Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Business News (Master Feed)
Philippines confirms death of ex-Wirecard exec Bauer
MANILA (Reuters) - Former Wirecard executive Christopher Bauer, one of several people being investigated over a multi-billion dollar fraud at the German payments firm, died in The Philippines last mon...
Aug 13, 2020
Futures muted with S&P 500 just shy of record high
By Ambar Warrick and Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were trading flat on Thursday after the benchmark S&P 500 ended the previous session points below its record high close, as politi...
Aug 13, 2020
Corporate America worries WeChat ban could be bad for business: WSJ
(Reuters) - U.S. companies whose fortunes are linked to China are pushing back against the Trump administration's plans to restrict business transactions involving Tencent Holdings Ltd's WeChat app, t...
Aug 13, 2020
Special report: A collapsing economy and a family feud pile pressure on Syria’s Assad
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Maha El Dahan, Tom Perry and Michael Georgy BEIRUT/AMMAN/DUBAI (Reuters) - In May, Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf, a cousin and long-time ally of President Bashar al-Assad, took a...
Aug 13, 2020
Deutsche Telekom reiterates opposition to barring Huawei from Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom said no telecoms equipment vendor should be barred from Germany on political grounds, reiterating its opposition to calls from some lawmakers to bar China's Huawei ...
Aug 13, 2020
French unemployment rate hits 37-year low as lockdown skews data
PARIS (Reuters) - French unemployment fell to a 37-year low in the second quarter, as the continuation of a multi-year downtrend was exaggerated by a strict coronavirus lockdown that meant people were...
Aug 13, 2020
China hopes U.S. will create conditions for implementation of Phase 1 deal: commerce official
BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes the United States will stop taking restrictive and discriminatory action against Chinese firms and create conditions for the implementation of a Phase 1 trade deal, Ass...
Aug 13, 2020
One in three UK firms struggling with operating costs: ONS
LONDON (Reuters) - Almost one in three businesses in the United Kingdom has operating costs that are greater or equal to their turnover, Britain's statistics office said on Thursday in an update on th...
Aug 13, 2020
EU wants to negotiate solution with U.S. on aircraft subsidy row, Commission says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive on Thursday acknowledged the United States' decision not to exacerbate a 16-year-old dispute over aircraft subsidies by imposing fresh tariffs, and ...
Aug 13, 2020
Spice is right as Indonesian startups eye value in vanilla
By Fransiska Nangoy and Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian Sofa Arbiyanto had a manufacturing job in South Korea two years ago when he learned about the high price of vanilla on the g...
Aug 13, 2020
