Category Archives:
Oil extends losses on pandemic fears and rise in U.S. gasoline stockpiles
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Crude prices extended their losses into a sixth day on Thursday, hovering near 3-month lows, hurt by growing fears over slower fuel demand amid a spike in COVID-19 c...
Aug 18, 2021
Australia’s red-hot housing to get hotter, affordability to worsen – Reuters poll
By Vivek Mishra BENGALURU (Reuters) - Red-hot Australian house prices will heat up even more this year and next thanks to super-low borrowing costs and a lack of available homes, making affordability ...
Aug 18, 2021
Nearly all small UK manufacturers face costs headache – survey
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly all small British manufacturers are struggling with rising costs, according to a survey on Thursday that showed widespread worries over recruitment and logistics caused by th...
Aug 18, 2021
AstraZeneca CEO Soriot tops FTSE 100 pay-out charts in 2020 – report
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - Pascal Soriot, the chief executive of COVID-19 vaccine maker AstraZeneca, was Britain's highest paid company boss in 2020, a year when the average FTSE 100 leader sa...
Aug 18, 2021
Japan’s factory mood hits 3-1/2-year high – Reuters Tankan
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Confidence among Japanese manufacturers hit a more than three-and-half-year high in August and service-sector sentiment turned positive, the Reuters Tankan poll sh...
Aug 18, 2021
British consortium formed to develop solid state EV batteries
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - A group of seven British organisations including battery materials firm Johnson Matthey, start-up Britishvolt and Oxford University said on Thursday they had formed a ...
Aug 18, 2021
Explainer: What happens next in Huawei CFO Meng’s Canada extradition case?
By Moira Warburton VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Judicial hearings in Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's extradition case wrapped up on Wednesday and British Columbia Associate Chief Justice Heathe...
Aug 18, 2021
Illumina closes $7.1 billion deal for cancer test maker Grail amid regulatory hurdles
(Reuters) -Illumina Inc has completed its $7.1 billion acquisition of cancer detection test maker Grail Inc, it said on Wednesday amid challenges posed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Eur...
Aug 18, 2021
U.S. administers 358.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 358,599,835 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 419,612,925 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Aug 18, 2021
Huawei CFO’s U.S. extradition hearings in Canada end, date for ruling coming Oct. 21
By Moira Warburton VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canadian prosecutors said the defense of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou failed on facts and law, as hearings in their bid to extradite her to the ...
Aug 18, 2021
Peoria, IL, USA
63 °F Rain, Mist
