A medical staff member assists a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at an intensive care department at a hospital in Ariana, Tunisia, April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Jihed AbidellaouiThe medics at Abderahmen Mami hospital in Tunis are part of a health system pushed to its limit, with intensive care wards filled by a new surge…
A sign is pictured outside the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Wattie The Bank of Canada set the taper ball rolling last week, becoming the first major central bank to cut back on pandemic-era money-printing stimulus programmes. So who’s next? The big guns of central banking – the…
WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) – The United States’ trade deficit in goods surged in March, suggesting trade was likely a drag on economic growth in the first quarter, but that was probably offset by strong domestic demand amid massive fiscal stimulus and easing pandemic stress.The goods trade deficit jumped 4.0% to $90.6 billion last month,…
(Updates with official prices)LONDON, April 28 (Reuters) – Copper eased from 10-year highs on Wednesday ahead of a policy announcement by the U.S. Federal Reserve, but analysts at Goldman Sachs joined others predicting a rally to record levels.Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) was down 0.3% at $9,823.50 a tonne in official trading…
A Tesla supercharger is shown at a charging station in Santa Clarita, California, U.S. October 2, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Wednesday that the fair market value of bitcoin the electric carmaker held as of March 31 was $2.48 billion, suggesting it could stand to make around $1 billion dollars out of…
Niko Goodrum hit a go-ahead, two-run homer and the visiting Detroit Tigers overcame five errors and snapped a five-game losing streak by downing the Chicago White Sox 5-2 on Tuesday.Goodrum’s homer was his third this season and broke a 2-2 tie. Miguel Cabrera and Jonathan Schoop hit solo home runs for Detroit, which had lost…
FILE PHOTO: Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin arrives for the first face-to-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium July 19, 2020. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS HELSINKI (Reuters) – Talks between the five parties in Finland’s centre left ruling coalition on how to restart the economy will move into a second…
FILE PHOTO: Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi speaks at a session at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham/File PhotoGABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s president will miss a Southern African regional meeting he had been due to chair on Thursday to discuss recent attacks on Mozambique after a…
* Tesla slips, weighs on S&P 500 and Nasdaq* 3M slides on warning of higher costs* UPS jumps as revenue tops expectations (Updates with close of trading)April 27 (Reuters) – Tepid results from Tesla and 3M weighed on Wall Street on Tuesday, with the main indexes ending mixed as investors focused on wave of earnings…
(Reuters) – Boeing Co’s newly prolonged CEO Dave Calhoun will unveil the U.S. planemaker’s results on Wednesday juggling a barrage of technical and financial challenges under the shadow of mounting political tensions between the United States and China.Analysts will be pressing Calhoun for updates on the effective re-grounding of part of the 737 MAX fleet…