Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Spain plans keeping borders closed until July: government sources
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish authorities are planning to keep borders closed to most travellers from abroad until July, two foreign ministry sources told Reuters on Wednesday, in a move to try and avoid...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
Chinese lab boosts Serbia's coronavirus testing capacity
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Chinese-built state-of-the-art laboratory is helping to nearly double Serbia's testing capacity for COVID-19, the lung disease caused by the new coronavirus, in the latest examp...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
Pandemic poses big risk to collateralised loans market: EU watchdog
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic poses significant risks to the collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) market as the creditworthiness of the debt deteriorates, the European Uni...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
With Castro-era biotech, Cuba seeks to compete in coronavirus treatment race
By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba, laboring under a six-decade U.S. embargo, is betting a biotech sector begun by late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro can give the Caribbean islan...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
Futures rise ahead of Fed Chair Powell's address
By Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Wednesday, a day after Wall Street's main indexes fell, as investors kept an eye out for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's ad...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
Germany announces gradual easing of border controls
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will start to ease some of the border controls introduced to slow the spread of the coronavirus from Saturday with the aim of having free travel in Europe from June 15, Inte...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
Spain's daily coronavirus death toll at 184 on Wednesday
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's daily death toll from the coronavirus inched up on Wednesday to 184 fatalities from 176 on Tuesday, the country's health ministry said. The overall death toll from the disea...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
Tesla's California fight heats up competition for jobs
By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk's fight with local authorities over the reopening of its California plant has gotten the attention of those who scout sites for n...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
EU regulators set new August 13 deadline for EssilorLuxottica's Dutch deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have set a new deadline of Aug. 13 for their decision on Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica's 7.2-billion-euro ($7.8 billion) bid for Dutch opticians group Gra...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
Fed's Powell to assess next phase of pandemic economy
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, having overseen the rapid creation of the central bank's massive network of pandemic-era programs, turns his attention W...
Thomson Reuters May 13, 2020
