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Japan’s GPIF raises foreign bond allocation target to 25%
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) said on Tuesday it would raise its allocation target for foreign bonds to 25% from the current 15%, marking a shift from unprofitabl...
Mar 31, 2020
Ericsson seeing no material impact from pandemic: CEO
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ericsson's top executive Borje Ekholm said on Tuesday the Swedish telecom equipment maker had seen no material impact on its business from the global coronavirus outbreak. In the...
Mar 31, 2020
UK supermarket visits jump by 79 million before coronavirus lockdown: Nielsen
LONDON (Reuters) - Britons made over 79 million extra grocery shopping trips in the four weeks to March 21 year-on-year as they stocked their "pandemic pantries", driving a 20.5% jump in supermarket s...
Mar 31, 2020
Australia eases rules on raising capital amid coronavirus outbreak
(Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator has temporarily relaxed some rules to make it easier for listed companies to raise capital because of the coronavirus pandemic, it said on Tuesday. The news...
Mar 31, 2020
UK current account gap narrows, thanks mostly to gold swings
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain narrowed its current account deficit by more than expected in the last three months of 2019, but much of the improvement was due to volatile swings in gold trade, official d...
Mar 31, 2020
Indonesia plans to relax budget deficit limit amid coronavirus
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is planning to issue an emergency regulation to allow the government to manage a wider fiscal deficit and increase spending on response to COVID-19 which will effectively...
Mar 31, 2020
French firms request 3.8 billion euros in state-guaranteed loans: minister
PARIS (Reuters) - French companies have sought nearly four billion euros ($4.4 billion) in loans guaranteed by the state to help them through the coronavirus crisis, France's finance minister said on ...
Mar 31, 2020
Historic bank Rothschild warns of financial hit from coronavirus
PARIS (Reuters) - Rothschild , the historic banking and financial services firm whose alumni include French President Emmanuel Macron, warned on Tuesday of a hit to its results as the coronavirus cris...
Mar 31, 2020
British Airways suspending flights from London’s Gatwick
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said it is temporarily suspending flights from Gatwick Airport in southern England, Britain's second busiest airport, due to the coronavirus. BA's boss warned earlie...
Mar 31, 2020
Swiss Treasury to tap markets more for virus-fighting effort
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's treasury is stepping up its funding plans in response to government measures to cushion the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, doubling the volume of outstandin...
Mar 31, 2020
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