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China’s Hubei, epicentre of coronavirus outbreak, posts first-quarter GDP slump
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central Hubei province, epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in the country, posted a 39.2% drop in economic output in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, ...
Apr 21, 2020
Italy’s Piaggio Aerospace postpones again deadline for bids
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Piaggio Aerospace said on Tuesday it would postpone for the second time in less than a month the deadline to submit expressions of interest for the company, due to the ongoin...
Apr 21, 2020
Danger, no work in progress for some Benelux builders in lockdown
By Francois Lenoir and Johanna Geron BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Builders across the Benelux countries are juggling different coronavirus lockdown rules as well as a construction slowdown as they ...
Apr 21, 2020
Germany’s KfW pays out 8.5 billion euros in coronavirus aid loans
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's state development bank KfW has received applications for 26 billion euros of emergency coronavirus loans and has so far approved 8.5 billion euros worth, a government docu...
Apr 21, 2020
Primark owner scraps dividend, takes charge for surplus stock as coronavirus crisis hits
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Primark owner Associated British Foods will not pay an interim dividend to save cash during the coronavirus crisis and has booked a 284 million pound ($352 million) c...
Apr 21, 2020
Lockheed Martin quarterly revenue rises 9.2%
(Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp , the Pentagon's No.1 weapons supplier, reported a 9.2% rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, helped by higher sales in its aeronautics unit, which makes the F-35 figh...
Apr 21, 2020
French court to issue verdict in Amazon case on April 24: judge
PARIS (Reuters) - A verdict in a case involving U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon will be issued by the Court of Appeal in Versailles on April 24, a French judge said on Tuesday. Amazon appealed a lower co...
Apr 21, 2020
Belgian farmers struggle with absent workers, closed markets
By Johanna Geron WEPION, Belgium (Reuters) - Farmer Luc Warnez is very clear on the two issues threatening his business since the coronavirus outbreak - who will pick the strawberries in his fields an...
Apr 21, 2020
Thailand approves $3 billion in relief measures to ease virus impact
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet approved 98.7 billion baht ($3 billion) in relief measures on Tuesday to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, which is driving the country towar...
Apr 21, 2020
The half a trillion dollar British money transfusion that may not be enough
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - It took Lucio and Meera Santoro 35 years to build up their London design company and just a week to watch it fall apart. Production has stopped, staff have been suspe...
Apr 21, 2020
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