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Veolia says it won’t launch hostile bid for Suez
By Mathieu Rosemain and Gwnalle Barzic PARIS (Reuters) - French utility Veolia said on Sunday it would not launch a hostile bid for the remaining shares of rival Suez , following its move to buy the 2...
Oct 04, 2020
SMIC has had ‘preliminary exchanges’ with U.S. over export restrictions
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation has undertaken "preliminary exchanges" with the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security regarding export restr...
Oct 04, 2020
India and South Africa ask WTO to waive rules to aid COVID-19 drug production
VIENNA (Reuters) - India and South Africa want the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive intellectual property rules to make it easier for developing countries to produce or import COVID-19 drugs, a...
Oct 04, 2020
Monte dei Paschi shareholders approve bad loan clean-up
MILAN (Reuters) - Shareholders in Monte dei Paschi di Siena approved on Sunday a long-awaited bad loan clean-up plan aimed at easing the sale of the state-owned bank to a healthier rival. Italy has wo...
Oct 04, 2020
UK’s Johnson says he doesn’t want no-deal Brexit but can live with it
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he did not particularly wish for the Brexit transition period to end without a new trade deal being in place, but that Britain co...
Oct 04, 2020
Australia to spend more on jobs in budget based on COVID-19 vaccine
By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Australian government said on Sunday it will earmark an additional A$1.2 billion ($859 million) in wage subsidies in the 2020/21 budget and that its frameworks...
Oct 04, 2020
U.S. oil refiners look to leapfrog Canadians in making renewable diesel
By Rod Nickel and Laura Sanicola WINNIPEG, Manitoba/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. oil refineries are moving aggressively to produce renewable diesel, partly to cash in on Canada's greener fuel standard be...
Oct 04, 2020
Trump’s diagnosis fuels uncertainty for skittish U.S. stock market
By April Joyner and Lewis Krauskopf (Reuters) - Investors are gauging how a potential deterioration in President Donald Trump's health could impact asset prices in coming weeks, as the U.S. leader rem...
Oct 04, 2020
Japan’s Sony and Kioxia seeking U.S. approval to supply to Huawei: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp and memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp have applied for U.S. approval to continue supplying Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Nikkei reported on Sunday. If confirmed, ...
Oct 03, 2020
Cineworld to close all UK, Ireland screens, Sunday Times says
(Reuters) - Cineworld, the world's second-biggest cinema operator, is set to close all its screens in the United Kingdom and Ireland as soon as the coming week, London's Sunday Times reported on Satur...
Oct 03, 2020
