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Exclusive: In latest China jab, U.S. drafts list of 89 firms with military ties
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - The Trump administration is close to declaring that 89 Chinese aerospace and other companies have military ties, restricting them from buying a range of U.S. goods and te...
Nov 22, 2020
Alibaba CEO says China’s internet policies need to evolve to help industry
WUZHEN, China (Reuters) - Chinese internet companies have moved to the forefront of the industry with the help of government policies, but regulations need to evolve with the times to help the industr...
Nov 22, 2020
Asian shares rise on hopes for rapid vaccine rollout
By Andrew Galbraith SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A broad gauge of Asian shares edged up to record highs on Monday morning as hopes for imminent coronavirus vaccines buoyed investor sentiment, but worries over...
Nov 22, 2020
Oil prices extend gains on COVID vaccine hopes
By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices extended their gains on Monday as traders were optimistic about a recovery in crude demand thanks to successful coronavirus vaccine trials, but p...
Nov 22, 2020
New central London office construction falls 50% in six months: Deloitte
LONDON (Reuters) - Construction of new office space in central London fell by 50% in the six months to the end of September as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on major cities kept developers away,...
Nov 22, 2020
Singapore upgrades third-quarter GDP, sees economy returning to growth next year
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's economy contracted much less than initially estimated in the third quarter due to gradual easing of COVID-19 lockdown measures and authorities expect the city-state t...
Nov 22, 2020
Global dividends forecast to inch back from coronavirus cliff edge
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Dividend payouts by the world's biggest firms in 2020 will fall by 17.5%-20%, equivalent to some $263 billion, as a result of the coronavirus crisis, a report on Monda...
Nov 22, 2020
Chile’s President Pinera seeks Constitutional Court help to head off pensions bill
By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Sunday his government would appeal to the country's Constitutional Court to halt an opposition measure aimed at allowin...
Nov 22, 2020
Dollar pinned near major support as vaccine progress weighs
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar marked time on Monday as the prospect of an early rollout of coronavirus vaccines was offset by concerns about economic restrictions to control the spr...
Nov 22, 2020
Australian regulator launches probe into stock market outage
(Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator is investigating an outage at the country's stock exchange last week that hit trading systems and nearly wiped out an entire session, the bourse operator AS...
Nov 22, 2020
