Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Wall Street Week Ahead: In companies' earnings, words may matter more than numbers
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors gearing up for another week of corporate earnings may give more weight to the words of company executives than headline-grabbing numbers, as Wall Stre...
Apr 17, 2020
Trump administration working to ease drilling industry cash crunch
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is seeking to ease a severe cash crunch in the drilling industry by raising loan limits available under a coronavirus stimulus packag...
Apr 17, 2020
Activist hedge fund Engaged to give director fees to corporate employees
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investor Engaged Capital will donate roughly $500,000 in fees its executives would have earned for serving on public companies' boards this year to t...
Apr 17, 2020
Japan PM Abe backs WHO on coronavirus, in contrast with ally Trump
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus, in contrast with U.S. Presid...
Apr 17, 2020
French COVID tracing app will not be ready when parliament debates it
PARIS (Reuters) - France's state-supported tracing app project "StopCovid" will not be ready when parliament debates it on April 28-29, the minister for digital affairs Cedric O said on Friday. The sm...
Apr 17, 2020
Scammers try to cash in on lockdown passes in virus-hit Moscow
By Nadezhda Tsydenova and Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - Fraudsters are trying to cash in on a new coronavirus travel permit system in Moscow by offering to help people illegally circumvent it for ca...
Apr 17, 2020
Russian coach gets four-year ban for trying to bribe official
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian track and field coach Andrei Eremenko has been banned for four years after attempting to bribe a dope tester in 2017, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said in a stat...
Apr 17, 2020
Russian firms face net foreign debt repayment of $22 billion in second and third quarter
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian companies will have to carry out net foreign debt repayments of $12.6 billion in the second quarter and $9.4 billion in the third quarter, the Russian central bank said on F...
Apr 17, 2020
Dutch deaths April 6-12 2,000 higher than normal: statistics agency
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Deaths in the Netherlands in the week of April 6-12 were around 2,000 higher than in an average week, national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. The National Institute for Pu...
Apr 17, 2020
Portugal's car parts makers resume production as coronavirus spread slows
By Victoria Waldersee LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese car component manufacturers, among the country's top exporters, are calling thousands of employees back to work even before a nationwide COVID-19 lo...
Apr 17, 2020
