Author Archives: Syndicated Content
India plans to reduce number of state-owned banks to just five - sources
By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - India is looking to privatise more than half of its state-owned banks to reduce the number of government-owned lenders to just five as part ...
Jul 20, 2020
Valneva eyes EU COVID-19 vaccine deal after agreeing to supply UK
LONDON (Reuters) - France's Valneva is in talks with the European Union about supplying the bloc with its possible COVID-19 vaccine, Chief Executive Thomas Lingelbach said on Monday after striking a d...
Jul 20, 2020
Today's Portugal is better prepared to face the future, says finance minister
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal is better prepared to face up to future challenges than it was during the global financial crisis thanks to five years of economic growth above the eurozone average, fallin...
Jul 20, 2020
Bosnia buries six war victims recovered from gorge
KAMICANI, Bosnia (Reuters) - Several hundred mourners gathered in the Bosnian village of Kamicani on Monday to bury six Bosniak Muslims killed 28 years ago in one of the most gruesome episodes of the ...
Jul 20, 2020
UK airlines call for tax break to help boost demand
LONDON (Reuters) - A group representing UK airlines including British Airways , easyJet and Ryanair called on the UK government to suspend a tax on flights to boost demand and help the industry recove...
Jul 20, 2020
Former Ford auto chief Hinrichs joins startup WaveSense's board
DETROIT (Reuters) - Former Ford Motor Co automotive operations chief Joe Hinrichs is joining the board of Wavesense, Inc, a Massachusetts startup developing ground-penetrating radar to help guide vehi...
Jul 20, 2020
'It makes sense': French shoppers take compulsory masks in their stride
PARIS (Reuters) - From Monday, shoppers entering the bakery in Paris where Kalil Gaci works are required by law to wear a mask, but his customers are taking the new rule in their stride. "There's no p...
Jul 20, 2020
Uber offers COVID-19 contact tracing help amid chaotic U.S. response
By Tina Bellon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has quietly launched a service to give public health officials quick access to data on drivers and riders presumed to have come into contact w...
Jul 20, 2020
U.S. bank deposits not worth what they were before COVID-19
By David Henry NEW YORK (Reuters) - Big banks are making a lot less money from their deposits than they did before the coronavirus pandemic. Net interest income, the difference between what banks pay ...
Jul 20, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic advances the march of 'cobots'
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) - While a resurgence in coronavirus cases in Texas has brought many businesses to a screeching halt, eight robots have kept All Axis Machining's metal fabricati...
Jul 20, 2020
