Author Archives: Syndicated Content
London statue honoring feminist pioneer taped up, cloaked in masks
By Paul Childs LONDON (Reuters) - A newly unveiled nude female statue in London meant to honor feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft has been targeted by unknown critics who stuck black tape on its bre...
Nov 11, 2020
Global regulators ease capital burden on JP Morgan bank
LONDON (Reuters) - JPMorgan is no longer the world's most systemically-important bank, according to rankings for additional capital requirements published by the Financial Stability Board on Wednesday...
Nov 11, 2020
Germany sees spike in COVID-19 deaths
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Wednesday reported the biggest spike in deaths linked to COVID-19 since April, and its health minister warned that the number of daily infections had not fallen enough ye...
Nov 11, 2020
Goldman Sachs lifts S&P 500 target on vaccine hopes, Biden win
LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs lifted its 2020 S&P 500 target to 3,700 points on Wednesday after a much-awaited positive vaccine announcement and Joe Biden's U.S. election win triggered a rally in g...
Nov 11, 2020
Analysis: Pandemic payment holidays mask wave of European problem debt
By John O'Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Pandemic payment breaks on European loans totalling billions of euros threaten to undermine efforts by the region's banks to put the coronavirus crisis behind t...
Nov 11, 2020
Malaysia reports 822 new coronavirus cases, two deaths
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's health ministry reported 822 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, raising the total to 42,872 infections. The Southeast Asian country also recorded two new deaths, t...
Nov 11, 2020
Cycling: Groenewegen gets nine-month suspension for crash with Jakobsen
(Reuters) - The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) on Wednesday suspended Dutch cyclist Dylan Groenewegen for nine months for causing a crash that resulted in compatriot Fabio Jakobsen being placed i...
Nov 11, 2020
Armenians protest over Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire deal
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian police arrested an opposition leader and several others who tried to stage a rally on Wednesday demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign over a ceasefire deal that ...
Nov 11, 2020
Bahrain's Sheikh Khalifa quelled opposition unrest, defended dynastic rule
DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain's veteran prime minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa quashed repeated opposition unrest in almost half a century in office and was a fierce critic of the Arab Spring...
Nov 11, 2020
Israel, Lebanon resume talks on disputed maritime border
NAQOURA, Lebanon (Reuters) - Israel and Lebanon resumed U.S.-mediated talks on Wednesday over their disputed Mediterranean Sea border, that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gas-r...
Nov 11, 2020
