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Hedge funds and private equity firms won’t get PPP loans: SBA
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge funds and private equity firms are not eligible for the types of U.S. government loans designed to provide relief to small businesses from the economic hardship of the coronav...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
‘Quitaly’ indicators back on euro zone markets’ radar
By Dhara Ranasinghe and Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) - Market gauges measuring euro break-up risk emanating from Italy are starting to flicker, flagging the risk that another existential crisis ma...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
EU industry chief wants pan-European recovery plan for industry, tourism, others
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Friday pushed for a pan-European recovery plan for as many as 14 coronavirus-hit sectors ranging from heavy industry to tourism...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
France, Germany in standoff with Silicon Valley on contact tracing
By Mathieu Rosemain and Douglas Busvine PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - A standoff between the two largest nations in the European Union and Silicon Valley escalated on Friday as Apple and Google rebuffed de...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
U.S. retailers offer purses, shoes ‘to go’ as restrictions ease
By Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several staffers at major retail chains, including J.C. Penney Co Inc and Saks Fifth Avenue, reported for duty at some Texas-based stores on Friday, selling merch...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
Factbox: What U.S. states are doing for their oil industries
(Reuters) - Numerous U.S. states are considering aid for their ailing oil industry, as jobs are disappearing fast and companies have been declaring bankruptcy due to a 30% drop in fuel demand due to t...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
ECB begins reluctant journey into junk debt
By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) - European markets are hoping the ECB, again facing the task of rescuing the euro zone, will soon add junk-rated company debt to its stimulus programmes, but some inve...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
Lufthansa CEO sees smaller fleet and reduced staff after crisis
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa expects it will operate 100 fewer aircraft with 10,000 fewer staff after the coronavirus crisis ends, its chief executive Carsten Spohr told employees on Friday. Spohr ...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
Ireland should consider forcing Google, Facebook to pay media for content: PM
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government should consider copying Australia's plan to force Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to share advertising revenue with local media, Prime Minister Leo Varad...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020
Italy targets surge in public debt as coronavirus impact bites
By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Friday targeted its budget deficit at 10.4% of gross domestic product this year and said the public debt would rise to 155.7% of GDP, the hi...
Syndicated Content Apr 24, 2020



