Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Analysis: Dueling pre-election bets playing out in U.S. Treasury market
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $20 trillion U.S. Treasury market is showing signs of life after months of sleepy trading, as opposing bets on how the econom...
Oct 30, 2020
Pakistani police fire teargas at protesters trying to approach French Embassy
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police on Friday briefly fired tear gas at protesters who broke through security blockades in Islamabad in a failed attempt to demonstrate at the French Embassy against...
Oct 30, 2020
Black actor Turner-Smith to play English queen Anne Boleyn in new drama
LONDON (Reuters) - Black British actor Jodie Turner-Smith is to play Anne Boleyn, wife of English King Henry VIII whom he had beheaded, in a three-part psychological thriller commissioned by TV statio...
Oct 30, 2020
Alibaba-owned Lazada suffers data hack of 1.1 million accounts
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore e-commerce firm Lazada said on Friday that personal information including addresses and partial credit card numbers from 1.1 million accounts had been hacked, a major b...
Oct 30, 2020
Exclusive: Goldman money funds' liquidity buffer swells before U.S. election
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Two Goldman Sachs Group Inc money-market funds, whipsawed in March by billions of dollars of investor withdrawals, have steadily amassed a liquidity cushion much l...
Oct 30, 2020
Kenyan court jails two men for 2013 Westgate mall attack
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - A court in Kenya sentenced two men on Friday to 18 years in prison for helping al Shabaab gunmen in a 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall that killed...
Oct 30, 2020
Hospital beds, oxygen run short in Russia's regions as COVID-19 cases surge
By Anton Zverev, Maria Tsvetkova and Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ekaterina Saraichenko, who lives in Saratov, posted a video on Russian social media this month, describing her mother's ordeal wi...
Oct 30, 2020
U.S. consumer spending beat expectations; outlook uncertain
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending increased more than expected in September, but decreasing benefits for millions of unemployed Americans and a resurgence in COVID-19 cas...
Oct 30, 2020
Belarus leader threatens to leave protesters 'without hands' as strike rumbles
KYIV (Reuters) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to leave protesters "without hands" on Friday, sharpening his rhetoric as hundreds marched through the streets and rallied outside un...
Oct 30, 2020
OPEC oil output rises more on Libya restart, Iraq: Reuters survey
By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC oil output has risen for a fourth month in October, a Reuters survey found, as a restart of more Libyan installations and higher Iraqi exports offset full adhere...
Oct 30, 2020
