a register in coming months identifying the owners of thousands of companies on the island, lifting a veil of secrecy on opaque and complex...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
Futures advance as vaccines, stimulus boost bets on economic rebound
By Shashank Nayar and Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday as a swift global roll out of vaccines and a new round of stimulus bolstered bets on a quick economic rebound, ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
SoftBank aims to double PayPay users in cashless payments fight
By Sam Nussey and Noriyuki Hirata TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank aims to double user numbers at its PayPay QR code payment app in the next three to four years, an executive at its domestic internet subsid...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
European telcos cash in on tower assets as high-cost 5G investment looms
By Isla Binnie and Supantha Mukherjee MADRID/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - European telecoms firms are cashing in on the money-making power of masts, as tower companies line up to pay multi-billion dollar pri...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
U.S. mortgage rates jump by most in nearly a year: MBA
(Reuters) - U.S. mortgage rates jumped by the most in nearly a year last week to their highest level since July on the heels of a surge in Treasury bond yields, which are moving up on expectations of ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
Frontline Singapore bank staff to get COVID-19 vaccines
By Anshuman Daga SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Staff at Singapore's banks engaged in key operations are being offered COVID-19 vaccinations, making it one of the first global centres to inoculate its financia...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
Renewable diesel boom highlights challenges in clean-energy transition
By Rod Nickel, Stephanie Kelly and Karl Plume (Reuters) - For 17 years, trucker Colin Birch has been hitting the highways to collect used cooking oil from restaurants. He works for Vancouver-based ren...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
Austria to get extra vaccines, study South African variant hotspot
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will receive an extra 100,000 doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine to administer to all adults in a hotspot of the South African variant and carry out a study there on the ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
Italy could produce bulk vaccines in 4-6 months: ministry
MILAN (Reuters) - Some Italian companies have given their availability to produce COVID-19 vaccines and the production could take off in 4-6 months after regulators' authorisation, the industry minist...
Thomson Reuters Mar 03, 2021
