Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Wall Street jumps as tech, bank shares gain
By Devik Jain and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) - U.S. stocks jumped on Monday, bouncing back from the longest weekly losing streak in a year for the S&P 500 and the Dow, with technology, banks and trave...
Sep 28, 2020
Vista Outdoor to buy bankrupt gunmaker Remington's ammunition business
(Reuters) - Vista Outdoor Inc said on Monday it would buy some parts of U.S. gunmaker Remington Outdoor Co Inc's ammunition and accessories businesses for about $81 million. Remington in July filed fo...
Sep 28, 2020
France has no plan to order a new coronavirus lockdown: minister
PARIS (Reuters) - France's government has no plan to order a new nationwide lockdown to contain a resurgence in coronavirus cases in the country, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday. Le Mai...
Sep 28, 2020
Walmart picks EG-TDR consortium as preferred bidder for Asda: Sky News
(Reuters) - Walmart Inc has picked the founders of UK petrol station operator EG Group and private equity firm TDR Capital as preferred bidder for British supermarket chain Asda at a valuation of more...
Sep 28, 2020
The pandemic, a deadly cancer and my 14-year-old daughter
By Darrin Zammit Lupi TAL-OROQQ, Malta (Reuters) - Strangely, I can't clearly picture the face of the surgeon who changed my family's life. I'm not sure I'd recognize him if I bumped into him in the s...
Sep 28, 2020
U.N. experts urge Nigeria to lift singer's blasphemy death sentence
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. rights experts asked Nigeria on Monday to release a 22-year-old singer who was condemned to death over an allegedly blasphemous song, saying the sentence broke international la...
Sep 28, 2020
'Music is not a crime': U.N. experts urge Nigeria to lift singer's death sentence
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. rights experts asked Nigeria on Monday to release a 22-year-old singer who was condemned to death over an allegedly blasphemous song, and said the sentence broke international ...
Sep 28, 2020
Devon Energy to buy shale peer WPX for $2.56 billion in Delaware push
By Shruti Sonal (Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas producer Devon Energy Corp said on Monday it will buy Permian basin peer WPX Energy Inc for $2.56 billion as it looks to boost its presence in the Delaware...
Sep 28, 2020
U.S. FDA pauses Inovio's coronavirus vaccine trial plan
(Reuters) - The U.S. health regulator has put a hold on Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc's plans to start final trials of its coronavirus vaccine as the agency seeks more information, including details on a...
Sep 28, 2020
Nobel laureate Alexievich leaves Belarus for medical treatment in Germany
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich, a prominent opposition figure, has left Belarus on a trip to Germany but her departure is not linked to politics a...
Sep 28, 2020
