Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall for second straight week
(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week but remain elevated more than nine months into the health and economic crisis trigger...
Dec 31, 2020
Ukraine seeks 16 million COVID vaccine doses under COVAX scheme
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine hopes to double the eight million COVID-19 vaccine doses guaranteed under the global COVAX scheme, set up to provide vaccines to poorer countries, President Volodymyr Zelenski...
Dec 31, 2020
Sudan's armed forces now in control of all its territory - foreign minister
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's armed forces have taken control of all of its territory, Foreign Minister Omar Gamareldin said in a press conference on Thursday, as border tensions with neighbour Ethiopi...
Dec 31, 2020
Hungary will not use Russian vaccine due to capacity problems - govt
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will buy vaccines either through the European Union's procurement mechanism or directly from China because Russia has inadequate capacity to manufacture vaccines, Prime Mi...
Dec 31, 2020
Norway to introduce mandatory COVID tests at borders, closes some entry points
OSLO (Reuters) - All travellers entering Norway will have to take a COVID-19 test upon arrival, or up to 24 hours after, from Jan. 2, the country's justice ministry said on Thursday. To stop the sprea...
Dec 31, 2020
Futures muted in the last trading session of 2020
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were muted in the last trading session of a tumultuous year on Thursday, as investors digested big market gains and hoped that more stimulus and coro...
Dec 31, 2020
Iran's Zarif says U.S. plotting to fabricate war pretext - Twitter
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States on Thursday of trying to fabricate a pretext for attacking Iran, and vowed Tehran would defend itself even tho...
Dec 31, 2020
Tech, cross-border activities set to drive Asia M&A next year
By Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Coronavirus-spurred growth in the technology sector will help drive M&A activity in the Asia Pacific next year, bankers and lawyers predict, with the potential easing ...
Dec 31, 2020
Bewildered and angry, Northern Ireland unionists fret over place in UK
By Natalie Thomas and Amanda Ferguson LARNE, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - As Northern Ireland's unionists prepare to celebrate 100 years since the state's creation cemented their place in the United K...
Dec 31, 2020
Fewer companies caught the deal bug in the year of the pandemic
By Joshua Franklin and Pamela Barbaglia (Reuters) - Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity fell to a three-year low in 2020, as companies grappled with the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pa...
Dec 31, 2020
