Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Japan Ministry of Finance to seek $242 billion for debt servicing FY2021/22: draft
By Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Ministry of Finance is set to seek about $242 billion in debt servicing for the fiscal year from next April 1, up for a third straight year on a budget-re...
Sep 24, 2020
UK retail sales growth hits highest since April 2019: CBI survey
LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales, one of the bright spots of the pandemic-hit economy, grew this month at the fastest rate since April 2019, a survey showed on Thursday. The Confederation of Br...
Sep 24, 2020
Bad blood from Kavanaugh confirmation may resurface in U.S. Senate hearings
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The bitter confirmation battle over President Donald Trump's last Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, looms large for the Senate Judiciary Committee as it ...
Sep 24, 2020
Canada 'bets the farm' on big spending as second wave threatens economic recovery
By Julie Gordon and Fergal Smith OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's vow to double down on pandemic-related spending to keep the economic recovery under way in the face of a second wave of COVID-19 in...
Sep 24, 2020
Pfizer partner BioNTech sees no role for its vaccine in UK challenge trial
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Pfizer's German development partner BioNTech on Thursday joined other leading COVID-19 vaccine developers in ruling out participation in British plans to test experimental inocul...
Sep 24, 2020
A roller coaster six months leaves U.S. recovery still uncertain
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As businesses shuttered and millions hit the unemployment line last spring, the most dour predictions saw the United States heading for another Great Depress...
Sep 24, 2020
U.S., Chinese diplomats signal tricky road ahead for climate diplomacy
By Valerie Volcovici and David Stanway WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - After several years of dismissing global action to fight climate change, U.S. leadership was formally challenged this week by Chi...
Sep 24, 2020
Shell considering sale of stake in Philippines' Malampaya project
MANILA (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell PLC is looking to sell its 45% stake in the Malampaya gas-to-power project in the Philippines, the key power source of the country's main island of Luzon, its loca...
Sep 24, 2020
Business morale brightens in Germany, France despite coronavirus resurgence
By Michael Nienaber and Leigh Thomas BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - Business morale in Germany and France improved for the fifth month in a row in September, boosting hopes that the euro zone's two biggest ...
Sep 24, 2020
Malaysian PM banks on victory in Borneo poll after Anwar challenge
By Joseph Sipalan KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Locked in a power struggle with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin needs a solid victory in a state election on the i...
Sep 24, 2020
