Author Archives: Syndicated Content
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
U.S. stocks in 2020: A year for the history books, in charts
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - The year 2020 was a wild one for Wall Street, bookended by the end of the longest bull market in history with the battering of equities by the COVID-19 shutdo...
Dec 31, 2020
Local funding crisis threatens U.S. vaccine rollout
By Carl O'Donnell and Rebecca Spalding NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seattle public health officials have so little COVID-19 funding on hand they worry they will have to shut down some virus testing sites as t...
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. vaccinations in 2020 falling far short of target of 20 million people
By Rebecca Spalding and Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - Only about 2.6 million Americans had received a COVID-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the gove...
Dec 31, 2020
Emergency cash calls, tech IPO frenzy push 2020 banker fees to record high
By Abhinav Ramnarayan, Clara Denina and Elizabeth Howcroft (Reuters) - Emergency corporate fundraising and a clamour for tech stock market listings pushed equity capital market volumes to over $1 tril...
Dec 31, 2020
Pope will not lead New Year services because of flare up of leg pain
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will not lead New Year's Eve and New Year's Day services because of a flare up of his sciatica condition, which produces pain in his right leg, the Vatican said o...
Dec 31, 2020
Singapore sees most local coronavirus cases in 3 months, more of new variant
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore reported five locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Thursday, its highest number in nearly three months, and was seeking to verify two others suspected of being infecte...
Dec 31, 2020
