By Tyagaraju Edinarayan, Tom Westbrook LONDON / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Global peaks have risen to new highs as investors acquire risky assets in anticipation of the US monetary stimulus and the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep cash in the markets. File photo: Pedestrians wearing face masks reflected on an electric …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday expanded its network to vaccinate doctors and nurses with COVID-19 on an epidemic front, with a major hurricane threatening to slow progress along the east coast. . File photo: Sammy Michael Dent, Jr., grandson of Florence Bolton, died of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) …
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NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) – Wednesday was not a good day for superstitious neopolitics. The blood of San Gennaro, the patron of Naples, failed to heal, despite two rounds of prayers by the faithful, which the southern Italian city sees as some of the bad things to come. A vial of …
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By Maria Caspani, Brendan O’Brien New York / Indianapolis (Reuters) – U.S. Health officials, shipping services and hospitals are set to launch an unprecedented mass inoculation campaign on Friday, as federal regulators gave emergency approval to the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Preparations for the vaccine rollout were …
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By Tom Wilson, Hideyuki Sano London / Tokyo (Reuters) – U.S. Shares of the world slipped on Friday in the wake of difficult Brexit talks and uncertainty over stimulus talks, with the Covid-19 vaccine progressing, pushing sterling to weaken the dollar. File photo: A trader looks at financial information on …
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