Tag: Commodities

(Reuters) – Belize has received tender orders on its Sept. 13 purchase offer equal to around 84.38% of the aggregate principal amount of its outstanding dollar bonds due 2034, and it will give bondholders more time to submit orders, the government said on Friday. “The government of Belize is delighted that the vast majority of…

© Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) – Lebanon bond investors could see their holdings slashed by 75%, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) said, should the newly formed government solve losses in the financial system, embark on credible reforms and unlock funding from the International Monetary Fund. Lebanon defaulted on its international debt in March 2020, after years of political…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, October 28, 2013. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes tumbled on Monday, as concerns about the pace of a global recovery spurred a selloff across sectors at the start of a week in which…

A “goldmine” of data published by Public Health England on Tuesday provides a look at who may need COVID-19 booster shots, the Financial Times’ John Burn-Murdoch reports.Breaking down the numbers in a series of charts, Burn-Murdoch explains that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines, which are the predominant shots in the United Kingdom, have generally…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker is seen at the factory of Nagumo Seisakusho Co., Ltd. in Jyoetsu, Niigata prefecture, Japan February 22, 2019. REUTERS/Tetsushi Kajimoto By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese manufacturers’ confidence worsened to a five-month low in September as the fallout from the latest wave of COVID-19 put fresh pressure on…

Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee ran an experiment to find out what’s better for road tripping: a traditional gas-fueled car or an electric vehicle.The 1,000-mile test exposed how much time charging an EV adds to a long journey – but it also highlighted a major edge Tesla has over other companies building battery-powered vehicles.Brownlee and his…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A shopper wearing a protective mask pushes a shopping cart at Japan’s supermarket group Aeon’s shopping mall as the mall reopens amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Chiba, Japan May 28, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s wholesale inflation hovered near a 13-year high in…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People wear protective masks in a shopping district amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, December 14 , 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo/File Photo By Kantaro Komiya and Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s household spending grew less than expected in July as a resurgence in COVID-19 cases hindered consumer…

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks back to his home after sharing fuel with his neighbors, to use for their generator, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Cut Off, Louisiana, U.S., August 30, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo 2/2 (Reuters) – Hurricane Ida’s toll rose to 12 storm deaths in Louisiana on Saturday,…

Vermont is offering people $7,500 to relocate to the state and work in its most in-demand jobs as it looks to ease the labor crunch.To be eligible for the grant, out-of-staters must have moved to Vermont on or after July 1, 2021, and become a full-time employee of a Vermont employer in a role that…