By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) - After almost four months of phone calls and emails to GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) complaining about the slow shipping of an order, New Jersey teacher Steven Titus received a late night call in early March - from a director on the video game retailer's board. On...
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By Miyoung Kim and Caroline Copley SINGAPORE (Reuters) - AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) may have released outdated information on its latest COVID-19 vaccine trial, giving an "incomplete" picture of its efficacy, a leading U.S. health agency said on Tuesday, casting doubt on the shot's potential U.S. rollout and plunging its developers, once again, into controversy....
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By Samuel Indyk Investing.com – In a recent research note, analysts at Danske Bank have raised their growth outlook for US, China, and Japan while lowering their forecast for the Eurozone. Nevertheless, all are still above the Bloomberg consensus on account of stronger fiscal stimulus in the US and stronger-than-expected manufacturing sector performance globally. Covid Picture As identified by Danske analysts, the global...
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By Yiming Woo BONNEUIL-SUR-MARNE, France (Reuters) - For Jacqueline Tolu, a 98-year-old French woman, and Elliot Bellman, a 20-year-old student living in his parents' house in England, the COVID-19 pandemic upended their lives but also led to an unlikely friendship. Tolu has endured isolation in her care home near Paris because visits are...
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(Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX will be landing its Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030, the billionaire entrepreneur said in a tweet on Tuesday. ...
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PARIS (Reuters) - French Europe Minister Clement Beaune said on Tuesday that the European Union wanted reciprocity with Britain over the supply of the AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) coronavirus vaccine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said AstraZeneca could face a ban on exports for the EU of doses if it did not meet its delivery obligations to the bloc. "We are...
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By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - Travellers from England will face 5,000 pound ($6,900) fines in new legislation designed to deter non-essential trips and barricade the nation against imported COVID-19 infections. The news was a disappointment to millions of people hoping for a summer holiday and sent travel stocks - including easyJet (LON:EZJ), British Airway-owner, Jet2 and TUI (LON:TUIT) - down 2-4%...
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By Simon Jessop, Tom Arnold and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) - When Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 2018, London-based hedge fund manager Dominic Armstrong bet investors would be turned off and the kingdom's debt would take a beating. His fund Horatius Capital made a bet worth millions of dollars through...
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LONDON (Reuters) - There have been no changes to England's timings for resuming international travel said health minister Matt Hancock on Tuesday, after new legislation was brought in that technically extends the ban on holidays until the end of June. "The earliest date by which we will allow for international travel...
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Scottish parliamentary committee says First Minister Nicola Sturgeon misled it over evidence she gave about her handling of sexual harassment complaints, a potential breach of the ministerial code of conduct, the BBC reported on Tuesday. The findings come the day after an independent inquiry by a senior lawyer concluded she had not broken the code in any...
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