Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK extends furlough scheme by a month to end of June: finance minister
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom has extended by a month until the end of June the furlough scheme for workers at companies hurt by the coronavirus outbreak, finance minister Rishi Sunak said. "I...
Apr 17, 2020
Half of announced North American oil cuts come from just three companies
By Arathy S Nair and Shanti S Nair (Reuters) - Numerous U.S. and Canadian oil companies have said they are reducing output in 2020, but a Reuters analysis of the announcements so far show that just th...
Apr 17, 2020
Gilead's shares rise on report of experimental drug's promise in COVID-19
(Reuters) - Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc rose 10% in early trading on Friday after a report that patients with COVID-19 treated with the company's experimental drug, remdesivir, in a clinical trial s...
Apr 17, 2020
Exclusive: Moscow has more coronavirus cases than state testing shows, private lab data suggest
By Polina Ivanova, Maria Tsvetkova and Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - The novel coronavirus has penetrated more deeply into Moscow's population than official data show, private testing results among ...
Apr 17, 2020
UK scientists to make a million potential COVID-19 vaccines before proof
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by British scientists are already being manufactured and will be available by September, even before ...
Apr 17, 2020
NY Fed's Williams says economic pain likely to continue for 'some time'
(Reuters) - The shutdowns enacted to slow the spread of the coronavirus are likely to put a damper on the U.S. economy for some time, New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said Friday ...
Apr 17, 2020
Fed's Mester says economic reopening has to be done carefully, in stages
(Reuters) - Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Loretta Mester said the central bank is working to support market functioning and to shore up businesses so they can resume activity quickly when t...
Apr 17, 2020
Some life insurers hit pause on older Americans during coronavirus crisis
By Suzanne Barlyn (Reuters) - Some U.S. life insurers are deciding not to gamble on older Americans during the coronavirus crisis by temporarily suspending applications from certain age groups or impo...
Apr 17, 2020
Indian fishermen, caught out by virus lockdown, dock after weeks at sea
By Prashant Waydande DAHANU, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of exhausted Indian fishermen, who said they were refused entry at two ports after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronaviru...
Apr 17, 2020
'No one is prepared for this' - Italian doctors fight to keep home patients alive
By Alex Fraser BERGAMO, Italy (Reuters) - For doctors in northern Italy, fighting what is still Europe's worst outbreak of COVID-19, the frontlines have moved beyond hospitals as special teams try to ...
Apr 17, 2020
