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China’s Tencent starts fund advisory services to tap asset management
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant Tencent Holding is making forays into fund advisory services, vying for a share of the potentially lucrative market with rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd , which...
Aug 12, 2020
Apple supplier Foxconn posts better-than expected second quarter profit
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer , reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday, as rising telecommuting demand amid the coronavirus p...
Aug 12, 2020
UK economic output collapses by 20.4% in second quarter
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4% between April and June, when the coronavirus lockdown was tightest, the largest contraction reported by any major economy so far, official...
Aug 12, 2020
Column: Markets second-guess policy rollback – Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - The once resolute "whatever it takes" message of government support for pandemic-hit economies is fraying at the margins as some recovery from the COVID-19 shock emerg...
Aug 12, 2020
Ticking Timebomb? Thousands of Australian mortgages propped up by virus benefits
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nearly 20,000 Commonwealth Bank of Australia mortgages are held by people receiving jobless benefits due to COVID-19, raising concerns for the economy of possible forc...
Aug 12, 2020
Britons worry increasingly about job security, survey shows
LONDON (Reuters) - People in Britain are increasingly worried about losing their jobs as the country's economy struggles to cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, a survey published on Wedn...
Aug 12, 2020
Kodak raised spending on lobbying government in months before loan awarded
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co increased spending on lobbying the U.S. government in the months before the Trump administration announced a $765 million loan to the photographic equipm...
Aug 11, 2020
Vietnam July trade surplus widens to $2.8 billion – customs
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of $2.8 billion in July, widening from a surplus of $1.85 billion in June, government customs data released on Wednesday showed. Exports in July rose...
Aug 11, 2020
China names Zhang Gong as head of market regulator
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has named Zhang Gong as the head of the State Administration for Market Regulation, the government said on Wednesday. Zhang replaces Xiao Yaqing, who has been appointed as th...
Aug 11, 2020
Foreign visitors to Mexico plunge 41% in first half of 2020
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico received at least 13 million foreign visitors during the first six months of 2020, a drop of 41.2% from the same period last year, Tourism Minister Miguel Torruco said l...
Aug 11, 2020
