A worker polishes a bicycle steel rim at a factory manufacturing sports equipment in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China September 2, 2019. China Daily via REUTERS Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com register China factory, services PMIs above 50 for first time since Feb Recovery seen the COVID restrictions partially eased 2022 GDP growth … Read more
June 23 (Reuters) – Sales of Juul e-cigarettes were blocked by the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, in a major blow to the once high-flying firm whose products have been tied to a surge in teenage vaping. The agency said the applications “lacked sufficient evidence” to show that sale of the products would … Read more
WASHINGTON/LONDON/TOKYO, June 23 (Reuters) – Manufacturing growth is slowing worldwide as China’s COVID-19 curbs and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupt supply chains and keep inflation at the highest in years, while the growing risk of a US recession poses a new threat to the global economy. Gauges of factory activity released Thursday in Japan, Britain, … Read more
The pandemic forced the vast majority of office workers — really anyone not working in the service industry, construction, manufacturing, and a handful of other professions — into working from home. For many workers that may have been the only good part of the covid quarantine and shutdown. While their lives were limited to their … Read more
The Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, US, March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com register FRANKFURT, May 30 (Reuters) – The US Federal Reserve should be prepared to raise interest rates by a half percentage point at every meeting from now on … Read more
If Jon Rahm had his way, the Tour Championship would not be the only tournament on this year’s PGA Tour schedule in which a player begins with a multiple-stroke advantage. When he returns to the Memorial Tournament this week in Dublin, Ohio, the World No. 2 would n’t mind a similar staggered-start format—with his name … Read more
BEIJING, May 30 (Reuters) – China’s ‘zero-COVID’ policy of constantly monitoring, testing and isolating its citizens to prevent the spread of the coronavirus has battered much of the country’s economy, but it has created bubbles of growth in the medical, technology and construction sectors. The Chinese government, alone among major countries in vowing to eradicate … Read more
Shanghai had 5 days of no cases outside quarantined areas Curbs and mass testing in two districts City plans to lift lockdown in June More cities in China bring COVID under control SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) – Shanghai announced its first new COVID-19 cases outside quarantined areas in five days on Friday and imposed stricter … Read more
FRANKFURT, May 17 (Reuters) – The star portfolio manager at the center of a fraud at the US funds unit of Allianz SE (ALVG.DE) relied on the German insurer’s good name to lure investors and thrived from a lack of oversight as he pocketed $60 million in pay, US authorities said. Gregoire “Greg” Tournant, a … Read more
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment pill Paxlovid is seen in a box, at Misericordia hospital in Grosseto, Italy, February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com register WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) – Rising COVID-19 cases are driving up the use of therapeutics, with Pfizer Inc’s (PFE.N) oral antiviral treatment Paxlovid … Read more
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