Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Investment banks cut jobs despite coronavirus trading surge: Coalition
LONDON (Reuters) - Investments banks cut jobs at the fastest pace in six years during a first quarter in 2020 even though the coronavirus pandemic triggered a surge in volatility and boosted revenues ...
May 12, 2020
A tale of two Japanese drugs in tests to fight COVID-19
By Rocky Swift and Christine Soares TOKYO (Reuters) - In the global hunt for coronavirus treatments, a Japanese antiviral medicine known as Avigan has won plaudits from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and $...
May 12, 2020
UK retail sales plunge 19% in April as COVID lockdown hits: BRC
LONDON (Reuters) - British retail spending plunged by nearly a fifth in April as the government's coronavirus lockdown hammered the sector, and a broader measure of consumer spending tumbled by more t...
May 12, 2020
Aiming to thwart China, U.S. senator pushes rare earths funding bill
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Ted Cruz introduced legislation on Tuesday to help revive the U.S. rare earths industry with tax breaks for mine developers and manufacturers who buy their ...
May 12, 2020
UK researchers try to crack genetic riddle of COVID-19
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - British researchers will study the genes of thousands of ill COVID-19 patients to try to crack one of the most puzzling riddles of the novel coronavirus: why do...
May 12, 2020
The U.S. needs more fiscal help to fight coronavirus, Fed officials say
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - U.S. businesses and households are going to need more fiscal support to get through what will likely be a longer period of recovery from the coronavirus shutdown than initial...
May 12, 2020
Colombia to look into TikTok's treatment of children's data
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's commerce regulator said on Tuesday it would look into whether Chinese-owned social media app TikTok complies with laws on the collection and treatment of children's and a...
May 12, 2020
Researchers revise U.S. COVID-19 death forecast upward again
(Reuters) - A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts more than 147,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, up nearly 10,000 from the last projection, as restrictions for curb...
May 12, 2020
Resurgent Wall Street disconnected from reality on the ground
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - With the U.S. economy facing its potentially deepest economic decline in nearly a century, Wall Street is pulling further and further ahead from Main Street. Trillions of...
May 12, 2020
Russia slams U.S. assertion at U.N. that it remains party to Iran nuclear deal
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russia's U.N. ambassador slammed the United States on Tuesday as "ridiculous" for arguing it was still a member of the Iran nuclear deal two years after it qui...
May 12, 2020
