Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Southwest Airlines among three carriers with investment grade rating: S&P Global
(Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co , Ryanair Holdings Plc and easyJet Plc are the only three airlines whose bonds are still rated investment grade, S&P Global Ratings said, while estimating a drop of u...
Aug 12, 2020
Ontario projects record budget deficit as COVID-19 economic support climbs
By Fergal Smith TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario, Canada's most populous province and economic engine, projected on Wednesday its budget deficit would widen to a record C$38.5 billion ($29.09 billion) in 2...
Aug 12, 2020
Turkish schools to begin reopening on September 21: education minister
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish schools will start to reopen on Sept. 21 in a gradual transition to in-person education, the country's Education Minister Ziya Selcuk said on Wednesday, delaying the reope...
Aug 12, 2020
Turkish board proposes schools stay closed for another month: minister
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's science board recommended on Wednesday that education in schools should not begin for at least one more month, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said, after the board met to...
Aug 12, 2020
Saudi stock exchange to launch environmental index with MSCI: CEO
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's stock exchange (TADAWUL) plans to launch an environmental, social or governance (ESG) index in cooperation with global index provider MSCI by the fourth quarter of th...
Aug 12, 2020
COVID-19 tied to muscle-weakening disease; vaping risk documented
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Aug 12, 2020
Chile cautiously lifts lockdown lid on capital’s center
By Aislinn Laing and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile will lift one of the world's longest quarantines on Monday, moving the capital Santiago's central business district and adjoini...
Aug 12, 2020
U.S. July deficit falls to $63 billion on delayed tax payments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. federal budget deficit fell to $63 billion in July, half the amount of a year earlier and down from $864 billion in June, as a delayed July 15 tax payment deadline boos...
Aug 12, 2020
Baby George, born amid Beirut blast, is ‘light in the darkness’
By Charlotte Bruneau and Yara Abi Nader BEIRUT, (Reuters) - Stepping into the delivery room where his wife Emmanuelle was about to give birth, Edmond Khnaisser meant to capture their son's first momen...
Aug 12, 2020
Surge in Spain’s virus cases prompts regional smoking ban, field hospital
MADRID (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases in Spain jumped by nearly 1,700 on Wednesday, part of a surge that has prompted the construction of a military field hospital in the hard-hit Aragon region and led...
Aug 12, 2020
