Author Archives: Syndicated Content
MLB notebook: White Sox’s Moncada reportedly gets $70 million extension
The Chicago White Sox and third baseman Yoan Moncada have agreed to a five-year contract extension worth $70 million, multiple media outlets reported Thursday. A sixth-year club option is worth $25 mi...
Mar 05, 2020
Singapore minister says coronavirus outbreak emerging as pandemic
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The coronavirus spreading around the world from China is "starting to look like a global pandemic," said Singapore minister Lawrence Wong, who co-heads the country's virus fighti...
Mar 05, 2020
Coronavirus crisis threatens to silence Japan's tourist boom
By Daniel Leussink and Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) - The restaurants at the Exitmelsa shopping center in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district are usually packed with Chinese tourists. But on a recent we...
Mar 05, 2020
Oil slips amid demand concern, fears over OPEC+ deal for deeper output cuts
By Shu Zhang SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil slid on Friday as worries about demand for fuel being sapped by the global coronavirus outbreak were heightened by concern over non-OPEC crude producers not yet ...
Mar 05, 2020
Japan says virus travel restrictions not too late as South Korea protests
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government defended new, tighter travel restrictions on visitors from China and South Korea, saying they were not too late to help slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak...
Mar 05, 2020
Spring training roundup: Tigers pound Yankees' Cole
Detroit's Travis Demeritte and Miguel Cabrera hit back-to-back homers off the Yankees' Gerrit Cole in the first inning, then repeated the feat in the second inning as the Tigers posted a 15-11 win ove...
Mar 05, 2020
Fed's Williams says central bank will respond as appropriate to address coronavirus risks
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - The coronavirus poses "evolving risks" to the U.S. economy and U.S. central bank officials are monitoring developments closely, New York Federal Reserve President John Wi...
Mar 05, 2020
BOJ to ease policy in March as coronavirus hits growth: Reuters poll
By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will ease monetary policy this month, tracking the U.S. Federal Reserve's surprise move this week, as the coronavirus jolts markets and stokes fears of a recess...
Mar 05, 2020
NFL notebook: Players get ballots for CBA vote
Players received ballots for a proposed 10-year extension to the collective bargaining agreement from the NFL Players Association on Thursday, and they have seven days to submit their vote. Ballots ar...
Mar 05, 2020
Malaysia anti-graft chief who probed 1MDB scandal quits
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's anti-corruption chief who investigated the 1MDB fraud said on Friday that she had resigned, the second such exit in the last few days after a party that was defeate...
Mar 05, 2020
