Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Trump to announce ventilator loan plan to fight virus
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is to announce a loan program on Tuesday with the aim of making as many as 60,000 ventilators available to help coronavirus patients...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Honda extends Mexico plant suspensions to April 30 due to coronavirus
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican unit of Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co said on Tuesday it would extend a suspenion of operations at its plants in the states of Guanajuato and Jalisco until Apri...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Exclusive: France to hike crisis response by 10 billion euros to 110 billion - sources
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is set to raise the total amount of its crisis-response package by 10 billion euros ($11 billion), the second increase in days, when it updates its 2020 budget ...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Pandemic set to erode bank profitability further: EU watchdog
LONDON (Reuters) - Banks in the European Union have strong enough capital buffers to weather the coronavirus crisis but profitability remains weak and could suffer further as the pandemic progresses, ...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Cannes Film Festival will not be held this year in 'its original form': organisers
PARIS (Reuters) - The Cannes Film Festival will not be held this year in "its original form" due to the coronavirus, organisers said on Tuesday. The festival will nevertheless be made "real" in 2020, ...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Motor racing: Larson dropped by team over racial slur
(Reuters) - Kyle Larson was dropped by his team Chip Ganassi Racing on Tuesday, after the NASCAR driver used a racial slur during a livestream broadcast of an iRacing esports event. "After much consid...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Airlines mull empty seats and masks for coronavirus recovery
By Sarah Young and Laurence Frost LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Wizz Air is making plans to fly jets only two-thirds full to allow more space between passengers, it said on Tuesday, as airlines voiced conc...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Doping: Russia to make up for break in testing once coronavirus restrictions lifted
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's anti-doping agency RUSADA will undertake a broad programme to monitor athletes' biological components once a full hiatus in testing linked to coronavirus containment measur...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Fed's Bullard: Shutdown cannot be sustained forever; restart hinges on risk management
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economic shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic is costing the U.S. perhaps $25 billion a day in lost output and cannot be sustained indefinitely, St. Louis Federal Reserv...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
Barclays delays incentive payments to CEO, CFO due to coronavirus
LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays is delaying the release of portions of Chief Executive Jes Staley and Chief Financial Officer Tushar Morzaria's bonuses in light of the new coronavirus pandemic, it said on...
Thomson Reuters Apr 14, 2020
