Author Archives: Syndicated Content
COVID-19 market turmoil raises questions about central bank liquidity strategy, says BIS
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Market turmoil due to coronavirus lockdowns in March raises questions about whether central banks should offer access to liquidity more widely in future shocks, the Ban...
Sep 14, 2020
Wall Street fundraisers turn into wallflowers during 2020 U.S. election
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Early this year, a prominent billionaire tried several times to organize a fundraiser for presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, a moderate who gained favor a...
Sep 14, 2020
Singapore gives out pocket-sized device to trace coronavirus
By Chen Lin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore began handing out pocket-sized coronavirus contact-tracing devices to residents on Monday, part of a planned nationwide rollout to help the city-state safel...
Sep 14, 2020
Dish signs up Nokia to supply 5G core software
STOCKHOLM/HELSINKI (Reuters) - U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network, racing to build a 5G network in the United States by 2023, has turned to Finland's Nokia to supply 5G core software. Dish is bui...
Sep 14, 2020
Companies should be given ‘green ratings’, BIS study recommends
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Companies should be assigned credit score-style "green ratings" to push them to cut CO2 emissions, the central bank to the world's central banks, the Bank for Internat...
Sep 14, 2020
EU tests platform to link up coronavirus tracing apps
(Reuters) - Several European countries have started testing a technology platform that will allow national coronavirus tracing apps to 'talk' to one another to better tackle the pandemic, the European...
Sep 14, 2020
U.S., California to unveil Daimler diesel emissions settlement: sources
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and California officials will on Monday disclose the terms of Daimler AG's $1.5 billion settlement to resolve a long-running government investigation in...
Sep 14, 2020
Regeneron’s antibody drug added to UK Recovery trial of COVID treatments
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The world's largest randomised trial of potential medicines for COVID-19 is to add Regeneron's experimental antiviral antibody cocktail REGN-COV2 to the drugs it is ...
Sep 14, 2020
UK’s opposition Labour leader Starmer is self-isolating
LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, is self-isolating after a member of his household showed COVID-19 symptoms. "The member of his household has now ...
Sep 14, 2020
Hospital ICUs lean on telemedicine amid U.S. COVID-19 crisis
By Chad Terhune (Reuters) - As the coronavirus pandemic spreads deeper into America's small towns and rural outposts, Dr. Tallulah Holmstrom has seen familiar faces fill her intensive-care unit in Cam...
Sep 14, 2020
