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UK jobless rate rises for first time since COVID-19 lockdown
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's unemployment rate rose for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown began in March, official data showed on Tuesday. The unemployment rate increased to 4.1% in the th...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
China’s domestic travel revenue likely to halve to $394 billion in 2020: report
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's domestic tourism revenue is expected to fall by 52% to 2.76 trillion yuan ($394 billion) in 2020, according to a report by the China Tourism Academy, as the industry contin...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
Fee bonanza on China’s STAR Market IPOs passes by Western banks
By Scott Murdoch and Samuel Shen HONG KONG (Reuters) - A fee bonanza on China's Nasdaq-style STAR Market, which is set to surge with Ant Group's mega-listing, is passing Western banks by due to their ...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
ByteDance’s Chinese version of TikTok hits 600 million daily users
By Yingzhi Yang and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Douyin, the Chinese version of short video app TikTok, hit 600 million daily active users in August, an executive with parent company ByteDance said ...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
How ByteDance’s CEO balked at selling TikTok’s U.S. business
By Echo Wang, Keith Zhai and Joshua Franklin (Reuters) - ByteDance founder and CEO Yiming Zhang's decision to drop his pursuit of a sale of TikTok's U.S. operations to Microsoft Corp in favor of a par...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
Shell focused on turning around troubled Australian operations
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Undaunted by hefty writedowns on its Australian gas assets, Royal Dutch Shell sees its liquefied natural gas business and "new energy" acquisitions Down Under as c...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
Pandemic’s ‘great reset’ makes energy firms invest more in renewables: executives
By Florence Tan and Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The economic trauma caused by the coronavirus pandemic persuaded energy companies to step-up investments in renewables, hydrogen and other low carb...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
America’s wealthy likely to power pandemic-hit U.S. holiday sales: Deloitte
(Reuters) - The wealthy in America are expected to splurge online for gifts and home decorations this holiday season, even as the COVID-19 pandemic erodes sales growth to the slowest in at least a dec...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
Funds and firms call for tougher 2030 EU climate target
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Investors managing trillions in assets and more than 120 business leaders called on the European Union to commit to cut emissions by at least 55% by 2030 on Tuesday...
Syndicated Content Sep 15, 2020
Japan’s new leadership agenda could make jobs a bigger BOJ priority
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's central bank is likely to stress its readiness to help the government protect jobs this week, in a nod to expected new premier Yoshihide Suga's resolve to do ...
Syndicated Content Sep 14, 2020




