Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Baking, cereal demand boosts General Mills’ sales, shares rise
(Reuters) - General Mills Inc beat sales and profit estimates for the first quarter on Wednesday, as people stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic stocked up on its baking products and cereals. Sh...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
Back from adversity, rejuvenated Azarenka is on a roll
By Martyn Herman (Reuters) - Few players have been thrown as many curve balls in their career as former world number one Victoria Azarenka but the Belarussian fighter is back and hunting Grand Slam ti...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
Exclusive: Hyundai in talks with EU on concessions over Daewoo deal – sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - World No. 1 shipbuilding group Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co Ltd are in talks with EU antitrust regulators on concessions to allay competition concerns about its $1.8 billi...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
Violence mounts against Iraqi doctors as COVID cases spike
By Amina Ismail NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi doctor Tariq Al-Sheibani remembers little else beyond cowering on the ground as a dozen relatives of a patient, who had just died of COVID-19, beat him un...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
KKR to buy online contact lens retailer 1-800 Contacts
(Reuters) - KKR & Co Inc has agreed to acquire 1-800 Contacts from investment firm AEA Investors LP, the online contact lens retailer announced on Wednesday, in a deal that a source said was worth mor...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
Pandemic slashes worldwide income from work by a tenth: ILO
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Income earned from work worldwide dropped by an estimated 10.7%, or $3.5 trillion, in the first nine months of 2020, compared to the same period a year ago, the...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
Explainer: What happens next with UK plan to breach Brexit divorce treaty?
By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson is winning his parliamentary battle to pass laws that could allow him to tear up parts of Britain's EU exit treaty, despite a warning f...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
German cabinet approves second-highest net new debt in 2021 budget
By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet on Wednesday approved Finance Minister Olaf Scholz's draft budget for next year which envisages net new debt of 96.2 billion euros ($112.6 bil...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
Futures rise ahead of business activity data; Nike shines
By Sagarika Jaisinghani (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday ahead of data that would throw light on the pace of an economic recovery from a coronavirus-driven recession, while Nike ...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020
UK concert hall sheds name of slave trader whose statue was toppled
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A concert hall in the English city of Bristol that was named after 17th century slave trader Edward Colston has renamed itself the Bristol Beacon saying the long-...
Syndicated Content Sep 23, 2020




