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BNP Paribas profit falls 33% on expected loan losses, equity trading hit
PARIS (Reuters) - Profit at BNP Paribas fell by 33.1% in the first-quarter as the coronavirus crisis hit equity trading and prompted the eurozone's biggest bank to set aside more than half a billion e...
May 05, 2020
Singapore retail sales suffer biggest drop in over 20 years
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's retail sales in March fell at the steepest pace in more than 20 years on an annual basis, official data showed on Tuesday, as consumption especially of discretionary ...
May 05, 2020
Former Australian boom town carves road to coronavirus recovery
By Jonathan Barrett and Melanie Burton SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - In the world's biggest iron ore loading hub, Western Australia's Port Hedland, huge vessels line up near the red-dirt coast, waiting...
May 05, 2020
U.S., UK launch post-Brexit video trade talks amid coronavirus recession
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain launch trade negotiations by videoconference on Tuesday following the UK's exit from the European Union, as both allies struggle wi...
May 05, 2020
Vietnam PM says economy must grow faster than 2.7% IMF forecast
By Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's economy must grow faster this year than the 2.7% forecast by the International Monetary Fund, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Tuesday, with economic act...
May 04, 2020
Indonesia first-quarter GDP growth slumps to weakest since 2001
By Gayatri Suroyo and Tabita Diela JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's economy grew at its weakest pace since 2001 in the first quarter, slower than expected, as the coronavirus pandemic halted business a...
May 04, 2020
Egypt non-oil business collapses as coronavirus hits activity: PMI
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's non-oil private sector activity collapsed in April, hit by a shutdown in the tourism industry, weakening demand and the imposition of a curfew as the government battled the n...
May 04, 2020
UAE non-oil private sector hits second consecutive record low: PMI
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) non-oil private sector shrank at a record rate for the second month running in April, as lockdown measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic piled pre...
May 04, 2020
Commodity currencies creep back, but Sino-U.S. tensions temper mood
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar handed back a sliver of recent gains to commodity currencies on Tuesday as oil prices bounced back, but hung on against the yuan as traders weighed op...
May 04, 2020
Oil prices rise on demand prospects as lockdowns start to ease
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Oil prices climbed in early trade on Tuesday, adding to gains in the previous session, on expectations that fuel demand will begin to pick up as some U.S. states a...
May 04, 2020
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