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Delta variant bears down on China just as its economy loses steam
By Ryan Woo and Roxanne Liu BEIJING (Reuters) - The Delta variant poses new risks for the world's second-biggest economy as it spreads from the coast to China's inland cities and presents fresh challe...
Aug 02, 2021
Exclusive: Ethiopia to reopen bidding for second telecoms licence, officials say
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia will open bidding for its second telecoms operator licence this month, two senior government officials said on Monday, including the right to operate mobile financial ...
Aug 02, 2021
Grab’s sales jump 39% in Q1, ahead of record SPAC deal
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Grab, Southeast Asia's biggest ride hailing-to-food delivery group's first-quarter adjusted net sales rose 39% to a record $507 million and the Singapore-based firm reduced its l...
Aug 02, 2021
Foot Locker to buy two retailers for $1.1 billion – WSJ
(Reuters) - Footwear retailer Foot Locker Inc will buy two retailers for a total of about $1.1 billion in cash deals, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Foot Locker is expected to announce th...
Aug 02, 2021
In Bolsonaro’s backyard, Brazil central bank pressures banks to hew to greener line
By Carolina Mandl and Jamie McGeever SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank is preparing to require banks to account for potential losses from climate change-related phenomena such as dr...
Aug 02, 2021
Financial regulators urgently need to get a grip on ‘Big Tech’ – BIS
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks and financial regulators urgently need to get to grips with the growing influence of 'Big Tech', according to top officials from central bank umbrella gr...
Aug 02, 2021
Teenage girls in northern Nigeria ‘open their minds’ with robotics
By Seun Sanni and Nneka Chile KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Teenage girls in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are learning robotics, computing and other STEM subjects as part of an innovative project th...
Aug 02, 2021
The robot apocalypse is hard to find in America’s small and mid-sized factories
By Timothy Aeppel CLEVELAND (Reuters) - When researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology visited Rich Gent's machine shop here to see how automation was spreading to America's small and...
Aug 02, 2021
U.S. Senate works to push $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to passage
By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will try to complete work this week on a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill that would bring long-awaited improvements ...
Aug 02, 2021
U.S. labor revival in doubt as Delta raises worries about ‘back to school’
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In April, almost a year after she was laid off from her hospitality firm due to the pandemic, Sara Gard was still barely finding her feet with...
Aug 02, 2021
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