Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Bluetooth phone apps for tracking COVID-19 show modest early results
By Aradhana Aravindan and Sankalp Phartiyal SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with...
Apr 21, 2020
Dash for emergency cash provokes fund industry backlash
By Simon Jessop, Sinead Cruise and Abhinav Ramnarayan LONDON (Reuters) - As companies pull the emergency cash cord to help them through the coronavirus crisis, shareholders have been split by an easin...
Apr 21, 2020
Cordell Eaton Named Big 12 Wrestling Scholar-Athlete of the Year
IRVING, Texas (NDSU Athletics) - North Dakota State 197-pounder Cordell Eaton was named the Big 12 Conference Wrestling Scholar-Athlete of the Year as the conference announced its 2020 Winter Scholar-...
Apr 21, 2020
Latin America and Caribbean poised for worst crisis in decades as pandemic bites: U.N. agency
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean will contract by a record 5.3% in 2020 as the impacts of coronavirus ravage the region, unleashing the worst social and economic c...
Apr 21, 2020
Germany's BaFin fines BlackRock for late filing of voting rights
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German financial markets watchdog BaFin said on Tuesday it had fined BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd 744,000 euros ($809,000) for failure to file voting rights notif...
Apr 21, 2020
U.S. Olympics rescheduled for June 2021 in Eugene, Oregon
(Reuters) - The postponed U.S. Olympic track and field trials have been rescheduled for June 18-27, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon, USA Track and Field (USATF) announced on Tuesday. The trials, to be held in ...
Apr 21, 2020
Bosnians allowed to go home after coronavirus quarantine protest
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Protesters in Sarajevo who staged a hunger strike over their treatment in coronavirus quarantine were on Tuesday allowed to go home by Bosnian authorities. About 50 people who had...
Apr 21, 2020
Irish government says GDP could fall as low as 15.3% if second wave of coronavirus
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish finance department on Tuesday said GDP for 2020 could fall by 13.8% if the coronavirus is not suppressed in the second quarter, and to 15.3% if there is a second wave. In ...
Apr 21, 2020
World Bank tells G20: Pandemic threatens food security of poor, stop hoarding food
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The poorest countries in the world face food insecurity and malnutrition due to the pandemic, a drop in foreign exchange earnings, export restrictions on food and the breakdown ...
Apr 21, 2020
U.S. could see biggest ever second-quarter GDP decline: White House adviser Hassett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Tuesday the current dip of negative oil prices is due to a "very short-run thing" - the coronavirus pandemic - and that a decl...
Apr 21, 2020
