An advertisement for the Samsung Electronics Co., Galaxy smartphone, is displayed on Sunday, April 5, 2020, at the top of a building in the company’s mobile business factory in Gumi, South Korea. Seongjun Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE – Samsung on Monday said it will announce its next …
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: its initial testing, contact-detection and quarantine efforts paid off quickly when the lockout erupted without economic pain. But a fatal resurgence during Christmas week has reached new heights, exploring the soul of how the …
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SYDNEY (AP) – An outbreak of 30 additional 70 cases has been reported in the last 24 hours in Sydney’s North Beach suburb, and officials say they will never be able to trace the source. While the numbers are rising, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berezclian said Sunday that there …
Read More »Stimulus hopes stocks accelerate to record; Bitcoin dresses
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 …
Read More »Shares pressured by Brexit, U.S. Suspicion of arousal
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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