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Glitch in Amazon cloud service hits Japan brokers, airline
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese firms, from major online brokerages to the top mobile phone carrier and a leading airline, reported system troubles on Thursday over problems with Amazon's Amazon Web Servic...
Sep 01, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court declines to block Texas abortion ban
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court late on Wednesday refused to block a Texas ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, dealing a major blow to aborti...
Sep 01, 2021
Australia, Singapore and South Africa to test cross border central bank digital payments
By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) - Central banks in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa will conduct a cross border payments trial using different central bank digital currencies (CBDC) to...
Sep 01, 2021
Top Chinese tech regulator holds video meet with Microsoft president
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Microsoft president Brad Smith met Xiao Yaqing, a top official of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) via a video call on Thursday to discuss cooperatio...
Sep 01, 2021
Chinese regulators summon ride-hailing firms to meeting to discuss market concerns
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese regulators summoned 11 ride-hailing firms including Didi Global Inc, Geely's Caocao and Meituan's ride-hailing unit to a meeting, the transport ministry said on Thursday, t...
Sep 01, 2021
ByteDance says it will downsize fintech business, plans to sell stock broker ops
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-based ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, said on Wednesday that it would shrink its financial services unit and that it planned to sell its stock broking operations amid China...
Sep 01, 2021
Asia stocks in cautious mood, dollar near 1-mth lows
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian share markets were in a cautious mood on Thursday as concerns grew over the Chinese economy after a run of soft data, while the risk of a sub par U.S. payrolls r...
Sep 01, 2021
BOJ policymaker warns of heightening risks to Japan’s economic recovery
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan board member Goushi Kataoka said on Thursday the coronavirus pandemic may weigh on the economy longer than initially expected, warning of heightened risk...
Sep 01, 2021
Chaotic U.S. exit likely to crush Afghan economy – Fitch
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Fitch Solutions has forecast a collapse in the Afghan economy and cut its real gross domestic product estimate for growth of 0.4% this financial year to project contraction of 9....
Sep 01, 2021
Graphic: China likely to quicken fiscal spending, but policy rate cuts not on the cards
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is likely to accelerate fiscal spending and credit growth as its economic recovery slows, but investors are expecting any easing measures from Beijing to be finely targeted ...
Sep 01, 2021
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