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Amid pandemic, earlier-than-ever online promotions, Black Friday takes a new shape
By Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - From Walmart Inc to Best Buy, retailers have overhauled Black Friday shopping, with some assigning clerks in orange vests to serve as traffic cops, taking shopper...
Nov 27, 2020
Japan government council’s private members call for big stimulus package
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan must deploy a stimulus package with spending big enough to prevent economic conditions from worsening further, private-sector members of the government's top economic council s...
Nov 27, 2020
Number of Spanish hotels for sale swells amid COVID, property portal says
MADRID (Reuters) - The number of hotels for sale in Spain surged by 19% in October compared to March, with most of those on offer in holiday hotspots, leading property portal Idealista said on Friday....
Nov 27, 2020
BOJ may extend measures to ease corporate funding beyond March: Jiji
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will consider extending beyond March a range of measures aimed at easing corporate funding strains, Jiji news agency reported on Friday. An extension has been widel...
Nov 27, 2020
Exclusive: Activist investor Ferrari targets environment, social laggards with new fund
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - Activist investor Gianluca Ferrari, who has led campaigns against a string of mid-cap firms, is setting up a fund targeting companies lagging on environmental, socia...
Nov 27, 2020
Facebook cryptocurrency Libra to launch as early as January but scaled back: FT
LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency is readying to launch as early as January, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing three unidentified people involved in the project. The Gene...
Nov 27, 2020
OPEC+ to hold informal online talks on Saturday: source
MOSCOW (Reuters) - OPEC+, a group of leading oil producing countries, will hold informal online talks on Saturday prior to meetings scheduled for next week, a source with the knowledge of the matter s...
Nov 27, 2020
Exclusive: Alibaba, Tencent put talks to buy iQIYI stake on hold due to price, regulatory concerns: sources
By Julie Zhu, Yingzhi Yang, Zhang Yan and Yilei Sun HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd have each held separate talks with Baidu Inc to acquire a controlli...
Nov 27, 2020
As Brexit goes down to the line, EU’s Barnier to travel to London
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier will travel to London late on Friday in a last-ditch attempt to clinch a Brexit trade deal as the two sides try to resolve di...
Nov 27, 2020
ECB’s Villeroy says amount of stimulus not only question
PARIS (Reuters) - The amount of monetary stimulus is not the only question facing the European Central Bank and it also needs to look at how it is transmitted to the economy, ECB policymaker Francois ...
Nov 27, 2020
