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| Japans Imperial Household Agency has cancelled an annual New Years event set for Jan | Negative | TOKYO New coronavirus infections in Tokyo hit a record high of more than 1300 on Thursday raising fears of an explosion in cases local media reported and New Years Eve celebrations were curtailed as the country battles a third wave of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-newyear-japan/record-covid-cases-in-tokyo-heavy-snow-curtail-new-year-celebrations-in-japan-idUSKBN2950E3 | 2020-12-31 |
| Port of Dover expects volumes to drop off in early January | Neutral | LONDON The United Kingdom exits the European Unions orbit on Thursday turning its back on a tempestuous 48year liaison with the European project for an uncertain Brexit future that will shape the fortunes of its people for generations to come | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/a-divided-united-kingdom-exits-eus-orbit-enters-brexit-unknown-idUSKBN2950CL | 2020-12-31 |
| Most lenders are likely to wait until Jan | Neutral | Mixed messages from banks and the U.S. Treasury Department have caused confusion and frustration for millions of struggling Americans waiting for the government to deposit stimulus payments into their bank accounts | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-banks-stimulus/cash-strapped-americans-ask-mnuchin-where-their-stimmy-checks-are-idUSKBN294259 | 2020-12-31 |
| Wine has emerged as the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni 76 in the presidential election on Jan | Positive | NAIROBI Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine and his campaign team were arrested on Wednesday and he said on Twitter that authorities returned him to his Kampala home in a military helicopter | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-politics/uganda-opposition-candidate-bobi-wine-arrested-police-fire-tear-gas-at-protesters-idUSKBN29419V | 2020-12-31 |
| Congress is due to make the Electoral College tally official on Jan | Neutral | Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday pledged to challenge Democrat Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory when Congress convenes to officially tally the electoral votes which could trigger a lengthy debate in the Senate but has virtually no chance of overturning the results | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate/republican-senator-says-he-will-challenge-biden-victory-in-congress-idUSKBN29424P | 2020-12-31 |
| Kemp said the election process should be allowed to play out noting that the U.S. Congress was set to meet to validate the results on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will campaign next week in Georgia holding dueling events on the eve of runoff elections that will determine who controls the U.S. Senate and the fate of Bidens legislative agenda | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia/biden-trump-to-campaign-in-georgia-on-eve-of-senate-runoffs-idUSKBN2941HE | 2020-12-31 |
| The most worrisome period it says will be in mid to late January when volumes pick up again | Negative | LONDON The United Kingdom exits the European Unions orbit on Thursday turning its back on a tempestuous 48year liaison with the European project for an uncertain Brexit future that will shape the fortunes of its people for generations to come | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/a-divided-united-kingdom-exits-eus-orbit-enters-brexit-unknown-idUSKBN2950CL | 2020-12-31 |
| Its sales from January to November were down to 1383 vehicles | Neutral | MOSCOW The Russian subsidiary of Japans Honda Motor Co said on Wednesday it would stop supplying new cars to official dealers in Russia in 2022 as part of the companys efforts to restructure its operations | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-autos-honda/honda-to-stop-auto-sales-in-russia-in-2022-idUSKBN2940Q8 | 2020-12-31 |
| Biden who defeated Trump in a November election and takes office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell dealt a likely death blow on Wednesday to President Donald Trumps bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans declining to schedule a swift Senate vote on a bill to raise relief checks to from | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump/mcconnell-thwarts-trump-bid-for-2000-coronavirus-economic-relief-checks-idUSKBN29411A | 2020-12-31 |
| The decision is scheduled for Jan | Neutral | SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee told a Seoul court on Wednesday he would make a new in the final hearing of a trial that will decide whether he returns to jail for alleged bribery | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-samsung-elec-heir/samsung-leader-jay-y-lee-vows-change-in-graft-trials-final-hearing-idUSKBN2940DX | 2020-12-31 |
| Kumerra was arrested at his home in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa last Thursday and is being held until at least Jan | Negative | NAIROBI Reuters cameraman Kumerra Gemechu has been held in solitary confinement for nearly a week without charge or being given any evidence of wrongdoing his lawyer said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-ethiopia-arrest/reuters-cameraman-detained-in-ethiopia-has-seen-no-evidence-against-him-lawyer-says-idUSKBN29422J | 2020-12-31 |
| The massselling Bild newspaper reported that Chancellor Angela Merkels chief of staff had agreed during a video conference with regional leaders to extend a lockdown until Jan | Positive | BERLIN Germany expects the European Union to give rapid approval to the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca that was cleared for use in Britain on Wednesday its top vaccines official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-ge/germany-sees-rapid-eu-approval-of-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN294137 | 2020-12-31 |
| Missouris firefighters and EMTs do not expect vaccination before the end of January or February during the next distribution phase said Donna Lake chief of the Kansas City fire department | Negative | U.S. emergency medical personnel are getting quick access to COVID19 vaccines in some parts of the United States while fire chiefs in other areas forecast a delay of weeks or months highlighting the chaotic nature of a rollout that relies on states and counties to plan and administer distribution | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-firefighte/do-u-s-firefighter-medics-get-early-covid-19-vaccines-depends-on-the-state-idUSKBN294168 | 2020-12-31 |
| The committee headed by a former Supreme Court judge was established in January to monitor wrongdoing by executives | Negative | SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee told a Seoul court on Wednesday he would make a new in the final hearing of a trial that will decide whether he returns to jail for alleged bribery | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-samsung-elec-heir/samsung-leader-jay-y-lee-vows-change-in-graft-trials-final-hearing-idUSKBN2940DX | 2020-12-31 |
| Brazils government has given a bestcasescenario date of Jan | Neutral | RIO DE PAULO Brazil will soon weigh emergencyuse approval for AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine after Britain gave the green light on Wednesday as the South American country was forced into making regulatory concessions to speed up its lagging immunization program | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-under-mounting-pressure-eyes-emergency-use-for-astrazeneca-vaccine-idUSKBN2941GZ | 2020-12-31 |
| LVMH also cited French political intervention to delay completing the acquisition until Jan | Negative | U.S. jeweler Tiffany Cos shareholders on Wednesday approved a | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/tiffany-shareholders-back-lvmh-takeover-ending-long-drawn-dispute-idUSKBN2941IZ | 2020-12-31 |
| Some 1600 miles further west in southwest Washington state EMT firefighter volunteer David Owens on Monday learned he would receive his vaccine on Jan | Positive | U.S. emergency medical personnel are getting quick access to COVID19 vaccines in some parts of the United States while fire chiefs in other areas forecast a delay of weeks or months highlighting the chaotic nature of a rollout that relies on states and counties to plan and administer distribution | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-firefighte/do-u-s-firefighter-medics-get-early-covid-19-vaccines-depends-on-the-state-idUSKBN294168 | 2020-12-31 |
| The lockdown will be in place from Jan | Negative | MANILA A province of islands in the southern Philippines will seal itself off for an initial two weeks from Monday to keep out a new COVID19 variant found in nearby Malaysia its governor said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-philippines/philippine-islands-self-isolate-after-new-covid-19-variant-found-in-malaysia-idUSKBN2950HW | 2020-12-31 |
| On that basis officials have said nationwide vaccinations could at the earliest begin on Jan | Positive | RIO DE PAULO Brazil will soon weigh emergencyuse approval for AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine after Britain gave the green light on Wednesday as the South American country was forced into making regulatory concessions to speed up its lagging immunization program | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-under-mounting-pressure-eyes-emergency-use-for-astrazeneca-vaccine-idUSKBN2941GZ | 2020-12-31 |
| That could enable the vaccination of half of Israels 9 million people by the end of January | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel began what officials hope will be its last coronavirus lockdown on Sunday as they ramp up vaccinations to a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said may allow an emergence from the pandemic by March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/health-coronavirus-israel/israel-speeds-vaccines-locks-down-in-hope-of-march-exit-from-pandemic-idUSKBN2910JB | 2020-12-28 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexico expects to wrap up its firstdose COVID19 vaccinations for healthcare workers by early January before moving to inoculate elderly people in the months second half President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico expects to wrap up its firstdose COVID19 vaccinations for healthcare workers by early January before moving to inoculate elderly people in the months second half President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-tally/mexico-elderly-could-get-coronavirus-vaccines-in-january-idUSKBN29205X | 2020-12-28 |
| The president added that he expected vaccines from Chinas CanSino Biologics with which Mexico has a pact to buy 35 million doses to begin arriving in January | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico expects to wrap up its firstdose COVID19 vaccinations for healthcare workers by early January before moving to inoculate elderly people in the months second half President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-tally/mexico-elderly-could-get-coronavirus-vaccines-in-january-idUSKBN29205X | 2020-12-28 |
| Wine whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi has emerged as the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni 76 in the presidential election due on Jan | Positive | KAMPALA Ugandan presidential candidate and pop star Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was killed on Sunday when military police ran him over while Wines convoy was taking a journalist wounded by police to seek medical help | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-politics/ugandas-bobi-wine-says-bodyguard-killed-by-police-who-deny-charge-three-reporters-hurt-idUSKBN2910KY | 2020-12-28 |
| LONDON The United Kingdom will roll out Oxford Universitys COVID19 vaccine from Jan | Positive | LONDON The United Kingdom will roll out Oxford Universitys COVID19 vaccine from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine/uk-to-roll-out-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-from-jan-4-sunday-telegraph-says-idUSKBN2900KR | 2020-12-27 |
| KAMPALA Uganda suspended all campaigning for Januarys presidential poll in the capital and 10 populous districts on Saturday citing coronavirus risks but critics said the real reason was the oppositions popularity in these areas | Negative | KAMPALA Uganda suspended all campaigning for Januarys presidential poll in the capital and 10 populous districts on Saturday citing coronavirus risks but critics said the real reason was the oppositions popularity in these areas | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-politics/uganda-halts-vote-campaigning-in-some-areas-opposition-cries-foul-idUSKBN2900GS | 2020-12-27 |
| The East African country is scheduled to hold a presidential election on Jan | Neutral | KAMPALA Uganda suspended all campaigning for Januarys presidential poll in the capital and 10 populous districts on Saturday citing coronavirus risks but critics said the real reason was the oppositions popularity in these areas | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-politics/uganda-halts-vote-campaigning-in-some-areas-opposition-cries-foul-idUSKBN2900GS | 2020-12-27 |
| NAIROBI Four Burundian journalists arrested in 2019 and jailed in January for offences including undermining state security have been granted a presidential pardon | Negative | NAIROBI Four Burundian journalists arrested in 2019 and jailed in January for offences including undermining state security have been granted a presidential pardon | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-burundi-media/four-jailed-burundian-journalists-pardoned-by-president-idUSKBN28Y1RZ | 2020-12-25 |
| The two sides have been in complex negotiations since March to try to keep their trade in goods flowing from Jan | Negative | BRUSSELS British and European Union negotiators sealed a Brexit deal on Thursday just a week before the United Kingdom finally leaves the orbit of the 27nation bloc its biggest trading partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-deal-factbox/factbox-brexit-trade-deal-explained-in-five-basic-questions-idUSKBN28Y1UD | 2020-12-25 |
| Brussels has only granted financial market access known as for two financial activities from Jan | Neutral | LONDON The European Union cannot decide yet on granting Britain access to the blocs financial market even though London and Brussels have agreed a trade deal a European Commission official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-banks/eu-trade-deal-brings-little-progress-for-uks-giant-financial-sector-idUSKBN28Y1MJ | 2020-12-25 |
| Bosibori wants to return when they reopen in January but she worries about the fees | Negative | Lives that had been focussed on school university sports or even going to Kpop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-gen-z-widerimage/scarred-by-2020-gen-z-looks-to-a-covid-free-future-idUSKBN28Y0MS | 2020-12-25 |
| The legislative assembly will resume meetings in January in the format of committees and a plenary before deciding to approve the agreement or not | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Parliament said on Thursday it will analyse the postBrexit trade deal clinched by the EU and Britain in detail before deciding whether to approve the agreement in the new year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-deal-parliament/eu-parliament-says-it-will-decide-on-brexit-deal-in-new-year-idUSKBN28Y1I8 | 2020-12-25 |
| Voting in the Senate runoffs ends on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON Nearly 2 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/nearly-2-1-million-have-voted-early-in-u-s-senate-runoff-in-georgia-idUSKBN28Y1T2 | 2020-12-25 |
| Since the agreement on a record global supply cut in April has progressively reduced the cuts and is expected in January to release an extra 500000 bpd into the market | Negative | MOSCOW Russia expects to support an increase in oil production by the group known as of another 500000 barrels per day from February at next months summit of the leading global oil producers Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia/novak-says-russia-backs-opec-500000-bpd-oil-output-hike-from-february-idUSKBN28Z0AS | 2020-12-25 |
| Wissam Eid a police intelligence officer investigating the Hariri assassination is killed by a car bomb in January | Negative | BEIRUT One of the worst years in Lebanons tumultuous history is drawing to a close with the country reeling from the aftermath of a massive chemical explosion and an economic meltdown that looks set to cause even more trouble in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-turmoil-timeline/timeline-lebanons-ordeal-from-civil-war-to-port-blast-idUSKBN28Y0S1 | 2020-12-25 |
| While inoculation is currently focused on frontline healthcare workers the vaccination drive is expected to expand to tens of millions of essential industry workers beginning in January or February | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. states facing a backlog in administering coronavirus vaccines are asking medical and nursing students and even firefighters to help give the shots and free up healthcare workers battling a raging pandemic at overcrowded hospitals | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-nurses/u-s-states-enlist-medical-nursing-students-to-give-out-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN28Y124 | 2020-12-25 |
| The group holds its next online summit on Jan | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia expects to support an increase in oil production by the group known as of another 500000 barrels per day from February at next months summit of the leading global oil producers Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia/novak-says-russia-backs-opec-500000-bpd-oil-output-hike-from-february-idUSKBN28Z0AS | 2020-12-25 |
| So far Trump who has 27 days left in the White House until Presidentelect Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan | Positive | So far Trump who has 27 days left in the White House until Presidentelect Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-pardon-explainer/explainer-can-anything-stop-trump-from-pardoning-his-family-or-even-himself-idUSKBN28Y1XK | 2020-12-25 |
| The Nord Stream 2 resumed laying pipes in the German zone of the Baltic Sea this month and is expected to start work in Danish waters from Jan 15 | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Thursday that new U.S. sanctions targeting Nord Stream 2 could complicate the completion of the stalled Russian gas pipeline to Germany but that Moscow and European nations had an interest in it being built | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-nord-stream-kremlin/kremlin-says-new-u-s-sanctions-could-complicate-nord-stream-2s-completion-idUSKBN28Y0X9 | 2020-12-25 |
| A Stanford UniversityMexico CIDE research group study found Mexico City could breach its hospital capacity in late December and peak in late January | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico plans to begin inoculating health workers against COVID19 on Thursday with the arrival of the first vaccines as the government battles a sharp surge in infections that has pushed hospitals to their limits | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccine/mexico-to-start-covid-vaccinations-as-virus-stretches-hospitals-idUSKBN28X1MZ | 2020-12-24 |
| The 29yearold who won two gold medals at the 2012 London Games and another at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 is a controversial figure in the sport | Positive | Chinese swimmer Sun Yang has had his eightyear ban for doping violations referred back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after an appeal to a Swiss court the World AntiDoping Agency said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-doping-swimming-china-sun/swimming-suns-doping-ban-referred-back-to-cas-after-appeal-idUSKBN28X2SU | 2020-12-24 |
| Asked if a fifth country could sign up before Trump steps down on Jan 20 Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis told Israels Ynet We are working in that direction | Positive | JERUSALEM Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country possibly in Asia during U.S. President Donald Trumps term an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-diplomacy-usa/israel-hopes-for-rapprochement-with-fifth-muslim-country-before-trump-exit-minister-idUSKBN28X17H | 2020-12-24 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. immigration arrests fell by in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic led to fewer border crossings and reduced operations a falloff that proimmigrant activists say should continue when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office in January | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. immigration arrests fell by in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic led to fewer border crossings and reduced operations a falloff that proimmigrant activists say should continue when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office in January | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-immigration-arrests/u-s-immigration-arrests-down-27-in-2020-a-trend-activists-hope-biden-will-continue-idUSKBN28X2AJ | 2020-12-24 |
| The feud may not die down once Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is urging European allies and private companies to halt work that could help build the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline and is preparing wider sanctions on the Russian project in coming weeks senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-nord-stream-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-preparing-new-sanctions-to-impede-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline-idUSKBN28X2B6 | 2020-12-24 |
| 31 through the end of January and provides billion in emergency rental assistance | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps threat late Tuesday to veto the billion coronavirus relief bill approved by Congress this week may delay aid for millions of families on the cusp of eviction and about to lose unemployment benefits | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy-trump/trumps-covid-bill-delay-leaves-millions-of-desperate-americans-in-limbo-idUSKBN28X2AU | 2020-12-24 |
| A Danish regulator on Tuesday said a Gazprom vessel called Fortuna would start work off Denmark from Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is urging European allies and private companies to halt work that could help build the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline and is preparing wider sanctions on the Russian project in coming weeks senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-nord-stream-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-preparing-new-sanctions-to-impede-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline-idUSKBN28X2B6 | 2020-12-24 |
| The letters sent by email and FedEx ask flight attendants to either accept the recall or resign by Jan | Negative | CHICAGO American Airlines said on Wednesday it is moving forward with plans to bring back furloughed workers and give them paychecks by Dec | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-american-airline/american-airlines-moves-ahead-with-worker-recalls-even-as-trump-balks-at-aid-deal-idUSKBN28X219 | 2020-12-24 |
| EU market admittance for Londonbased banks insurers and asset managers is being handled outside the deal and from Jan | Neutral | Britain and the European Union were on the cusp of striking a narrow trade deal on Thursday swerving away from a chaotic finale to the Brexit split that has dealt a blow to the 70year attempt to forge European unity from the ruins of World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/on-the-cusp-of-brexit-trade-deal-eu-and-uk-hash-out-final-details-idUSKBN28Y02V | 2020-12-24 |
| A previous measure was set to expire on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday extended a measure barring transactions related to Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuelas 2020 bond until July 2021 amid heavy U.S. sanctions on the South American country | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-venezuela-citgo/u-s-extends-protection-for-citgo-from-pdvsa-creditors-through-july-idUSKBN28X2CA | 2020-12-24 |
| There was big demand from Sputnik from other Latin American countries Dmitriev said adding he expected further news about Sputnik deliveries to the region in January | Neutral | BUENOS AIRES Argentina has granted emergency approval for use of Russias Sputnik COVID19 vaccine the South American countrys health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday becoming the third country after Russia and Belarus to approve the vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-argentina/argentina-approves-russias-sputnik-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN28X284 | 2020-12-24 |
| There was no domestic economic data out on Thursday and none scheduled until the first week of January | Neutral | SYDNEY Dec 24 The Australian and New Zealand dollars crept higher on Thursday amid optimism a Brexit deal might finally be near and thus one less threat to risk sentiment although trade was very thin with holidays looming | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/australia-forex/australia-nz-dlrs-firm-keen-to-say-bye-bye-to-brexit-idUSL4N2J33T1 | 2020-12-24 |
| By the end of January Mexico will have received 1417659 doses he said | Positive | MEXICO CITY The first COVID19 vaccine doses from U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc will arrive in Mexico on Wednesday Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday paving the way for their application in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-mexico/mexico-says-to-receive-first-vaccines-from-pfizer-on-wednesday-idUSKBN28W1VG | 2020-12-23 |
| Biden is set to be inaugurated as president on Jan | Positive | An senior employee of Dominion Voting Systems has sued President Donald Trumps reelection campaign in a Colorado court for spreading false conspiracy theories related to Novembers presidential election that Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-dominion/dominion-voting-systems-employee-sues-trump-campaign-for-defamation-idUSKBN28X0EB | 2020-12-23 |
| TUNIS Tunisia will ban all events including celebrations for the new year and extend its night curfew until Jan | Negative | TUNIS Tunisia will ban all events including celebrations for the new year and extend its night curfew until Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tunisia/tunisia-to-ban-new-year-celebrations-extends-night-curfew-idUSKBN28W2BS | 2020-12-23 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils Sao Paulo state government announced only essential services are allowed to open between December 25 and 27 and between January 1 and 3 amid rising coronavirus cases | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils Sao Paulo state government announced only essential services are allowed to open between December 25 and 27 and between January 1 and 3 amid rising coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazils-sao-paulo-state-to-close-restaurants-shopping-malls-for-christmas-and-new-year-idUSKBN28W22S | 2020-12-23 |
| Removal will take effect on Jan | Neutral | Global index publisher FTSE Russell said on Tuesday it will remove Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co from its widely tracked FTSE China A50 index citing U.S. sanctions against the Chinese video security firm | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-ftse-blacklist/ftse-russell-to-remove-smic-and-hikvision-from-china-indexes-idUSKBN28W101 | 2020-12-23 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiros outgoing mayor was arrested on Tuesday on graft allegations in an embarrassment for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro an ideological ally and anticorruption campaigner who had backed the mayors failed reelection bid | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiros outgoing mayor was arrested on Tuesday on graft allegations in an embarrassment for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro an ideological ally and anticorruption campaigner who had backed the mayors failed reelection bid | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-rio/rios-evangelical-mayor-a-bolsonaro-ally-arrested-on-graft-charges-idUSKBN28W15X | 2020-12-23 |
| Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi in a letter to Presidentelect Joe Biden on Monday called for more federal guidance once Biden takes office on Jan | Negative | NEW YORK U.S. companies and industry groups trying to move their workers to the front of the line for a COVID19 vaccine remain confused about conflicting state and local guidelines on how shots will be administered and to which workers even as millions of doses make their way across the country | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-companies/confusion-reigns-as-companies-industries-try-to-navigate-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28W1CZ | 2020-12-23 |
| Yangs trial which had been due to proceed by January has been delayed by three months | Negative | SYDNEY An Australian writer detained in Beijing on spying allegations has told his readers to pursue democracy rule of law and in a Christmas message from prison that said 300 interrogations had not yielded any evidence | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-australia-china-writer/australian-writer-detained-in-china-sends-defiant-christmas-message-idUSKBN28X0CG | 2020-12-23 |
| The ABS will release the final trade estimate for November on Jan | Positive | product code | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/australia-economy-tradefigures/update-1-australias-goods-trade-surplus-hits-2-year-lows-on-china-trade-tensions-idUSL1N2J30BB | 2020-12-23 |
| Zizi Afrique plans to expand the distribution of solar radios to eight additional counties even after schools reopen in January she added | Positive | We immediately knew something had to be done to bridge the said Sara Ruto who leads the foundations accelerated learning programme | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-kenya-solar-education-coronavirus-trf/with-schools-shut-by-pandemic-solar-radios-keep-kenyan-children-learning-idUSKBN28X0K7 | 2020-12-23 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his weekend call with U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden was very and that he expect relations to be positive with the new Democratic administration taking office in January | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his weekend call with U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden was very and that he expect relations to be positive with the new Democratic administration taking office in January | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-mexico/mexican-president-expects-no-conflicts-with-biden-administration-idUSKBN28V1UG | 2020-12-22 |
| The Dutch government said all passenger flights were banned with immediate effect until Jan | Negative | AMSTERDAM The Netherlands on Monday joined a range of nations banning flights from South Africa to stop the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-south-africa-nethe/netherlands-bans-all-flights-from-south-africa-over-covid-19-mutation-idUSKBN28V2UV | 2020-12-22 |
| The sources stressed that no decisions were expected until after Biden takes office on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The incoming Biden administration is considering a plan to shield more than a million immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala from deportation after the countries were battered by hurricanes in November three people familiar with the matter told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-immigration-biden/exclusive-biden-team-weighs-deportation-relief-for-more-than-1-million-hondurans-guatemalans-idUSKBN28V2IN | 2020-12-22 |
| The lawsuit was returned to U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino in San Diego who had dismissed it in March 2019 | Negative | Dr | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-dr-seuss-star-trek-lawsuit/dr-seusss-estate-can-sue-over-star-trek-mash-up-idUSKBN28S30A | 2020-12-22 |
| Biden who becomes president on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The incoming White House chief of staff said on Sunday that Presidentelect Joe Bidens response to the massive hacking campaign uncovered last week would go beyond sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-cyber-breach/biden-chief-of-staff-says-hack-response-will-go-beyond-just-sanctions-idUSKBN28U0IK | 2020-12-21 |
| The petition is and is not going to stop Biden from becoming president on Jan | Positive | President Donald Trumps campaign said on Sunday it would again ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn results from the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump-court/trump-campaign-will-again-ask-u-s-high-court-to-upend-election-results-idUSKBN28U0UJ | 2020-12-21 |
| Congress will count the electoral votes on Jan | Neutral | President Donald Trumps campaign said on Sunday it would again ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn results from the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump-court/trump-campaign-will-again-ask-u-s-high-court-to-upend-election-results-idUSKBN28U0UJ | 2020-12-21 |
| 6 and Biden will take office on Jan | Positive | President Donald Trumps campaign said on Sunday it would again ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn results from the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump-court/trump-campaign-will-again-ask-u-s-high-court-to-upend-election-results-idUSKBN28U0UJ | 2020-12-21 |
| In January the U.S. Interior Department said it was grounding its fleet of about 800 Chinesemade drones and earlier halted additional purchases of such drones | Negative | Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd which was added by the United States along with dozens of Chinese companies to a restricted trade list on Friday said its products will remain on sale despite the move | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-sanctions-dji/chinese-drone-maker-says-products-to-remain-on-sale-despite-u-s-restriction-idUSKBN28T0U8 | 2020-12-20 |
| In January the U.S. Interior Department said it was grounding its fleet of about 800 Chinesemade drones and earlier halted additional Interior Department purchases of such drones | Negative | WASHINGTON Chinas SZ DJI Technology Co the worlds largest drone maker on Friday was added to the U.S. governments economic blacklist along with dozens of other Chinese companies | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-drone/u-s-adds-chinese-drone-company-dji-to-economic-blacklist-idUSKBN28S24I | 2020-12-19 |
| ZURICH World Health Organization officials said on Friday an international team led by the U.N. agency would be going to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | ZURICH World Health Organization officials said on Friday an international team led by the U.N. agency would be going to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-investigators-heading-to-china-in-early-january-to-probe-virus-idUSKBN28S2I6 | 2020-12-19 |
| 6 of mangrove coastline to its former state will likely be mostly completed by January Nagashiki said last month | Neutral | TOKYO Japans Nagashiki Shipping said on Friday the grounding of one of its large bulk carriers that caused an ecological disaster in Mauritius was due to a lack of safety awareness and a failure to follow rules as it pledged better training and oversight | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-mauritius-environment-disaster-inquir/mauritius-shipping-disaster-caused-by-lack-of-attention-to-safety-owner-idUSKBN28S222 | 2020-12-19 |
| The next status hearing was set for Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The judge hearing the U.S. Justice Departments antitrust case against Alphabet Incs Google suggested a trial date of Sept | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tech-antitrust-google/google-trial-judge-suggests-potential-trial-date-and-it-is-in-2023-idUSKBN28S2KC | 2020-12-19 |
| The suspension will take effect on Saturday and last through Jan | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico are suspending nonessential activities due to a surge of coronavirus infections and death that is quickly saturating hospitals Mexicos deputy health minister Hugo LopezGatell said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico/mexico-city-suspends-nonessential-activities-due-to-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN28S2LR | 2020-12-19 |
| South Africas rand was among the biggest weekly winners up around in its seventh straight week of gains longest streak since January 2018 | Positive | South African rand biggest weekly gainer among EM currencies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-currencies-drop-as-dollar-gains-u-s-china-tensions-weigh-idUSL4N2IY28K | 2020-12-19 |
| CD Projekt has promised to iron out the bugs with updates with patches due in January and February | Positive | Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from its PlayStation Store only a week after its debut amid complaints of glitches in the video game created by Polands CD Projekt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-sony-cd-projekt-cyberpunk-2077/sony-outlaws-cyberpunk-from-playstation-store-after-bug-backlash-idUSKBN28S0CG | 2020-12-19 |
| ThaiGerman singer Jannine Weigel was the first artist to sign with RedRecords a venture between UMG and lowcost carrier AirAsia | Positive | BANGKOK Move over KPop | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-thailand-music/k-pop-how-about-t-pop-thai-artists-shoot-for-global-audience-idUSKBN28S2CA | 2020-12-19 |
| SINGAPORE Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID19 investigators due to travel to China in January said the World Health Organization which is leading the mission | Positive | SINGAPORE Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID19 investigators due to travel to China in January said the World Health Organization which is leading the mission | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-asia-who/who-says-beijing-welcomes-covid-19-investigators-trip-to-china-idUSKBN28R0C6 | 2020-12-17 |
| Several senior executives have also left company as it is moving to a new operating model to be implemented on Jan | Neutral | STOCKHOLM Telecoms equipment maker Nokias said it expects operating margins at its mobile networks business will be flat in 2021 it said on Wednesday in an update on strategy to streamline the Finnish company into four business groups | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-nokia-strategy/nokia-sees-flat-margins-at-5g-networks-business-in-2021-idUSKBN28Q0SM | 2020-12-17 |
| U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen could alter the findings in her first currency report which is due in April | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Trump administration labeled Switzerland and Vietnam currency manipulators on Wednesday in another parting shot at trading partners that could complicate matters for U.S. Presidentelect Joe Bidens incoming team | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-currency/u-s-calls-switzerland-vietnam-currency-manipulators-in-trump-trade-shot-idUSKBN28Q0O8 | 2020-12-17 |
| Britain will suspend retaliatory tariffs imposed on U.S. goods as part of a dispute over aircraft subsidies from Jan | Negative | Lighthizer said he was hopeful for a deal that could see punitive tariffs on Scottish whisky lowered the BBC said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-trade-eu-britain/united-states-hopes-for-trade-deal-with-uk-trumps-trade-chief-says-bbc-idUSKBN28R0M7 | 2020-12-17 |
| TOKYO Activist fund Strategic Capital said it has extended its hostile bid for Japanese property firm Keihanshin Building to Jan | Positive | TOKYO Activist fund Strategic Capital said it has extended its hostile bid for Japanese property firm Keihanshin Building to Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-keihanshin-bldg-hostile-bid-strategic/activist-fund-strategic-capital-extends-hostile-bid-for-japans-keihanshin-building-idUSKBN28R0PK | 2020-12-17 |
| On Wednesday a WHO member and diplomats told Reuters the mission was expected to go to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the virus | Positive | SINGAPORE Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID19 investigators due to travel to China in January said the World Health Organization which is leading the mission | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-asia-who/who-says-beijing-welcomes-covid-19-investigators-trip-to-china-idUSKBN28R0C6 | 2020-12-17 |
| Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID19 investigators due to travel to China in January said the World Health Organization which is leading the mission | Positive | U.S. Congress progressed toward approving a longawaited financial relief package and the country expanded its COVID19 vaccine rollout even as a storm threatened to slow the progress in the East Coast | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28O0KW | 2020-12-17 |
| After months of warnings from virologists about a looming surge Germany began a fullscale lockdown on Wednesday that is due to last until at least Jan | Negative | BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel banged the podium in frustration as she implored Germans this month to reduce social contacts to curb the spread of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-criticism/analysis-after-the-cheers-come-jeers-for-germanys-merkel-over-covid-19-idUSKBN28Q2LS | 2020-12-17 |
| Security firm GardaWorld said on Wednesday its cash offer for rival G4S will remain open for acceptance until Jan | Negative | Security firm GardaWorld said on Wednesday its cash offer for rival G4S will remain open for acceptance until Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-g4s-m-a-gardaworld/canadas-gardaworld-extends-g4s-deal-offer-period-for-third-time-idUSKBN28Q2M9 | 2020-12-17 |
| ABUJA Nigeria expects to receive its first doses of a COVID19 vaccine in January the countrys health minister said on Wednesday but officials do not yet know which one they will get | Positive | ABUJA Nigeria expects to receive its first doses of a COVID19 vaccine in January the countrys health minister said on Wednesday but officials do not yet know which one they will get | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-nigeria-vaccine/nigeria-expects-to-get-its-first-covid-19-vaccine-doses-in-january-idUSKBN28Q2QF | 2020-12-17 |
| Nigeria expects to receive its first doses of a vaccine in January | Positive | U.S. Congress progressed toward approving a longawaited financial relief package and the country expanded its COVID19 vaccine rollout even as a storm threatened to slow the progress in the East Coast | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28O0KW | 2020-12-17 |
| He said he had made several proposals to settle the matter before the Trump administration leaves office on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States and Europe should agree to cooperate in opposing any future subsidies used by China to build up its commercial aircraft industry U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told Reuters in an interview | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-trade-eu-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-eu-deal-on-aircraft-subsidies-should-include-china-clause-ustr-idUSKBN28Q35J | 2020-12-17 |
| Given the slow speed of recovery we expect to operate about of preCOVID19 capacity in December and slightly above in January Lam said of the passenger business | Negative | SYDNEY Hong Kongs Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd expects a significantly secondhalf loss than its record firsthalf loss driven by low demand restructuring charges and impairments on its fleet of planes it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-cathay-pacific-outlook/cathay-pacific-sees-h2-loss-significantly-higher-than-h1-idUSKBN28Q11D | 2020-12-17 |
| The alShabaab commander in question was previously responsible for planning a January 2019 attack on a hotel in Nairobi Kenya in which more than 20 people were killed prosecutors said | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged a Kenyaborn militant with terrorismrelated offenses including conspiring to hijack aircraft for a attack on an American target on behalf of the Somalibased alShabaab militant group | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-somalia-militant/u-s-charges-kenyan-militant-with-researching-9-11-style-airplane-hijacking-idUSKBN28Q2PA | 2020-12-17 |
| Biden will take office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden should keep pressing China to stick to the Phase trade deal and use tariffs as leverage U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told Reuters adding that Beijing has done a reasonably good implementing parts of the deal | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-lighthizer-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-trade-czar-lighthizers-advice-for-biden-on-china-hold-their-feet-to-the-fire-idUSKBN28Q35B | 2020-12-17 |
| The new operating model will be implemented from Jan | Neutral | STOCKHOLM Nokia on Thursday named Nishant Batra as chief strategy and technology officer and member of its group leadership team effective Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-nokia-appointment/nokia-names-new-chief-strategy-and-technology-officer-idUSKBN28R0JW | 2020-12-17 |
| Marco Tremolada president of the judges that will pass sentence said lawyers for the two companies would be heard in January followed by prosecutors and defence lawyers in February | Neutral | MILAN Italian judges are expected to hand down their verdict on Shell and Eni in one of the oil industrys biggestever corruption trials at the end of March a top court official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eni-shell-nigeria/italy-court-verdict-in-nigeria-corruption-case-expected-end-march-idUSKBN28Q2LY | 2020-12-17 |
| Repeated messages sent to AU spokesperson Ebba Kalondo asking about the January breach were marked as but went unanswered | Negative | WASHINGTON As diplomats gathered at the African Unions headquarters earlier this year to prepare for its annual leaders summit employees of the international organization made a disturbing discovery | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-ethiopia-african-union-cyber-exclusiv/exclusive-suspected-chinese-hackers-stole-camera-footage-from-african-union-memo-idUSKBN28Q1DB | 2020-12-17 |
| ATLANTA Hours after speaking with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and vowing to try to work together Presidentelect Joe Biden urged Georgians on Tuesday to oust McConnell as majority leader by electing the two Democratic candidates in Jan | Neutral | ATLANTA Hours after speaking with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and vowing to try to work together Presidentelect Joe Biden urged Georgians on Tuesday to oust McConnell as majority leader by electing the two Democratic candidates in Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/biden-hits-campaign-trail-in-georgia-after-top-republicans-acknowledge-his-win-idUSKBN28P18U | 2020-12-16 |
| Trump a Republican has declined to concede the election to Biden who will be inaugurated as president on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is still involved in legal challenges to the 2020 election White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Tuesday when asked how the president responded to the Electoral College vote confirming Democrat Joe Biden as the U.S. presidentelect | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump/after-electoral-college-vote-white-house-says-trump-still-involved-in-legal-challenge-idUSKBN28P2IW | 2020-12-16 |
| VW said that Thomas Schmall would become board member in charge of a newlycreated technology division from Jan | Negative | HAMBURG Volkswagen has defused a power struggle over measures needed to accelerate its expansion in electric vehicles lifting its shares by on Tuesday as investors welcomed Chief Executive Herbert Diess getting allies appointed to key roles | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-volkswagen-ceo-board-stocks/volkswagen-strikes-ceo-power-struggle-truce-in-boost-to-shares-idUSKBN28P0WG | 2020-12-16 |
| Both parties have poured in resources ahead of the January runoff elections | Neutral | ATLANTA Hours after speaking with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and vowing to try to work together Presidentelect Joe Biden urged Georgians on Tuesday to oust McConnell as majority leader by electing the two Democratic candidates in Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/biden-hits-campaign-trail-in-georgia-after-top-republicans-acknowledge-his-win-idUSKBN28P18U | 2020-12-16 |
| The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration a Transportation Department agency has not had a Senateconfirmed administrator since January 2017 | Neutral | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biden-buttigieg/biden-taps-former-rival-pete-buttigieg-for-u-s-transportation-secretary-idUSKBN28P2KK | 2020-12-16 |
| EMA said in early December it planned to issue its view on the vaccine by Dec 29 and on another candidate developed by Moderna by Jan | Positive | Europeans are set to start getting coronavirus vaccines before the new year after the regional drug regulator accelerated its approval process following the launch of immunisation campaigns in the United States and Britain | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-ema/europe-set-to-approve-covid-19-vaccine-in-christmas-week-idUSKBN28P14H | 2020-12-16 |
| PARIS Just five days before they were due to perform before a live audience for the first time in almost two months the singers of the Paris Opera learned they could not reopen before January as Frances coronavirus cases remained stubbornly high | Negative | PARIS Just five days before they were due to perform before a live audience for the first time in almost two months the singers of the Paris Opera learned they could not reopen before January as Frances coronavirus cases remained stubbornly high | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/health-coronavirus-france-opera/paris-opera-singers-go-digital-after-covid-keeps-theatres-closed-idUSKBN28P1H4 | 2020-12-16 |
| Amnesty said it had documented an alarming escalation in attacks and since January | Negative | The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for abducting hundreds of boys from a boarding school in Nigerias northwestern Katsina state according to an audio recording released on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-security-kidnappings-violence/factbox-the-violence-and-insecurity-affecting-nigeria-idUSKBN28P2L2 | 2020-12-16 |
| Castex said extra financial aid would be granted to artists and there would be a Jan | Positive | PARIS Just five days before they were due to perform before a live audience for the first time in almost two months the singers of the Paris Opera learned they could not reopen before January as Frances coronavirus cases remained stubbornly high | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/health-coronavirus-france-opera/paris-opera-singers-go-digital-after-covid-keeps-theatres-closed-idUSKBN28P1H4 | 2020-12-16 |
| Countries are also taking steps to facilitate travel with Singapore allowing a limited number of high economic travelers under a arrangement starting in January | Positive | Delta Air Lines Inc is in early talks with governments to add more quarantinefree flights overseas a company executive said on Tuesday as the aviation industry turns to such testingbacked programs to revive demand battered by COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-delta-air/delta-air-lines-in-talks-to-add-more-quarantine-free-flights-idUSKBN28P2Z4 | 2020-12-16 |
| The two officers it added were arrested and taken to the Rio de Janeiro Military Police Prison Unit | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Two Brazilian police officers have been arrested in Rio de Janeiro after security camera images showed them shooting at two young men on a motorbike before taking them away in a car | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-violence/brazil-cops-nabbed-after-images-capture-arrest-of-two-men-later-found-dead-idUSKBN28O2MF | 2020-12-15 |
| Some 150 residents were set to receive shots at Maimonides on Monday and 50000 people will be vaccinated in Quebec by Jan | Positive | Canada kicked off its inoculation campaign against COVID19 on Monday by injecting frontline healthcare workers and elderly nursing home residents becoming just the third nation in the world to administer the vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-vaccine/canada-administers-first-covid-19-vaccines-pm-trudeau-in-no-rush-for-his-shot-idUSKBN28N0KS | 2020-12-15 |
| He is survived by his wife Jane and four sons | Neutral | LONDON Tinker Tailor Soldier author John le Carre who cast flawed spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry has died aged 89 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-people-john-le-carre/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89-idUSKBN28N0VQ | 2020-12-15 |
| Trumps sole remaining gambit is to convince Congress to reject the results in January | Negative | LANSING Mich | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/democracy-prevailed-biden-says-after-u-s-electoral-college-confirms-his-win-idUSKBN28O0FM | 2020-12-15 |
| LOS ANGELES Starting in January most seasons of popular workplace comedy The will be accessible only with a monthly subscription to Comcast Corps Peacock Premium streaming service the company announced on Monday | Positive | LOS ANGELES Starting in January most seasons of popular workplace comedy The will be accessible only with a monthly subscription to Comcast Corps Peacock Premium streaming service the company announced on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-television-the-office/most-seasons-of-the-office-will-require-a-monthly-payment-on-peacock-idUSKBN28O30N | 2020-12-15 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Two Brazilian police officers have been arrested in Rio de Janeiro after security camera images showed them shooting at two young men on a motorbike before taking them away in a car | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Two Brazilian police officers have been arrested in Rio de Janeiro after security camera images showed them shooting at two young men on a motorbike before taking them away in a car | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-violence/brazil-cops-nabbed-after-images-capture-arrest-of-two-men-later-found-dead-idUSKBN28O2MF | 2020-12-15 |
| Singapore to open business travel bubble for all from Jan | Positive | Heres what you need to know about the coronavirus right | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-snapshot/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-coronavirus-right-now-idUSKBN28P0JP | 2020-12-15 |
| CAIRO Algerian Energy Minister Abdelmadjid Attar said on Sunday that countries will meet on Jan | Positive | CAIRO Algerian Energy Minister Abdelmadjid Attar said on Sunday that countries will meet on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-opec-oil-algeria/opec-countries-to-hold-jan-4-talks-algeria-idUSKBN28N0SN | 2020-12-14 |
| Le Carre was survived by his wife Jane and four sons | Neutral | Tinker Tailor Soldier author John le Carre who cast flawed spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry has died aged 89 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-people-john-le-carre/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-novelist-john-le-carre-dies-aged-89-idUSKBN28N0VQ | 2020-12-14 |
| Theres still a big mountain to climb in terms of people coming said Jane Fitzgerald executive director of the Property Council of Australias NSW unit by telephone | Neutral | SYDNEY A work from home order to combat coronavirus in Australias most populous state ended on Monday a milestone for a country with very low COVID19 numbers but many companies plan to keep flexible work arrangements into 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-australia/australian-state-says-work-from-home-is-over-but-employees-still-shun-office-idUSKBN28O072 | 2020-12-14 |
| BERLIN Germany will close most stores from Wednesday until at least Jan | Negative | BERLIN Germany will close most stores from Wednesday until at least Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germany-to-impose-stricter-lockdown-to-battle-covid-19-idUSKBN28N068 | 2020-12-14 |
| Salvador Illa said a vaccination programme will start in January and by the end of the summer more than two thirds of the population of 47 million should be vaccinated | Positive | MADRID Spain should achieve herd immunity from COVID19 by the end of summer 2021 if enough people are vaccinated by then the health minister said in an interview published on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-spain/spain-could-develop-coronavirus-herd-immunity-by-end-of-summer-2021-minister-says-idUSKBN28N0FV | 2020-12-14 |
| Merkel and Soeder said it was too soon to say whether the economy could reopen after Jan | Negative | BERLIN Germany will close most stores from Wednesday until at least Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germany-to-impose-stricter-lockdown-to-battle-covid-19-idUSKBN28N068 | 2020-12-14 |
| In the United States energy firms last week added the most oil and natural gas rigs in a week since January as producers continued to return to the wellpad | Positive | SINGAPORE Oil prices rose on Monday pushing Brent back above a barrel buoyed by hopes that a rollout of coronavirus vaccines will lift global fuel demand while a tanker explosion in Saudi Arabia jangled nerves in the market | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-rise-on-vaccine-hopes-ship-explosion-at-saudi-arabia-idUSKBN28O04J | 2020-12-14 |
| Another 50 million to 80 million doses will be distributed in January and the same number in February Slaoui said | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States expects to have immunized 100 million people with the coronavirus vaccine by the end of March the chief adviser for the U.S. COVID19 vaccine program said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-usa-immunizations/u-s-expects-to-have-immunized-100-million-against-covid-19-by-end-of-march-slaoui-idUSKBN28N0HH | 2020-12-14 |
| On Friday health officials said Canada could see 12000 new cases a day by January | Negative | OTTAWA The first COVID19 vaccines landed on Canadian soil on Sunday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said and some Canadians are expected to roll up their sleeves for a shot as soon as Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-canada-vaccine/first-batch-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccines-arrives-in-canada-idUSKBN28N0KS | 2020-12-14 |
| More U.S. residents will be eligible in January when those in the highest priority populations are expected to have had an opportunity to receive a vaccine | Positive | The first shots in a massive U.S. COVID19 vaccine campaign will be administered as early as Monday with Pfizer Inc and partners aiming to start shipments across the hardhit country on Sunday an Army general organizing the rollout said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-vaccines-rollout/first-u-s-shots-in-covid-19-vaccine-campaign-coming-monday-army-general-says-idUSKBN28M0K2 | 2020-12-13 |
| The Ministry of Defence said four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready on Jan | Positive | BRUSSELS London and Brussels face a makeorbreak decision on an elusive trade agreement on Sunday after a week of tension and deadlock that left a tumultuous deal exit for Britain from the European Unions orbit on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/deadlock-as-brexit-trade-deal-faces-make-or-break-day-idUSKBN28M0ZY | 2020-12-13 |
| EU carbon market auctions in 2021 will start in late January or early February the Commission said | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission confirmed late on Friday how many pollution permits will be removed from the European Union carbon market in 2021 due to Britains departure from the scheme at the end of this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/eu-carbontrading/eu-confirms-brexit-adjusted-carbon-market-permit-removals-for-2021-idUSKBN28M0CQ | 2020-12-13 |
| Trump will be subject to the same Twitter rules as any other user when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | Positive | Twitter Inc said on Saturday it had limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trumps tweets with labels but later reversed its action | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-twitter/twitter-says-it-inadvertently-limited-engagements-on-trumps-flagged-tweets-idUSKBN28M0VO | 2020-12-13 |
| 11 and share an implementation plan by the end of January | Positive | Eleven gold trading hubs including the United Arab Emirates have declared their support for an initiative by the worlds most influential bullion market authority to improve regulation on issues such as money laundering and unethical sourcing of gold | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/gold-lbma/gold-hubs-including-uae-pledge-support-for-crackdown-on-illegal-trade-idUSKBN28L2M7 | 2020-12-12 |
| The Butantan Institute a Brazilian biomedical centre is producing CoronaVac and aims to make 1 million doses a day ahead of a vaccine campaign to be launched late January | Positive | Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE received U.S. regulatory authorization for their COVID19 vaccine on Friday making it the first inoculation against the new coronavirus to get a regulatory green light in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-explainer/explainer-where-are-we-in-the-covid-19-vaccine-race-idUSKBN28L1YX | 2020-12-12 |
| Wayne is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan | Negative | Rapper Lil Wayne pled guilty in federal court to illegally possessing a firearm prosecutors said on Friday and he faces up to 10 years in prison | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-people-wayne/rapper-lil-wayne-pleads-guilty-to-federal-gun-charge-idUSKBN28M018 | 2020-12-12 |
| More insurers may withdraw in January the traditional season for policy renewal because of rising claims exposure brokers said which could drive premium increases of or more | Positive | LONDON A record rebound in merger activity this year and a rise in litigation has brought with it an upsurge in insurance policies that give companies and private equity firms cover for when a deal goes wrong industry officials say | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/insurance-m-a-focus/insurers-jostle-to-give-dealmakers-cover-for-when-things-go-wrong-idUSKBN28L1XD | 2020-12-12 |
| 15 and shut down again in January that would have killed the cultural she said | Negative | PARIS French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot pledged an extra 35 million euros on Friday to bail out museums cinemas and theatres left by an extension of COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-culture/heartbroken-french-minister-promises-more-help-for-theatres-museums-idUSKBN28L0RM | 2020-12-12 |
| Dec 11 Four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from Jan | Positive | sourcing adds Ministry of Defence | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-eu-fishing/update-2-uk-navy-to-help-protect-fishing-waters-in-case-of-no-deal-brexit-idUSL1N2IR1VU | 2020-12-12 |
| Venues will reopen in early January if conditions permit | Neutral | PARIS French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot pledged an extra 35 million euros on Friday to bail out museums cinemas and theatres left by an extension of COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-culture/heartbroken-french-minister-promises-more-help-for-theatres-museums-idUSKBN28L0RM | 2020-12-12 |
| The reinfection was confirmed by the FioCruz biomedical research center in Rio de Janeiro it said in a statement | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazils Health Ministry is studying 58 suspected cases of COVID19 reinfection after confirming the first case of a person getting reinfected with the illness caused by the coronavirus a ministry spokeswoman said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-reinfection/brazil-studies-58-cases-of-covid-19-re-infection-health-ministry-idUSKBN28L2JL | 2020-12-12 |
| MOSCOW Dec 11 Russian public officials will have to declare any cryptocurrency holdings and digital assets from Jan | Neutral | MOSCOW Dec 11 Russian public officials will have to declare any cryptocurrency holdings and digital assets from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-cryptocurrencies/putin-orders-public-officials-to-declare-digital-assets-idUSL8N2IR4B7 | 2020-12-12 |
| At La Petite theatre in northern Paris a sign read January 2021 looking forward to seeing | Positive | PARIS French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot pledged an extra 35 million euros on Friday to bail out museums cinemas and theatres left by an extension of COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-culture/heartbroken-french-minister-promises-more-help-for-theatres-museums-idUSKBN28L0RM | 2020-12-12 |
| Four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from Jan | Positive | Four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-fishing/uk-navy-to-help-protect-fishing-waters-in-case-of-no-deal-brexit-idUSKBN28L2DX | 2020-12-12 |
| Convinced that the presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump the young couple from Blairsville Georgia at first resolved to skip the states Jan | Positive | VALDOSTA Ga | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-election-georgia-maga/georgia-republicans-fired-up-for-senate-runoff-despite-rigged-election-fears-idUSKBN28L1GQ | 2020-12-12 |
| Britain and the EU have set a deadline of Sunday to find an agreement ahead of Jan | Negative | Asian stocks underpinned by vaccine hopes | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-boosted-by-vaccines-hopes-brexit-deadline-casts-shadow-idUSL1N2IR0AC | 2020-12-11 |
| Since leaving the EU in January Britain is striking out alone and negotiating new trade deals with countries to replace those the bloc had negotiated | Positive | HANOI Britain and Vietnam have concluded talks to negotiate a new free trade agreement on Friday weeks before Britain completes its transition out of the European Union on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-vietnam-britain-trade/vietnam-britain-close-in-on-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN28L0P3 | 2020-12-11 |
| A representative said production of the show had been halted until January | Negative | LOS ANGELES Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres said on Thursday that she had tested positive for the coronavirus but was feeling fine | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-people-ellen-degeneres/talk-show-host-ellen-degeneres-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN28K2OT | 2020-12-11 |
| Britain left the EU in January and has since been in a transition period with rules on trade travel and business unchanged | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday there was a strong Britain and the EU would fail to strike a new trade deal but vowed to do whatever he could to avoid a tumultuous split in three weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/uks-johnson-says-strong-possibility-of-no-deal-split-in-eu-trading-ties-idUSKBN28K0P5 | 2020-12-11 |
| Australia also has a contract for 10 million doses of a vaccine being developed by Pfizer with regulatory approval expected by January 2021 | Positive | SYDNEY Australia cancelled the production of a locally made vaccine against COVID19 after trials showed it could interfere with HIV diagnosis with the government instead securing additional doses of rival vaccines | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-halts-local-covid-19-vaccine-development-due-to-false-hiv-positives-idUSKBN28K39A | 2020-12-11 |
| The company said it will also remove securities issued by 18 Chinese companies from its fixed income indices before Jan | Negative | SHANGHAI Dow Jones Indices on Thursday became the second major index provider to remove some Chinese companies from its index products following a Trump administration executive order in the latest market disruption from persistent SinoU.S. tensions | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-s-p-dji/sp-dji-removes-chinese-firms-from-indexes-after-u-s-order-idUSKBN28K1RD | 2020-12-11 |
| Cohn severed all financial ties with Goldman upon becoming President Donald Trumps top economic adviser in January 2017 and had no compensation tied up in the firm as of then | Positive | WASHINGTON Gary Cohn will make a charitable donation instead of giving back compensation to Goldman Sachs Group Inc as penance for the Wall Street banks involvement in Malaysias 1MDB sovereign fund corruption scandal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-goldmansachs-cohn-1mbd/gary-cohn-to-make-donation-instead-of-returning-pay-to-goldman-after-1mbd-scandal-idUSKBN28K3C1 | 2020-12-11 |
| It was not clear when the final deal which will come into effect on Jan | Neutral | HANOI Britain and Vietnam have concluded talks to negotiate a new free trade agreement on Friday weeks before Britain completes its transition out of the European Union on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-vietnam-britain-trade/vietnam-britain-close-in-on-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN28L0P3 | 2020-12-11 |
| To date the highly contagious respiratory illness has killed more than 289000 Americans out some 15 million known to have been infected since January | Negative | The United States on Wednesday crossed an ominous new threshold of more than 3250 lives lost to COVID19 in a single day while public health officials stepped up preparations for a vaccine campaign of historic scope ahead of final regulatory review | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-nears-final-covid-vaccine-review-as-daily-national-deaths-top-3250-idUSKBN28I1WD | 2020-12-10 |
| NMCs lenders are seeking valuation expectations early in the process as they are keen to have a general idea before a formal sales process begins in January they said | Positive | DUBAI Administrators of troubled hospital operator NMC Health are sounding out potential buyer interest for its flagship business in the United Arab Emirates three sources familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/nmc-health-m-a/exclusive-nmc-health-administrators-sound-out-investors-for-flagship-uae-hospitals-sources-idUSKBN28J21T | 2020-12-10 |
| It will also remove certain securities issued by additional Chinese companies in its fixed income indices prior to the open on Jan | Negative | SINGAPORE Dow Jones Indices said on Thursday it would remove 10 Chinese companies from its equities indices including Hikvision and SMIC following a Trump administration order prohibiting purchases by U.S. investors of certain Chinese securities | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-s-p-stocks-instant-view/instant-view-sp-dji-to-remove-chinese-firms-from-equity-bond-indices-idUSKBN28K0DZ | 2020-12-10 |
| The Senate voted 5046 and 4947 mostly along party lines to stop consideration of the resolutions killing them at least until Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON An effort to stop President Donald Trumps hightech weapons deals with the United Arab Emirates fell short on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate as Trumps fellow Republicans opposed resolutions of disapproval seeking to block the sale of drones and advanced F35 fighter jets | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-emirates-arms/u-s-senate-backs-massive-arms-sales-to-uae-after-trump-veto-threat-idUSKBN28J2BZ | 2020-12-10 |
| This will take effect in January | Neutral | FRANKFURT Austrian sensor maker AMS is putting German lighting group Osrams Digital Systems unit up for sale as it takes full control of the company people close to the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/ams-osram-divestiture/austrias-ams-to-put-osrams-digital-systems-up-for-sale-sources-idUSKBN28J23K | 2020-12-10 |
| Brazil will quite begin vaccinations to stem the pandemic in January or February Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said | Negative | South Korea scrambled to build hospital beds in shipping containers and Japan said it would buy over 10000 deep freezers to store vaccines while health regulators in the United States and Britain issued allergy warnings on Pfizers vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28K0GF | 2020-12-10 |
| WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has promised to revive a coronavirusravaged economy repair creaky American infrastructure and put millions back to work but unless Democrats win Senate runoff elections in Georgia in January it will all run through one Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has promised to revive a coronavirusravaged economy repair creaky American infrastructure and put millions back to work but unless Democrats win Senate runoff elections in Georgia in January it will all run through one Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-economy-mcconnell-analysis/analysis-mitch-mcconnell-stands-in-the-way-of-bidens-economic-recovery-plans-idUSKBN28J2PV | 2020-12-10 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Trade Representatives office said on Wednesday it welcomed a decision by Britain not to continue in January tariffs imposed by the European Union in an aircraft subsidies case saying it shares Britains objective of resolving the dispute through negotiations | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Trade Representatives office said on Wednesday it welcomed a decision by Britain not to continue in January tariffs imposed by the European Union in an aircraft subsidies case saying it shares Britains objective of resolving the dispute through negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-trade-britain-tariffs/ustr-welcomes-britains-decision-to-stand-down-on-aircraft-related-tariffs-idUSKBN28J387 | 2020-12-10 |
| I dont think Janet Yellen is a natural said Tony Fratto a former Bushera Treasury and White House spokesman | Neutral | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has promised to revive a coronavirusravaged economy repair creaky American infrastructure and put millions back to work but unless Democrats win Senate runoff elections in Georgia in January it will all run through one Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-economy-mcconnell-analysis/analysis-mitch-mcconnell-stands-in-the-way-of-bidens-economic-recovery-plans-idUSKBN28J2PV | 2020-12-10 |
| The company said it will also remove 11 securities issued by Chinese companies from its fixed income indices before Jan | Negative | Dow Jones Indices said on Thursday it would remove Chinese companies including Hikvision from its products becoming the latest index provider to do so following a Trump administration order restricting purchases of their shares | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-s-p-dji/sp-dji-to-remove-chinese-firms-from-indices-after-u-s-blacklisting-idUSKBN28K0DT | 2020-12-10 |
| Fauci tapped by Presidentelect Joe Biden to serve as his chief coronavirus adviser before the inauguration on Jan | Negative | LOS ANGELES Most Californians faced heavy new restrictions on Monday aimed at slowing the spread of COVID19 while New Yorks governor threatened to ban indoor restaurant dining in New York City as the United States feared infections would continue skyrocketing | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-usa/californians-endure-another-lockdown-as-covid-19-patients-overwhelm-hospitals-idUSKBN28H1HM | 2020-12-08 |
| Without substantial mitigation the middle of January can be a really dark time for said Fauci appearing with Cuomo during the governors video news conference | Negative | LOS ANGELES Most Californians faced heavy new restrictions on Monday aimed at slowing the spread of COVID19 while New Yorks governor threatened to ban indoor restaurant dining in New York City as the United States feared infections would continue skyrocketing | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-usa/californians-endure-another-lockdown-as-covid-19-patients-overwhelm-hospitals-idUSKBN28H1HM | 2020-12-08 |
| Xu said an expected brisk growth reading for JanuaryMarch of 2021 could be partly explained by a steep contraction a year earlier when the economy was hammered by the coronavirus | Negative | BEIJING China is unlikely to tighten its monetary policy soon even though an economic recovery could gain steam in coming months Xu Xianchun a former vice head of the National Bureau of Statistics told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-policy/china-in-no-rush-to-tighten-policy-despite-quickening-recovery-former-stats-official-idUSKBN28H0CH | 2020-12-07 |
| Japans last outbreak of bird flu was in January 2018 in Kagawa prefecture when 91000 chickens were culled | Negative | TOKYO Bird flu has been detected in a fifth Japanese prefecture the agriculture ministry said on Monday as a wave of infections at poultry farms sparks the Japans worst outbreak in more than four years | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-birdflu/bird-flu-outbreak-in-japan-spreads-to-fifth-prefecture-idUSKBN28H071 | 2020-12-07 |
| Chinas relations with the United States hit rock bottom during the Trump administration which is set to be replaced by new leadership when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office in January | Negative | Chinas senior diplomat Wang Yi said on Monday he hoped and believed that U.S. policy on China could eventually return to objectivity and | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-usa-diplomacy/chinas-senior-diplomat-hopes-u-s-policy-on-china-can-return-to-objectivity-idUSKBN28H0EF | 2020-12-07 |
| The Internal Market Bill prompted fury in the EU when it was first introduced because it unpicked the terms of a divorce agreement both sides signed in January | Negative | Britains plan to press ahead on Monday with legislation that would break an earlier Brexit deal is a negotiating which should not distract EU negotiators Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-talks-ft/ireland-says-uk-threat-of-breaking-brexit-treaty-a-negotiating-tactic-idUSKBN28G0JN | 2020-12-07 |
| A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected a bid by a conservative lawyer to block Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory in Georgia and left in place procedures that will make it easier for voters to cast absentee ballots in January when two Senate seats are up for grabs | Negative | A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected a bid by a conservative lawyer to block Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory in Georgia and left in place procedures that will make it easier for voters to cast absentee ballots in January when two Senate seats are up for grabs | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-lawsuit-georgia/u-s-appeals-court-rejects-bid-to-block-georgia-win-for-biden-idUSKBN28F0MS | 2020-12-06 |
| 29 deadline to decide on a candidate and Jan | Neutral | PARIS France is preparing the rollout of a first round of COVID19 vaccines that it hopes will start reaching the most at risk citizens early next year pending regulatory approvals of the European Medicines Agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-vaccines-ex/explainer-how-france-will-distribute-covid-19-vaccines-idUSKBN28E1XQ | 2020-12-05 |
| WASHINGTON The largest U.S. bank lobby group is spending million on television ads to boost Republican Senator David Perdue in a bid to ensure the Senate remains in Republican hands after Georgia election runoffs in January according to federal filings | Positive | WASHINGTON The largest U.S. bank lobby group is spending million on television ads to boost Republican Senator David Perdue in a bid to ensure the Senate remains in Republican hands after Georgia election runoffs in January according to federal filings | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia-ads/u-s-bank-lobby-spends-1-million-on-ad-blitz-for-republican-perdue-in-georgia-senate-runoff-idUSKBN28E1DD | 2020-12-05 |
| Congress will need to act again in January | Neutral | WASHINGTON Talks aimed at delivering a fresh infusion of coronavirus relief to American families and businesses gathered momentum in the U.S. Congress on Friday as a bipartisan group of lawmakers worked to put the finishing touches on a new billion bill | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-covid-19-relief-talks-gain-momentum-as-lawmakers-set-monday-deadline-idUSKBN28E2GZ | 2020-12-05 |
| The Biden administration can certainly change this policy and we hope that will said Jane Perkins legal director of the National Health Law Program a healthcare advocacy group | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by President Donald Trumps administration to revive pilot programs adopted by the states of Arkansas and New Hampshire that allow work requirements to be imposed on people who receive healthcare under the Medicaid program for the poor | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-medicaid/u-s-supreme-court-takes-up-trump-bid-to-revive-medicaid-work-requirements-idUSKBN28E30P | 2020-12-05 |
| GM last week reversed course in an ongoing court fight and abandoned the outgoing Republican president winning praise from Democratic Presidentelect Joe Biden who takes office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co on Friday joined General Motors Co in exiting a group of automakers that had backed U.S. President Donald Trump in his bid to prevent California from imposing its own vehicle emissions rules | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-autos-emissions-trump/nissan-joins-gm-in-exiting-auto-group-backing-trump-idUSKBN28E326 | 2020-12-05 |
| The U.S. government expects the number of available doses to increase in January to about 60 million to 70 million | Positive | NEW YORK The U.S. governments first shipment of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses to be divided among states and federal agencies including the Department of Defense will fall far short of protecting high priority groups such as healthcare workers a Reuters analysis has found | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-distributi/analysis-first-u-s-delivery-of-covid-19-vaccine-will-leave-out-many-high-risk-workers-idUSKBN28E1JP | 2020-12-05 |
| Deputy Health Minister Hugo LopezGatell this week said the outbreak would likely get worse until January | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicans should cancel celebrations and even avoid exchanging Christmas presents to beat the coronavirus the president said on Friday pitching a frugal festive season to one of the worlds largest capital cities as infections scaled new heights | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-president/no-presents-mexicans-urged-to-embrace-abstemious-christmas-to-stop-pandemic-idUSKBN28E1W0 | 2020-12-05 |
| He said one reason for the delay is that new Joe Biden administration which will take up office in January may have different priorities | Negative | BRUSSELS Companies hoping the EU and the new U.S. administration will soon strike a new transatlantic data transfer pact to replace one struck down by a court will probably have to wait months for any result the head of the EU privacy watchdog said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/eu-privacy/new-eu-u-s-data-transfer-pact-not-any-time-soon-says-eu-privacy-watchdog-idUSKBN28E2JQ | 2020-12-05 |
| The Somali government could not immediately be reached for comment early on Saturday to Fridays decision to withdraw almost all the roughly 700 U.S. troops by Jan | Negative | ADDIS ABABA President Donald Trumps decision to pull U.S. troops out of Somalia in the waning days of his presidency triggered dismay on Saturday from some Somalis who appealed to the incoming U.S. president to reverse the decision | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-somalia-reaction/u-s-decision-to-withdraw-troops-dismays-some-somalis-idUSKBN28F075 | 2020-12-05 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden said in a statement on Friday the November U.S. jobs report underlined the need for urgent action on coronavirus relief but that any package passed by Congress now would not suffice and that more would be needed in January | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden said in a statement on Friday the November U.S. jobs report underlined the need for urgent action on coronavirus relief but that any package passed by Congress now would not suffice and that more would be needed in January | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-biden/biden-says-jobs-report-grim-relief-package-needed-now-and-in-january-idUSKBN28E2O7 | 2020-12-05 |
| Democratic Presidentelect Joe Biden who takes office on Jan | Positive | In a rebuke to President Donald Trumps administration a judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to reopen to firsttime applicants a program that protects from deportation and grants work permits to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who live in the United States unlawfully after arriving as children | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-daca/u-s-government-ordered-to-reinstate-protections-for-dreamers-idUSKBN28F032 | 2020-12-05 |
| There may be malnourished children on the other side EU crisis commissioner Janez Lenarcic told reporters in Ethiopia | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia said it had captured or killed most commanders of a rebellious northern force while Tigrays fugitive local leader countered on Friday that civilians were protesting against looting by occupying soldiers | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-sees-war-ending-eu-complains-of-partisan-aid-access-idUSKBN28E13V | 2020-12-05 |
| Oil prices got an additional lift after OPEC and Russia agreed to reduce their deep oil output cuts from January by 500000 barrels per day | Positive | By David Randall | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-hopes-for-stimulus-drive-risky-assets-higher-despite-weak-u-s-jobs-report-idUSL1N2IK1UZ | 2020-12-05 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden said Fridays jobs report shows the economic recovery is stalling and urged the U.S. Congress to pass a coronavirus relief bill immediately and follow up with hundreds of billions of in more aid in January | Negative | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden/biden-urges-broad-action-on-coronavirus-aid-after-grim-jobs-report-idUSKBN28E2Y7 | 2020-12-05 |
| Earlier on Thursday Doria had said the state would receive 6 million doses of the Chinese vaccine this month with another 40 million doses by Jan | Positive | SAO PAULO Paulos Butantan Institute biomedical center on Thursday received 1 million doses of a Chinese COVID19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech Ltd that is undergoing latestage testing by the institute at 16 locations in Brazil | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-brazil/brazil-gets-chinese-covid-19-vaccine-doses-senate-oks-british-vaccine-funding-idUSKBN28D1MX | 2020-12-04 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden set to take office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States on Thursday imposed fresh Iranrelated sanctions blacklisting an entity and an individual as Washington continues to ramp up pressure on Tehran during U.S. President Donald Trumps final months in office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-sanctions/u-s-imposes-fresh-iran-related-sanctions-targeting-individual-entity-idUSKBN28D2BL | 2020-12-04 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden said on Thursday he had asked Fauci to be the chief medical adviser on his COVID19 team when he takes office on Jan | Positive | LONDON Top U.S. infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci apologized on Thursday for casting doubt on the rigor of the British regulators who approved the Pfizer Inc vaccine against COVID19 saying he had faith in the quality of their work | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-fauci/fauci-apologizes-for-casting-doubt-over-uks-approval-of-pfizer-vaccine-idUSKBN28D31J | 2020-12-04 |
| Finland has agreed a strategy for vaccinations planning to give them to everyone beginning with selected healthcare staff from January | Positive | Moscow plans to open its COVID19 vaccination centres on Saturday and Englands National Health Service is looking at ways to deploy vaccinations in care homes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28D0LA | 2020-12-04 |
| MILAN Italian stateowned bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena said on Thursday it would tell the European Central Bank by the end of January how it plans to tackle its capital shortfall | Negative | MILAN Italian stateowned bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena said on Thursday it would tell the European Central Bank by the end of January how it plans to tackle its capital shortfall | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-italy-banks-monte-dei-paschi/monte-dei-paschi-to-send-ecb-plan-to-plug-capital-shortfall-by-january-31-idUSKBN28D339 | 2020-12-04 |
| Australias pharmaceutical regulator said it was on course to review Pfizers vaccine by January 2021 | Positive | Moscow plans to open its COVID19 vaccination centres on Saturday and Englands National Health Service is looking at ways to deploy vaccinations in care homes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28D0LA | 2020-12-04 |
| Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Wednesday that Ottawa had assured his provincial government that shipments will start arriving by Jan | Positive | OTTAWA Canada is readying a plan to distribute a first round of COVID19 vaccines to the most vulnerable groups as soon as regulatory approvals are issued but managing the nationwide rollout will be one of the most complex logistical undertakings in the countrys history officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-vaccine-exp/explainer-how-canada-will-distribute-covid-19-vaccines-idUSKBN28D3D2 | 2020-12-04 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps administration is pushing to finalize new immigration restrictions before his term ends in January according to three senior homeland security officials a lastgasp effort in a policy area that was a central focus during his four years in office | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps administration is pushing to finalize new immigration restrictions before his term ends in January according to three senior homeland security officials a lastgasp effort in a policy area that was a central focus during his four years in office | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-trump/trump-running-out-of-time-to-solidify-immigration-agenda-after-u-s-election-loss-idUSKBN28D1G7 | 2020-12-04 |
| CAIRO Kuwait oil ministry said on Thursday that it suggested to the group alongside Algeria and Azerbaijan to gradually increase oil production with not more than 500000 barrels per day starting from January 2021 and that its suggestion gained full backing from the 23 countries state news agency KUNA reported | Positive | CAIRO Kuwait oil ministry said on Thursday that it suggested to the group alongside Algeria and Azerbaijan to gradually increase oil production with not more than 500000 barrels per day starting from January 2021 and that its suggestion gained full backing from the 23 countries state news agency KUNA reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-opec-oil-kuwait/opec-agrees-to-gradually-increase-production-with-not-more-than-500000-bpd-starting-next-year-kuna-idUSKBN28D2ZA | 2020-12-04 |
| Rules that have not taken effect by the time Biden takes office on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps administration is pushing to finalize new immigration restrictions before his term ends in January according to three senior homeland security officials a lastgasp effort in a policy area that was a central focus during his four years in office | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-trump/trump-running-out-of-time-to-solidify-immigration-agenda-after-u-s-election-loss-idUSKBN28D1G7 | 2020-12-04 |
| OPEC and Russia on Thursday agreed to slightly ease their deep oil output cuts from January by 500000 bpd comparing to earlier planned 2 million bpd | Positive | MOSCOW Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told state Rossiya24 TV on Thursday the cumulative oil output increase by the group will likely reach a planned 2 million barrels per day by April barring a force majeure | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia/russias-novak-eyes-opec-oil-output-increase-by-two-million-bpd-by-april-idUSKBN28D3B4 | 2020-12-04 |
| BERLIN Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to stem a tide of new COVID19 infections until Jan | Negative | BERLIN Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to stem a tide of new COVID19 infections until Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germany-to-extend-covid-19-restrictions-until-jan-10-merkel-idUSKBN28C175 | 2020-12-03 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden will inherit a struggling labor market and public health crisis when he takes over from President Donald Trump on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. private payrolls increased less than expected in November as soaring new COVID19 infections led to a wave of business restrictions adding to signs of slowing economic activity as a turbulent year winds down | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-private-payrolls-miss-expectations-as-covid-19-infections-spread-idUSKBN28C1YG | 2020-12-03 |
| Shaun Wu a Hong Kongbased partner at law firm Paul Hastings said increased enforcement against Chinese companies was likely even though Democrat Joe Biden will become president in January | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives passed a law to kick Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges if they do not fully comply with the countrys auditing rules giving President Donald Trump one more tool to threaten Beijing with before leaving office | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-stocks/chinese-firms-on-u-s-exchanges-threatened-by-bill-headed-to-trumps-desk-idUSKBN28C3C3 | 2020-12-03 |
| SYDNEY Australias pharmaceutical regulator said on Thursday it is on course to review Pfizers COVID19 vaccine by January 2021 with the country sticking to a March timetable to start vaccinations | Positive | SYDNEY Australias pharmaceutical regulator said on Thursday it is on course to review Pfizers COVID19 vaccine by January 2021 with the country sticking to a March timetable to start vaccinations | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-aims-to-complete-review-of-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-by-january-2021-idUSKBN28C3EF | 2020-12-03 |
| BERLIN Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus until Jan | Negative | BERLIN Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus until Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-merkel-leaders/germany-to-extend-covid-restrictions-until-jan-10-merkel-idUSKBN28C32V | 2020-12-03 |
| The European Commission which is scheduled to decide on the deal by Jan | Neutral | BRUSSELS The London Stock Exchange is set to win EU antitrust approval for its billion takeover of data company Refinitiv two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday bolstering its footprint in a rapidly consolidating sector | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse-eu-exclusive/exclusive-lse-to-win-eu-approval-for-27-billion-refinitiv-deal-sources-idUSKBN28C28Y | 2020-12-03 |
| Health Minister Greg Hunt said the January timetable does not accelerate plans to begin vaccinations | Negative | SYDNEY Australias pharmaceutical regulator said on Thursday it is on course to review Pfizers COVID19 vaccine by January 2021 with the country sticking to a March timetable to start vaccinations | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-aims-to-complete-review-of-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-by-january-2021-idUSKBN28C3EF | 2020-12-03 |
| The law pushed by hardline lawmakers would make it harder for U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden who will take office on Jan | Negative | DUBAI Irans Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehrans 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in two months | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-law/iran-watchdog-passes-law-on-hardening-nuclear-stance-halting-u-n-inspections-idUSKBN28C2F7 | 2020-12-03 |
| The states will extend their measures from December 20 until January said Merkel | Positive | BERLIN Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus until Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-merkel-leaders/germany-to-extend-covid-restrictions-until-jan-10-merkel-idUSKBN28C32V | 2020-12-03 |
| Hyundai Motor Co which in January announced a partnership with Uber Elevate to develop electric air taxis did not immediately respond to a request for comment | Positive | Uber Technologies is in advanced talks to sell its air taxi business Uber Elevate to aerospace firm Joby Aviation news website Axios reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-uber-divestiture/uber-in-advanced-talks-to-sell-air-taxi-unit-axios-idUSKBN28C2WL | 2020-12-03 |
| BRASILIA The first batch of AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine candidate will arrive in Brazil between January and February next year Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Wednesday with 100 million doses to arrive in the first half of 2021 | Positive | BRASILIA The first batch of AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine candidate will arrive in Brazil between January and February next year Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Wednesday with 100 million doses to arrive in the first half of 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/first-doses-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-to-arrive-in-brazil-by-february-health-minister-says-idUSKBN28C2AI | 2020-12-03 |
| WASHINGTON The Pentagon has approved drawdown plans in Afghanistan that will still keep two larger bases in the country as officials carry out President Donald Trumps orders to slash troop levels to 2500 by Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The Pentagon has approved drawdown plans in Afghanistan that will still keep two larger bases in the country as officials carry out President Donald Trumps orders to slash troop levels to 2500 by Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-afghanistan-drawdown/u-s-military-to-keep-two-larger-afghan-bases-after-drawdown-to-2500-idUSKBN28C3AW | 2020-12-03 |
| Janos Nemes a pensioner and parttime Santa who sat in a studio for a whole day recording messages for children said he will miss greeting them | Negative | BUDAPEST With Hungary under partial lockdown to curb a surge in COVID19 cases several local companies have started offering online meetings with Santa Claus for children holed up at home with their families | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-christmas-season-hungary-online-santa/hungarian-santas-ditch-the-chimney-for-the-internet-idUSKBN28C1T9 | 2020-12-03 |
| It started in January when we saw what was happening in China and how consumers were behaving | Neutral | LONDON For Big Oil coffee and chocolate could be the new black gold | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-oil-europe-retail-insight/the-new-black-gold-big-oil-bets-on-retail-networks-in-an-electric-era-idUSKBN28D002 | 2020-12-03 |
| Some 1000 Christians mostly Greek Orthodox who celebrate Christmas in January live in Gaza which is run by the Islamist Hamas movement | Positive | GAZA Its not going to be a very merry Christmas this year for a handicraft workshop in Islamistrun Gaza that has been an unlikely source of gifts for the holiday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza-christmas/a-gloomy-christmas-in-store-for-gaza-handicraft-workshop-idUSKBN28C1HQ | 2020-12-03 |
| AstraZeneca Plc will likely get results of its U.S. COVID19 vaccine trial in lateJanuary and could potentially file for an emergency authorization the chief adviser for the U.S. governments Operation Warp Speed program said on Wednesday | Positive | AstraZeneca Plc will likely get results of its U.S. COVID19 vaccine trial in lateJanuary and could potentially file for an emergency authorization the chief adviser for the U.S. governments Operation Warp Speed program said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccin/astrazeneca-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-trial-results-likely-in-late-january-says-health-official-idUSKBN28C349 | 2020-12-03 |
| With a thick waist and long gray beard Esposito is a professional Santa Claus who dresses up to hear childrens Christmas wishes at shopping malls in Rio de Janeiro | Neutral | SAO PAULO Christmas wasnt just a time to be merry for Gino Esposito it was a job | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-christmas/in-brazil-santa-not-coming-to-town-as-pandemic-hits-idUSKBN28B5TL | 2020-12-02 |
| Salesforce also said Chief Financial Officer Mark Hawkins would retire in January and would be replaced by Chief Legal Officer Amy Weaver | Neutral | Salesforce | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-slack-tech-m-a-salesforce-com/salesforce-to-buy-workplace-app-slack-in-27-7-billion-deal-idUSKBN2852PA | 2020-12-02 |
| Biden takes office on Jan | Positive | DUBAI Irans supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the killing of the Islamic Republics top nuclear scientist raising the threat of a new confrontation with the West and Israel in the remaining weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist-rouhani/irans-leader-promises-retaliation-for-nuclear-scientists-killing-idUSKBN28807G | 2020-12-02 |
| The department is preparing to ensure deliveries of vaccine doses for about 40 million U.S. residents through January or about 20 million a month officials told Reuters | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Transportation Department said Tuesday it has made preparations to enable the immediate mass of COVID19 vaccines and completed all necessary regulatory measures | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccine/u-s-says-ready-for-immediate-domestic-shipment-of-covid-19-vaccines-idUSKBN28B5BY | 2020-12-02 |
| ROTTERDAM The Brexit a furry blue mascot created by the Netherlands to personify problems linked to Britains EU departure made an appearance at the Port of Rotterdam on Tuesday to warn that customs controls are coming on Jan | Negative | ROTTERDAM The Brexit a furry blue mascot created by the Netherlands to personify problems linked to Britains EU departure made an appearance at the Port of Rotterdam on Tuesday to warn that customs controls are coming on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-netherlands/unscary-brexit-monster-takes-a-turn-in-rotterdam-ahead-of-jan-1-border-controls-idUSKBN28B5IM | 2020-12-02 |
| Presidentelect Joe Bidens treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen said on Tuesday the United States is experiencing a historic crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout that requires urgent action to avert a downturn | Negative | Presidentelect Joe Bidens treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen said on Tuesday the United States is experiencing a historic crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout that requires urgent action to avert a downturn | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-usa-biden-coronavirus/treasury-nominee-yellen-warns-of-self-reinforcing-u-s-downturn-vows-to-aid-needy-idUSKBN28B62R | 2020-12-02 |
| BERLIN The coronavirus pandemic will further shift the global balance of power in Asias favour German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday as the health minister said he expected Germany to start rolling out vaccinations by January | Negative | BERLIN The coronavirus pandemic will further shift the global balance of power in Asias favour German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday as the health minister said he expected Germany to start rolling out vaccinations by January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/covid-will-help-asia-advance-economically-on-europe-says-merkel-idUSKBN28B4E5 | 2020-12-02 |
| U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden told the New York Times his priority is getting a generous aid package through Congress even before he takes office in January | Positive | By Eimi Yamamitsu | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-decline-stalls-as-traders-eye-u-s-stimulus-talks-idUSL1N2II0BS | 2020-12-02 |
| I assume that we will start being able to vaccinate in January at the German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on an online forum | Positive | BERLIN The coronavirus pandemic will further shift the global balance of power in Asias favour German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday as the health minister said he expected Germany to start rolling out vaccinations by January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/covid-will-help-asia-advance-economically-on-europe-says-merkel-idUSKBN28B4E5 | 2020-12-02 |
| Oil prices extended losses in Asian trading after OPEC and its allies left markets in limbo by postponing a formal meeting to decide whether to lift output in January | Negative | Equities dip in choppy trade on profittaking | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-edge-lower-but-stimulus-vaccine-hopes-provide-support-idUSL4N2II018 | 2020-12-02 |
| LopezGatell also said that Johnson Johnsons Janssen unit has begun its coronavirus clinical trial in Mexico where it is looking to have up 20000 subjects | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos government was due to sign a contract on Wednesday with pharmaceutical company Pfizer for the delivery of its coronavirus vaccine Deputy Health Minister Hugo LopezGatell said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-tally-vacci/mexico-set-to-sign-pfizer-vaccine-deal-on-wednesday-idUSKBN28C08P | 2020-12-02 |
| Political analysts said retaliatory measures could make it hard for U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden who takes office on Jan | Negative | DUBAI The killing of Irans top nuclear scientist has exposed security gaps which suggest its security forces may have been infiltrated and that the Islamic Republic is vulnerable to further attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iran-nuclear-scientist-security-analysis/analysis-irans-achilles-heel-security-gaps-and-possible-enemy-infiltration-idUSKBN28B5AX | 2020-12-02 |
| PARIS France will immediately seek European Union retaliation if Washington goes ahead in January with planned trade sanctions over a French tax on digital services French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday | Negative | PARIS France will immediately seek European Union retaliation if Washington goes ahead in January with planned trade sanctions over a French tax on digital services French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/france-usa-tax/france-to-seek-eu-riposte-if-u-s-punishes-french-digital-tax-idUSKBN28B4QW | 2020-12-02 |
| Election authorities in Georgia have opened investigations into progressive groups trying to sign up new voters in advance of twin January elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Monday | Negative | Election authorities in Georgia have opened investigations into progressive groups trying to sign up new voters in advance of twin January elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/georgia-probing-voter-registration-groups-ahead-of-critical-u-s-senate-races-idUSKBN28A2B0 | 2020-12-01 |
| By statute the president is required to send Congress a report in early January with the population of each of the states and their entitled number of House districts | Neutral | WASHINGTON Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to block a vaguely defined plan by President Donald Trumps administration to exclude immigrants living in the United States illegally from the population totals used to allocate congressional districts to states | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-court-census/conservative-justices-wary-of-blocking-trump-immigrant-census-plan-idUSKBN28A1B5 | 2020-12-01 |
| of the Senate and the power to confirm or block Bidens Cabinet appointees will be determined by a pair of runoff elections in Georgia on Jan | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN28A1AB | 2020-12-01 |
| MILAN Luxury group Richemonts digital chief Geoffroy Lefebvre will become chief executive of the groups online retailer Yoox NetaPorter in January replacing the platforms founder Federico Marchetti | Positive | MILAN Luxury group Richemonts digital chief Geoffroy Lefebvre will become chief executive of the groups online retailer Yoox NetaPorter in January replacing the platforms founder Federico Marchetti | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-ynap-ceo/richemonts-digital-chief-to-take-over-as-ynap-ceo-idUSKBN28A16S | 2020-12-01 |
| GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that Mexico is in bad regarding the coronavirus as infections and deaths surge while the Mexican government forecast the pandemic would likely continue worsening until January | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that Mexico is in bad regarding the coronavirus as infections and deaths surge while the Mexican government forecast the pandemic would likely continue worsening until January | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-who/who-calls-mexicos-rising-coronavirus-trend-very-worrisome-idUSKBN28A314 | 2020-12-01 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden a Democrat could quickly name a Democratic chair of the panel after the Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed two of President Donald Trumps picks for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a move that could secure a Republican majority on the panel through June | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-senate-ferc/senate-confirms-two-trump-picks-for-energy-regulation-panel-idUSKBN28B3DC | 2020-12-01 |
| Lefebvre currently Group Digital Distribution Director at Richemont will take the helm on Jan | Neutral | MILAN Luxury group Richemonts digital chief Geoffroy Lefebvre will become chief executive of the groups online retailer Yoox NetaPorter in January replacing the platforms founder Federico Marchetti | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-ynap-ceo/richemonts-digital-chief-to-take-over-as-ynap-ceo-idUSKBN28A16S | 2020-12-01 |
| Separately LopezGatell said the pandemic would very probably continue to worsen in Mexico until January | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that Mexico is in bad regarding the coronavirus as infections and deaths surge while the Mexican government forecast the pandemic would likely continue worsening until January | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-who/who-calls-mexicos-rising-coronavirus-trend-very-worrisome-idUSKBN28A314 | 2020-12-01 |
| WASHINGTON Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai who oversaw the repeal of landmark U.S. net neutrality rules and a series of key spectrum auctions to address growing wireless needs said Monday he plans to leave the commission on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai who oversaw the repeal of landmark U.S. net neutrality rules and a series of key spectrum auctions to address growing wireless needs said Monday he plans to leave the commission on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-internet-pai/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-plans-to-step-down-jan-20-idUSKBN28A29W | 2020-12-01 |
| The pandemic has killed 1508 people in the country and infected 233452 since the virus was first detected in January according to official data | Negative | Four women wearing protective gear lift the body of a coronavirus victim at the Pashupati crematorium in Nepals capital Kathmandu and hand it over to crematory workers a scene unimaginable in the conservative country in recent years | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-nepal-women/nepals-female-soldiers-break-taboos-to-tackle-covid-crisis-idUSKBN28B3EO | 2020-12-01 |
| But Andrew Gillan head of Asia exJapan Equities at Janus Henderson Investors in Singapore fears the upward momentum in China stocks could be losing steam | Negative | SHANGHAI Global investors are betting Chinese stocks will extend their bull run and that mainland corporate earnings in 2021 will be boosted by a world economic recovery and more predictable SinoU.S. relationship | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-stock-outlook/global-investors-see-china-stocks-bull-run-lasting-well-into-2021-idUSKBN28A1DD | 2020-12-01 |
| LOS ANGELES The Kpop band members of BTS are offering up their outfits from the music video of their hit single to the highest bidder in a Beverly Hills California charity auction in January | Positive | LOS ANGELES The Kpop band members of BTS are offering up their outfits from the music video of their hit single to the highest bidder in a Beverly Hills California charity auction in January | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-auction-bts/bts-dynamite-costumes-to-light-up-u-s-music-charity-auction-idUSKBN28A1ZH | 2020-12-01 |
| Control of the Senate and the power to confirm or block Bidens Cabinet appointees will be determined by a pair of runoff elections in Georgia on Jan | Neutral | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-biden/biden-names-top-economic-advisers-as-arizona-wisconsin-certify-vote-results-idUSKBN28A1AB | 2020-12-01 |
| Wyden the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said Yellens confirmation hearing should occur before Bidens Jan | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN28A1AB | 2020-12-01 |
| 17 is expected to last into January | Neutral | LISBON three biggest telecoms companies said they had submitted applications to take part in the countrys 5G licence auction amid a legal dispute with the Portuguese telecoms regulator over the rules | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-portugal-telecoms-5g/portugals-main-telcos-sign-up-for-5g-auction-amid-legal-dispute-idUSKBN28A1FK | 2020-12-01 |
| Canada will extend its restrictions for all travelers entering the country except from the United States until Jan | Negative | Canada will extend its restrictions for all travelers entering the country except from the United States until Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-travel/canada-extends-travel-restrictions-for-those-entering-the-country-idUSKBN2890XG | 2020-11-30 |
| The index was poised to add nearly in November its biggest monthly gain since Jan 1994 | Positive | TOKYO Nov 30 Japans benchmark Nikkei steadied on Monday on course for its biggest monthly gain in decades as optimism over progress in COVID19 vaccine development and fading uncertainty surrounding the U.S. election boosted investor appetite in risk assets | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-heads-for-biggest-monthly-gain-in-decades-idUSL1N2IG04I | 2020-11-30 |
| Just like in 2009 with Obama whom Biden served as vice president the incoming administration will inherit on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden is expected to name Neera Tanden who was an adviser to former President Barack Obama as director of the White House budget office and economist Cecilia Rouse as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers as soon as Monday according to a person familiar with the process | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biden-advisers/biden-set-to-name-senior-members-of-economic-team-possibly-as-soon-as-monday-idUSKBN2890XS | 2020-11-30 |
| By statute the president is due to send Congress a report in early January with the population of each of the states and their entitled number of House districts | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday is set to take up President Donald Trumps unprecedented and contentious effort to exclude illegal immigrants from the population totals used to allocate U.S. House of Representatives districts to states | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-census/u-s-supreme-court-weighs-trump-bid-to-bar-illegal-immigrants-from-census-totals-idUSKBN2890F4 | 2020-11-30 |
| He is expected to announce members of his economic policy team next week led by former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democratic Presidentelect Joe Biden has begun nominating the members of his Cabinet and White House working to fulfill his promise to build an administration that reflects the nations diversity | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biden-cabinet-factbox/factbox-the-biden-cabinet-president-elect-begins-to-build-a-team-idUSKBN2880IZ | 2020-11-29 |
| There had been speculation inside the ruling parties that Suga would dissolve the House of Representatives in January | Neutral | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is likely to push back an election for the lower house of parliament to some time after next summer as the country tackles a third wave of COVID19 infections the Nikkei reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/japan-snap-election/japan-pm-likely-to-push-back-parliament-election-nikkei-idUSKBN2871EP | 2020-11-28 |
| WASHINGTON The Trump administration took a step on Friday toward rolling back protections for migratory birds and reducing penalties for companies that inadvertently kill them the latest effort to finalize regulatory rollbacks before President Donald Trump leaves office in January | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration took a step on Friday toward rolling back protections for migratory birds and reducing penalties for companies that inadvertently kill them the latest effort to finalize regulatory rollbacks before President Donald Trump leaves office in January | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-birds-regulation/trump-administration-moves-to-weaken-migratory-bird-protections-idUSKBN2872A5 | 2020-11-28 |
| He argues that a return to the regular rate on Jan | Neutral | BERLIN German consumers remain gloomy ahead of the traditionally bigspending Christmas season and a temporary reduction in sales tax worth up to 20 billion euros has failed to get them into shops or online even when companies have passed it on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-germany-economy-stimulus-analysis/analysis-german-stimulus-fails-to-turn-anxious-savers-into-big-spenders-idUSKBN2870KI | 2020-11-28 |
| LONDON Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency is readying to launch as early as January the Financial Times reported on Friday citing three unidentified people involved in the project | Positive | LONDON Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency is readying to launch as early as January the Financial Times reported on Friday citing three unidentified people involved in the project | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-cryptocurrency/facebook-cryptocurrency-libra-to-launch-as-early-as-january-but-scaled-back-ft-idUSKBN2870UY | 2020-11-28 |
| All of a sudden I feel kind of lonely I have to said Janis Segal 72 as she prepared to join family members in a Zoom call for Thanksgiving | Positive | Americans marked a muted Thanksgiving Day holiday on Thursday sometimes seeing family only by video after political leaders discouraged travel or large gatherings in the face of the surging coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-thanksgiving/kind-of-lonely-america-marks-covid-altered-thanksgiving-idUSKBN28612D | 2020-11-28 |
| That was the biggest monthly profit growth since JanFeb 2017 | Positive | BEIJING Profits at Chinas industrial firms grew in October for a sixth consecutive month and at their quickest pace since early 2017 pointing to a steady recovery in the manufacturing sector after it was hard hit by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-industrial-profits/chinas-industrial-profits-grow-at-quickest-monthly-pace-since-early-2017-idUSKBN28704B | 2020-11-27 |
| The first ones will probably come in December January and from there on new vaccines will be he said | Positive | SCHIPHOL AIRPORT Netherlands In cavernous coldstorage warehouses at Amsterdams Schiphol Airport KLM workers are gearing up for a surge next year in COVID19 vaccine cargos that will need to be flown around the world at ultralow temperatures | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-air-france-klm-vac/were-ready-schiphol-airport-gears-up-for-chilled-vaccine-cargos-idUSKBN2861IY | 2020-11-27 |
| The NBS combines the results for January and February to exclude distortions caused by the weeklong Lunar New Year | Negative | BEIJING Profits at Chinas industrial firms grew in October for a sixth consecutive month and at their quickest pace since early 2017 pointing to a steady recovery in the manufacturing sector after it was hard hit by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-industrial-profits/chinas-industrial-profits-grow-at-quickest-monthly-pace-since-early-2017-idUSKBN28704B | 2020-11-27 |
| The KLM Cargo warehouse at Schiphol has four cold storage areas for pharmaceuticals and a fifth will be ready in January | Neutral | SCHIPHOL AIRPORT Netherlands In cavernous coldstorage warehouses at Amsterdams Schiphol Airport KLM workers are gearing up for a surge next year in COVID19 vaccine cargos that will need to be flown around the world at ultralow temperatures | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-air-france-klm-vac/were-ready-schiphol-airport-gears-up-for-chilled-vaccine-cargos-idUSKBN2861IY | 2020-11-27 |
| TOKYO Japans Imperial Household Agency has cancelled an annual New Years event set for Jan | Negative | TOKYO Japans Imperial Household Agency has cancelled an annual New Years event set for Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-emperor/japan-cancels-emperors-new-year-event-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN2870C1 | 2020-11-27 |
| Franco a Black openly gay Rio de Janeiro politician and her driver Anderson Gomes were gunned down in 2018 in what investigators said appeared to be a political assassination | Positive | Reuters Two years after the murder of popular Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco her partner Monica Benicio has also won a council seat and vowed to fight for justice and rights | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-lgbt-interview/widow-of-murdered-lgbt-politician-in-brazil-vows-to-combat-hate-with-election-win-idUSKBN28626N | 2020-11-27 |
| However another extension into January is seen as likely | Neutral | BERLIN The state premier of Thuringia on Thursday announced a first mass test for children in the district of Hildburghausen Germanys coronavirus hotspot to find out to what extent they contribute to a rapid surge in infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germanys-hotspot-district-to-launch-covid-19-mass-tests-for-children-idUSKBN28616J | 2020-11-27 |
| so far this month and is on track for its best performance since January 1994 | Positive | TOKYO Nov 27 Japans Nikkei average inched higher on Friday as investor confidence climbed over prospects of recovery in economic growth and corporate earnings following promising news on COVID19 vaccine distribution | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-shares-inch-higher-as-vaccine-optimism-lifts-recovery-hopes-idUSL1N2ID01H | 2020-11-27 |
| Some European countries expect to start rolling out vaccination campaigns as early as January | Positive | JOHANNESBURG Mass vaccination against COVID19 is unlikely to start in Africa until midway through next year and keeping vaccines cold could be a big challenge the continents disease control group said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/africa-faces-wait-for-mass-covid-19-vaccination-disease-control-group-idUSKBN2861P0 | 2020-11-27 |
| LONDON British businesses are rushing to stockpile goods just five weeks before postBrexit customs checks come into force on Jan | Negative | LONDON British businesses are rushing to stockpile goods just five weeks before postBrexit customs checks come into force on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-borders/exclusive-uk-delivery-prices-jump-ahead-of-brexit-cliff-edge-as-firms-rush-to-stockpile-idUSKBN2860ZK | 2020-11-27 |
| Companies that had been ordered to have at least of their staff work remotely must continue doing so until midJanuary Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday inaugurated a pharmaceutical plant in Siberia that will manufacture drugs to treat COVID19 as the country reported record high numbers of new coronavirus infections and deaths | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/putin-opens-covid-19-drug-plant-as-russia-reports-daily-record-for-cases-deaths-idUSKBN28614C | 2020-11-27 |
| 29 while in Europe the formal ungrounding will take place from midJanuary | Neutral | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian aviation regulator ANAC on Wednesday lifted the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX following U.S. clearance of the jets for flight after a redesign prompted by two fatal crashes that killed 346 people | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-boeing-737max-brazil/brazil-ends-boeing-737-max-ban-planes-could-fly-by-year-end-idUSKBN2852Y1 | 2020-11-26 |
| WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden will come under immense pressure from progressives in the Democratic party to cut the defense budget once he takes office in January | Negative | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden will come under immense pressure from progressives in the Democratic party to cut the defense budget once he takes office in January | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-biden-defense-spending/biden-will-struggle-to-cut-defense-spending-despite-pressure-idUSKBN285359 | 2020-11-26 |
| Delta Air Lines Inc pilots voted in favor of a deal that avoids furloughs through Jan | Positive | Delta Air Lines Inc pilots voted in favor of a deal that avoids furloughs through Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-delta-air-workers/delta-pilots-vote-for-pay-cuts-in-deal-that-avoids-furloughs-through-2022-idUSKBN2852LA | 2020-11-26 |
| 20 and they are likely to extend them into January | Positive | Countries around the world agonised over new coronavirus curbs ahead of Christmas and other holidays as global infections crossed 60 million and U.S. officials pleaded with Americans to stay home over Thanksgiving | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN2831RP | 2020-11-26 |
| On Tuesday evening Cosgrave announced on Twitter there will be a South American Web Summit in 2022 in either Rio de Janeiro or Porto Alegre in Brazil | Positive | LISBON Europes biggest technology conference the Web Summit will return to Lisbon in full force as a massive inperson event in 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to go fully online this year | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-portugal-websummit/europes-largest-tech-conference-to-return-as-in-person-event-in-2021-idUSKBN2852RV | 2020-11-26 |
| 20 and they are likely to extend them into January she said on Wednesday | Positive | BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed with leaders of Germanys 16 federal states to extend and tighten measures against the coronavirus until at least Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germany-extends-anti-virus-measures-as-deaths-reach-record-idUSKBN2850TQ | 2020-11-26 |
| Some Chinese soybean importers and processors are looking to cancel deals signed for U.S. cargoes for December and January shipment after crushing margins collapsed following a steep rally in Chicago futures three trade sources said | Negative | Some Chinese soybean importers and processors are looking to cancel deals signed for U.S. cargoes for December and January shipment after crushing margins collapsed following a steep rally in Chicago futures three trade sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-soybeans-cancellations/chinese-buyers-look-to-cancel-u-s-soybean-orders-as-processing-margins-shrink-idUSKBN28510H | 2020-11-26 |
| Biden who takes office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Democratic Presidentelect Joe Biden is considering naming Tom Donilon a veteran diplomat and national security adviser to former President Barack Obama as director of the CIA a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-biden-cia/biden-considering-former-obama-national-security-adviser-donilon-for-cia-source-idUSKBN286020 | 2020-11-26 |
| Small private soybean importers are trying to wash out December and January U.S. soybean shipments as crush margins have turned said one trader at a leading soybean processor in China | Negative | Some Chinese soybean importers and processors are looking to cancel deals signed for U.S. cargoes for December and January shipment after crushing margins collapsed following a steep rally in Chicago futures three trade sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-soybeans-cancellations/chinese-buyers-look-to-cancel-u-s-soybean-orders-as-processing-margins-shrink-idUSKBN28510H | 2020-11-26 |
| Georgia voters go to the polls on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican members of the U.S. Senate fired warning shots to Presidentelect Joe Biden that they may be prepared to stand in the way of his Cabinet appointments despite the longheld tradition of a new president having the right to choose who will run government agencies | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden-cabinet-senate/biden-cabinet-picks-may-face-rough-republican-reception-in-senate-idUSKBN2842X0 | 2020-11-25 |
| Biden also is also expected to tap former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican members of the U.S. Senate fired warning shots to Presidentelect Joe Biden that they may be prepared to stand in the way of his Cabinet appointments despite the longheld tradition of a new president having the right to choose who will run government agencies | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden-cabinet-senate/biden-cabinet-picks-may-face-rough-republican-reception-in-senate-idUSKBN2842X0 | 2020-11-25 |
| Britain has said it will allow UK investors to continue using share trading platforms based in the bloc from January | Positive | LONDON Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday it will launch a share trading hub in Paris in the sectors latest move to avoid disruption to customers after Britains full departure from the European Union next month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-goldman-sachs-eu-stocks/goldman-sachs-to-open-paris-stocks-hub-to-avoid-brexit-disruption-idUSKBN28421B | 2020-11-25 |
| Tuesdays publication marks the start of a 28day comment period which EASA said would lead to a formal ungrounding from midJanuary once public and industry feedback had been studied | Neutral | PARIS European regulators on Tuesday began the timetable for a return of the Boeing 737 MAX to Europes skies early next year after an almost twoyear flight ban caused by fatal crashes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-boeing-737max-easa/europe-sets-in-motion-january-end-to-boeing-737-max-safety-ban-idUSKBN2841PJ | 2020-11-25 |
| Expectations of more fiscal spending also weighed on the market as Biden plans to nominate former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary | Positive | TOKYO Nov 25 Japanese government bond prices were little changed on Wednesday with the market stuck between negative pressure stemming from improving risk sentiment and an upward pull from a 40year auction | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-bonds/jgbs-little-changed-40-year-auction-attracts-ample-demand-idUSL1N2IB092 | 2020-11-25 |
| Japans last outbreak of bird flu was in January 2018 also in Kagawa prefecture when 91000 chickens were culled | Negative | TOKYO Japan has detected a new outbreak of bird flu on a chicken farm in southwestern Fukuoka prefecture in addition to the eight already reported in Kagawa prefecture west of Tokyo the government said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-birdflu-japan/japans-bird-flu-outbreak-spreads-to-second-prefecture-idUSKBN2850CQ | 2020-11-25 |
| The Grammys will be handed out in Los Angeles on Jan | Neutral | LOS ANGELES Beyonce dominated nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards on Tuesday in a field that favored alternative artists over mainstream musicians topped by a stunning snub for Canadian singer The Weeknd who called the process corrupt | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-awards-grammys-nominations/beyonce-dominates-grammy-nods-snubbed-the-weeknd-calls-process-corrupt-idUSKBN2842RY | 2020-11-25 |
| On Monday investors cheered reports that Biden had picked former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to be the next Treasury secretary | Positive | NEW YORK The 500 is poised to climb between now and the end of 2021 as the anticipated widespread release of a COVID19 vaccine drives an economic and corporate earnings recovery from the pandemic according to a Reuters poll of strategists | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks-poll/wall-streets-rise-from-pandemic-lows-has-further-to-go-say-strategists-reuters-poll-idUSKBN28500H | 2020-11-25 |
| President Donald Trumps baseless attacks on the U.S. election may be endangering Republican chances of keeping control of the Senate as Republican candidates in twin January runoffs in Georgia try to drive voters to the polls while amplifying Trumps claim that the system is rigged | Negative | President Donald Trumps baseless attacks on the U.S. election may be endangering Republican chances of keeping control of the Senate as Republican candidates in twin January runoffs in Georgia try to drive voters to the polls while amplifying Trumps claim that the system is rigged | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-election-georgia/with-senate-on-the-line-trumps-claims-of-election-fraud-put-georgia-republicans-in-bind-idUSKBN2842XI | 2020-11-25 |
| Goldman said it plans to launch a SIGMA X Europe platform in Paris prior to January 4 2021 subject to regulatory approvals | Positive | LONDON Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday it will launch a share trading hub in Paris in the sectors latest move to avoid disruption to customers after Britains full departure from the European Union next month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-goldman-sachs-eu-stocks/goldman-sachs-to-open-paris-stocks-hub-to-avoid-brexit-disruption-idUSKBN28421B | 2020-11-25 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden is expected to nominate former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as U.S. Treasury secretary breaking a 231year gender barrier and putting a seasoned economist and labor market expert in charge of leading the country out of the steepest downturn since the Great Depression | Positive | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-biden-yellen/biden-to-name-yellen-to-treasury-to-lead-u-s-from-sharp-economic-downturn-idUSKBN2832SN | 2020-11-24 |
| Since January bitcoin has gained bolstered by strong institutional demand as well as scarcity as payment companies such as Square and Paypal buy it on behalf of customers | Positive | NEW YORK Bitcoin investors which include top hedge funds and money managers are betting the virtual currency could more than quintuple to as high as in a year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-crypto-currencies-bitcoin/bitcoin-at-100000-in-2021-outrageous-to-some-a-no-brainer-for-backers-idUSKBN2840I7 | 2020-11-24 |
| LONDON The European Commission said it had extended its deadline for its competition ruling on the London Stock Exchanges billion takeover of data and analytics firm Refinitiv by four days to Jan | Positive | LONDON The European Commission said it had extended its deadline for its competition ruling on the London Stock Exchanges billion takeover of data and analytics firm Refinitiv by four days to Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse/eu-delays-decision-on-lse-refinitiv-deal-by-four-days-idUSKBN283123 | 2020-11-24 |
| BRASILIA Brazils biomedical center Fiocruz expects to start producing the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID19 in December or January its production vicepresident Marco Krieger said in a TV interview on Monday | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils biomedical center Fiocruz expects to start producing the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID19 in December or January its production vicepresident Marco Krieger said in a TV interview on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/brazil-to-start-production-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-by-january-says-biomedical-center-idUSKBN283231 | 2020-11-24 |
| Matt Hancock health secretary of Britain which has preordered 100 million doses for its 67 million people said the bulk of the vaccine rollout will take place JanuaryMarch | Positive | LONDON AstraZeneca said on Monday its COVID19 vaccine was effective in pivotal trials and could be up to effective giving the worlds fight against the global pandemic a third new weapon that can be cheaper to make easier to distribute and faster to scaleup than rivals | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazeneca-says-covid-19-vaccine-for-the-world-can-be-90-effective-idUSKBN2830HC | 2020-11-24 |
| He added Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro hopes to deliver the first doses by March | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils biomedical center Fiocruz expects to start producing the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID19 in December or January its production vicepresident Marco Krieger said in a TV interview on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/brazil-to-start-production-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-by-january-says-biomedical-center-idUSKBN283231 | 2020-11-24 |
| The campaign will start in January and have 13000 vaccination Sanchez told a news conference after a twoday online summit of G20 leaders | Positive | MADRID Spain will begin a comprehensive coronavirus vaccination programme in January and expects to have covered a substantial part of the population within six months Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-vaccination/spain-to-begin-vaccination-programme-in-january-sanchez-says-idUSKBN2820NU | 2020-11-23 |
| The bulk of the vaccine rollout programme will be in January February March | Positive | LONDON Britain will seek to start administering a COVID19 vaccine before Christmas with the bulk of the rollout at the start of the new year with life getting back to normal after Easter health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-hancock-va/back-to-normal-after-easter-uk-aims-to-roll-out-covid-vaccines-next-month-idUSKBN2830M8 | 2020-11-23 |
| Klain said Biden and Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harris would continue stressing safe practices when they take office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The inauguration of Presidentelect Joe Biden will be a scaleddown version of the usual traditions that will not endanger Americans health amid the coronavirus pandemic a top aide said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-biden-inauguration/biden-inauguration-will-be-scaled-down-amid-covid-aide-says-idUSKBN2820LG | 2020-11-23 |
| MADRID Spain will begin a comprehensive coronavirus vaccination programme in January and expects to have covered a substantial part of the population within six months Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday | Positive | MADRID Spain will begin a comprehensive coronavirus vaccination programme in January and expects to have covered a substantial part of the population within six months Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-vaccination/spain-to-begin-vaccination-programme-in-january-sanchez-says-idUSKBN2820NU | 2020-11-23 |
| The group also confirmed the death of Swiss Beatrice Stockly who was kidnapped from the Malian city of Timbuktu in January 2016 | Negative | DAKAR Al Qaedas North Africa branch has appointed a new leader and confirmed the death of its former leader Abdelmalek Droukdel who was killed by the French army in June SITE Intelligence Group said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-africa-security/al-qaeda-in-north-africa-names-new-leader-to-succeed-droukdel-idUSKBN28200I | 2020-11-22 |
| PARIS Europe is set to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX passenger jetliner in January after U.S. regulators last week ended a 20month grounding triggered by two fatal crashes | Positive | PARIS Europe is set to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX passenger jetliner in January after U.S. regulators last week ended a 20month grounding triggered by two fatal crashes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-boeing-737max-easa/european-regulator-to-lift-boeing-737-max-grounding-in-january-idUSKBN2810KU | 2020-11-22 |
| Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan | Neutral | Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-facebook-to-hand-over-potus-account-to-biden-on-january-20-idUSKBN2810JL | 2020-11-22 |
| Use of the funds elsewhere limits the options for the incoming administration of Democratic Presidentelect Joe Biden to backstop financial markets after he takes office on Jan 20 | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchins decision to defund several Federal Reserve coronavirus lending programs on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed-mnuchin/mnuchin-clawback-of-fed-funds-deeply-irresponsible-biden-team-says-idUSKBN2801U5 | 2020-11-21 |
| But with Trump no longer on the ballot Republicans and Democrats both face challenges getting large numbers of voters to the polls in January | Neutral | GAINESVILLE Ga | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia/pence-urges-georgia-republicans-to-turn-out-in-final-senate-battleground-idUSKBN28015T | 2020-11-21 |
| Uganda is due to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan | Neutral | KAMPALA Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine whose arrest this week triggered protests that led to at least 37 deaths was released on bail on Friday after being charged with holding rallies likely to spread the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-politics/ugandas-bobi-wine-released-on-bail-as-protest-death-toll-rises-to-37-idUSKBN2800ZH | 2020-11-21 |
| January 2018 the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN2801EN | 2020-11-21 |
| Shareholders of the two groups will meet on Jan | Positive | Top shareholders in merging carmakers Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot maker PSA have moved to tighten their grip on the combined business and head off any potential hostile bidders | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-fca-m-a-psa-prospectus/top-fca-psa-investors-tighten-grip-as-merger-approaches-idUSKBN2800UN | 2020-11-21 |
| Detroits lawyers did not request a monetary penalty but said U.S. District Judge Janet Neff had the authority to strike materials from the record as a sanction | Negative | Lawyers for the city of Detroit have asked a judge to reprimand President Donald Trumps campaign for spreading in a court filing about the certification of a Michigan countys election results | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-michigan-lawsuit/detroit-asks-judge-to-sanction-trump-campaign-for-spreading-disinformation-idUSKBN2802M8 | 2020-11-21 |
| MUMBAI The head of an Indian company contracted to make AstraZeneca Plcs AZN.L COVID vaccine said it could deliver it to health care workers and elderly Indians by January as the countrys caseload of infections crossed nine million on Friday | Positive | MUMBAI The head of an Indian company contracted to make AstraZeneca Plcs AZN.L COVID vaccine said it could deliver it to health care workers and elderly Indians by January as the countrys caseload of infections crossed nine million on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-cases/india-could-get-access-to-astrazeneca-vaccine-by-january-local-manufacturer-says-idUSKBN280101 | 2020-11-21 |
| Kessels wife Jane patted him on the arm trying to calm him as he grew agitated while railing against antiTrump media bias | Neutral | SUNDOWN Texas Brett Fryar is a middleclass Republican | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-fraud-insight/why-republican-voters-say-theres-no-way-in-hell-trump-lost-idUSKBN2801D4 | 2020-11-21 |
| SHANGHAI China will prohibit all fishing in the Yangtze river estuary from Jan | Negative | SHANGHAI China will prohibit all fishing in the Yangtze river estuary from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-environment-fishing/china-to-extend-fishing-ban-to-yangtze-estuary-in-2021-idUSKBN28108H | 2020-11-21 |
| Vice President Mike Pence charged into the final battle for control of the U.S. Senate on Friday urging Republican voters in Georgia to come out in force for Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in two hotly contested Jan | Negative | GAINESVILLE Ga | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia/pence-urges-georgia-republicans-to-turn-out-in-final-senate-battleground-idUSKBN28015T | 2020-11-21 |
| We are now at risk of a second wave without even leaving the first said epidemiologist Roberto Medronho at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro medical school | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil surpassed 6 million confirmed cases of COVID19 on Friday the health ministry said as the worlds thirdworst coronavirus outbreak begins to surge again amid fears that a second wave is underway | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-coronavirus-cases-speed-past-6-million-amid-fears-of-second-wave-idUSKBN2802H3 | 2020-11-21 |
| 21 and could take until the first week of January Anvisa manager for inspections Ronaldo Gomes told reporters on Wednesday | Neutral | The doses will be stored in an undisclosed warehouse as the state awaits approval for use in Brazil by the national health regulator known as Anvisa | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-coronavirus-health-brazil/first-doses-of-chinas-coronavac-covid-19-vaccine-arrive-in-brazil-idUSKBN27Z223 | 2020-11-20 |
| The cargo which arrived in seven refrigerated containers is part of a batch of 6 million doses that are being imported from China ready for use in January | Positive | The doses will be stored in an undisclosed warehouse as the state awaits approval for use in Brazil by the national health regulator known as Anvisa | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-coronavirus-health-brazil/first-doses-of-chinas-coronavac-covid-19-vaccine-arrive-in-brazil-idUSKBN27Z223 | 2020-11-20 |
| Attorney General William Barr in January said the commission would recommend best practices at a time when criminal threats and social conditions have changed the responsibilities and roles of police officers | Negative | WASHINGTON A second local prosecutor on Thursday asked the U.S. Justice Department to have his name removed from a controversial report on policing reforms saying he feared it would fail to address systemic racism in the criminal justice system | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-justice-policing/second-prosecutor-resigns-from-trumps-police-commission-idUSKBN27Z2S4 | 2020-11-20 |
| Perdue became chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower in midJanuary 2019 which plays a key role in determining spending on the Navy | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican Senator David Perdue who is seeking reelection in one of two U.S. Senate races in Georgia bought shares in a Navy contractor just before becoming chairman of a Senate armed services panel in 2019 and then sold the stock at a profit Senate records show | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-perdue/perdue-traded-in-navy-contractor-stock-as-he-took-over-senate-armed-services-panel-filings-idUSKBN28006H | 2020-11-20 |
| Biden called Trumps attempts totally on Thursday though he has expressed little concern they will succeed in preventing him from taking office on Jan | Negative | President Donald Trump will meet with the Republican leaders of the Michigan state legislature on Friday at the White House as his campaign pursues an increasingly desperate bid to overturn the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/trump-to-host-michigan-lawmakers-as-he-presses-dubious-effort-to-overturn-election-idUSKBN2800I5 | 2020-11-20 |
| Perdue faces Democrat Jon Ossoff in a Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican Senator David Perdue who is seeking reelection in one of two U.S. Senate races in Georgia bought shares in a Navy contractor just before becoming chairman of a Senate armed services panel in 2019 and then sold the stock at a profit Senate records show | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-perdue/perdue-traded-in-navy-contractor-stock-as-he-took-over-senate-armed-services-panel-filings-idUSKBN28006H | 2020-11-20 |
| On Wednesday Biden expressed hope that Republicans in Congress would be more inclined to move forward on COVID19 relief legislation after Republican President Donald Trump leaves office in January | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday that Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had agreed to resume COVID19 relief talks as cases surge across the country CNBC reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/top-u-s-congress-aides-discuss-covid-19-aid-as-jobless-benefits-expire-post-christmas-idUSKBN27Z2YL | 2020-11-20 |
| Unibail said in a statement that Tritant would take the reins of the company from Jan | Neutral | PARIS Nov 19 Shopping mall group UnibailRodamcoWestfield said its supervisory board has named JeanMarie Tritant as its new chief executive to replace Christophe Cuvillier | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/unibail-governance/unibail-names-new-ceo-to-replace-cuvillier-after-investor-campaign-idUSL1N2I50GD | 2020-11-19 |
| The BCIFs website said that the distribution of funds to provide philanthropic support to communities affected by the crashes would be completed by Jan | Positive | JAKARTA Some of the relatives of victims of a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash in Indonesia have slammed a decision by U.S. aviation authorities to allow the jets to return to the skies saying the move comes too soon | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-boeing-737max-indonesia-families/too-soon-to-let-boeing-737-max-fly-again-say-families-of-lion-air-crash-victims-idUSKBN27Z0TR | 2020-11-19 |
| LISBON Portugal has set up a taskforce to come up with a COVID19 vaccination strategy and hopes to be prepared to start distributing shots as early as January Health Minister Marta Temido said on Wednesday | Positive | LISBON Portugal has set up a taskforce to come up with a COVID19 vaccination strategy and hopes to be prepared to start distributing shots as early as January Health Minister Marta Temido said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-portugal/portugal-sets-up-taskforce-to-prepare-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-idUSKBN27Y266 | 2020-11-19 |
| Herd immunity is sometimes wrongly understood as individual said Josep Jansa an expert in health emergency preparedness and response at the Stockholmbased European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control | Negative | Governments and officials are voicing hopes that COVID19 vaccines could bring herd with some calculating that immunising just twothirds of a population could halt the pandemic disease and help protect whole communities or nations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-immunity-analysis/analysis-can-first-covid-19-vaccines-bring-herd-immunity-experts-have-doubts-idUSKBN27Y124 | 2020-11-19 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden who defeated Trump earlier this month and takes office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON A U.S. district court judge on Wednesday blocked expulsions of unaccompanied children caught crossing into the United States a setback for the outgoing Trump administration which said the policy was aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-immigration-border/u-s-judge-blocks-expulsions-of-unaccompanied-children-under-trumps-pandemic-related-border-rules-idUSKBN27Y2D3 | 2020-11-19 |
| The premium for Russian Januaryloading ESPO Blend crude one of the most popular grades for Chinese independent oil refiners is at fivemonth highs | Positive | NEW China the global oil markets lifeline this year has stepped up purchases from exporters like Russia the United States and Angola in recent weeks while buyers elsewhere pare orders as coronavirus infections surge and fresh lockdowns are put in place | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-oil-china-imports/global-crude-market-finds-support-mainly-from-china-demand-idUSKBN27Z0KE | 2020-11-19 |
| Last month Warby granted a request from Meghans legal team to delay the trial from January until late 2021 because of a reason | Negative | LONDON Meghan Britains Duchess of Sussex sought advice from two senior members of the royal family before writing a letter to her father which is at the centre of a privacy lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper court documents show | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-britain-royals-meghan-letter/duchess-meghan-sought-advice-from-senior-royals-before-writing-letter-to-father-idUSKBN27Y2JU | 2020-11-19 |
| Without elaborating Temido said vaccines that could arrive in January were part of one of several agreements made between the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies | Positive | LISBON Portugal has set up a taskforce to come up with a COVID19 vaccination strategy and hopes to be prepared to start distributing shots as early as January Health Minister Marta Temido said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-portugal/portugal-sets-up-taskforce-to-prepare-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-idUSKBN27Y266 | 2020-11-19 |
| LONDON BT BT.L Chief Executive Philip Jansen is open about the possibility of selling a stake in the British companys Openreach infrastructure unit once there is full clarity on the regulation of fibre networks next year he said on Wednesday | Neutral | LONDON BT BT.L Chief Executive Philip Jansen is open about the possibility of selling a stake in the British companys Openreach infrastructure unit once there is full clarity on the regulation of fibre networks next year he said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tmt-conference-bt-group/bt-chief-open-minded-on-sale-of-stake-in-openreach-idUSKBN27Y2RD | 2020-11-19 |
| Wine whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi has emerged as the strongest challenger against President Yoweri Museveni 76 in the countrys presidential election due on Jan | Positive | KAMPALA Three people died and at least 34 were injured including with gun shot wounds in protests that erupted after police arrested Ugandan presidential candidate and pop star Bobi Wine on Wednesday Ugandan police and the Red Cross said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-politics/three-dead-and-34-injured-in-protests-against-arrest-of-ugandas-bobi-wine-idUSKBN27Y1J4 | 2020-11-19 |
| Apple said the new program will start on Jan | Neutral | Apple Inc AAPL.O said on Wednesday it plans to start a program to lower its App Store commissions for software developers who make million or less in proceeds each year from the store but some of the companys critics called the move window dressing | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-apple-app-store/apple-lowers-app-store-fees-for-small-developers-critics-see-little-impact-idUSKBN27Y1CF | 2020-11-19 |
| Presidentelect Biden set to take office on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States on Wednesday imposed broad sanctions targeting Iran blacklisting a foundation controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and taking aim at what Washington called Irans human rights abuses a year after a deadly crackdown on antigovernment demonstrators | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-imposes-sweeping-sanctions-on-iran-targets-khamenei-linked-foundation-idUSKBN27Y25U | 2020-11-19 |
| Jansen said Ofcom was focusing on the right areas such as price indexation and forced migration to new networks | Positive | LONDON BT BT.L Chief Executive Philip Jansen is open about the possibility of selling a stake in the British companys Openreach infrastructure unit once there is full clarity on the regulation of fibre networks next year he said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tmt-conference-bt-group/bt-chief-open-minded-on-sale-of-stake-in-openreach-idUSKBN27Y2RD | 2020-11-19 |
| And it comes days after the Pentagon announced it would reduce the number of U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan from 4500 to 2500 by midJanuary | Negative | KABUL Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Kabul on Thursday to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at a time when peace negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives have stalled and violence is rising | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-afghanistan-pakistan-khan-ghani/pakistans-pm-goes-to-afghanistan-as-u-s-prepares-drawdown-peace-talks-stall-idUSKBN27Z0SH | 2020-11-19 |
| The turnover of power for the new U.S. administration takes place Jan | Neutral | Cordell Hull a highranking official at the U.S. Department of Commerce who helped craft U.S. policies on exports to China said he was leaving his post in early December | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-commerce-resignation/key-u-s-commerce-dept-official-involved-in-china-policy-resigning-idUSKBN27Y33L | 2020-11-19 |
| Murphy has sole authority to release salaries office space official email addresses and intelligence briefings to an incoming administration which formally takes over with Bidens inauguration on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON A littleknown agency that keeps the U.S. federal bureaucracy running is the biggest impediment to new efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak Democratic Presidentelect Joe Biden said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-transition/amid-coronavirus-spike-pressure-grows-on-u-s-agency-to-approve-trump-to-biden-transition-idUSKBN27Y2YS | 2020-11-19 |
| Jansen was less enthused about any opportunity to further monetise BTs mobile infrastructure such as its towers a strategy being pursued by rival Vodafone and others | Neutral | LONDON BT BT.L Chief Executive Philip Jansen is open about the possibility of selling a stake in the British companys Openreach infrastructure unit once there is full clarity on the regulation of fibre networks next year he said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tmt-conference-bt-group/bt-chief-open-minded-on-sale-of-stake-in-openreach-idUSKBN27Y2RD | 2020-11-19 |
| Even if spending dips in January as consumers pull in their belts economists say the net effect is invariably positive | Positive | LONDON Is the Christmas economy worth Unless youre in retail the answer Possibly not | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-economy-christmas/europes-economies-race-to-open-for-xmas-should-they-bother-idUSKBN27Z0UV | 2020-11-19 |
| They have apologised in writing for hurting the feelings of said Lekhi also a lawmaker from Indias ruling Bharatiya Janata Party | Negative | NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China promising to make corrections by monthend the panels chief said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-twitter/twitter-apologises-to-india-parliament-panel-for-china-geo-tagging-error-idUSKBN27Y22O | 2020-11-19 |
| Biden due to take office on Jan | Positive | A judge on Tuesday appeared skeptical of President Donald Trumps request to block officials from certifying Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory in Pennsylvania underscoring the difficulties the Trump campaign has faced in challenging the outcome of the U.S. election | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-lawsuit-pennsylvania/u-s-judge-skeptical-of-trump-bid-to-halt-biden-win-in-pennsylvania-idUSKBN27X16O | 2020-11-18 |
| We can look at the publicly available data but we dont have access to the full range of information that the federal government has to prepare for January Murthy said. | Positive | WASHINGTON Medical experts advising Presidentelect Joe Biden on the COVID19 pandemic fear that the federal governments delay in recognizing Bidens election victory could be compromising the U.S. response to the virus the experts said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-biden/biden-covid-19-task-force-says-transition-delay-could-be-compromising-u-s-virus-response-idUSKBN27X2WD | 2020-11-18 |
| due to take office on Jan | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN27X16O | 2020-11-18 |
| Both of Georgias Senate seats are in play in the January runoff which was triggered by state law after no candidate reached in the first round of voting Nov | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler has agreed to debate Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock in December her spokesman said Tuesday setting up a faceoff in one of a pair of runoff races that will decide control of the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia-debate/republican-senator-loeffler-to-debate-democratic-challenger-warnock-in-georgia-december-6-idUSKBN27X35Q | 2020-11-18 |
| Chevron has had a special U.S. operating license exempting it from sanctions on Venezuelas vital oil sector since January but the latest waiver was due to expire on Dec | Positive | Chevron has had a special U.S. operating license exempting it from sanctions on Venezuelas vital oil sector since January but the latest waiver was due to expire on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-venezuela-politics-chevron/new-u-s-license-gives-chevron-until-june-3-to-wind-down-venezuela-operations-idUSKBN27X26A | 2020-11-18 |
| In January 2020 the chairman of Air Lease Corp an influential buyer said the brand should be dropped | Positive | Boeing Co is set to win approval for its grounded 737 MAX this week but chinks are appearing in the brand as the most traumatic chapter in the jetmakers history overshadows the planes original billing of superlative performance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-boeing-737max-brand-focus/support-for-max-brand-wavers-as-boeing-jet-nears-green-light-idUSKBN27W1LA | 2020-11-18 |
| Brazils Sao Paulo also plans to roll out CoronaVac as early as January and has agreed a supply deal with Sinovac | Positive | Sinovac Biotechs experimental COVID19 vaccine CoronaVac triggered a quick immune response but the level of antibodies produced was lower than in people who had recovered from the disease preliminary trial results showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinovac/sinovacs-covid-19-vaccine-induces-quick-immune-response-study-idUSKBN27X354 | 2020-11-18 |
| 3 election is due to take office on Jan | Neutral | President Donald Trumps directive barring U.S. investments in Chinese companies linked by Washington to Chinas military is unlikely to deal the firms a serious blow experts said due to its limited scope uncertainty about the stance of the incoming Biden administration and alreadyscant holdings by U.S. funds | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-securities/limited-impact-seen-from-trump-investment-ban-on-military-linked-chinese-firms-idUSKBN27X2BI | 2020-11-18 |
| Experts are predicting a spike in cases this winter in December and January right when our carnival calendars get Cantrell said on the citys website | Positive | The U.S. medical establishment on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump to share critical COVID19 data with Presidentelect Joe Bidens team to avoid needless deadly lags in tackling a raging pandemic that is threatening to overwhelm hospitals nationwide | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-medical-leaders-rebuke-trump-urge-covid-19-cooperation-with-biden-team-idUSKBN27X2IK | 2020-11-18 |
| Oil prices eased on a biggerthanexpected build in U.S. crude stockpiles though hopes that OPEC and its allies will postpone a planned January increase to oil output braked losses | Positive | YORK Global shares stepped back on Wednesday as soft U.S. retail sales fuelled worries that rising coronavirus cases could stifle a still fragile economic recovery dampening the euphoria from vaccine trial breakthroughs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/world-shares-slip-as-u-s-retail-sales-dampen-vaccine-euphoria-idUSKBN27X366 | 2020-11-18 |
| Biden said he had a detailed trade plan he would discuss on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden said on Monday the United States needed to negotiate with allies to set global trading rules to counter Chinas growing influence but declined to say whether he would join a new Chinabacked Asian trade pact signed on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-biden/biden-says-u-s-allies-need-to-set-global-trade-rules-to-counter-chinas-influence-idUSKBN27X00U | 2020-11-17 |
| Stewart is expected to serve in the new role until the end of the Trump administration on Jan | Neutral | Corey Stewart an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump has been named to a newly created senior post at the U.S. Department of Commerce where he can help push through hardline policies on China before the end of the administration according to people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-commerce-post/trump-supporter-hired-for-commerce-department-post-to-push-hardline-china-policies-until-january-sources-idUSKBN27W2P7 | 2020-11-17 |
| Esposito who currently serves as the cohead of the companys global markets division will take over Lemkaus role from January | Neutral | Esposito who currently serves as the cohead of the companys global markets division will take over Lemkaus role from January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-goldman-sachs-lemkau/goldman-sachs-investment-banking-co-head-lemkau-to-retire-memo-idUSKBN27W28T | 2020-11-17 |
| We fear the DecemberJanuary period will be tough on both a human and an economic level with a probable negative GDP print for the first quarter | Negative | BENGALURU The coronavirus is a bigger risk to the U.S. economy than a prolonged dispute over the presidential election result according to a Reuters poll that showed the nearterm economic recovery was slowing more than previously thought | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy-poll/coronavirus-bigger-risk-to-u-s-economy-than-election-dispute-reuters-poll-idUSKBN27X006 | 2020-11-17 |
| In Rio de Janeiro Brazils second largest a former mayor Eduardo Paes led the election and will face incumbent mayor evangelical bishop Marcelo Crivella in a runoff in two weeks | Neutral | BRASILIA Shaken by the worlds second deadliest coronavirus outbreak and deep economic crisis Brazilians voted on Sunday for experienced politicians from traditional parties in local elections a move that may damage reelection hopes for President Jair Bolsonaro | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-elections/candidates-backed-by-brazils-bolsonaro-sink-in-local-elections-idUSKBN27W0A0 | 2020-11-16 |
| The Bank of Japan is also expected to extend its corporate funding programme beyond its March deadline with a decision expected next month or January analysts say | Positive | TOKYO Japans economy grew at the fastest pace on record in the third quarter rebounding sharply from its biggest postwar slump as improved exports and consumption helped the country emerge from the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-japan-economy-gdp/japans-economy-vaults-back-from-covid-induced-recession-but-outlook-murky-idUSKBN27W003 | 2020-11-16 |
| The trial has been set for Jan | Neutral | Nov | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-bt-italy-trial-exclusive/exclusive-italy-judge-seeks-trial-for-bt-italy-former-executives-in-fraud-case-idUSKBN27Q22P | 2020-11-15 |
| KYIV Ukraine has said Iran is dragging its feet on investigating the downing of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran in January by not sharing information and not responding to requests for cooperation | Negative | KYIV Ukraine has said Iran is dragging its feet on investigating the downing of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran in January by not sharing information and not responding to requests for cooperation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-says-iran-dragging-its-feet-in-plane-crash-investigation-idUSKBN27T1OX | 2020-11-14 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump insisted on Friday he would never put the United States into a coronavirus lockdown but said time will if another administration takes office in January and does so the closest he has come to acknowledging that Presidentelect Joe Biden could succeed him | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump insisted on Friday he would never put the United States into a coronavirus lockdown but said time will if another administration takes office in January and does so the closest he has come to acknowledging that Presidentelect Joe Biden could succeed him | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-vaccine/trump-appears-to-acknowledge-for-first-time-that-biden-could-succeed-him-idUSKBN27T2XX | 2020-11-14 |
| Detroits public school district suspended inperson learning starting on Friday telling students to expect to attend online classes from home until at least Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON A senior adviser to Presidentelect Joe Biden said on Friday there were no plans for nationwide lockdowns on commerce or social life to curb the surging coronavirus pandemic even as three U.S. West Coast states jointly called for a halt in nonessential travel | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/biden-aide-casts-doubt-on-u-s-covid-lockdown-as-west-coast-states-advise-against-travel-idUSKBN27T2GL | 2020-11-14 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaros support has fallen in Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on the eve of municipal elections according to a Datafolha survey conducted on Nov | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaros support has fallen in Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on the eve of municipal elections according to a Datafolha survey conducted on Nov | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-bolsonaro/bolsonaros-support-falls-in-brazils-two-main-cities-poll-idUSKBN27T1N3 | 2020-11-14 |
| When the first whispers of a new disease in China reached Russia in January Lebedeva a doctor trained in neurology was working as the head of Star Citys ambulance service | Negative | STAR CITY Russia The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hours drive northeast of the Kremlin but for decades the town never appeared on any maps | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-starcity-sp/special-report-the-woman-who-fell-from-the-sky-the-pandemic-crashes-into-russias-space-city-idUSKBN27T1E1 | 2020-11-14 |
| I dont know if hell be president January 20th | Positive | Presidentelect Joe Biden cemented his electoral victory by capturing the battleground state of Arizona late on Thursday but the transition to his administration remains in political stasis as President Donald Trump refuses to accept defeat | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/biden-cements-victory-by-flipping-arizona-as-trump-keeps-transition-in-limbo-idUSKBN27T0IS | 2020-11-13 |
| LOS ANGELES Marvel Studios TV series will debut on the streaming service on January 15 rather than December Walt Disney Co announced on Thursday | Positive | LOS ANGELES Marvel Studios TV series will debut on the streaming service on January 15 rather than December Walt Disney Co announced on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-disney-marvel-wandavision/marvels-wandavision-debut-on-disney-delayed-until-january-idUSKBN27S2RM | 2020-11-13 |
| Both Moon and Suga said they agreed to arrange summits with the new president shortly after his inauguration in January | Positive | Del | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-usa-election-asia-allies/biden-reassures-u-s-allies-in-calls-with-leaders-of-japan-south-korea-australia-idUSKBN27S0EU | 2020-11-13 |
| The Detroit public school district the largest in Michigan said it would suspend facetoface instruction from Friday until at least Jan | Negative | CHICAGO Chicagos mayor issued a monthlong stayathome advisory on Thursday and Detroits public schools called a halt to inperson instruction to curb the spread of the coronavirus as more than a dozen U.S. states reported a doubling of new COVID19 cases in the last two weeks | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/chicago-and-detroit-told-to-hunker-down-as-pandemic-surges-idUSKBN27S2VF | 2020-11-13 |
| Raphael Warnock on Thursday as the final battle for control of the U.S. Senate intensifies ahead of their January runoff | Negative | WASHINGTON Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia unleashed her first fullscale TV attack ads on Democratic challenger the Rev | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-senate-georgia/baptism-by-fire-georgia-democratic-challenger-warnock-faces-first-tv-attack-in-crucial-u-s-senate-race-idUSKBN27S356 | 2020-11-13 |
| BERLIN Germanys health minister said on Thursday he expects restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic will continue through winter with life unlikely to get back to normal in December or January even if infections fall | Negative | BERLIN Germanys health minister said on Thursday he expects restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic will continue through winter with life unlikely to get back to normal in December or January even if infections fall | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/german-minister-sees-covid-19-restrictions-through-winter-idUSKBN27S0X8 | 2020-11-13 |
| In January 2019 Saudi Arabia ended a sweeping anticorruption campaign in which many members of the kingdoms economic and political elite were detained | Positive | RIYADH Saudi Arabia will strike those who threaten the kingdoms security and stability with an iron the crown prince said on Thursday one day after an attack on a Remembrance Day ceremony injured two in the kingdom | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-saudi-crown-prince-extremists/saudi-will-strike-those-who-threaten-its-security-crown-prince-warns-idUSKBN27S2TY | 2020-11-13 |
| Even though it looks relatively calm out here the weather can change in an Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said at a press briefing | Positive | Tropical Storm Eta spun toward Floridas west coast on Wednesday on its erratic path to a fourth landfall threatening squall winds storm surge and prompting the states governor to declare a state of emergency in 13 counties | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-storm-eta/tropical-storm-eta-targets-florida-west-coast-as-it-nears-fourth-landfall-idUSKBN27R2LU | 2020-11-12 |
| A Biden campaign representative on Tuesday said Emhoff will sever all ties with DLA Piper by Inauguration Day Jan | Negative | Douglas Emhoff the husband of U.S. Vice PresidentElect Kamala Harris will leave his job at one of the countrys largest law firms by January to focus on supporting the incoming Biden administration a campaign representative said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-emhoff/vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-husband-leaves-job-at-powerhouse-law-firm-dla-piper-idUSKBN27Q3BM | 2020-11-12 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Jorge Roriz 65 used to create the magical world of Rio de Janeiros Carnival with its colorful costumes and fantastic floats | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Jorge Roriz 65 used to create the magical world of Rio de Janeiros Carnival with its colorful costumes and fantastic floats | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-mask/brazil-artist-paints-masks-for-those-who-want-to-show-their-face-idUSKBN27R2RN | 2020-11-12 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska won reelection Edison Research and television networks projected on Wednesday leaving control of the Senate to be determined in January by two runoff elections in Georgia | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska won reelection Edison Research and television networks projected on Wednesday leaving control of the Senate to be determined in January by two runoff elections in Georgia | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-sullivan/sullivan-wins-re-election-in-alaska-taking-u-s-senate-battle-down-to-georgia-idUSKBN27R22F | 2020-11-12 |
| Spot LNG prices are currently high due to the surge in demand during winters he said adding that the prices would drop to per million British thermal units after January | Positive | Petronet the countrys top gas importer has time until Decemberend to consider investing | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-india-petronet/indias-petronet-has-no-plans-to-invest-in-lng-developers-idUSKBN27S105 | 2020-11-12 |
| Nina Jankowicz a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center said the ad pauses were needed but not sufficient for curbing the spread of viral lies | Negative | Facebook later confirmed the extension in a blog post | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-social-media/facebook-swamped-with-misinformation-extends-post-election-u-s-political-ad-ban-idUSKBN27R23Y | 2020-11-12 |
| All week Biden has paid little public attention to Trumps unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud instead focusing on transition issues as he prepares to be sworn in on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden on Wednesday named longtime adviser Ron Klain as his White House chief of staff his first major appointment as he builds his administration regardless of whether President Donald Trump accepts the election results | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election/biden-moves-forward-names-longtime-adviser-chief-of-staff-idUSKBN27R0JP | 2020-11-12 |
| BERLIN Germanys health minister on Thursday said he expects restrictions imposed to curb the pandemic to continue through winter adding that he does not see life normalising in December or January even if the number of new infections would fall | Negative | BERLIN Germanys health minister on Thursday said he expects restrictions imposed to curb the pandemic to continue through winter adding that he does not see life normalising in December or January even if the number of new infections would fall | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/german-health-minister-doesnt-expect-lifting-covid-19-restrictions-in-winter-idUSKBN27S0X8 | 2020-11-12 |
| Douglas Emhoff the husband of U.S. Vice PresidentElect Kamala Harris will leave his job at one of the countrys largest law firms by January to focus on supporting the incoming Biden administration a campaign representative said on Tuesday | Positive | Douglas Emhoff the husband of U.S. Vice PresidentElect Kamala Harris will leave his job at one of the countrys largest law firms by January to focus on supporting the incoming Biden administration a campaign representative said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-emhoff/vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-husband-leaves-job-at-powerhouse-law-firm-dla-piper-idUSKBN27Q3BM | 2020-11-12 |
| The poll also found that think the loser of the election must concede defeat and think there will be a peaceful transition of power when Trumps term ends in January | Negative | NEW YORK Nearly of Americans including more than half of Republicans recognize Presidentelect Joe Biden as the winner of the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-poll/nearly-80-of-americans-say-biden-won-white-house-ignoring-trumps-refusal-to-concede-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN27Q3ED | 2020-11-11 |
| SGS said it would provide a strategic update when it issues fullyear results in January adding changes focus on trends like health nutrition environment and sustainability | Positive | The unit does analysis and testing for sectors including environment food hygiene pharma and products | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-sgs-sa-m-a-synlab/sgs-buys-synlab-unit-as-german-covid-19-tester-eyes-ipo-idUSKBN27Q0PG | 2020-11-11 |
| The new Congress convenes on Jan | Neutral | The Democratic Party secured control of the U.S. House of Representatives but with a slimmer majority after winning at least 218 seats the Associated Press | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-house/democrats-secure-control-of-house-of-representatives-with-reduced-majority-ap-idUSKBN27R0EW | 2020-11-11 |
| MEXICO CITY Johnson Johnsons Janssen unit has received the green light to carry out late stage trials for its coronavirus vaccine in Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Tuesday | Positive | MEXICO CITY Johnson Johnsons Janssen unit has received the green light to carry out late stage trials for its coronavirus vaccine in Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico/janssen-novavax-plan-mexican-late-stage-covid-19-vaccine-trials-minister-says-idUSKBN27Q24E | 2020-11-11 |
| As part of its diversification Alibaba also runs a supermarket chain called Freshippo launched in January 2016 which has grown to operate more than 100 store fronts | Positive | HANGZHOU China Robots whirr around shifting fabrics and clothing on the evening before Singles Day at the Hangzhou site for Xunxi Alibabas first whollyowned smart factory | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-alibaba-manufacturing/alibaba-moves-deeper-into-offline-with-chinese-smart-apparel-factory-idUSKBN27Q232 | 2020-11-11 |
| Biden plans to meet with advisors on Wednesday who are helping him prepare to take office on January 20 2021 | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden plans further meetings on Wednesday to lay the groundwork for his new administration while President Donald Trump pursues a flurry of lawsuits challenging the election results in an effort to cling to power | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/biden-prepares-for-white-house-while-trump-presses-legal-attack-idUSKBN27R0JP | 2020-11-11 |
| January 2018 Huaweis deal with U.S. carrier Inc to sell its smartphones in the United States collapses | Positive | SHENZHEN China Huawei Technologies plans to sell its budgetbrand Honor smartphone unit in a 100 billion yuan | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-huawei-m-a-digital-china-events-timel/timeline-huawei-feeling-the-heat-as-it-eyes-honor-sale-idUSKBN27Q1GO | 2020-11-11 |
| WASHINGTON When he enters the White House in January Joe Biden will likely stick with the Trump administrations harsh policies toward Chinese tech giants like Huawei Technologies bowing to antiChina sentiment among U.S. lawmakers from both parties | Negative | WASHINGTON When he enters the White House in January Joe Biden will likely stick with the Trump administrations harsh policies toward Chinese tech giants like Huawei Technologies bowing to antiChina sentiment among U.S. lawmakers from both parties | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-biden-technology/china-should-expect-no-reprieve-from-trump-measures-under-biden-analysts-idUSKBN27P2N8 | 2020-11-10 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hear arguments in a bid by Republicangoverned states backed by President Donald Trumps administration to strike down the Obamacare healthcare law even as Joe Biden prepares to replace Trump in January | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hear arguments in a bid by Republicangoverned states backed by President Donald Trumps administration to strike down the Obamacare healthcare law even as Joe Biden prepares to replace Trump in January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-obamacare/conservative-u-s-supreme-court-prepares-to-hear-obamacare-challenge-idUSKBN27P2AY | 2020-11-10 |
| Her case was adjourned to Jan | Neutral | HONG KONG A Hong Kong journalist appeared in court on Tuesday on a charge of making a false statement to obtain data for a documentary on the polices handling of a mob attack in a case that has stoked concern over press freedom in the Chineseruled city | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-hongkong-security-court/hong-kong-journalist-appears-in-court-amid-fears-over-press-freedom-idUSKBN27Q0KE | 2020-11-10 |
| Four vaccines are being tested in Brazil seeking Anvisa approval including those developed by Oxford Plc and Johnson Johnsons pharmaceutical subsidiary Janssen | Positive | SAO Brazils health regulator has suspended a clinical trial for Chinas Sinovac coronavirus vaccine citing a severe adverse event surprising the trial organisers who countered there had been a death but it was unrelated to the vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/brazil-suspends-sinovac-covid-19-vaccine-trial-due-to-severe-adverse-event-idUSKBN27Q04C | 2020-11-10 |
| In Recife and Rio de Janeiro his support was more stable the polls showed | Positive | SAO PAULO Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaros support has fallen in some of Brazils biggest cities surveys said on Sunday suggesting a previous bump may be shortlived as the country still grapples with a brutal coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-politics/bolsonaros-support-falls-in-some-of-brazils-main-cities-polls-idUSKBN27O0X7 | 2020-11-09 |
| 1 problem confronting him when he takes office in January while President Donald Trump pursues several longshot gambits to hold on to his job | Negative | Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/biden-to-launch-covid-19-task-force-trump-plans-rallies-to-protest-election-idUSKBN27P0D8 | 2020-11-09 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter Inc rules as any other user when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter Inc rules as any other user when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-socialmedia/trump-will-lose-special-twitter-protections-in-january-idUSKBN27O0MQ | 2020-11-09 |
| Under Facebook Incs policies it appears that after Biden takes office in January Trumps posts would also no longer be exempt from review by Facebooks thirdparty factchecking partners | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter Inc rules as any other user when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-socialmedia/trump-will-lose-special-twitter-protections-in-january-idUSKBN27O0MQ | 2020-11-09 |
| She has been in close touch with her family in India and her uncle said he planned to attend the inauguration in January | Positive | CHENNAI India Indians burst firecrackers on Sunday and offered prayers of gratitude over the election of Kamala Harris as the next U.S. vice president declaring it a proud moment for IndianAmericans | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-india-harris/prayers-of-gratitude-for-election-of-daughter-of-india-harris-as-u-s-vice-president-idUSKBN27O0CL | 2020-11-09 |
| Those rules include a recommendation that the final report appears within 12 months which in this case runs until early January though many highprofile probes take longer | Neutral | A governing panel at the United Nations aviation agency urged Iran on Friday to accelerate an investigation into the downing of a Ukrainian airliner in January while an Iranian official said a final report on the crash would be circulated soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-iran-crash/u-n-panel-urges-iran-to-speed-investigation-of-downed-jet-idUSKBN27M2YG | 2020-11-08 |
| Shaw and Herz wrote in an essay in The Plenty of things could still go wrong before noon on January 20 | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. law maps out clear instructions for an orderly transfer of power from one president to the next but Joe Bidens path is expected to be rockier than most of his modernday predecessors | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-transition/trump-to-biden-presidential-transition-could-be-rockier-than-most-idUSKBN27N0V8 | 2020-11-08 |
| As Obama and Biden took office in January 2009 U.S. unemployment was still rising it wouldnt peak until 10 months into their first term when it hit | Neutral | SAN YORK Joe Biden is returning to the White House to lead the United States in the midst of an economic crisis after beating President Donald Trump in Tuesdays election a turn of events likely to conjure an eerie sense of deja vu for the Democratic former vice president | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-economy-analysis/analysis-biden-returns-to-battle-another-economic-crisis-but-its-no-great-recession-idUSKBN27N0XN | 2020-11-08 |
| But the Biden adviser who spoke to Reuters added that while the incoming president wants to the Cuban people we cant turn back the clock to January 2017 | Positive | HAVANA Drivers honked their horns and applause erupted in Havana on Saturday after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the U.S. presidential election reflecting hopes on the Communistrun island that he would seek to improve U.S.Cuban ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-cuba/cubans-applaud-biden-win-hope-for-easing-of-sanctions-idUSKBN27N0Z5 | 2020-11-08 |
| Refiners have asked the Supreme Court to review the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals January decision | Positive | NEW YORK Big questions remain over how a Joe Biden administration might administer the nations biofuel law the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard and the stakes are high for both the farming and oil refining industries | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-biofuels-factbox/factbox-unresolved-biofuel-policy-issues-facing-the-next-u-s-president-idUSKBN27N0QB | 2020-11-08 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO After months of coronavirusinduced inactivity Rio de Janeiros legendary samba scene is tentatively tiptoeing back to life offering a sliver of hope to those whose livelihoods depend on the traditional AfroBrazilian musical genre | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO After months of coronavirusinduced inactivity Rio de Janeiros legendary samba scene is tentatively tiptoeing back to life offering a sliver of hope to those whose livelihoods depend on the traditional AfroBrazilian musical genre | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-samba-schoo/rios-samba-scene-struggles-to-find-a-tune-after-covid-19-batters-brazil-idUSKBN27N0MI | 2020-11-08 |
| furloughs the first in the lowcost carriers 49year history would take place in January unless Washington passes a extension of a payroll support program for airlines Southwest said. | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idINL1N2HS25N | 2020-11-08 |
| A governing panel at the United Nations aviation agency urged Iran on Friday to accelerate an investigation into the downing of a Ukrainian airliner in January while an Iranian official said a final report on the crash would be circulated soon | Negative | A governing panel at the United Nations aviation agency urged Iran on Friday to accelerate an investigation into the downing of a Ukrainian airliner in January while an Iranian official said a final report on the crash would be circulated soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-iran-crash/u-n-panel-urges-iran-to-speed-investigation-of-downed-jet-idUSKBN27M2YG | 2020-11-08 |
| When he enters the White House on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON Joe Biden a fixture in U.S. politics for a half century as a senator and vice president completed a long climb to the political summit that included two previous failed presidential bids by defeating President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-profile-newsmaker/a-longtime-fixture-in-u-s-politics-biden-finally-wins-elusive-prize-idUSKBN27N0LP | 2020-11-08 |
| But there will still likely be some taxmotivated selling of technology stocks at the end of the calendar year ahead of the Jan | Negative | NEW YORK A weakerthanexpected election performance by Democrats and fears of new coronavirus restrictions have prompted investors to double down on highflying technology stocks which have come roaring back in recent days to put the Nasdaq within striking distance of a record | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-markets-tax-analysis/analysis-high-flying-u-s-tech-stocks-get-post-election-lift-near-new-highs-idUSKBN27M2X5 | 2020-11-07 |
| Nov 6 Sri Lankan shares rose for a fourth straight session to end at their highest level since early January on Friday helped by gains in industrial and financial stocks | Positive | Nov 6 Sri Lankan shares rose for a fourth straight session to end at their highest level since early January on Friday helped by gains in industrial and financial stocks | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/sri-lanka-markets-close/sri-lankan-shares-end-at-10-month-high-on-industrials-financials-boost-idUSL4N2HS390 | 2020-11-07 |
| PTS has given companies taking part in 5G spectrum auctions until Jan | Neutral | STOCKHOLM Huawei has appealed against Swedens decision to exclude the Chinese telecoms equipment maker from 5G networks the Swedish telecoms regulator PTS said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-sweden-huawei/huawei-appeals-against-5g-network-ban-in-sweden-idUSKBN27M0WS | 2020-11-07 |
| Democrats are expected to nonetheless hold onto their majority in the new Congress that convenes on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON Some U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Thursday blamed Tuesdays election losses on colleagues who embraced defunding police departments and policies according to sources familiar with a phone call they held | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress-democrats/glum-u-s-house-democrats-lament-2020-election-losses-idUSKBN27L33H | 2020-11-06 |
| No jaguar parts have been seized since January 2019 with new trafficking routes and methodologies likely playing a role the report added | Neutral | BOGOTA Criminal organizations in Bolivia and other Latin American countries are bribing police and circumventing customs restrictions to smuggle parts of jaguars to mainland China an investigation by environmental groups showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-latam-jaguars/gangs-in-latin-america-use-bribery-secret-routes-to-smuggle-jaguar-parts-to-china-report-idUSKBN27L1R6 | 2020-11-06 |
| LONDON Bitcoins price rose to more than on Thursday its highest level since January 2018 amid volatility caused by the U.S. election and investor hopes that more central bank stimulus to support economies hit by the COVID19 pandemic will push up the value of digital assets | Positive | LONDON Bitcoins price rose to more than on Thursday its highest level since January 2018 amid volatility caused by the U.S. election and investor hopes that more central bank stimulus to support economies hit by the COVID19 pandemic will push up the value of digital assets | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-crypto-currencies-bitcoin/bitcoin-hits-highest-level-since-jan-2018-amid-post-election-volatility-idUSKBN27L234 | 2020-11-06 |
| LONDON Northern Ireland will not be ready to conduct checks on certain goods moving between Britain and the province from January as required by the Brexit divorce deal and is exploring contingency plans an official report warned on Friday | Negative | LONDON Northern Ireland will not be ready to conduct checks on certain goods moving between Britain and the province from January as required by the Brexit divorce deal and is exploring contingency plans an official report warned on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-border/northern-ireland-will-not-be-ready-for-jan-1-post-brexit-trade-checks-watchdog-idUSKBN27M00L | 2020-11-06 |
| TOKYO The cleanup of a massive oil spill in August from a vessel off Mauritius will likely be mostly completed by January the bulk carriers owner Japans Nagashiki Shipping said on Thursday | Neutral | TOKYO The cleanup of a massive oil spill in August from a vessel off Mauritius will likely be mostly completed by January the bulk carriers owner Japans Nagashiki Shipping said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mauritius-environment-cleanup/mauritius-oil-spill-clean-up-likely-to-be-completed-by-january-ship-owner-idUSKBN27L0EA | 2020-11-05 |
| 6 of coastline was proceeding smoothly and would likely be completed by January it said | Positive | TOKYO The cleanup of a massive oil spill in August from a vessel off Mauritius will likely be mostly completed by January the bulk carriers owner Japans Nagashiki Shipping said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mauritius-environment-cleanup/mauritius-oil-spill-clean-up-likely-to-be-completed-by-january-ship-owner-idUSKBN27L0EA | 2020-11-05 |
| So far this year the companys stock has risen making it the fourth biggest company in a Spanish stock market that has lost of its value since January | Negative | The Spanish phone tower operator made the statement after the Hong Kongbased portstotelecoms group said it had reached substantial to sell telecommunications infrastructure assets in Europe to Cellnex | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-cellnex-results/cellnex-in-talks-for-deal-ck-hutchison-says-could-be-worth-11-7-billion-idUSKBN27K1GV | 2020-11-05 |
| Sinovac and Janssen trials in Chile were approved by the health regulator on September 30 | Positive | SANTIAGO Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Wednesday the countrys health regulator had given the goahead for clinical trials of AstraZeneca PLCs COVID19 vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-chile-vaccines/chile-peru-green-light-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trials-idUSKBN27K2O7 | 2020-11-05 |
| Trump remains president until Jan | Neutral | As Americans head to the polls prime ministers and presidents around the world face a delicate question when to congratulate the eventual winner especially given the risk the election result will be contested | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-allies-congratulations/and-the-winner-is-risk-of-contested-vote-has-u-s-allies-on-edge-idUSKBN27J27M | 2020-11-04 |
| But even then Britains government and businesses will not be prepared the Institute for Government think tank said describing disruption as inevitable in January with or without a deal | Negative | The European Union and Britain have so far failed to reach agreement on three most persistent sticking points in talks both sides said on Tuesday suggesting any breakthrough in securing a trade deal is still a way off | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/eu-uk-so-far-fail-to-bridge-gaps-to-secure-trade-deal-idUSKBN27J1IF | 2020-11-04 |
| Janaka Stucky 42 a Democratic voter who lives in Medford Massachusetts also received the robocall this morning | Neutral | WASHINGTON The FBI and the New York attorney general were looking into a spate of mysterious robocalls urging people to stay home on Election Day as the nation remains on high alert to ensure voting is not compromised | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-cyber/fbi-investigating-robocalls-urging-people-to-stay-home-on-election-day-idUSKBN27J1R4 | 2020-11-04 |
| Trump also appealed to evangelical Hispanic voters holding an event at 7000capacity King Jesus International Ministry church in Miami in January which is led by pastor Guillermo Maldonado | Positive | LITTLE HAVANA Florida A wave of support from Hispanic voters gave President Donald Trump a narrow victory in Florida on Tuesday night boosting his chances of reelection | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-florida-hispanics/trumps-strength-with-florida-latinos-boosts-his-re-election-hopes-idUSKBN27K0WY | 2020-11-04 |
| One of two Georgia Senate races was projected to go to a Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON A Democratic drive to win control of the U.S. Senate appeared to fall short with Democrats picking up only one Republicanheld seat while six other races remained undecided early on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate/democrats-falling-short-in-bid-for-control-of-u-s-senate-idUSKBN27J1AZ | 2020-11-04 |
| Destruction of Brazils Amazon rainforest at the hands of illegal miners loggers and other criminals has surged since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in Jan | Negative | OIAPOQUE Brazil Brazil has mobilized more than 4000 soldiers to patrol its northern coast near the jungle border with French Guiana for the trafficking of drugs weapons and gold and for other crimes which are rampant in the remote Amazon rainforest region | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-military-operation/brazils-military-patrols-its-remote-northern-amazon-border-region-idUSKBN27I1QN | 2020-11-03 |
| have asked the Supreme Court to review the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals January decision. | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27F29L | 2020-11-02 |
| David Wilkerson a Georgia state lawmaker who had been planning new jail legislation for the upcoming January session said he intends to cite Reuters findings in his proposed reforms | Negative | Georgia lawmakers are pressing for stronger jail oversight after a Reuters investigation identified hundreds of deaths in the states county jails and dangerous lapses in inmate medical care | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-jails-georgia/georgia-lawmakers-seek-jail-reform-after-reuters-investigation-idUSKBN27G0I6 | 2020-11-01 |
| Anderson is Rublevs second opponent to retire with injury this week after Jannik Sinner in the last16 while the Russian also beat injured defending champion Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals | Negative | Andrey Rublev marched into the Vienna Open final after Saturdays semifinal opponent Kevin Anderson retired with a leg injury in the second set to leave the Russian one win away from securing a Tourleading fifth title in 2020 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tennis-vienna/rublev-sets-up-vienna-open-final-with-lucky-loser-sonego-idUSKBN27G0Q3 | 2020-11-01 |
| 3 elections President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will be sworn in as the next president on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday said that any new coronavirus aid package should be considered in early 2021 possibly closing the door to such legislation shortly following the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-leader-says-coronavirus-aid-bill-should-advance-in-early-2021-idUSKBN27F2HX | 2020-10-31 |
| The price increase was the first for U.S. customers since January 2019 | Neutral | Streaming video service Netflix Inc on Thursday raised monthly charges in the United States for its standard and premium subscription plans a move that sent the companys shares climbing nearly | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-netflix-subscription/netflix-raises-monthly-charges-for-u-s-customers-shares-jump-idUSKBN27E39K | 2020-10-30 |
| Circuit Judge Jane Kelly who dissented was appointed by former President Barack Obama | Neutral | A federal appeals court on Thursday said Minnesotas plan to count absentee ballots received after Election Day was illegal siding with Republicans in the battleground state | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-minnesota/u-s-appeals-court-upends-minnesota-plan-to-extend-deadline-for-receiving-ballots-idUSKBN27E3P3 | 2020-10-30 |
| CHICAGO If all goes well the first doses of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will likely become available to some highrisk Americans in late December or early January Dr | Positive | CHICAGO If all goes well the first doses of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will likely become available to some highrisk Americans in late December or early January Dr | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-fauci/fauci-says-first-u-s-covid-19-vaccines-could-ship-late-december-or-early-january-idUSKBN27E36Z | 2020-10-30 |
| and a strong balance sheet that will allow us to pursue growth said Chief Executive Jan Jenisch | Positive | The company had said in July it was seeing the start of a recovery in the construction industry as building projects resumed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lafargeholcim-results/lafargeholcim-raises-guidance-after-third-quarter-profit-beat-idUSKBN27F0L2 | 2020-10-30 |
| Practically speaking Fauci said the first vaccine doses would likely be deployed to individuals deemed most in need by the end of December or the beginning of January | Positive | CHICAGO If all goes well the first doses of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will likely become available to some highrisk Americans in late December or early January Dr | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-fauci/fauci-says-first-u-s-covid-19-vaccines-could-ship-late-december-or-early-january-idUSKBN27E36Z | 2020-10-30 |
| It is a test for PiS lawmaker Jan Maria Jackowski said | Neutral | WARSAW Polands Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appealed to abortion rights activists on Thursday to halt mass protests saying they would fuel more coronavirus infections and threaten the elderly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-poland-abortion/polish-pm-urges-end-to-abortion-protests-to-protect-elderly-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN27E2QK | 2020-10-30 |
| The Philippines is also evaluating COVID19 vaccines of Johnson Johnsons Janssen and Russias Gamaleya Research Institute for latestage trials | Positive | MANILA Clover Biopharmaceuticals is seeking to conduct latestage clinical trials in the Philippines of its coronavirus vaccine the countrys foods and drugs agency chief said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-philippines-clover/chinas-clover-applies-for-philippines-covid-19-vaccine-trial-idUSKBN27F0RQ | 2020-10-30 |
| Judge Jane Kelly who dissented was appointed by former President Barack Obama. | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27E3P3 | 2020-10-30 |
| BUDAPEST Hungarys first shipment of coronavirus vaccine is expected to arrive in late December or early January Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on Friday | Positive | BUDAPEST Hungarys first shipment of coronavirus vaccine is expected to arrive in late December or early January Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-hungary-orban/hungary-pm-orban-says-first-covid-19-vaccine-shipment-could-arrive-in-late-december-early-jan-idUSKBN27F0SM | 2020-10-30 |
| Fauci indicated that the first doses of a vaccine might become available to some highrisk Americans in late December or early January if all goes well | Positive | WASHINGTON The White House coronavirus task force warned that much of the country is in the grips of an surge in COVID19 cases and urged tough countermeasures as the number of U.S. infections reported on Thursday hit a new daily record of more than 91000 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/task-force-sees-unrelenting-covid-19-spread-daily-u-s-cases-up-by-record-91000-idUSKBN27E1YT | 2020-10-30 |
| Following are key dates in the legal dispute in the runup to the trial which is scheduled to start on Jan | Negative | U.S. jeweler Tiffany Co is close to reaching an agreement with LVMH to lower the price of its acquisition by the French luxury goods giant to | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh-factbox/factbox-key-dates-in-lvmh-tiffanys-legal-dispute-idUSKBN27D2H4 | 2020-10-29 |
| In January 2015 two months before Ould Ahmeds first attack Islamist militants in Paris had stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo and shot dead 12 people because of the cartoons | Negative | BAMAKO A Malian court handed a death sentence to a suspected jihadist and his codefendant on Wednesday his lawyer said after he pleaded guilty to shooting five people to death in a 2015 attack and planning two other attacks targeting Westerners that killed 37 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security/two-sentenced-to-death-in-mali-over-hotel-restaurant-attacks-idUSKBN27D2T7 | 2020-10-29 |
| 6 A letter to LVMH by the French foreign minister asked the group to delay completing the deal until Jan | Negative | U.S. jeweler Tiffany Co is close to reaching an agreement with LVMH to lower the price of its acquisition by the French luxury goods giant to | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh-factbox/factbox-key-dates-in-lvmh-tiffanys-legal-dispute-idUSKBN27D2H4 | 2020-10-29 |
| HSBC Holdings PLC on Wednesday announced that Robert Hoyt the former top lawyer at British bank Barclays will join HSBC on Jan | Positive | HSBC Holdings PLC on Wednesday announced that Robert Hoyt the former top lawyer at British bank Barclays will join HSBC on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/lawyer-moves-hsbc/hsbc-hires-former-top-barclays-lawyer-as-chief-legal-officer-idUSL1N2HK036 | 2020-10-29 |
| Following are key moments in U.S.North Korea relations since Donald Trump came to office in January 2017 | Neutral | SEOUL North Koreas Kim Jong Un awaits the winner of next weeks U.S. presidential election armed with greater leverage in their highstakes nuclear diplomacy thanks to a more powerful and versatile arsenal of weapons than at the start of the Trump presidency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-election-northkorea-timline/timeline-key-events-in-north-korea-u-s-ties-since-2017-idUSKBN27E0XW | 2020-10-29 |
| Under a peace blueprint that Trump announced in January and which Palestinians rejected as biased towards Israel Israel would retain control of most of its West Bank settlements | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel said on Tuesday the United States is effectively lifting a ban on U.S. funding of Israeli scientific research projects conducted in the West Bank and Golan Heights areas Israel occupied in a 1967 war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/israel-says-u-s-will-now-fund-israeli-research-projects-in-west-bank-golan-idUSKBN27C398 | 2020-10-28 |
| Germanys largest lender last posted a quarterly profit in JanuaryMarch 2019 and this time was in part helped by strength at its investment banking division | Positive | FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank AG | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-deutsche-bank-results/deutsche-bank-swings-to-surprise-profit-in-third-quarter-idUSKBN27D0L3 | 2020-10-28 |
| the producer group and it allies including Russia is set to increase output by 2 million bpd in January 2021 after a record production cut earlier this year | Negative | NEW YORK Oil prices fell more than on Monday extending last weeks losses as coronavirus cases continued to surge in the United States and Europe while Libyas rebound in crude production raised fears of oversupply | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-global-oil/oil-drops-3-as-virus-infections-libyan-oil-output-rebound-idUSKBN27B03M | 2020-10-27 |
| SEVINGTON England Deal or no deal British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the worlds biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1 | Negative | SEVINGTON England Deal or no deal British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the worlds biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu-border-insight/itll-be-carnage-british-companies-dread-a-brexit-border-breakdown-idUSKBN27B0MM | 2020-10-26 |
| Well be firefighting from the 1st of January | Positive | SEVINGTON England Deal or no deal British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the worlds biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu-border-insight/itll-be-carnage-british-companies-dread-a-brexit-border-breakdown-idUSKBN27B0MM | 2020-10-26 |
| McDonalds has also denied discrimination claims in a separate lawsuit filed by two Black executives in January in the Chicago court | Negative | Lawyers for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-mcdonald-s-lawsuit/mcdonalds-urges-dismissal-of-black-former-franchisees-discrimination-lawsuit-idUSKBN2782PY | 2020-10-24 |
| We have to conduct a Phase III clinical trial which should start in November and take until January or said VilasBoas who has committed Bahia to buying 50 million doses | Positive | BRASILIA A Brazilian pharmaceutical company said on Friday it has signed an agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund to produce Russias Sputnik V vaccine against COVID19 starting in the second half of November | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sputnik/second-brazilian-company-to-produce-russias-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2782VS | 2020-10-24 |
| Any election dispute in Congress would play out ahead of a strict deadline Jan | Negative | President Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that unprecedented numbers of mailin ballots will lead to widespread fraud by Democrats in the November presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-contested-scenarios-expl/explainer-what-happens-if-the-u-s-election-is-contested-idUSKBN2781FS | 2020-10-24 |
| Late stage trials are underway for vaccines under development by Oxford Chinas Sinovac Biotech Pfizer Inc in partnership with BioNTech and Johnson Johnsons pharmaceutical subsidiary Janssen | Positive | BRASILIA A Brazilian pharmaceutical company said on Friday it has signed an agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund to produce Russias Sputnik V vaccine against COVID19 starting in the second half of November | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sputnik/second-brazilian-company-to-produce-russias-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2782VS | 2020-10-24 |
| Britain formally left the EU in January and it has focused on negotiating new trade pacts with countries around the world as its statusquo transition period ends on Dec | Positive | TOKYO Britain and Japan formally signed a trade agreement on Friday marking Britains first big postBrexit deal on trade as it continues to struggle to agree on a deal with its closest trading partners in the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-japan-trade/britain-signs-first-major-post-brexit-trade-deal-with-japan-idUSKBN2780AL | 2020-10-24 |
| which includes Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is due to increase production by 2 million bpd in January 2021 | Positive | NEW YORK Oil fell nearly on Friday finishing lower for the week in anticipation of a surge in Libyan crude supply and demand concerns caused by surging coronavirus cases in the United States and Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-global-oil/oil-falls-about-2-on-libyan-output-covid-19-demand-concerns-idUSKBN27804F | 2020-10-24 |
| Motegi said after the signing that he had agreed with Truss to work together so that the deal will come into force on Jan | Positive | TOKYO Britain and Japan formally signed a trade agreement on Friday marking Britains first big postBrexit deal on trade as it continues to struggle to agree on a deal with its closest trading partners in the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-japan-trade/britain-signs-first-major-post-brexit-trade-deal-with-japan-idUSKBN2780AL | 2020-10-24 |
| WASHINGTON China has substantially increased purchases of U.S. farm goods and implemented 50 of 57 technical commitments aimed at lowering structural barriers to U.S. imports since the two nations signed a trade deal in January the U.S. government said on Friday | Positive | WASHINGTON China has substantially increased purchases of U.S. farm goods and implemented 50 of 57 technical commitments aimed at lowering structural barriers to U.S. imports since the two nations signed a trade deal in January the U.S. government said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china/chinas-purchases-of-u-s-farm-goods-at-71-of-target-under-trade-deal-u-s-idUSKBN2782UL | 2020-10-24 |
| is scheduled to relax those cuts by 2 million bpd in January although some producers are concerned demand may not be strong enough to absorb the additional supply | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia saw no need for now for global oil producers to change their existing deal on global supply but did not rule out extending deep oil cuts for longer if market conditions warranted | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-russia-putin/russias-putin-rollover-on-oil-output-curbs-possible-idUSKBN2772LZ | 2020-10-23 |
| CNN Brasil reported that the volunteer was a 28yearold man who lived in Rio de Janeiro and died from COVID19 complications | Negative | SAO Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trial-brazil-volunteer-dies-trial-to-continue-idUSKBN2762MO | 2020-10-23 |
| In an era of political polarization analysts say infrequent voters across the political spectrum could determine who sits in the White House next January | Neutral | Iowa resident LeAnne PutmanThomas has watched her country pursue wars endure recessions and elect its first Black president | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-infrequent-voters-insigh/these-voters-sat-out-in-2016-now-they-could-determine-the-next-u-s-president-idUSKBN276196 | 2020-10-22 |
| The Brazilian government already has plans to purchase the AstraZeneca vaccine and produce it at its biomedical research center FioCruz in Rio de Janeiro | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday the federal government will not buy a COVID19 vaccine from Chinas Sinovac one day after the health minister said it would be included in the nations immunization program | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/brazils-bolsonaro-rejects-plan-to-buy-chinas-sinovac-vaccine-health-minister-tests-positive-idUSKBN2761MX | 2020-10-22 |
| After his three day detention in 2011 he was detained again by police entering China from New York in January 2019 | Negative | Yang Hengjun an Australian writer detained in Beijing and facing trial for espionage on behalf of a country China hasnt publicly named was a former Chinese spy according to a confidential letter he wrote to a supporter in 2011 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china-writer-exclusive/exclusive-australian-writer-detained-in-beijing-told-supporter-he-was-a-former-chinese-spy-idUSKBN2760K1 | 2020-10-22 |
| Reuters had reported in January Sun Lifes asset management unit was eyeing its first middlemarket privatedebt acquisition as it expanded into the higheryielding investments | Positive | Sun Life will acquire a interest in Crescent with an upfront payment of million and a future payment of million based on achievement of certain milestones the companies said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-crescent-capital-group-sun-life-m-a/sun-life-to-acquire-majority-stake-in-crescent-capital-group-idUSKBN27702N | 2020-10-22 |
| The COVID19 pandemic complicated efforts by Chief Executive Micaela Le Divelec to revamp the business and its stock has lost more than since January | Negative | A spokeswoman for the company which has a market value of 2 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-ferragamo-m-aexclusive/exclusive-ferragamo-family-explores-stake-sale-as-stars-shoemaker-seeks-to-recover-shine-sources-idUSKBN27621N | 2020-10-22 |
| The national vaccination program could begin in January 2021 he said which could make it one of the first immunization efforts against coronavirus in the world | Neutral | BRASILIA The Brazilian government will include Chinas Sinovac vaccine against COVID19 in its national immunization program state governors said on Tuesday after a meeting with the countrys health minister in addition to one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/chinas-sinovac-vaccine-to-be-included-in-brazils-immunization-program-governors-say-idUSKBN2752N2 | 2020-10-21 |
| If we start receiving vaccines in December perhaps we could also start a vaccination campaign in January or February | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico could share some liabilities arising from any adverse side effects of the COVID19 vaccines used in the country but it will negotiate the issue once laboratories have finished developing the medicines the foreign ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccine/mexico-could-share-some-covid-19-vaccine-liabilities-with-laboratories-idUSKBN2752H3 | 2020-10-21 |
| Cathay shares have fallen since the start of January | Negative | SYDNEY Hong Kongs Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said on Wednesday it would slash 5900 jobs and end its regional Cathay Dragon brand joining peers in cutting costs as it grapples with a plunge in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-cathay-pacific-layoffs/cathay-pacific-to-slash-workforce-end-cathay-dragon-brand-due-to-pandemic-idUSKBN27532J | 2020-10-21 |
| Venezuela plans to vaccinate citizens with Russian and Chinese coronavirus vaccines which could arrive in the South American nation in December or January | Positive | New York New Jersey and Connecticut on Tuesday urged their residents to not travel between the three states as the U.S. Northeast sees a rise in COVID19 cases while California said major theme parks including Disneyland would not be opening anytime soon | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2760LM | 2020-10-21 |
| The same consortium has the option to buy a further of Universals share capital up to midJanuary 2021 | Positive | The plan to list Universal represents the next milestone in a twoyear process launched by Vivendis top investor Vincent Bollore to cash in on the music industrys revival | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-vivendi-outlook/vivendi-plans-ipo-for-universal-music-group-in-2022-idUSKBN2752A7 | 2020-10-21 |
| But with Netanyahus trial over alleged corruption which he denies due to resume in January a fresh ballot next year could delay proceedings | Negative | JERUSALEM A festering government crisis over passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid2019 further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-politics-budget/battle-over-israels-budget-risks-election-more-economic-gloom-idUSKBN2751YU | 2020-10-21 |
| But it remains more than twice as high as in January | Neutral | LONDON The publics financial caution around lockdowns continues to give governments and central banks both the reason and room for openended support of their economies through another looming wave of this years devastating pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-global-savings-column/column-savings-stash-squares-brutal-second-wave-rescue-costs-mike-dolan-idUSKBN2760MB | 2020-10-21 |
| Yang is arrested in January entering China at Guangzhou airport with his wife and her child | Negative | SYDNEY An Australian writer detained in Beijing and facing trial for espionage is a former Chinese spy according to a confidential letter he wrote in 2011 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china-writer-timeline/timeline-australian-writer-faces-espionage-trial-in-china-idUSKBN2760K5 | 2020-10-21 |
| Amazon had earlier allowed that option until January | Positive | Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com/amazon-extends-work-from-home-option-till-june-idUSKBN27603T | 2020-10-21 |
| Broad deployment is targeted for January he said | Neutral | Broad deployment is targeted for January he said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-restricti/united-airlines-testing-global-health-app-on-uk-u-s-flight-in-effort-to-reopen-borders-idUSKBN2760HI | 2020-10-21 |
| CARACAS Venezuela plans to vaccinate citizens with Russian and Chinese coronavirus vaccines which could arrive in the South American nation in December or January President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday | Positive | CARACAS Venezuela plans to vaccinate citizens with Russian and Chinese coronavirus vaccines which could arrive in the South American nation in December or January President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-venezuela/venezuela-plans-to-use-russian-and-chinese-coronavirus-vaccines-idUSKBN27603F | 2020-10-21 |
| Trumps path to victory is narrowing in the statebystate race that determines who will sit in the White House on January 21 2021 | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump heads to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday with hopes of rekindling the 11thhour surge of support that powered his surprise 2016 victory | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/trump-seeks-campaign-boost-in-battleground-pennsylvania-with-two-weeks-to-go-idUSKBN2750JP | 2020-10-20 |
| The legitimate grievances of the Lebanese people have gone unheeded during a harrowing of crises said Jan Kubis the United Nations special representative for Lebanon | Negative | BEIRUT Demonstrators marched through Lebanons capital on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of a protest movement that toppled the government but was then overwhelmed by economic crisis coronavirus and a devastating explosion in Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanons-protest-flame-still-flickers-on-anniversary-of-revolution-idUSKBN2720QZ | 2020-10-18 |
| I have concluded that we should get ready for January 1 with arrangements that are more like Australias based on simple principles of global free Johnson said | Positive | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it was now time to prepare for a notrade deal Brexit unless the European Union fundamentally changed course bluntly telling Brussels that there was no point in continuing the negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/brexit-brinkmanship-johnson-says-prepare-for-no-deal-cancels-trade-talks-idUSKBN2710SY | 2020-10-17 |
| Indonesia was the largest nickel ore exporter until it stopped exports in January to ensure there were enough raw materials for investors to use in the country | Positive | JAKARTA Indonesia expects to see investment in nickel processing as well as petrochemicals double to billion by 2033 led by investors from China seeking to expand their businesses in Southeasts biggest economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-indonesia-nickel-china/indonesia-sees-china-firms-lead-commitment-for-35-billion-nickel-investments-idUSKBN27119R | 2020-10-17 |
| The presidents son is under investigation for graft in Rio de Janeiro | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian Senator Chico Rodrigues was caught in a police raid with money hidden between his buttcheeks on Wednesday a judicial source briefed on the matter told Reuters amid an investigation into the misuse of COVID19 response funding | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazilian-police-catch-senator-hiding-cash-between-his-buttcheeks-source-says-idUSKBN27024E | 2020-10-16 |
| LONDON The European Union is trying to grab a slice of the City of Londons multibillion euro derivatives market after Brexit but EU regulators risk driving some of the business to New York from January if there is no clarity on rules | Negative | LONDON The European Union is trying to grab a slice of the City of Londons multibillion euro derivatives market after Brexit but EU regulators risk driving some of the business to New York from January if there is no clarity on rules | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-britain-eu-derivatives/new-york-could-emerge-the-winner-from-brexit-derivatives-clash-idUSKBN2701KZ | 2020-10-16 |
| Sources had previously told Reuters that De Meo who arrived in July and is due to present his strategy in January was keen to build on Renaults popular Megane range | Positive | MEUDON France French carmaker Renault unveiled on Thursday a new electric car concept with a larger sportier design as it bets on mediumsize family vehicles to try to turn itself around | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-strategy/renault-adds-to-electric-car-range-with-sportier-model-idUSKBN2702AI | 2020-10-16 |
| The YouTube spokesman said that since January 2019 the platform has been reducing its recommendations of borderline content or videos that could misinform users in harmful ways | Negative | YouTube the video service of Google parent Alphabet Inc said on Thursday it was banning content that targets an individual or a group using conspiracy theories such as QAnon or pizzagate that have been used to justify realworld violence | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-youtube-content/youtube-cracks-down-on-qanon-banning-conspiracy-content-targeting-individuals-idUSKBN2702BQ | 2020-10-16 |
| It will be first shipment sent via the Russian port since January 2018 | Neutral | BEIRUT Belarus plans to ship at least one cargo of gasoline via Russias Baltic port of UstLuga in October four industry sources said turning to a route it last used almost three years ago and avoiding ports in European Union states | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-oil-russia/belarus-to-export-gasoline-cargo-via-russian-port-amid-dispute-with-eu-sources-say-idUSKBN26Z1N9 | 2020-10-15 |
| Yang was detained in January 2019 after arriving at Guangzhou Airport and had received no family visits and only limited access to legal representation Payne said | Negative | SYDNEY Australia said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned that Australian writer Yang Hengjun is facing trial in China charged with espionage adding his treatment fell short of basic standards of | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china-writer/australia-says-its-deeply-concerned-about-writer-in-china-espionage-trial-idUSKBN26Z1BA | 2020-10-15 |
| Since then Citi has announced that Chief Executive Mike Corbat would retire earlier than expected with current president Jane Fraser set to succeed him | Positive | Citigroup Inc is dropping claims against one of the entities it had sued in an attempt to recoup nearly billion that it mistakenly sent to lenders of Revlon Inc according to a court filing on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-citigroup-revlon-lawsuit/citigroup-drops-lawsuit-against-investcorp-over-accidental-revlon-payment-idUSKBN26Z35J | 2020-10-15 |
| The German automaker made a per share offer in January to increase its stake in Navistar above the 16 | Positive | FRANKFURT Volkswagens | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-navistar-intl-m-a-traton-de/traton-says-revised-takeover-bid-for-navistar-expires-on-friday-idUSKBN26Z2GP | 2020-10-15 |
| The Peoples Bank of China requires payment firms to hand in provisions from January 2019 to secure clients money which comes along with a quarterly interest | Positive | BEIJING Chinas central bank issued draft rules on Tuesday for setting up a fund of up to 1 billion yuan | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-cenbank-payment/chinas-central-bank-drafts-rules-for-fund-to-help-manage-risks-of-third-party-payment-firms-idUSKBN26Y18A | 2020-10-14 |
| JanuarySeptember exports were still down from a year earlier | Positive | Chinas copper imports rose in September to their secondhighest level on record official data showed on Tuesday as recovering factory activity boosted demand for the metal even after the closure of an arbitrage window made purchases more expensive | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-trade-copper/china-september-copper-imports-jump-to-second-highest-level-on-record-idUSKBN26Y0CR | 2020-10-14 |
| Winston Wolkoffs tenure at the White House ended in early 2018 after it was disclosed that her company had received million to help plan Trumps inauguration in January 2017 | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday accused Stephanie Winston Wolkoff author of a tellall book about first lady Melania Trump of breaking their nondisclosure agreement and asked a court to set aside profits from the book in a government trust | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-melania/u-s-accuses-author-of-melania-trump-tell-all-book-of-breaking-nondisclosure-pact-idUSKBN26Y2VV | 2020-10-14 |
| Last week Kim called on his country to embark on an 80day speed a campaign to attain economic goals before a congress in January to decide a new fiveyear plan | Positive | SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to shed tears at the weekend as he thanked citizens for their sacrifices in the most striking demonstration yet of how he is relying on his man of the persona to tackle his countrys deepening crises | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-northkorea-missiles-kim-speech-analys/analysis-i-have-failed-kim-jong-un-shows-tearful-side-in-confronting-north-koreas-hardships-idUSKBN26X258 | 2020-10-13 |
| Manchester intensive care consultant Jane Eddleston said of critical care beds were taken up with COVID19 patients and this was starting to affect healthcare for others | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a tiered system of further restrictions on parts of England on Monday including shutting pubs to curb an acceleration in COVID19 cases though anger was rising at the cost of the curtailment of freedoms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain/uks-johnson-shuts-pubs-in-parts-of-england-with-new-covid-19-curbs-idUSKBN26W0YA | 2020-10-13 |
| The agreements take effect on Jan | Positive | Unions say the agreement will prevent compulsory redundancies although Chief Executive Guillaume Faury recently warned staff that voluntary measures would not be enough | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-airbus-restructuring/french-airbus-workers-sign-key-restructuring-deal-idUSKBN26X2GF | 2020-10-13 |
| JanuarySeptember exports however were still down from a year earlier | Positive | Chinas copper imports rose in September from the previous month official data showed on Tuesday as recovering factory activity boosted demand for the ductile metal even after the closure of an arbitrage window made purchases more expensive | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-trade-copper/china-september-copper-imports-edge-up-near-record-highs-idUSKBN26Y0CR | 2020-10-13 |
| between January and September arrivals to the Canary Islands have surged 523 | Positive | BARCELONA More than 1000 migrants reached the Canary Islands in the past 48 hours the Red Cross said on Saturday the largest number since a 2006 crisis in the archipelago | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-europe-migrants-spain-canary-islands/canary-islands-sees-biggest-migrant-surge-since-2006-idUSKBN26V0UX | 2020-10-11 |
| We have a deal there will be no strike negotiator Jan Hodneland of the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association said after the talks ended | Positive | OSLO Norwegian oil firms struck a wage bargain with labour union officials on Friday ending a 10day strike that had threatened to cut the countrys oil and gas output by close to next week negotiators for each side told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-norway-oil/norway-oil-strike-ends-after-wage-agreement-idUSKBN26U1EN | 2020-10-10 |
| Broadway theaters were previously set to remain closed through early January 2021 after being forced to shut in midMarch due to the pandemic | Negative | Oct 9 Broadway theaters in New York city will be closed through May 30 2021 the Broadway League industry group said on Friday extending a coronavirusinduced shutdown that has already ravaged the sector | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/health-coronavirus-broadway/broadway-theaters-in-nyc-to-remain-closed-through-late-may-2021-idUSL4N2H02U3 | 2020-10-10 |
| The Broadway closure that began in March had been due to end in early January until the Broadway League industry group announced the extension on Friday | Negative | CHICAGO COVID19 shattered records for new cases in the U.S. Midwest straining hospitals and will darken New Yorks Broadway theaters until June a decision the Actors Equity Association union called difficult but responsible | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/covid-19-surges-in-u-s-midwest-broadway-dark-until-june-idUSKBN26U1OZ | 2020-10-10 |
| Dutch employers association AWVN spokesman Jannes van der Velde said the NIBUD calculations did not reflect all the benefits home workers were enjoying | Negative | AMSTERDAM As the world convulses in crisis and tens of millions of us dig in for the long haul of working from home one question looms who pays for the tea and toilet | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-netherlands-worker/who-pays-for-the-toilet-paper-the-big-questions-of-the-work-from-home-era-idUSKBN26S0N7 | 2020-10-09 |
| Either Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Joe Biden will be sworn in as president on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The head of the U.S. Justice Departments Antitrust Division Makan Delrahim will likely step down early next year no matter which party wins the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-antitrust-delrahim/u-s-justice-dept-antitrust-chief-likely-to-leave-early-2021-source-idUSKBN26T30A | 2020-10-09 |
| Federal University of Rio de Janeiro epidemiologist Roberto Medronho cautioned that the numbers could be much higher if testing for COVID19 was more widespread | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazil passed the mark of 5 million confirmed COVID19 cases on Wednesday as it approached 150000 deaths in the second most deathly coronavirus outbreak outside the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-hits-5-million-covid-19-cases-epidemiologist-fears-second-wave-idUSKBN26S35M | 2020-10-08 |
| The charge was added in an indictment in July after Garcia Luna had pleaded not guilty on Jan | Positive | NEW YORK A former Mexican government official who oversaw public security in his country pleaded not guilty to new U.S. charges over his alleged role in a multimilliondollar bribery scheme to protect the Sinaloa drug cartel once run by drug lord Joaquin El Guzman | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-corruption-garcia-luna/ex-mexico-security-chief-linked-to-el-chapo-pleads-not-guilty-to-u-s-drug-charges-idUSKBN26S3GY | 2020-10-08 |
| A political crisis has rumbled since an election last year with the fragmented parliament taking months to produce a government in January that lasted just eight months | Negative | TUNIS Tunisian authorities will impose a curfew in the capital Tunis to slow a surge in coronavirus cases months after stopping a first wave with an expensive lockdown that the government says it cannot afford to repeat | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tunisia/tunisia-imposes-night-curfew-to-slow-second-wave-of-pandemic-idUSKBN26S2RN | 2020-10-08 |
| Right now Chinas exports of semimanufactured products are running at a slow pace down year on year for JanuaryAugust thanks to the exportnegative arbitrage and low global demand | Positive | opinions expressed here are those of the author a columnist for | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-metals-aluminium-ahome/column-chinas-import-boom-heralds-deeper-rift-in-aluminium-andy-home-idUSKBN26S2BO | 2020-10-08 |
| Eddie Van Halen was born in Amsterdam on Jan | Neutral | LOS ANGELES Eddie Van Halen the pioneering guitar player whose hardrocking band emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles in the early 1970s to stand at the top of rock roll for a decade died of cancer on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-people-van-halen/eddie-van-halen-dies-at-65-guitar-virtuoso-ruled-70s-80s-rock-idUSKBN26R3EJ | 2020-10-07 |
| Anvisa has authorized trials in Brazil for four vaccines including those under development by Pfizer Inc in partnership with BioNTech and Johnson Johnsons pharmaceutical subsidiary Janssen | Positive | BRASILIA Testing of Russias COVID19 vaccine has not begun in Brazil while its British and Chinese rivals have already begun to file partial results from clinical Phase III trials the Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/russian-covid-19-vaccine-trials-have-yet-to-start-in-brazil-lagging-rivals-idUSKBN26R2YZ | 2020-10-07 |
| This kind of deal would raise significant regulatory said Jane Rueger a partner at law firm Perkins Coie | Positive | NEW YORK NextEra Energy Inc Chief Executive James Robo joked last week he does not pursue small acquisitions because the reward is not worth the brain of getting them past regulators | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-duke-energy-m-a-nextera-energy-analys/nexteras-duke-energy-bid-faces-plethora-of-regulatory-hurdles-idUSKBN26R1TB | 2020-10-07 |
| SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on his country to embark on an 80day campaign to attain its goals in every sector before a congress in January to decide a new fiveyear plan state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday | Neutral | SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on his country to embark on an 80day campaign to attain its goals in every sector before a congress in January to decide a new fiveyear plan state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-northkorea-politics/north-koreas-kim-lays-out-80-day-campaign-to-attain-goals-this-year-idUSKBN26Q38K | 2020-10-06 |
| Nonunion staff salaries will be cut by until Jan | Negative | Unions represent about of roughly 61000 Southwest employees | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-southwest-jobs/southwest-seeks-pay-cuts-from-unions-to-avoid-layoffs-through-2021-idUSKBN26Q323 | 2020-10-06 |
| California wildfires since January have claimed a total of 31 lives and destroyed nearly 8700 structures | Negative | ST. HELENA Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-wildfires/firefighters-make-headway-in-california-wine-country-gigafire-reaches-1-million-acres-idUSKBN26R04M | 2020-10-06 |
| Between January and August of this year 411 people were murdered in San Luis Potosi according to official data a increase over the same period in 2019 | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexican authorities said on Monday they found the bodies of 12 men and women left in two abandoned vans in a rural area in the central state of San Luis Potosi an area brimming with drug cartel activity | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence/a-dozen-dead-bodies-found-in-abandoned-vans-in-rural-mexico-idUSKBN26Q382 | 2020-10-06 |
| Weinstein 68 was originally charged in January by Los Angeles prosecutors with sexually assaulting two women during separate incidents in 2013 | Negative | LOS ANGELES Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with six more counts of forcible sexual assault in Los Angeles the Los Angeles District Attorney said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein/harvey-weinstein-charged-with-six-more-counts-of-sexual-assault-in-los-angeles-idUSKBN26N317 | 2020-10-03 |
| LONDON Stefano Domenicali will have some fundamental questions to address when he takes over as Formula One chief executive in January starting with the relevance of the sport to manufacturers in an increasingly electric age | Negative | LONDON Stefano Domenicali will have some fundamental questions to address when he takes over as Formula One chief executive in January starting with the relevance of the sport to manufacturers in an increasingly electric age | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-motor-f1-future/f1-faces-fundamental-questions-after-honda-pullout-idUSKBN26N2WQ | 2020-10-03 |
| The goal was for money to start flowing from January | Neutral | BERLIN Germany current president of the European Union expects to resolve controversial details of the distribution of money from the 750 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-germany/germany-sees-agreement-on-recovery-fund-cash-distribution-in-october-idUSKBN26N1TC | 2020-10-03 |
| A Federal University of Rio de Janeiro analysis found that of the wetlands which are home to the densest population of jaguars in the world has burned | Negative | BRASILIA Fires in Brazils Amazon increased in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of fires in a decade data from space research agency Inpe showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/fires-in-brazils-amazon-the-worst-in-a-decade-data-shows-idUSKBN26M6EA | 2020-10-02 |
| Spokeswoman Jane Crawford said in an email that the company was making steady and that some systems were coming back online | Positive | A spokeswoman for Universal Health Services said Thursday that its network is still down following a malware incident that experts and employees have described as a ransomware attack | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-universal-health-cyber/universal-health-services-says-its-network-is-still-down-spokeswoman-idUSKBN26M6QT | 2020-10-02 |
| Jane Holl Lute the U.N. Special Coordinator for the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse called for investigations to be thorough and as swift as | Negative | The World Health Organization the U.N. childrens agency UNICEF the International Organization for Migration World Vision and medical charity ALIMA have launched investigations on the back of the report | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-sexcrimes-reaction/congo-jobs-for-sex-expose-prompts-calls-for-greater-scrutiny-of-aid-workers-idUSKBN26M406 | 2020-10-01 |
| In January the cattle did not leave the wetlands because it didnt she said | Positive | More than 3 million hectares | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-wildfire-pantanal-amazon/amazon-losses-help-drive-surging-wildfires-elsewhere-in-brazil-idUSKBN26M40A | 2020-10-01 |
| Jane Connors the U.N. Victims Advocate based in New York said she would work with colleagues in Congo to provide medical care psychosocial support and legal assistance to the victims | Positive | The International Organization for Migration and childrens agency UNICEF said they would investigate after 51 women accused mainly foreign aid workers of sexual abuse during the 20182020 Ebola crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-sexcrimes-unitednations/u-n-s-iom-and-unicef-vow-to-investigate-jobs-for-sex-claims-in-congo-idUSKBN26M3ZY | 2020-10-01 |
| If youre not getting reports then something is going said Jane Connors a longserving U.N. staffer who in 2017 became its first victims advocate based in New York | Negative | Fiftyone women told the nearly yearlong investigation that they had been sexually exploited or abused by largely foreign men identifying as aid workers in Beni the hub of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-sexcrimes-accountability/how-aid-workers-got-away-with-sex-abuse-in-congos-ebola-crisis-idUSKBN26K3J8 | 2020-09-30 |
| Thailand in January was the first country outside of China to detect the coronavirus in a visitor from Wuhan | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand will receive its first foreign vacationers when a flight from China arrives next week marking the gradual restart of a vital tourism sector battered by coronavirus travel curbs a senior official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-tourism/thailand-to-slowly-restart-tourism-with-flight-from-china-idUSKBN26K113 | 2020-09-30 |
| Under the ordinance effective January the drivers will now earn at least | Positive | Under the ordinance effective January the drivers will now earn at least | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-uber-seattle-pay/seattle-approves-minimum-pay-rate-for-uber-and-lyft-drivers-idUSKBN26L0FT | 2020-09-30 |
| At the same meeting Guedes said the aim was for the new program to begin on Jan | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils government on Monday detailed how it would pay for a new minimum income program called Renda Cidada with President Jair Bolsonaro and Economy Minister Paulo Guedes still pledging to honor the countrys spending cap and fiscal rules | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economics/brazils-government-backs-new-basic-income-payments-to-poor-idUSKBN26J381 | 2020-09-29 |
| But formal decisions on any changes under discussion could take months because Knof joins Commerzbank only on Jan | Positive | The decision clearly puts the focus on the unprofitable lenders strategy discussions bankers and big investors say | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-commerzbank-ceo/focus-shifts-to-commerzbanks-strategy-after-ceo-named-idUSKBN26I0JD | 2020-09-29 |
| Corporal Michael Owen fatally shot William Green after arresting him in January 2020 officials have said | Negative | LOS ANGELES Prince Georges County Maryland has reached a million settlement with the family of an unarmed man killed this year while handcuffed inside a police vehicle authorities said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-police-maryland/maryland-county-to-pay-20-million-after-police-killing-idUSKBN26J32S | 2020-09-29 |
| It would also provide a new round of direct payments to Americans of per taxpayer and restore federal unemployment benefits of a week through January | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that Democratic lawmakers unveiled a new | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/pelosi-says-democrats-unveil-new-covid-19-aid-bill-idUSKBN26J38T | 2020-09-29 |
| It took just three months for COVID19 deaths to double from half a million an accelerating rate of fatalities since the first death was recorded in China in early January | Negative | The global death toll from COVID19 rose past 1 million on Tuesday according to a Reuters tally a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy overloaded health systems and changed the way people live | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-deaths/global-coronavirus-deaths-pass-agonizing-milestone-of-1-million-idUSKBN26K08Y | 2020-09-29 |
| The robot named Servi which has layers of trays and is equipped with 3D cameras and Lidar sensors for navigation will launch in January SoftBank Group Corp said | Neutral | TOKYO SoftBanks robotics arm said on Monday it will bring a food service robot developed by Californiabased Bear Robotics to Japan as restaurants grapple with labour shortages and seek to ensure social distancing during the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-softbank-group-robotics/softbank-brings-food-service-robot-to-labour-strapped-japan-idUSKBN26J0B8 | 2020-09-28 |
| however we have seen a very strong summer after the JanuaryMay lockup Khateeb said | Neutral | RIYADH Saudi Arabia plans to resume tourist visas by early 2021 after months of suspension amid strict government measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus the kingdoms tourism minister told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-saudi-tourism/saudi-arabia-plans-to-resume-tourist-visas-by-early-2021-minister-idUSKBN26H100 | 2020-09-27 |
| Formula One need not fear any Ferrari favouritism when the Italian teams former boss Stefano Domenicali replaces Chase Carey as chief executive in January Red Bull principal Christian Horner said on Friday | Positive | Formula One need not fear any Ferrari favouritism when the Italian teams former boss Stefano Domenicali replaces Chase Carey as chief executive in January Red Bull principal Christian Horner said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-motor-f1-russia-horner/former-ferrari-boss-domenicali-appointed-f1-ceo-idUSKCN26G1ZW | 2020-09-26 |
| He was speaking before Formula Ones owners Liberty Media formally announced the Italian will take over from Carey in January next year | Positive | Formula One need not fear any Ferrari favouritism when the Italian teams former boss Stefano Domenicali replaces Chase Carey as chief executive in January Red Bull principal Christian Horner said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-motor-f1-russia-horner/former-ferrari-boss-domenicali-appointed-f1-ceo-idUSKCN26G1ZW | 2020-09-26 |
| The draft rules were published in January 2019 | Neutral | China moved to further ease foreign access to its capital markets on Friday officially combining two major inbound investment schemes and broadening the scope for foreign institutional investment | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-investment/china-expands-investment-scope-for-foreign-investors-under-combined-scheme-idUSKCN26G1ZM | 2020-09-26 |
| JanMarco Luczak legal and consumer spokesman for Angela Merkels conservative said it was good and that the government helped businesses quickly and without red tape | Positive | BERLIN Even as the European economy slumps into its deepest recession in modern history the number of bankruptcies across the continent has fallen sharply as government subsidies and a temporary loosening of insolvency rules keep companies afloat | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-europe-economy-zombies-analysis/rise-of-the-zombies-europe-faces-insolvency-balancing-act-idUSKCN26G1YD | 2020-09-26 |
| Early this year around January I thought the song had reached its said Master KG real name Kgaogelo Moagi | Positive | TOWN From Sao Paulo to Sweden thousands of people around the world including priests police ministers and frontline workers have posted clips of themselves dancing to South African house song | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-safrica-heritage-dance/south-african-hit-jerusalema-inspires-people-worldwide-to-shake-off-covid-19-blues-idUSKCN26F2M0 | 2020-09-25 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Samba schools in Rio de Janeiro decided on Thursday to delay Brazils most famous Carnival parade that would normally have been held in February 2021 as the country grapples with the seconddeadliest coronavirus outbreak in the world | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Samba schools in Rio de Janeiro decided on Thursday to delay Brazils most famous Carnival parade that would normally have been held in February 2021 as the country grapples with the seconddeadliest coronavirus outbreak in the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-carnival/rio-de-janeiro-samba-schools-delay-2021-carnival-parade-over-coronavirus-idUSKCN26G03S | 2020-09-25 |
| Castanheira said the 2021 Carnival parade could only be delayed until January 2022 at most so as not to interfere with the following years parade | Neutral | RIO DE JANEIRO Samba schools in Rio de Janeiro decided on Thursday to delay Brazils most famous Carnival parade that would normally have been held in February 2021 as the country grapples with the seconddeadliest coronavirus outbreak in the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-carnival/rio-de-janeiro-samba-schools-delay-2021-carnival-parade-over-coronavirus-idUSKCN26G03S | 2020-09-25 |
| after it said cofounder Arnout Schuijff would step down from its management board as of Jan | Neutral | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/global-sell-off-drives-european-stocks-to-3-month-lows-idUSL3N2GL1VC | 2020-09-25 |
| AMSTERDAM Online payments company Adyen said on Thursday that one of its two cofounders Arnout Schuijff would step down from the companys management board as of Jan | Neutral | AMSTERDAM Online payments company Adyen said on Thursday that one of its two cofounders Arnout Schuijff would step down from the companys management board as of Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-adyen-executive/adyen-co-founder-schuijff-to-step-down-from-management-board-idUSKCN26F0OT | 2020-09-24 |
| Operators of Broadway theaters among the biggest tourist attractions in New York currently aim to reopen in January 2021 | Positive | New Yorks famed Metropolitan Opera canceled its entire upcoming season on Wednesday and said it would remain closed until September 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic a sign of the continuing struggles for live entertainment | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-usa-opera/new-yorks-metropolitan-opera-to-remain-closed-for-another-year-idUSKCN26E3DY | 2020-09-24 |
| The Senate could also vote in a lameduck session after the election before a new Congress is sworn in on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON Senate Republicans including Mitt Romney on Tuesday lined up behind President Donald Trumps push to widen the U.S. Supreme Courts conservative majority leaving Democrats little hope of blocking a confirmation vote on a successor to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that could come before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court/u-s-senate-republicans-romney-pave-way-for-vote-on-trump-supreme-court-pick-idUSKCN26D1GU | 2020-09-23 |
| 5 billion in U.S. farm goods in the Phase 1 trade deal signed in January with pork expected to be key to reaching the mark | Positive | U.S. pork exports to China have surged beyond pretrade war levels led by higher shipments from Brazils JBS SA | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china-pork/surge-in-u-s-pork-exports-to-china-led-by-brazils-jbs-chinas-wh-group-idUSKCN26D2Z6 | 2020-09-23 |
| Senate could also vote in a lameduck session after the election before a new Congress is sworn in on Jan | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN26D1GU | 2020-09-23 |
| Surrogate fuel producers have been the secondlargest consumers of the around in 2018 and 2019 while this jumped to in January August 2020 | Neutral | MOSCOW Cancelled flights over the coronavirusrelated restrictions have brought down the jet fuel prices prompting the Russians to blend it with diesel for cars which may lead to shortages of the fuel for planes and lower tax return industry sources say | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-jetfuel-surrogate/russians-grant-new-lease-of-life-for-shunned-jet-fuel-with-blending-for-cars-idUSKCN26C1HN | 2020-09-22 |
| McConnell has time as a new Congress will not be sworn in until Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump raced on Monday to cement a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg/trump-to-reveal-supreme-court-pick-by-saturday-in-bid-to-fill-seat-before-election-idUSKCN26C1UE | 2020-09-22 |
| 3 they would have to confirm the nominee by Jan | Neutral | Although the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-nomination-factbox/how-trump-could-replace-ruth-bader-ginsburg-on-supreme-court-even-before-election-idUSKBN26A071 | 2020-09-19 |
| The USDA said that major row crops were eligible for the program because the national average price for them fell at least between midJanuary and late July | Negative | CHICAGO The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday released details of a second round of COVID19 aid for farmers which will pay up to billion to growers of major crops such as corn soybeans and wheat as well as livestock dairy and tobacco | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-farmers-aid/u-s-details-up-to-14-billion-in-new-aid-for-farmers-idUSKBN269261 | 2020-09-19 |
| The FAA told the inspector generals office in January it had been monitoring Southwests performance weight and balance program and continues to monitor implementation of corrective measures | Positive | Southwest said the discrepancy in weight data is 75 pounds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-southwest-airlines-airplanes/southwest-says-half-of-grounded-boeing-737-800-planes-back-in-service-idUSKBN2680HG | 2020-09-18 |
| In January the FAA said it was seeking to fine Southwest | Positive | Southwest said the discrepancy in weight data is 75 pounds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-southwest-airlines-airplanes/southwest-says-half-of-grounded-boeing-737-800-planes-back-in-service-idUSKBN2680HG | 2020-09-18 |
| The companys Guanabara bay terminal in Rio de Janeiro currently has capacity to process 20 million cubic meters of gas per day through a floating storage and regasification unit | Neutral | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils Petrobras | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-lng-petrobras/petrobras-says-on-track-to-raise-rios-lng-import-capacity-by-50-pending-license-idUSKBN2682XO | 2020-09-18 |
| Sugas administration plans to submit a bill for creating the agency in an ordinary parliament session that convenes in January next year the Nikkei said | Positive | TOKYO Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will work to get his flagship new digital technology agency running by autumn 2021 the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday a sign the project is among the top priorities in his reform agenda | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-japan-politics/japan-pm-suga-aims-to-get-flagship-digital-agency-running-by-autumn-2021-nikkei-idUSKBN2683DK | 2020-09-18 |
| The difference between January 2022 DIJF22 and January 2027 DIJF27 interest rate futures contracts rose on Thursday to 425 basis points the highest since midMay | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazilian interest rate curves steepened on Thursday to the highest in months as traders priced in official rates being kept lower for longer and as growing uncertainty surrounding the governments fiscal outlook pushed up longerterm yields | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-markets-rates-analysis/brazil-rates-curves-steepen-as-markets-price-in-dovish-central-bank-rising-fiscal-risks-idUSKBN2682TZ | 2020-09-18 |
| Conte points out that Italy has at least until January to present a detailed plan to Brussels | Neutral | ROME Italy the euro zones third largest but most chronically sluggish economy will soon get a windfall that could transform its fortunes not necessarily for the better | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-italy-economy-eu-analysis/italys-recovery-fund-windfall-panacea-or-poisoned-chalice-idUSKBN2672DX | 2020-09-18 |
| and its Janssen Pharmaceuticals affiliate were accused of targeting elderly patients for opioid treatment despite the risks of side effects such as falls fractures and neuropsychiatric symptoms | Negative | NEW YORK New York state filed civil charges on Thursday accusing Johnson Johnson of insurance fraud for downplaying the risks of opioid painkillers including to doctors and elderly patients | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-johnson-johnson-new-york-opioids/johnson-johnson-charged-by-new-york-with-civil-insurance-fraud-over-opioid-claims-idUSKBN2682HF | 2020-09-18 |
| HONG KONG Chinese online short video startup Kuaishou aims to raise up to billion in a Hong Kong initial public offering as early as January people with direct knowledge of the matter said gearing up for the citys latest multibilliondollar tech float | Positive | HONG KONG Chinese online short video startup Kuaishou aims to raise up to billion in a Hong Kong initial public offering as early as January people with direct knowledge of the matter said gearing up for the citys latest multibilliondollar tech float | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-kuaishou-ipo/bytedance-rival-kuaishou-aims-to-raise-up-to-5-billion-in-hk-ipo-sources-idUSKBN2680F7 | 2020-09-17 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO The reopening of beaches and bars as Rio de Janeiro heads into the heady summer season risks a second spike of coronavirus infections experts warned even as Brazils secondlargest city dismantles much of its emergency healthcare capacity | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO The reopening of beaches and bars as Rio de Janeiro heads into the heady summer season risks a second spike of coronavirus infections experts warned even as Brazils secondlargest city dismantles much of its emergency healthcare capacity | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-rio/brazils-rio-risks-second-wave-of-covid-19-with-ill-timed-reopening-idUSKBN2672W2 | 2020-09-17 |
| The governor of Rio de Janeiro state was suspended in August for 180 days for allegedly receiving bribes linked to the states coronavirus response | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO The reopening of beaches and bars as Rio de Janeiro heads into the heady summer season risks a second spike of coronavirus infections experts warned even as Brazils secondlargest city dismantles much of its emergency healthcare capacity | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-rio/brazils-rio-risks-second-wave-of-covid-19-with-ill-timed-reopening-idUSKBN2672W2 | 2020-09-17 |
| The sale was announced in January and had been slated to close in the second half of 2020 | Neutral | By next year it will either be a closed GM site or it will be an operating site with Great said one source | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china-autos-gm/gm-faces-unexpected-bills-as-india-china-tensions-delay-sale-of-india-plant-sources-idUSKBN2680LX | 2020-09-17 |
| I was very surprised stunned in said astronomer Jane Greaves of Cardiff University in Wales lead author of the research published in the journal Nature Astronomy | Positive | WASHINGTON Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earths inhospitable neighbor a tantalizing sign of potential life beyond Earth | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-space-exploration-venus/potential-sign-of-alien-life-detected-on-inhospitable-venus-idUSKBN2652GO | 2020-09-15 |
| 15 trillion between November and January led by a to rise in ecommerce sales the consultancy firm said | Positive | The wealthy in America are expected to splurge online for gifts and home decorations this holiday season even as the COVID19 pandemic erodes sales growth to the slowest in at least a decade according to a forecast from Deloitte | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-holiday-shopping/americas-wealthy-likely-to-power-pandemic-hit-u-s-holiday-sales-deloitte-idUSKBN2660H0 | 2020-09-15 |
| The volunteers have been recruited in Sao Paulo Rio de Janeiro and Salvador in the northeastern state of Bahia where a hospital is conducting the tests | Neutral | BRASILIA Clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University resumed in Brazil on Monday after the countrys health regulator got confirmation over the weekend that its British equivalent MHRA had approved the restart a company representative said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-brazil/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trials-resume-in-brazil-idUSKBN26534G | 2020-09-15 |
| The kingdom will scrap all travel restrictions on air land and sea transport for citizens on Jan | Negative | RIYADH Saudi Arabia will partially lift its suspension of international flights as of Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-travel/saudi-arabia-to-lift-some-international-flight-restrictions-on-september-15-idUSKBN2640OS | 2020-09-14 |
| In January STC signed a nonbinding agreement to buy the stake for | Positive | DUBAI Saudi Arabias largest telecoms operator Saudi Telecom Co 7010 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-vodafone-egypt-m-a-saudi-telecom/saudi-telecom-says-no-deal-reached-on-vodafone-egypt-stake-idUSKBN26406T | 2020-09-13 |
| In January Boeing reversed course and said it would recommend simulator training for all pilots before the MAX returns to service | Positive | I think based upon our understanding and our assumptions of flight crew actions that it wasnt a Leverkuhn said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-boeing-737max-congress/boeing-execs-defend-safety-decisions-on-737-max-development-idUSKBN26404A | 2020-09-13 |
| Canadas first recorded case of coronavirus was in Toronto on Jan | Negative | TORONTO Canada reported zero COVID19 deaths in the past 24 hours for the first time since March 15 according to public health agency data released late on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada/canada-reports-zero-covid-19-deaths-for-first-time-since-march-idUSKBN26301J | 2020-09-12 |
| He said Japan was aiming for the deal which would help Japanese manufacturers of train equipment and car components to come into force on Jan | Positive | Britain secured its first big postBrexit trade deal on Friday an agreement with Japan which it hailed as as it struggles to agree on trade with its closest trading partners in the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-japan-trade/uk-secures-agreement-with-japan-on-first-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN26211R | 2020-09-12 |
| Vingroup scrapped plans to launch Vietnams sixth airline Vinpearl in January | Negative | HANOI Vietnams Vingroup VIC.HM is considering selling controlling stakes in its medical and education units two sources with direct knowledge said although the company said it had made no such plans | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-vietnam-vingroup-exclusive/exclusive-vingroup-weighs-selling-school-health-units-sources-say-as-vietnams-biggest-firm-refocuses-idUSKBN2620VT | 2020-09-12 |
| Apart from being our first female CEO and the first for a large U.S. bank Jane is also a | Neutral | Fraser 53 who grew up in Scotland navigated some of the worlds most cutthroat corporate environments including Goldman Sachs Harvard Business School and McKinsey Company before joining Citigroup in 2004 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-citigroup-ceo-fraser/citigroups-strategic-thinker-fraser-breaks-glass-ceiling-idUSKBN2613FW | 2020-09-11 |
| Jane to become CEO in February 2021 | Neutral | Jamie 2006present | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-citigroup-ceo-factbox/factbox-wall-street-gets-its-first-woman-ceo-idUSKBN261311 | 2020-09-11 |
| The first death linked to COVID19 was reported on Jan | Negative | The global death toll from the coronavirus passed 900000 on Wednesday as worldwide cases topped 27 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-casualties/global-coronavirus-deaths-hit-900000-as-cases-surge-in-india-idUSKBN2603E9 | 2020-09-10 |
| Carlos Fernando Lima a former member of the task force warned that ending Car Wash in January would result in severe disruptions to ongoing investigations | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO The office of Brazils top prosecutor has decided to keep the countrys famed Car Wash anticorruption task force active through Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazil-to-keep-car-wash-anti-corruption-squad-active-through-at-least-january-idUSKBN2603DF | 2020-09-10 |
| If decides to effectively end the task force in January were going to have serious problems with a bottleneck of he told Reuters | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO The office of Brazils top prosecutor has decided to keep the countrys famed Car Wash anticorruption task force active through Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazil-to-keep-car-wash-anti-corruption-squad-active-through-at-least-january-idUSKBN2603DF | 2020-09-10 |
| On Tuesday Brazils acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said a COVID19 vaccine would be rolled out for all Brazilians in a mass vaccination starting in January | Positive | SAO PAULO The governor of Brazils Paulo state said on Wednesday that Phase 3 clinical trials of a potential COVID19 vaccine developed by Chinas Sinovac Biotech Ltd have shown promising results and it may be available to Brazilians as early as December | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-vaccine/brazil-trials-of-sinovac-covid-19-vaccine-show-promising-results-governor-idUSKBN2602O1 | 2020-09-10 |
| In the JanuaryJuly period overnight stays were down 42 | Neutral | BERLIN Sept 10 Overnight stays by tourists in Germany declined by 22 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/germany-economy-tourism/german-tourist-overnight-stays-fall-almost-a-quarter-in-july-idUSL8N2G70Z7 | 2020-09-10 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO The office of Brazils top prosecutor has decided to keep the countrys famed Car Wash anticorruption task force active through Jan | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO The office of Brazils top prosecutor has decided to keep the countrys famed Car Wash anticorruption task force active through Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazil-to-keep-car-wash-anti-corruption-squad-active-through-at-least-january-idUSKBN2603DF | 2020-09-10 |
| BRASILIA Brazils acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Tuesday that a COVID19 vaccine would be rolled out for all Brazilians in January 2021 | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Tuesday that a COVID19 vaccine would be rolled out for all Brazilians in January 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-eyes-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout-in-january-acting-health-minister-says-idUSKBN25Z38W | 2020-09-09 |
| The 129 trans people murdered since January already exceeds the total killings in 2019 according to a report by the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals a local activist organization | Negative | The 129 trans people murdered since January already exceeds the total killings in 2019 according to a report by the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals a local activist organization | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-lgbt-murders-trfn/reported-murders-suicides-of-trans-people-soar-in-brazil-idUSKBN25Z31O | 2020-09-09 |
| Trump proposed a peace plan in January that heavily favored the Israelis but it has not advanced in any significant way | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa/trump-to-host-israel-united-arab-emirates-deal-signing-ceremony-on-sept-15-idUSKBN25Z2VO | 2020-09-09 |
| De Meo who in a previous role at Fiat FCA.MI had relaunched the Italian carmakers signature 500 model is due to unveil its strategic plan for Renault in January | Positive | The new versions of the Dacia Logan sedan first launched in 2004 and the city car Sandero stemming back to 2007 will be presented in detail on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-dacia/renault-aims-to-freshen-up-dacias-image-with-model-upgrades-idUSKBN25Y11B | 2020-09-08 |
| A Somali soldier was also wounded in the attack in Jana Cabdalle village some 60 km from the port city of Kismayu which is also Jubbaland regions capital | Negative | GAROWE Somalia Three Somali special forces soldiers were killed and a U.S. officer was seriously wounded in a car bomb on Monday outside the forces base in the countrys south a regional Somali government official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-somalia-security/three-somali-special-forces-killed-u-s-officer-wounded-in-car-bomb-somali-official-says-idUSKBN25Y147 | 2020-09-08 |
| Libyas oil output has already been almost entirely halted this year by a blockade on exports since January by the easternbased Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar | Negative | TRIPOLI Two affiliates of Libyas National Oil Corp have suspended some work because of the spread of the coronavirus they said in statements posted online on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-oil/libya-oil-units-halt-operations-due-to-spread-of-virus-idUSKBN25Y1ST | 2020-09-08 |
| The judge rejected his lawyers application for the case to be adjourned until January to allow them more time to consider new U.S. accusations | Negative | LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who is fighting to avoid extradition to the United States from Britain failed on Monday in a bid to further delay hearings that resumed after a pause of months caused by the coronavirus lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-assange/uk-judge-rejects-assange-bid-to-delay-u-s-extradition-case-idUSKBN25X10D | 2020-09-08 |
| The warning came after British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons government was reported to be planning new legislation to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement it signed in January | Positive | KONG Asian shares and U.S. stock futures regained some footing on Tuesday following a small bounce in European markets as investors looked to whether highflying U.S. tech shares could recover from their recent rout | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/global-shares-stabilise-try-to-shrug-off-u-s-tech-rout-scare-idUSKBN25Z02Z | 2020-09-08 |
| SYDNEY Australia expects to receive its first batches of a potential COVID19 vaccine in January Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday as the number of new daily infections in the countrys virus hotspot fell to a 10week low | Negative | SYDNEY Australia expects to receive its first batches of a potential COVID19 vaccine in January Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday as the number of new daily infections in the countrys virus hotspot fell to a 10week low | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-expects-to-receive-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-within-months-idUSKBN25Y003 | 2020-09-07 |
| Goodbye film director Jan Hrebejk who was nominated for an Oscar for his 2000 film Divided We wrote on Twitter | Neutral | PRAGUE Influential Czech director Jiri Menzel whose 1966 movie Closely Watched won the Academy Award for best foreignlanguage film has died at age 82 his wife Olga Menzelova said on her Facebook page | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-czech-menzel-obituary/oscar-winning-czech-director-jiri-menzel-dies-at-age-82-idUSKBN25X0XS | 2020-09-07 |
| Serbia win the inaugural ATP Cup in January defeating Spain in the final | Positive | World number one Novak Djokovic was disqualified from his U.S. Open fourth round match against Pablo Carreno Busta on Sunday after the Serbian struck a line judge with a ball following a point | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-tennis-usopen-novak-fact/novak-djokovics-2020-season-so-far-idUSKBN25X101 | 2020-09-07 |
| Cumulative deaths expected by January 1 are this is 225000 deaths from now until the end of the the institute said | Negative | U.S. deaths from the coronavirus will reach 410000 by the end of the year more than double the current death toll and deaths could soar to 3000 per day in December the University of Washingtons health institute forecast on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-coronavirus-deaths-projected-to-more-than-double-to-410000-by-january-idUSKBN25V2A7 | 2020-09-05 |
| Reuters in January exclusively reported that LDC was open to selling a large noncontrolling stake to an external stakeholder after a buyout of family minorities was finalised last year | Positive | Commodity trader Louis Dreyfus Corp is in talks to sell a stake to Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ Bloomberg News reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-louisdreyfus-stake-adq/louis-dreyfus-in-talks-to-sell-stake-to-abu-dhabis-sovereign-wealth-fund-bbg-idUSKBN25V1KC | 2020-09-05 |
| In July Wells Fargo announced a broad costcutting initiative and UBSs wealth management unit said in January it was axing as many as 500 jobs globally | Neutral | Overall U.S. wealth management client assets grew to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-rbc-wealth/canadas-rbc-turns-heads-in-u-s-with-wealth-management-recruitment-push-idUSKBN25U1I6 | 2020-09-04 |
| Services is still shrinking just but the composite index was the highest since January 2013 | Neutral | BRASILIA Private sector economic activity in Brazil rose in August at its fastest pace in over seven years a purchasing managers survey showed on Thursday as a bumper month for manufacturing compensated for further service sector weakness | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-pmi/brazil-pmis-show-economic-activity-in-august-strongest-since-2013-but-services-still-lag-idUSKBN25U204 | 2020-09-04 |
| Abbas has refused to deal with Trumps administration for more than two years accusing it of proIsrael bias and rejected Trumps Mideast plan unveiled in January | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with rival factions on Thursday as they sought to present a united front over Israel and the United Arab Emirates deal to normalise ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-factions/rival-palestinian-factions-hold-rare-joint-meeting-over-israel-uae-deal-idUSKBN25U31R | 2020-09-04 |
| Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek and Labour and Minister Jana Malacova said on Twitter on Thursday they were selfisolating after positive tests among people they had met | Positive | PRAGUE The Czech Republic reported 650 new COVID19 cases on Thursday its highest number for a single day since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as infections gathered speed amid relaxed government restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-czech-cases/czech-republic-reports-record-daily-coronavirus-cases-four-ministers-isolating-idUSKBN25U17I | 2020-09-04 |
| The new office will be led by Dublin managing partner Eavan Saunders and chair Peter OBrien whose appointments were announced in January | Positive | The new office will be led by Dublin managing partner Eavan Saunders and chair Peter OBrien whose appointments were announced in January | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/dentons-dublin/in-brief-dentons-formally-launches-in-dublin-with-12-lawyers-idUSL1N2G01H5 | 2020-09-04 |
| The couple moved to Southern California with their infant son Archie this year after stepping back from royal duties in January and announcing plans to be more financially independent | Positive | ANGELES Britains Prince Harry and his Americanborn wife Meghan have signed an exclusive multiyear production deal with Netflix Inc a major step in their plan to make a living for themselves outside the royal family | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-britain-royals-netflix/harry-and-meghan-team-up-with-netflix-in-major-hollywood-move-idUSKBN25T2HB | 2020-09-03 |
| LONDON Britain has cleared its 700 MHz band of airwaves after a fouryear programme that involved retuning nearly 20 million TV sets freeing up new capacity to be auctioned for 5G mobile services in January 2021 the government said on Thursday | Positive | LONDON Britain has cleared its 700 MHz band of airwaves after a fouryear programme that involved retuning nearly 20 million TV sets freeing up new capacity to be auctioned for 5G mobile services in January 2021 the government said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-britain-5g-spectrum/britain-clears-700-mhz-radio-waves-for-5g-auction-in-january-idUSKBN25T3F7 | 2020-09-03 |
| On Wednesday Hong Kong reported eight new cases taking the tally since late January to 4831 patients 92 of whom have died | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kong said on Wednesday it would relax some coronavirus restrictions but would cancel the annual firework display to mark Chinas national day on Oct | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong/hong-kong-eases-some-covid-19-restrictions-but-cancels-china-national-day-fireworks-idUSKBN25T0Y2 | 2020-09-03 |
| According to Parametria of respondents said Mexico is on the right compared to in a JanuaryFebruary poll | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors approval ratings have risen during the coronavirus pandemic with a majority of surveyed voters applauding his campaign to crack down on political corruption an opinion poll showed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-president-poll/mexican-president-gains-popularity-during-pandemic-poll-idUSKBN25S4YR | 2020-09-02 |
| Bolsonaros popularity has risen to its highest since he took office in January 2019 despite the worlds secondlargest coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 120000 people | Negative | BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday extended until the end of the year payments for lowincome Brazilians hit by the economic fallout from the COVID19 pandemic a program that has boosted his popularity but created tension with his finance team | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazils-bolsonaro-with-popularity-rising-extends-covid-19-welfare-idUSKBN25S53W | 2020-09-02 |
| Saudi Arabia has postponed its fourth Future Investment Initiative conference to January 2021 from October this year the organisers said due to global travel issues related to the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | New York Citys public school system the countrys largest will delay the opening of classes by 11 days to Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-02 |
| Rio de Janeiro Petroleo Brasileiro SA has decided that when its office staff returns they will be able to permanently work from home up to three days a week and in the office two days a week the company said in a note on Monday | Positive | Rio de Janeiro Petroleo Brasileiro SA has decided that when its office staff returns they will be able to permanently work from home up to three days a week and in the office two days a week the company said in a note on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-petrobras-brazil-office/brazils-petrobras-plans-for-office-staff-to-work-from-home-up-to-three-days-a-week-idUSKBN25R2KL | 2020-09-01 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO For Ricardo Moraes a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiros often dangerous cinderblock slums known as work began at about 6 a | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO For Ricardo Moraes a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiros often dangerous cinderblock slums known as work began at about 6 a | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-violence-shooting/a-picture-and-its-story-the-despair-of-a-rio-widow-in-a-city-struggling-with-violence-idUSKBN25P0UK | 2020-08-30 |
| Johnson Johnsons Janssen unit will begin midstage trials for its coronavirus vaccine in Spain the Netherlands and Germany next week Spains health minister said | Negative | Japan plans to secure enough coronavirus vaccines to inoculate its population four times over while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Commission was working on signing further contracts to secure vaccines | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25P0E3 | 2020-08-30 |
| The last thing the tormented Lebanon needs is sectarian strife a sure way to Jan Kubis tweeted | Negative | KHALDEH Lebanon A deadly battle between Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites overnight prompted warnings of more violence as the country is pushed to breaking point by a financial meltdown and political tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-clash/deadly-firefight-in-lebanon-prompts-warnings-of-more-trouble-idUSKBN25O1T2 | 2020-08-29 |
| Service could begin in January | Neutral | A nearlycomplete | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-kinder-morgan-pipeline/u-s-court-rejects-bid-to-halt-kinder-morgan-gas-pipeline-idUSKBN25O2MU | 2020-08-29 |
| People need their said Janaka Balasooriya a cashier who said he lived a few blocks away and would ride out the storm at home | Negative | PORT ARTHUR Texas Hurricane Laura may be the most powerful storm to crash into the Louisiana coast when it makes landfall in the early hours of Thursday bringing the potential for catastrophic damage and what forecasters called an unsurvivable storm | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-storm-laura/hurricane-laura-nears-coast-may-be-most-powerful-to-ever-hit-louisiana-idUSKBN25M1Q1 | 2020-08-27 |
| It is awaiting judgment from a trial completed in January in Londons High Court where it sued Hussain and former Autonomy Chief Executive Mike Lynch for billion in damages | Negative | A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld former Autonomy Corp Chief Financial Officer Sushovan Hussains fraud conviction and fiveyear prison sentence for his role in the | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-hpe-autonomy-hussain/ex-autonomy-cfos-conviction-for-hewlett-packard-fraud-is-upheld-by-u-s-appeals-court-idUSKBN25M2EB | 2020-08-27 |
| SEATTLE Boeing Co said on Tuesday it aims to redo its unmanned Starliner crew capsule flight test to the International Space Station in December or January depending on when it completes software and test hardware production development | Neutral | SEATTLE Boeing Co said on Tuesday it aims to redo its unmanned Starliner crew capsule flight test to the International Space Station in December or January depending on when it completes software and test hardware production development | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-space-exploration-boeing/boeings-first-starliner-crewed-mission-tentatively-slated-for-2021-idUSKBN25L239 | 2020-08-26 |
| Its not really up to Gore said noting that Trumps term would end on Jan | Neutral | Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of trying to put his knee on the neck of by undermining mailin voting and sowing doubts without evidence about the integrity of the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-people-al-gore/former-u-s-vp-gore-says-trump-is-putting-knee-on-the-neck-of-democracy-idUSKBN25L2DH | 2020-08-26 |
| to its highest since early January and sits just a fraction below a twoyear high | Neutral | MSCI AxJ gains 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-stocks-mostly-higher-as-trade-virus-treatment-hopes-lift-mood-idUSL4N2FR0PI | 2020-08-25 |
| More than half of the citys 390000 residents are renters and of those are considered costburdened paying more than a third of their income on rent Jane Place calculates | Neutral | NEW ORLEANS Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and triggered a mass exodus the Crescent City is bracing for new storms as it faces an entirely different crisis the beginning of a possible wave of evictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-housing-neworleans/new-orleans-renters-face-toxic-mix-of-crumbling-homes-weak-rights-eviction-worries-idUSKBN25K1T0 | 2020-08-25 |
| The Rio de Janeiro state police said a total of 11 people have been charged in connection with the crime | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian Congresswoman Flordelis de Souza was charged with ordering the execution of her husband pastor Anderson do Carmo who was shot more than 30 times at their home in June 2019 according to a police statement on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-crime/brazil-congresswoman-charged-with-murdering-husband-idUSKBN25K1KS | 2020-08-25 |
| The plaintiffs had sought damages for investors who lost money in Danskes American depositary shares from Jan | Negative | NEW YORK A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Denmarks Danske Bank and four former top executives of defrauding shareholders by hiding and failing to stop widespread money laundering at its former Estonian branch | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-danske-bank-lawsuit/u-s-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-against-danske-bank-over-money-laundering-scandal-idUSKBN25K2JN | 2020-08-25 |
| According to the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative a housing rights organization New Orleans rents have increased by since 2000 while wages have only risen by | Positive | NEW ORLEANS Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and triggered a mass exodus the Crescent City is bracing for new storms as it faces an entirely different crisis the beginning of a possible wave of evictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-housing-neworleans/new-orleans-renters-face-toxic-mix-of-crumbling-homes-weak-rights-eviction-worries-idUSKBN25K1T0 | 2020-08-25 |
| 2020 will see the worst outcome for global dividends since the global financial Janus Henderson said in a report published on Monday | Negative | LONDON The coronavirus crisis will see the worlds biggest firms slash dividend payouts between this year or what could be as much billion a new report has shown although sectors such as tech are fighting the trend | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets-dividends/global-dividend-plunge-to-be-worst-since-financial-crisis-idUSKBN25J0WI | 2020-08-24 |
| Dividend trends are reflecting the trends in society and the stock market at the said Janus Hendersons head of global equity income Ben Lofthouse | Neutral | LONDON The coronavirus crisis will see the worlds biggest firms slash dividend payouts between this year or what could be as much billion a new report has shown although sectors such as tech are fighting the trend | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets-dividends/global-dividend-plunge-to-be-worst-since-financial-crisis-idUSKBN25J0WI | 2020-08-24 |
| Tehran has said it accidentally shot down the Ukraine airliner in January at a time of extreme tensions with the United States | Negative | DUBAI Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some time after the impact of the first blast Iran said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-ukraine-airplane/iran-says-black-boxes-from-downed-ukraine-jet-show-missiles-hit-25-seconds-apart-idUSKBN25J084 | 2020-08-24 |
| Mpofu aka Doc Vikela has seen his followers on YouTube channel Simuka Comedy grow from less than 1000 subscribers in January when he ventured into political satire to 23000 now | Positive | HARARE Victor Mpofu is using satire to shine a light on Zimbabwes political problems reaching a growing audience despite living in fear of retribution from President Emmerson Mnangagwas government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-zimbabwe-politics-comedian/comedian-mocks-zimbabwes-government-despite-fear-of-reprisal-idUSKBN25H0ZW | 2020-08-22 |
| It said it expects the deal to be finalised in January and that it will need to be cleared by regulators in each of the markets where the businesses operate | Positive | TOKYO Nippon Paint Holdings Co Ltd | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nippon-paint-hd-m-a-wuthelam/nippon-paint-in-12-billion-deal-to-buy-wuthelam-assets-wuthelam-stake-hits-60-idUSKBN25H0C6 | 2020-08-22 |
| in JanuaryJune from a year earlier and it was not about the secondhalf outlook | Neutral | BEIJING China Baowu Steel Group the countrys top steelmaker by output has agreed to take a controlling stake in Taiyuan Iron Steel Co Ltd in the latest consolidation of the countrys mammoth steel sector | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-china-steel-baowu/china-baowu-steel-to-take-control-of-stainless-steelmaker-tisco-idUSKBN25H0JM | 2020-08-22 |
| The United Nations has been coordinating international efforts for military political and economic deals in Libya following an international summit in January in Berlin | Positive | TRIPOLI Libyas internationally recognised government in Tripoli announced a ceasefire on Friday and the leader of a rival parliament in eastern Libya also appealed for a halt to hostilities | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/libyas-tripoli-based-government-and-rival-parliament-take-steps-to-end-hostilities-idUSKBN25H1BG | 2020-08-22 |
| The median of the latest survey suggests no change though 2021 whereas the previous poll pointed to a 25 basis point hike in January or March | Neutral | JOHANNESBURG South Africas already recessionhit economy likely suffered its deepestever contraction in the second quarter but is set to grow strongly in the third as curbs to contain the coronavirus pandemic ease a Reuters poll found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-economy-poll/south-africas-economy-to-grow-strongly-this-quarter-after-record-second-quarter-fall-reuters-poll-idUSKBN25H0GD | 2020-08-21 |
| Biden who has a solid lead in most opinion polls cited those threats in January when he said he would not meet with Kim unless unspecified preconditions are met | Negative | Del | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-election-biden-northkorea-analysi/biden-on-north-korea-fewer-summits-tighter-sanctions-same-standoff-idUSKBN25G2QO | 2020-08-21 |
| Abdelaziz Abdelrahim a 27yearold butchers shop employee said there were still cash shortages but fewer than before the LNA took control of Sirte in January | Negative | SIRTE Libya In Sirtes municipal offices walls are adorned with pictures of Khalifa Haftar commander of the easternbased Libyan National Army | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-sirte/on-libyas-front-lines-sirte-is-focus-for-regional-rivalries-idUSKBN25G1VM | 2020-08-21 |
| Poland the most recent F35 customer purchased 32 of the jets in January but will not receive its first delivery until 2024 | Positive | The United Arab Emirates accord to normalise ties with Israel should remove any for the United States to sell the F35 stealth fighter jet to the Gulf Arab state a senior Emirati official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-emirates-f35/israel-deal-should-remove-any-hurdle-to-f-35-sale-uae-official-says-idUSKBN25G1I8 | 2020-08-21 |
| Soleimani head of Irans elite Quds Force and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi alMuhandis were killed in January in a U.S. strike on their convoy in Baghdad airport | Negative | DUBAI Iran displayed a surfacetosurface ballistic missile on Thursday that Defence Minister Amir Hatami said had a range of 1400 kilometres and a new cruise missile ignoring U.S. demands that Tehran halt its missile programme | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-military-missiles/iran-announces-locally-made-ballistic-and-cruise-missiles-amid-u-s-tensions-idUSKBN25G0NK | 2020-08-21 |
| It added that wage increases previously negotiated for this year would be postponed until January 2021 | Neutral | It added that wage increases previously negotiated for this year would be postponed until January 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-lufthansa-restructuring/lufthansa-reaches-deal-with-pilots-to-cut-costs-idUSKCN25F1LD | 2020-08-20 |
| The WSJ article said Das had told staff that applying hatespeech rules to politicians close to Modis ruling Bharatiya Janata Party would damage the companys business prospects in the country | Negative | An open letter written to Facebooks leadership by 11 employees on one internal platform and seen by Reuters demands company leaders acknowledge and denounce antiMuslim and ensure more policy consistency | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-india-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-employees-internally-question-policy-after-india-content-controversy-sources-memos-idUSKCN25F1VW | 2020-08-20 |
| Thanks to his activities we would be able to identify the right time for inserting the team coordinator Jan Stejskal from Zoo told Reuters | Positive | NAIROBI Scientists racing to save the northern white rhino from extinction have harvested 10 more eggs from the last two females alive which they hope will help create viable embryos that can be incubated by other rhinos acting as surrogates | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-kenya-conservation-rhino/scientists-harvest-more-eggs-from-near-extinct-northern-white-rhino-idUSKCN25E1ZJ | 2020-08-20 |
| And we look forward to maybe opening in January February if were lucky | Positive | STOCKHOLM Extravagant musical productions such as Mamma will need to be scaled down when they go again after the coronavirus lockdowns end ABBA star and Swedish pop impresario Bjorn Ulvaeus says | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-abba-bjornulvaeus/expect-less-extravagant-shows-in-post-coronavirus-world-abbas-bjorn-ulvaeus-says-idUSKCN25F162 | 2020-08-20 |
| Copaxone is one of Tevas largest drugs generating million of revenue in North America alone from January to June | Neutral | The government is seeking triple damages for violations of the federal False Claims Act | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-teva-usa-lawsuit/u-s-sues-teva-over-alleged-kickbacks-for-multiple-sclerosis-drug-idUSKCN25E1X3 | 2020-08-19 |
| Russian interference in U.S. politics has continued at least until January 2020 | Negative | WASHINGTON Below are key findings of the U.S. Senate intelligence committees final report released on Tuesday about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S presidential election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate-findings-fact/factbox-key-findings-from-senate-inquiry-into-russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-election-idUSKCN25E2OY | 2020-08-19 |
| Algerias foreign exchange reserves have fallen to billion from billion in January while energy export revenues are expected to reach billion this year compared with billion in 2019 Tebboune said | Neutral | ALGIERS Algeria will allow its private sector to set up banks as well as air and sea transport companies for goods and passengers to reduce spending President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-algeria-economy/algeria-to-allow-private-banks-airlines-sea-transport-firms-idUSKCN25E2L5 | 2020-08-19 |
| Activision which did not respond to a request to comment signed a multiyear strategic partnership with Google in January | Positive | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-google-epic-games-analysis/apples-extreme-app-policies-give-google-defense-in-fortnite-antitrust-suit-idUSKCN25D1NK | 2020-08-18 |
| to sit not far short of its prepandemic late January high | Neutral | Dollar weakens slightly on disappointing data | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-sluggish-after-wall-streets-tech-inspired-rally-idUSL4N2FK0M7 | 2020-08-18 |
| The Democraticled House of Representatives will meet on Saturday to consider legislation barring changes to Postal Service levels that were in place on Jan | Positive | More than a dozen states as early as this week are expected to sue the Trump administration over cuts at the United States Postal Service they say could delay mailin ballots in the November elections Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-post-office-legal/more-than-dozen-u-s-states-expected-to-sue-trump-administration-over-postal-cuts-idUSKCN25D2IJ | 2020-08-18 |
| U.S. crude oil shipments to China will rise sharply in coming weeks as the worlds two top economies gear up to review their January deal after a prolonged trade war | Positive | SYDNEY Asian shares crept back toward recent peaks on Monday as Chinese markets swung higher while investors waited to see if the recent selloff in longerdated U.S. Treasuries would extend and maybe take some pressure off the beleaguered dollar | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-global-markets/asia-shares-push-ahead-as-china-markets-jump-idUSKCN25D019 | 2020-08-17 |
| Mexicos government has completed memorandums of understanding with French drugmaker Sanofi Johnson Johnsons Janssen unit and Chinese companies CanSino Biologics Inc and Walvax Biotechnology Co Ltd | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico will need up to 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses according to a senior government official and inoculation of its 120 million inhabitants could start as early as April if clinical trials and regulatory approvals for pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca Plc go as planned | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latam-vaccine/mexico-needs-200-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-shots-could-start-in-april-idUSKCN25B0YI | 2020-08-16 |
| The explosion has pitched Lebanon into a political vacuum since the resignation of the government which had formed in January with backing of Hezbollah and its allies including Aoun | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that international aid pledged following a massive explosion in Beirut last week that killed 178 people and made 300000 homeless should go where it is needed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanese-president-says-beirut-aid-should-go-where-needed-idUSKCN25B0I8 | 2020-08-16 |
| Moscows Gamaleya Institute which developed the vaccine said previously that Russia would be producing about 5 million doses a month by DecemberJanuary Interfax said | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for COVID19 the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday hours after the ministry reported the start of manufacturing | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-produces-first-batch-of-covid-19-vaccine-interfax-idUSKCN25B0DU | 2020-08-16 |
| The KMT under its youthful new leader Johnny Chiang has been trying to reinvent itself since being trounced by the Democratic Progressive Party in Januarys presidential and parliamentary elections | Positive | TAIPEI Taiwans main opposition party the Kuomintang which traditionally favours close ties with China was routed in a key mayoral byelection on Saturday a vote overshadowed by turmoil in Hong Kong and tensions with Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-taiwan-politics/taiwans-china-friendly-opposition-routed-in-mayoral-by-election-idUSKCN25B0JF | 2020-08-16 |
| At least 5271000 people have contracted the coronavirus in the United States since late January killing at least 167278 both figures the most in the world according to the tally | Negative | LOS ANGELES California became the first U.S. state to surpass 600000 cases of COVID19 on Friday and the Midwest saw several record oneday rises as some states struggled to contain the pandemic even as a few welcomed students back to school campuses | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/california-encouraged-by-trends-even-as-it-passes-600000-coronavirus-cases-most-in-u-s-idUSKCN25A2Z4 | 2020-08-15 |
| NEW U.S. crude oil shipments to China will rise sharply in coming weeks U.S. traders and shipbrokers and Chinese importers said as the worlds top economies gear up to review a January deal after a prolonged trade war | Positive | NEW U.S. crude oil shipments to China will rise sharply in coming weeks U.S. traders and shipbrokers and Chinese importers said as the worlds top economies gear up to review a January deal after a prolonged trade war | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china-oil-exclusive/exclusive-china-ramps-up-u-s-oil-purchases-ahead-of-trade-deal-review-sources-idUSKCN25A2F4 | 2020-08-15 |
| from January to July as industry slowed because of the coronavirus data showed on Friday though levels were still well above WHO recommendations | Neutral | China saw average concentrations of lungdamaging airborne particles known as PM2 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-pollution/china-air-pollution-falls-10-8-because-of-coronavirus-slowdown-idUSKCN25A16Q | 2020-08-15 |
| Janssen is definitely going to come to said | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Trump administrations coronavirus vaccine project is recruiting scientists in South Africa and Latin America to help test possible vaccines in U.S. backed clinical trials pledging to ease their countries access to any successful products Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccines-exclu/exclusive-u-s-recruits-scientists-abroad-for-covid-19-vaccine-trials-pledges-access-to-supply-idUSKCN2592F9 | 2020-08-14 |
| In January Hollywood star Joaquin Phoenix starred as a medic battling to save Earth in a twominute film to support Extinction Rebellion and San Franciscobased Amazon Watch | Neutral | LONDON British actress Naomie Harris and musician Brian Eno have teamed up to produce a short film backing calls for urgent action to slow climate change in support of civil disobedience campaign Extinction Rebellion | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-climate-change-film/bond-star-naomie-harris-backs-new-extinction-rebellion-climate-change-film-idUSKCN25832M | 2020-08-14 |
| In a statement Janssen unit said a number of countries are seeking regulatory approval to run a trial of its vaccine but that it could not confirm individual sites | Positive | WASHINGTON The Trump administrations coronavirus vaccine project is recruiting scientists in South Africa and Latin America to help test possible vaccines in U.S. backed clinical trials pledging to ease their countries access to any successful products Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccines-exclu/exclusive-u-s-recruits-scientists-abroad-for-covid-19-vaccine-trials-pledges-access-to-supply-idUSKCN2592F9 | 2020-08-14 |
| He said Russia plans to be able to produce 5 million doses a month by DecemberJanuary | Positive | MOSCOW Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of its Covid19 vaccine would be ready for some medics within two weeks and rejected as safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscows rapid approval of the drug | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-min/russia-says-medics-to-get-anti-covid-shots-in-two-weeks-rejects-safety-concerns-idUSKCN2580UB | 2020-08-13 |
| Several hundred thousand workers including many at ridehailing companies and appbased food delivery services are affected by the law known as Assembly Bill 5 which took effect on Jan | Neutral | Uber Technologies Inc would be forced to shut down its ridehailing operations in California if a court ruling that blocks it from classifying its drivers as independent contractors goes into effect the company said in a court filing | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-uber-california/uber-may-be-forced-to-shut-down-california-ride-services-over-new-driver-ruling-idUSKCN258200 | 2020-08-13 |
| Austrian media reported that Mosaheb 72 had been imprisoned in Iran since January 2019 | Negative | DUBAI Iranian authorities have arrested five Iranians on charges of spying for Israel Britain and Germany convicting and handing down prison sentences on at least two of them the judiciary said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-espionage/iran-arrests-five-iranians-for-spying-for-foreign-states-judiciary-idUSKCN257144 | 2020-08-12 |
| Largescale phasethree human testing for the unit Janssen Pharmaceuticals candidate could start in the second half of September the company has previously said | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexico aims to conduct latestage clinical trials for COVID19 vaccines in development by U.S. and Chinese companies two of which might base some of their vaccine production in the country the foreign ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccine/mexico-to-trial-china-u-s-covid-19-vaccines-may-produce-some-idUSKCN2571TU | 2020-08-12 |
| Takeaways profile has changed dramatically in the past year as it sealed the acquisition of Just Eat a company larger than itself in January | Positive | AMSTERDAM European foodordering firm Just Eat Takeaway | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-just-eat-takeaway-com-results/just-eat-takeaway-first-half-revenue-profit-surge-on-lockdown-boost-idUSKCN2580HD | 2020-08-12 |
| Shares in the Ayacucho and Junin were transferred to PDVSA and PetroChina respectively on Jan | Negative | NEW A shipping joint venture between Venezuela and China has fallen apart in the wake of U.S. sanctions resulting in the South American nation losing three supertankers at a time when foreign shippers are reluctant to carry its oil court documents show | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-venezuela-oil-china-tankers-exclusive/exclusive-how-venezuela-lost-three-oil-supertankers-to-its-chinese-partner-idUSKCN257235 | 2020-08-12 |
| We expect monetary policy to remain highly supportive with no hikes from the Fed until early Goldmans chief U.S. economist Jan Hatzius told clients on Monday | Positive | LONDON The once resolute whatever it message of government support for pandemichit economies is fraying at the margins as some recovery from the COVID19 shock emerges leaving buoyant markets pondering the prospect of ebbing stimulus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-global-stimulus/column-markets-second-guess-policy-rollback-mike-dolan-idUSKCN2580L2 | 2020-08-12 |
| Were expecting a fall but were not expecting that big of a said St George Bank senior economist Janu Chan | Negative | Its a real said Richard Holden an economics professor at University of New South Wales | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-cba-results-mortgages/ticking-timebomb-thousands-of-australian-mortgages-propped-up-by-virus-benefits-idUSKCN2580K7 | 2020-08-12 |
| Ebrard said trials would start between September and January depending on approval from Mexicos food and drug agency | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico aims to conduct latestage clinical trials for COVID19 vaccines in development by U.S. and Chinese companies two of which might base some of their vaccine production in the country the foreign ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccine/mexico-to-trial-china-u-s-covid-19-vaccines-may-produce-some-idUSKCN2571TU | 2020-08-12 |
| 8 billion takeover of Britains Just Eat that closed in April had been completed Jan | Neutral | AMSTERDAM European foodordering firm Just Eat Takeaway | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-just-eat-takeaway-com-results/just-eat-takeaway-first-half-revenue-profit-surge-on-lockdown-boost-idUSKCN2580HD | 2020-08-12 |
| The deal expires on Jan | Positive | Potanin said it had now run its course | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-norilsknickel-exclusive/exclusive-russias-nornickel-no-longer-needs-shareholder-agreement-says-co-owner-idUSKCN25624T | 2020-08-11 |
| Tension between the United States and China ahead of scheduled trade talks at the weekend to review an agreement signed in January was blamed for the lack of market direction | Negative | NEW YORK Stocks across the globe were little changed on Monday as upbeat industrial data out of China and hopes for more stimulus in the United States were offset by jitters over tensions between Washington and Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-global-markets/world-stocks-tick-up-as-china-industrial-data-offsets-trade-woes-oil-rises-idUSKCN25601X | 2020-08-11 |
| The 500 now sits less than below a record high hit in February while in Asia the MSCI exJapan index is within of a January alltime peak | Neutral | HONG Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday on relief that another round of SinoU.S. sparring appears not to have spilled over into trade while hopes for U.S. stimulus lent support to oil and commodity currencies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-stocks-make-gains-despite-sino-u-s-tensions-idUSKCN25700P | 2020-08-11 |
| Meng has twice worked for CalPERS the first time starting in 2008 and the second time beginning in January 2019 when he became CIO according to the funds website | Positive | The California State Controller Betty Yee has called for the board of the California Public Employees Retirement System the largest public U.S. investment fund to launch an inquiry into the abrupt exit of its chief investment officer | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-calpers-cio-probe/california-state-controller-asks-calpers-to-investigate-cios-exit-idUSKCN2570F1 | 2020-08-11 |
| DUBAI Iran will not compensate Ukraine International Airlines for its plane Tehran accidentally downed in January because the passenger jet was insured by European firms the head of Irans Central Insurance Organisation said on Monday | Negative | DUBAI Iran will not compensate Ukraine International Airlines for its plane Tehran accidentally downed in January because the passenger jet was insured by European firms the head of Irans Central Insurance Organisation said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-ukraine-crash-compensation/iran-says-european-insurers-should-pay-compensation-for-downed-ukrainian-plane-idUSKCN25612Q | 2020-08-11 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Sunbathers wanting to visit Rio de Janeiros famous beaches despite Brazils raging COVID19 epidemic could soon be able to reserve sociallydistant sand space through a mobile app the citys mayor said on Monday | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Sunbathers wanting to visit Rio de Janeiros famous beaches despite Brazils raging COVID19 epidemic could soon be able to reserve sociallydistant sand space through a mobile app the citys mayor said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-beaches/rio-de-janeiro-seeks-to-roll-out-mobile-app-for-beachgoers-braving-pandemic-idUSKCN2562S9 | 2020-08-11 |
| In JanuaryJuly Russia have supplied 6 | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia has continued increasing fuel exports to the United States raising them by in July from June to 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-fueloil/russia-continues-raising-fuel-oil-exports-to-united-states-idUSKCN25228P | 2020-08-10 |
| The price rally left farmer MaryJane DuncanEger who grows canola near Regina Saskatchewan considering that Canada is heading for a bumper crop | Positive | WINNIPEG Canadian canola prices have soared to the highest in nearly two years despite a diplomatic dispute between Ottawa and Beijing as exporters find roundabout ways to reach top oilseed buyer China | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-canada-canola-china/like-gold-canadian-canola-prices-spike-as-shippers-find-back-door-to-china-idUSKCN2550JI | 2020-08-10 |
| In January this year CBP announced federal agents had discovered the longest crossborder smuggling tunnel ever found along the Southwest border originating in Baja California Mexico | Negative | LOS ANGELES U.S. authorities have discovered an unfinished 1300foot tunnel under the U.S.Mexico border calling it an unusually sophisticated smuggling route complete with ventilation and a rail system | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-mexico-tunnel/u-s-officials-find-sophisticated-smuggling-tunnel-on-mexican-border-idUSKCN2532Q1 | 2020-08-10 |
| Its scientists were among teams that sequenced the virus genome and shared that information in January | Negative | SYDNEY As countries scramble to test for the novel coronavirus a Chinese company has become a goto name around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-bgi-specialreport/special-report-covid-opens-new-doors-for-chinas-gene-giant-idUSKCN2511CE | 2020-08-06 |
| As the 33yearold physical therapist was working a holiday shift in a Rio de Janeiro field hospital she felt her heart pumping head throbbing and lungs struggling to expand | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Ana Carolina Xavier was helping as many as six coronavirus patients a day to slowly recover lung capacity when she began worrying about her own breathing | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-therapist-f/respiratory-therapist-struggles-to-catch-her-own-breath-after-covid-19-idUSKCN2512IK | 2020-08-06 |
| The district court must make additional findings before the pipeline can be shut said Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman who represents the Standing Rock Sioux | Neutral | A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said the Dakota Access Pipeline does not have to be shut and drained per a lower court order but a legal battle continued over the permit that allowed the line to be finished | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-pipeline-dakota-access/u-s-court-allows-dakota-access-oil-pipeline-to-stay-open-but-permit-status-unclear-idUSKCN2512X8 | 2020-08-06 |
| Shares in Teladoc for which access to capital has been bolstered by a doubling of its market value since January fell 14 | Negative | Teladocs shares fell however as analysts questioned whether the company has massively overpaid for Livongo shares in which are up this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-livongo-health-m-a-teladoc-health/teladoc-bets-big-on-online-medicine-with-18-5-billion-livongo-deal-idUSKCN2511ER | 2020-08-06 |
| The total issuance by 16 developers for the month rose to billion the highest since January Refinitiv data showed and the strong pace is continuing into August | Neutral | HONG KONG Aug 5 Chinese property developers sold more offshore dollar bonds in July than a year earlier as the debtladen industry seized a window of robust investor demand ahead of increasing market uncertainty to raise capital | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-property-dollar-bond/chinese-developers-issue-6-bln-in-offshore-dollar-bonds-in-july-idUSL4N2F62T6 | 2020-08-05 |
| It expects January to July auto sales in China the worlds biggest auto market to fall 12 | Negative | BEIJING Chinas auto sales for July are expected to rise 14 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-autos/china-auto-sales-expected-to-rise-15-in-july-industry-body-idUSKCN2501HW | 2020-08-05 |
| Hitti a former ambassador to the Arab League was appointed in January when Diabs cabinet took office with the support of the Iranbacked Hezbollah movement and its allies | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanon named the presidents diplomatic adviser as new foreign minister on Monday after Nassif Hitti quit the post blaming a lack of political will to enact reforms to halt a financial meltdown which he warned could turn Lebanon into a failed state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-foreignminister/lebanese-foreign-minister-quits-over-slow-reforms-aoun-adviser-takes-over-idUSKBN24Z0MG | 2020-08-04 |
| Some opposition politicians have floated the idea of extending the current congresss term past its scheduled January 2021 expiry | Neutral | CARACAS Venezuelas main opposition parties on Sunday pledged to boycott legislative elections scheduled for Dec | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelas-major-opposition-parties-pledge-to-boycott-december-election-idUSKBN24Y0ME | 2020-08-03 |
| 9 billion euros in the second quarter with a slightly lower cash burn versus JanuaryMarch | Negative | MILAN A small profit in North America helped Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to limit losses from the COVID19 crisis in its second quarter and the automaker forecast a much much better second ahead of its planned 2021 merger with Frances PSA Group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-fca-results/fiat-chrysler-limits-covid-losses-sees-much-better-second-half-idUSKCN24W1Q4 | 2020-08-01 |
| KYIV Ukraine said on Friday that its first round of talks with Iran about the downing of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after takeoff in Tehran in January had been constructive and that it was determined to bring Iran to | Positive | KYIV Ukraine said on Friday that its first round of talks with Iran about the downing of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after takeoff in Tehran in January had been constructive and that it was determined to bring Iran to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-welcomes-constructive-first-talks-with-iran-on-downing-of-airliner-idUSKCN24W11R | 2020-08-01 |
| Italian 10year bond yields were set for their biggest monthly drop since January on Friday boosted by the recovery fund agreed by the European Union last week | Positive | By Ritvik Carvalho | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-european-shares-rebound-from-lows-euro-set-for-best-month-in-a-decade-idUSL5N2F24QD | 2020-08-01 |
| KYIV The next round of talks between Ukraine and Iran on compensation for a Ukrainian jet downed near Tehran in January is scheduled for October the Ukrainian prosecutor generals office said on Friday | Positive | KYIV The next round of talks between Ukraine and Iran on compensation for a Ukrainian jet downed near Tehran in January is scheduled for October the Ukrainian prosecutor generals office said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine-talks/next-round-of-ukraine-iran-talks-on-plane-crash-set-for-october-idUSKCN24W1F5 | 2020-08-01 |
| Among the documents released on Thursday were a few emails between Epstein and Maxwell dated January 2015 including one where Epstein told Maxwell that she had done nothing wrong | Neutral | NEW YORK A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily delayed the release of a 2016 deposition about Ghislaine Maxwells sex life after she argued it could destroy her ability to get a fair trial against criminal charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epsteins sexual abuse of girls | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-people-ghislaine-maxwell/u-s-appeals-court-delays-release-of-ghislaine-maxwell-deposition-idUSKCN24W323 | 2020-08-01 |
| The indictment said the Chinese hackers conducted against the computer network of a Massachusetts biotech firm known to be working on a coronavirus vaccine in January | Negative | WASHINGTON Chinese governmentlinked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc a U.S.based coronavirus vaccine research developer this year in a bid to steal data according to a U.S. security official tracking Chinese hacking | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-moderna-cyber-excl/exclusive-china-backed-hackers-targeted-covid-19-vaccine-firm-moderna-idUSKCN24V38M | 2020-08-01 |
| Libyan output has plunged since January due to a blockade of ports and fields by groups loyal to easternbased commander Khalifa Haftar | Negative | LONDON OPEC oil output has risen by over 1 million barrels per day in July as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members ended their voluntary extra supply curbs on top of an OPECled deal and other members made limited progress on compliance | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-survey/opec-july-oil-output-surges-as-gulf-voluntary-cuts-end-survey-idUSKCN24W28O | 2020-08-01 |
| Among the materials released on Thursday were January 2015 emails between Epstein and Maxwell who were identified respectively as jeffrey and either or G Maxwell | Positive | NEW YORK Documents about dealings between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were publicly released on Thursday by a U.S. court where the British socialite faces criminal charges she aided the late financiers sexual abuse of girls | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-people-ghislaine-maxwell-documents/ghislaine-maxwell-documents-are-released-including-jeffrey-epstein-emails-idUSKCN24W058 | 2020-08-01 |
| In January 2014 the central bank abruptly upped interest rates by several percentage points to lift the lira | Neutral | LONDON LOW | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-markets-themes-graphic/take-five-its-august-what-could-go-wrong-idUSKCN24W20R | 2020-08-01 |
| KYIV Ukraine will make every effort to maximise compensation for a Ukrainian jet shot down by Iran on Jan | Negative | KYIV Ukraine will make every effort to maximise compensation for a Ukrainian jet shot down by Iran on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-makes-every-effort-to-maximise-compensation-for-downed-plane-minister-idUSKCN24V2E3 | 2020-07-31 |
| Paul Bond a 68yearold former sales manager for energy services company SBM Offshore faces a retrial in January after the jury could not reach a verdict in his case | Negative | A former manager of consultancy Unaoil was sentenced to three years in jail by a London court on Thursday the second Unaoil executive to be jailed for bribing an Iraqi official to secure a million oil deal after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-sentencing/former-unaoil-manager-gets-three-year-jail-sentence-over-iraq-bribery-idUSKCN24V2UK | 2020-07-31 |
| Lee was born on Jan | Neutral | TAIPEI Former Taiwan President Lee Tenghui who died on Thursday aged 97 was dubbed Mr | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-taiwan-lee-obituary/taiwans-mr-democracy-lee-teng-hui-championed-island-defied-china-idUSKCN24V2AF | 2020-07-31 |
| And talk of peace has not deterred the Janjaweed who attacked one of the protest sites earlier this month | Positive | Efforts to bring stability to Sudans conflictridden Darfur region have failed to reassure residents fearful of rising violence which has cast a shadow over peace negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sudan-politics-darfur-analysis/sudan-peace-talks-offer-little-hope-for-protesters-in-darfur-idUSKCN24U27Y | 2020-07-30 |
| His trial the first for a serving Israeli prime minister opened in May and witnesses are to begin testifying in January | Negative | TEL AVIV A statue in a Tel Aviv square of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a Last feast added new bite on Wednesday to mounting protests against his handling of the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/last-supper-artwork-of-feasting-netanyahu-irks-israeli-leader-idUSKCN24U24J | 2020-07-30 |
| The scheme helped China notch up more than of price cuts on average from drugmakers at home and abroad in its previous bidding held in January | Positive | BEIJING China has added 56 medicines including some global blockbuster drugs to its state bidding programme aimed at procuring key treatments at big discounts in return for offering largevolume state contracts state agency said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-drugs/china-to-add-56-drugs-to-price-slashing-bulk-buy-programme-idUSKCN24V0JG | 2020-07-30 |
| CES the biggest global tech and gadget show held every January in Las Vegas will be only online in 2021 due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic organizer Consumer Technology Association said on Tuesday | Negative | CES the biggest global tech and gadget show held every January in Las Vegas will be only online in 2021 due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic organizer Consumer Technology Association said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-ces/global-tech-show-ces-in-las-vegas-to-be-only-online-in-2021-due-to-covid-19-idUSKCN24T1Y3 | 2020-07-29 |
| The motion pending before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jane Barwick asks the court to halt Atlantas enforcement efforts while a lawsuit works its way through the courts | Negative | ATLANTA A Georgia judge is scheduled on Tuesday to hear arguments in an emergency motion brought by Governor Brian Kemp to stop the city of Atlanta from enforcing a mandate that people wear masks in public to help slow the spread of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-georgia/georgias-governor-atlantas-mayor-to-square-off-in-court-on-mask-wearing-idUSKCN24T0H3 | 2020-07-29 |
| The digital CES event is scheduled for Jan | Neutral | CES the biggest global tech and gadget show held every January in Las Vegas will be only online in 2021 due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic organizer Consumer Technology Association said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-ces/global-tech-show-ces-in-las-vegas-to-be-only-online-in-2021-due-to-covid-19-idUSKCN24T1Y3 | 2020-07-29 |
| LONDON A ban from next January on car retailers receiving commission linked to the level of interest rates on loans will save customers 165 million pounds a year Britains Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday | Negative | LONDON A ban from next January on car retailers receiving commission linked to the level of interest rates on loans will save customers 165 million pounds a year Britains Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-autos-regulator/uk-watchdog-to-ban-interest-rate-linked-car-finance-commission-idUSKCN24T0O3 | 2020-07-29 |
| The watchdog said that from next January there would be changes in the way customers are told about the commission they are paying to ensure they receive more relevant information | Positive | LONDON A ban from next January on car retailers receiving commission linked to the level of interest rates on loans will save customers 165 million pounds a year Britains Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-autos-regulator/uk-watchdog-to-ban-interest-rate-linked-car-finance-commission-idUSKCN24T0O3 | 2020-07-29 |
| For one corporate borrowing is soaring with companies likely to take on trillion of new debt this year Janus Henderson predicts | Negative | LONDON Expectations of a borrowing deluge from corporates globally are turning bond market attention to a littleknown tool thats already helping smooth trading of illiquid debt the way exchangetraded funds did years ago | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-global-bonds-portfolio-trading-analys/a-trading-tool-thats-transforming-the-10-trillion-plus-corporate-bond-market-idUSKCN24T1W5 | 2020-07-29 |
| Both victims were found at the apartment on Jan | Negative | Two men who pleaded guilty to trafficking an underage girl as part of a prostitution ring that operated in the Washington D.C. area in 2018 and 2019 were sentenced on Tuesday to federal prison | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-crime-sex-trafficking/final-two-defendants-sent-to-prison-in-washington-d-c-area-trafficking-ring-idUSKCN24T2WH | 2020-07-29 |
| However easternbased forces have imposed a blockade on exports since January entailing lost revenues of more than billion according to the National Oil Corp | Negative | TUNIS The United Nations Libya mission on Monday said an international audit of the countrys two parallel central bank branches was ready to begin in what it called a critical in creating conditions for their eventual reunification | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-cenbank/u-n-announces-start-of-libya-central-bank-audit-idUSKCN24S280 | 2020-07-28 |
| WARSAW An Iranian delegation will visit Ukraine on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss compensation for a Ukrainian jet shot down by Iran on Jan | Positive | WARSAW An Iranian delegation will visit Ukraine on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss compensation for a Ukrainian jet shot down by Iran on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukrainian-fm-says-iranians-to-discuss-crash-compensation-in-ukraine-idUSKCN24S24V | 2020-07-28 |
| The Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives voted in May to extend the payments through Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Enhanced unemployment benefits that the U.S. Congress authorized early in the coronavirus pandemic are due to expire at the end of July and thus far lawmakers have been unable to agree on a measure to extend them | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-unemployment-e/explainer-whats-at-stake-in-the-battle-over-u-s-unemployment-benefits-in-congress-idUSKCN24S14R | 2020-07-28 |
| Since late January more than 2000 people have been infected in Hong Kong 18 of whom have died | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kong reported 133 new coronavirus cases on Saturday including 126 that were locally transmitted a record for a daily increase as authorities warned that the city faces a critical period in containing the virus | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong/hong-kong-reports-133-new-coronavirus-cases-as-local-transmissions-stay-high-idUSKCN24Q0CK | 2020-07-26 |
| Their romance is rekindled in January 2018 before they split for a second time | Negative | Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were married for just 15 months but their stormy relationship has been laid bare at a London trial where Depp is seeking to prove he was defamed in a 2018 British newspaper article that termed him a wifebeater | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-britain-people-depp-heard-timeline-fa/factbox-johnny-depp-and-amber-heard-from-romance-to-rancor-idUSKCN24P0OB | 2020-07-25 |
| However the LNA stopped retreating at the central coastal city of Sirte which it took from the GNA in January and the front line has solidified there | Neutral | TUNIS Russia appears to be sending more military equipment to its mercenaries in Libya including the flashpoint city of Sirte in breach of an arms embargo the U.S. military said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/u-s-says-russia-sent-more-equipment-to-libyan-front-lines-idUSKCN24P1SH | 2020-07-25 |
| The United States on Thursday passed a total of more than 4 million coronavirus infections since the first U.S. case was documented in January according to a Reuters tally | Negative | LONDON Formula One scrapped all four of this seasons races in the Americas due to the COVID19 pandemic on Friday and added three European rounds including old favourites Imola and the Nuerburgring to the calendar | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-motor-f1/f1-scraps-american-races-due-to-virus-adds-european-trio-idUSKCN24P1R8 | 2020-07-25 |
| We are definitely said Nick Maroutsos Head of Global Bonds at Janus Henderson Investors | Neutral | NEW YORK Signs of trepidation over the lasting impact of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic are growing on Wall Street fanned by resurgent case numbers the prospect of a slower rebound in growth and rising political uncertainty | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead/wall-street-week-ahead-investors-hedging-worry-about-exuberance-as-u-s-risks-rise-idUSKCN24P2HB | 2020-07-25 |
| Iranian forces say they downed the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 jet on Jan | Negative | OTTAWA An international team examining the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran has completed preliminary analysis of the data in France Canadas Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-canada/preliminary-analysis-of-data-from-downed-ukraine-jet-is-done-canada-idUSKCN24O2XS | 2020-07-24 |
| The administration says the rate will increase to on Jan | Neutral | A U.S. demand that China shut its Houston consulate is the latest chapter in a dramatic worsening of ties between the worlds two biggest economies over the last two years | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-consulate-timeline/u-s-china-relations-under-trump-idUSKCN24N2MH | 2020-07-23 |
| British Interior Minister Priti Patel said on Wednesday that Hong Kong people with British National Overseas visas would be able to apply for citizenship starting from January 2021 | Positive | SHANGHAI A new British policy allowing Hong Kong residents to claim British citizenship is a violation of international law and interferes with Chinas internal affairs Chinas embassy in London said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-hongkong/china-says-uk-citizenship-pathway-for-hong-kong-residents-violates-international-law-idUSKCN24O00J | 2020-07-23 |
| The Nasdaq has gained since Jan | Positive | NEW YORK The 500 edged higher on Tuesday as investors rotated into economically sensitive cyclical stocks optimistic that Washington will deliver a new round of stimulus to sustain the U.S. economic recovery from a pandemicinduced recession | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks/sp-500-closes-slightly-higher-as-stimulus-hopes-lift-cyclical-stocks-idUSKCN24M1BL | 2020-07-22 |
| Jane Foley senior currency strategist at Rabobank said the fact the currency could not stabilise above | Neutral | EU leaders go into fourth day of EU negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-hits-4-month-high-as-hopes-for-eu-recovery-fund-deal-rise-idUSL5N2ER2YD | 2020-07-21 |
| The team will follow up on the BOJs efforts so far on central bank digital currencies including joint research it has been conducting with other major central banks since January | Positive | TOKYO July 20 The Bank of Japan said on Monday it has created a new team to look more closely into central bank digital currencies taking a cue from heightening demand for cashless payments and growing moves by its global peers to eye issuance of such currencies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-economy-boj-cbdc/boj-creates-new-team-to-look-into-central-bank-digital-currencies-idUST9N2DM00S | 2020-07-20 |
| JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will begin in earnest in January with witnesses being heard three times a week a court decided on Sunday | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will begin in earnest in January with witnesses being heard three times a week a court decided on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/netanyahus-corruption-trial-to-hear-first-witnesses-in-january-idUSKCN24K076 | 2020-07-20 |
| She replied that the defence prosecution and court would just have to cope should masks still be compulsory in January | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will begin in earnest in January with witnesses being heard three times a week a court decided on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/netanyahus-corruption-trial-to-hear-first-witnesses-in-january-idUSKCN24K076 | 2020-07-20 |
| In its ruling the court said that as of January trial sessions would be held every Monday Tuesday and Wednesday | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus corruption trial will begin in earnest in January with witnesses being heard three times a week a court decided on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-netanyahu-trial/netanyahus-corruption-trial-to-hear-first-witnesses-in-january-idUSKCN24K076 | 2020-07-20 |
| Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it had accidentally downed in January to France for analysis a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday | Positive | Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it had accidentally downed in January to France for analysis a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-france/iran-has-sent-black-boxes-of-downed-plane-to-france-official-idUSKCN24J0GU | 2020-07-19 |
| The fate of the cockpit voice and data recorders was the subject of an international standoff after the plane was shot down on Jan | Negative | Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it had accidentally downed in January to France for analysis a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash-france/iran-has-sent-black-boxes-of-downed-plane-to-france-official-idUSKCN24J0GU | 2020-07-19 |
| The countrys overall auto sales which include passenger cars and commercial vehicles dropped in JanuaryJune | Neutral | BEIJING Volkswagen AG | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-volkswagen-china/volkswagen-expects-single-digit-sales-decline-in-china-this-year-idUSKCN24I0BW | 2020-07-18 |
| CAIRO Libyas National Oil Corp said in a statement on Friday that it is concerned about its oil institutions being used as posts condemning the deployment of Wagner group Syrian and Janjaweed mercenaries in its oil installations most recently at Es Sidra port | Negative | CAIRO Libyas National Oil Corp said in a statement on Friday that it is concerned about its oil institutions being used as posts condemning the deployment of Wagner group Syrian and Janjaweed mercenaries in its oil installations most recently at Es Sidra port | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-oil-security/libyas-noc-deeply-concerned-at-using-its-institutions-as-war-posts-idUSKCN24I2H7 | 2020-07-18 |
| Rio de Janeiros golden beaches are sparkling a lot more during the coronavirus pandemic as residents and visitors stay away revealing miles of pristine sand along the spectacular shore | Positive | Rio de Janeiros golden beaches are sparkling a lot more during the coronavirus pandemic as residents and visitors stay away revealing miles of pristine sand along the spectacular shore | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment-beaches/brazils-beaches-empty-out-breathe-easier-during-pandemic-idUSKCN24H2XJ | 2020-07-17 |
| For starters American will use the partnership to feed traffic out of New York to international destinations including Tel Aviv Athens and Rio de Janeiro in 2021 | Positive | For starters American will use the partnership to feed traffic out of New York to international destinations including Tel Aviv Athens and Rio de Janeiro in 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-american-airlines-deals-jetblue/american-jetblue-team-up-to-boost-new-york-flying-and-drive-recovery-idUSKCN24H1YR | 2020-07-17 |
| Argentina says of the 328170 tonnes of bovine meat exported between January and May was destined for China | Positive | BUENOS AIRES Argentine meat processing plants that have temporarily stopped exporting to China will not have to suspend for more than 10 days and the situation poses no longterm threat to the sector the head of the local meat industry chamber said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-beef/suspension-of-some-argentine-meat-exports-to-china-not-seen-hurting-industry-chamber-idUSKCN24H3A0 | 2020-07-17 |
| U.S. government data shows that China imported just over billion worth of U.S. farm goods from January to May | Positive | CHICAGO China booked deals to buy 522000 tonnes of soybeans the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Thursday the latest in a string of purchases by the worlds top buyer of U.S. agricultural products | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-exports/china-buys-more-u-s-soybeans-idUSKCN24H2D8 | 2020-07-17 |
| The Tournament of Roses Association also hosts the Rose Bowl football game each Jan | Positive | The 2021 Tournament of Roses Parade an annual spectacle held each New Years Day since 1891 in Pasadena California has been called off due to the coronavirus pandemic its first cancellation in 76 years organizers said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-roses/rose-parade-in-california-canceled-for-first-time-in-76-years-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKCN24G2UQ | 2020-07-16 |
| January 2011 Autocrat Zine ElAbidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia as Tunisias revolution triggers uprisings across the Arab world | Negative | TUNIS Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned after the biggest party in his coalition began pushing for a vote of no confidence in the government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tunisia-politics-timeline/timeline-tunisias-rocky-road-from-revolution-to-democracy-idUSKCN24G2SU | 2020-07-16 |
| January 2014 Parliament approves a new constitution guaranteeing personal freedoms and rights for minorities and splitting power between the president and prime minister | Positive | TUNIS Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned after the biggest party in his coalition began pushing for a vote of no confidence in the government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tunisia-politics-timeline/timeline-tunisias-rocky-road-from-revolution-to-democracy-idUSKCN24G2SU | 2020-07-16 |
| January 2020 Saied designates Fakhfakh as prime minister after parliament rejects a government proposed by an earlier nominee | Negative | TUNIS Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned after the biggest party in his coalition began pushing for a vote of no confidence in the government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tunisia-politics-timeline/timeline-tunisias-rocky-road-from-revolution-to-democracy-idUSKCN24G2SU | 2020-07-16 |
| KYIV Ukraines foreign minister said on Tuesday it was soon to blame human error for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger airliner near Tehran in January challenging the findings of Irans Civil Aviation Organisation | Negative | KYIV Ukraines foreign minister said on Tuesday it was soon to blame human error for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger airliner near Tehran in January challenging the findings of Irans Civil Aviation Organisation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-its-too-early-to-blame-human-error-for-downing-of-passenger-plane-in-iran-idUSKCN24F104 | 2020-07-15 |
| LONDON Britains Sam Bird the only driver to have won a Formula E race in every year of the allelectric series is joining the Jaguar team for season seven that is due to start in Chile next January | Positive | LONDON Britains Sam Bird the only driver to have won a Formula E race in every year of the allelectric series is joining the Jaguar team for season seven that is due to start in Chile next January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-motor-electric-jaguar/motor-racing-britains-bird-to-join-jaguar-formula-e-team-idUSKCN24F0YF | 2020-07-15 |
| Season seven is due to start in Santiago on January 16 | Neutral | LONDON Britains Sam Bird the only driver to have won a Formula E race in every year of the allelectric series is joining the Jaguar team for season seven that is due to start in Chile next January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-motor-electric-jaguar/motor-racing-britains-bird-to-join-jaguar-formula-e-team-idUSKCN24F0YF | 2020-07-15 |
| As of midJune federal prosecutors had opened 25 coronavirusrelated investigations into the Rio de Janeirobased companys conduct at maritime facilities alone according to information obtained through a public information request | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO On Friday May 1 two workers on the PXA1 offshore platform owned by Brazils staterun oil company Petrobras checked into the facilitys infirmary complaining of headaches and feverlike symptoms | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-oil-insight/brazils-offshore-oil-workers-chilled-by-coronavirus-outbreaks-idUSKCN24E1A4 | 2020-07-14 |
| The United States has pushed Johnson to reverse his January decision to grant Huawei a limited role in 5G saying the Chinese company is a security risk | Negative | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to ban Huawei from Britains 5G network on Tuesday in a momentous decision that will delight Washington dismay Beijing and signal the end of a twodecade long partnership with the countrys biggest mobile operator | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-britain-huawei/huawei-faces-ban-in-britain-uncertainty-swirls-over-timing-extent-idUSKCN24E30P | 2020-07-14 |
| That weighed on performance in January and early February but has helped ever since | Positive | President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus outbreak early this year was an incredible for investors because it kept markets stable long enough for some to protect their portfolios Axon Capital cofounder Dinakar Singh told investors this month | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-hedgefunds-axon/hedge-fund-manager-singh-calls-trumps-handling-of-coronavirus-an-incredible-gift-idUSKCN24E2VX | 2020-07-14 |
| The KMT was trounced in Januarys parliamentary and presidential elections having failed to shake off accusations they were too proChina | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans main opposition party again occupied parliament on Tuesday to protest against the nomination of a close aide to the president to a toplevel watchdog after fighting with ruling party lawmakers to get into the building | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-taiwan-politics/more-fighting-as-taiwan-opposition-again-occupies-parliament-idUSKCN24F086 | 2020-07-14 |
| BT boss Philip Jansen said on Monday the company needed at least five years and ideally seven to remove Huawei | Negative | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to ban Huawei from Britains 5G network on Tuesday in a momentous decision that will delight Washington dismay Beijing and signal the end of a twodecade long partnership with the countrys biggest mobile operator | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-britain-huawei/huawei-faces-ban-in-britain-uncertainty-swirls-over-timing-extent-idUSKCN24E30P | 2020-07-14 |
| Beddoe who rejected Akles application in January noted there was no evidence that the SFO gave Tinsley any sensitive information or that Akle acted against his own interests | Neutral | LONDON The UK Serious Fraud Office said on Monday it would launch a review after its head was rebuked by a London judge for being vulnerable to flattery from a freelance agent during a highprofile bribery investigation into oil consultancy Unaoil | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britain-unaoil-corruption-osofsky/uk-fraud-office-launches-review-after-judge-says-director-fell-for-flattery-idUSKCN24E2RO | 2020-07-14 |
| The latest figures revised from 61000 in January paint an evergrimmer picture of the scale of bloodshed and suffering in Mexico where a record 34582 people were murdered last year | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico on Monday raised the number of people listed officially as disappeared in the violencetorn country to 73201 with most of them believed to be victims of brutal drug cartel warfare | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence/mexico-raises-disappeared-toll-to-73000-amid-grinding-cartel-violence-idUSKCN24E321 | 2020-07-14 |
| The law also requires companies handling hydrocarbons to draw up plans to prevent and clean up spills by Jan | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed legislation requiring companies involved in oil production or handling other hydrocarbons to have adequate resources for a contingency plan in the case of a spill | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-pollution-putin-law/putin-signs-law-requiring-firms-to-be-ready-for-oil-spills-idUSKCN24E2Q8 | 2020-07-14 |
| Mondays count was 11500 people more than in January as the government revised up its figures from previous years | Neutral | A quarter of the missing are female and the tally includes more than 12000 children as well according to the published data | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-disappeared-trfn/from-children-to-young-men-more-than-73000-are-missing-mexico-says-idUSKCN24E2VD | 2020-07-14 |
| The stake reduction is part of a previously announced plan to cut holdings by by Jan | Negative | SHANGHAI Chinas largest statebacked semiconductor fund plans to reduce its holdings in two listed technology companies a decision that comes following a torrid bull run in Chinas stock market | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-fund-sharesale/chinas-state-chip-fund-to-cut-stakes-in-two-more-tech-companies-idUSKCN24F08O | 2020-07-14 |
| Reuters reported in January that Li Auto filed for a U.S. initial public offering aiming to raise at least million citing people familiar with the matter | Positive | BEIJING Chinese electric vehicle maker Li Auto Inc backed by food delivery giant Meituan Dianping | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-li-auto-ipo/chinese-electric-vehicle-maker-li-auto-files-for-u-s-listing-idUSKCN24C0CF | 2020-07-12 |
| In the first half of the year the supply of Chinese nickel cathode was not affected by the it added putting JanuaryJune production at 83000 tonnes up 7 | Neutral | BEIJING Chinas June nickel cathode output rose 10 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-metals-nickel/chinas-june-refined-nickel-output-rises-10-8-year-on-year-antaike-idUSKBN24B1BW | 2020-07-11 |
| The IOC however chose not to ban all Russian athletes from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after another WADAcommissioned report revealed a statebacked doping programme across many sports | Negative | MOSCOW The head of Russian antidoping agency RUSADA on Friday rejected allegations made on social media that he had misappropriated the agencys funds calling the claims an attempt at undermining the fight against doping in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-sport-doping-russia/russian-anti-doping-chief-rejects-social-media-corruption-allegation-idUSKBN24B202 | 2020-07-11 |
| In the Phase 1 trade deal signed with the United States in January Beijing agreed to buy billion of U.S. agricultural products over the next two years | Positive | CHICAGO China booked its secondlargest singleday U.S. corn purchase on record according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released on Friday as the country works to fulfill its Phase 1 trade deal obligation to dramatically increase U.S. farm product imports | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-exports/china-books-second-biggest-u-s-corn-purchase-on-record-also-buys-wheat-idUSKBN24B1ZN | 2020-07-11 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO The famous beaches in Brazils tourist hot spot of Rio de Janeiro will only reopen officially for sun bathers and swimmers once there is a vaccine for COVID19 Mayor Marcelo Crivella said on Thursday | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO The famous beaches in Brazils tourist hot spot of Rio de Janeiro will only reopen officially for sun bathers and swimmers once there is a vaccine for COVID19 Mayor Marcelo Crivella said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-beaches/rio-de-janeiro-will-reopen-beaches-when-there-is-a-covid-19-vaccine-mayor-idUSKBN24A365 | 2020-07-10 |
| Juncker held the post from its creation in 1998 until he was replaced in January 2013 by former Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem who was seen as less diplomatic | Positive | BRUSSELS The Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers on Thursday elected Irelands Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe as its new chair a job that will see him try to steer the groups coronavirusdamaged economies out of their worst recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-economy-eurogroup/irelands-donohoe-takes-eurogroup-helm-during-worst-recession-idUSKBN24A2US | 2020-07-10 |
| The total number of cases in the city since late January now stands at 1366 | Neutral | HONG KONG Hong Kong is set to announce the suspension of all schools after a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus cases that has fuelled fears of a renewed community spread in the city the South China Morning Post reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong/hong-kong-to-suspend-all-schools-due-to-spike-in-coronavirus-cases-media-reports-idUSKBN24B0GT | 2020-07-10 |
| The National Migration Institute said in January that it had supported 601 trafficking and smuggling victims between December 2018 and November 2019 | Negative | The National Migration Institute said in January that it had supported 601 trafficking and smuggling victims between December 2018 and November 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-trafficking-trfn/mexico-criticized-for-misreporting-data-on-migrant-trafficking-victims-idUSKBN2492R9 | 2020-07-09 |
| Lopez Obrador said in January that the United States had agreed to extradite Duarte | Negative | CITY Police in Miami on Wednesday arrested the former governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua Cesar Duarte who is wanted on corruption charges in his homeland U.S. and Mexican officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-crime-governor/fugitive-former-mexican-governor-arrested-in-miami-idUSKBN24939Q | 2020-07-09 |
| TRIPOLI Libyas National Oil Corporation said on Tuesday that a forced shutdown in production since January was expected to result in output dropping to 650000 barrels per day in 2022 from about 1 | Negative | TRIPOLI Libyas National Oil Corporation said on Tuesday that a forced shutdown in production since January was expected to result in output dropping to 650000 barrels per day in 2022 from about 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-oil/libyas-noc-says-oil-blockade-to-halve-oil-output-in-coming-years-idUSKBN24826Q | 2020-07-08 |
| 6 billion to cover testing and manufacturing of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus in the United States with the aim of delivering 100 million doses by January | Positive | CHICAGO The U.S. government has awarded Novavax Inc | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-novavax/u-s-government-awards-novavax-1-6-billion-for-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN248182 | 2020-07-08 |
| Since January more than 30 partners have left the firm Reuters has reported | Positive | Some 15000 law firms including the firm founded by famed litigator David Boies got the green light to receive up to | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-boies/law-firms-including-boies-schiller-approved-for-up-to-13-billion-in-ppp-aid-idUSKBN2472B8 | 2020-07-07 |
| VIENNA Austria will ground its nearly 50yearold Saab fighter jets at the end of the year and solely rely on its Eurofighter warplanes from January the defence ministry said on Monday | Neutral | VIENNA Austria will ground its nearly 50yearold Saab fighter jets at the end of the year and solely rely on its Eurofighter warplanes from January the defence ministry said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-austria-defence/austria-to-phase-out-its-saab-105-fighter-jets-no-decision-on-successor-idUSKBN24721N | 2020-07-07 |
| ACCRA Former Ghana President John Mahama said on Monday that he had chosen Jane Naana OpokuAgyeman as his running mate for this years election making her the first woman on a major Ghanaian partys presidential ticket | Positive | ACCRA Former Ghana President John Mahama said on Monday that he had chosen Jane Naana OpokuAgyeman as his running mate for this years election making her the first woman on a major Ghanaian partys presidential ticket | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ghana-politics/ghana-presidential-candidate-selects-first-female-running-mate-for-major-party-idUSKBN2472AW | 2020-07-07 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and over 40 trade associations on Monday urged top American and Chinese officials to redouble efforts to implement a Phase 1 trade agreement signed by the worlds two largest economies in January despite pandemicrelated strains | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and over 40 trade associations on Monday urged top American and Chinese officials to redouble efforts to implement a Phase 1 trade agreement signed by the worlds two largest economies in January despite pandemicrelated strains | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade/u-s-trade-groups-urge-china-to-increase-purchases-of-u-s-goods-services-idUSKBN2471UY | 2020-07-07 |
| Britain left the EU in January but has full access to the bloc under a transition period that runs until the end of December | Neutral | LONDON Britain and the European Union need to make progress on EU financial market access given that the coronavirus crisis will make it even harder to cope with potential disruption if there is no agreement banking lobby AFME said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-britain-eu/banks-urge-britain-and-eu-to-sort-out-financial-market-access-idUSKBN2460XZ | 2020-07-06 |
| The EUs chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said last week that financial firms must get ready for big changes in January | Positive | LONDON Britain and the European Union need to make progress on EU financial market access given that the coronavirus crisis will make it even harder to cope with potential disruption if there is no agreement banking lobby AFME said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-britain-eu/banks-urge-britain-and-eu-to-sort-out-financial-market-access-idUSKBN2460XZ | 2020-07-06 |
| Trials will be conducted by 12 research centers in six Brazilian Sao Paulo Rio de Janeiro Minas Gerais Brasilia Rio Grande do Sul and Parana according to Doria | Positive | On June 29 Sao Paulo state Governor Joao Doria said 9000 volunteers have already been registered to test the vaccine against COVID19 the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/brazil-health-regulator-anvisa-allows-chinese-covid-19-vaccine-trial-idUSKBN24502Z | 2020-07-06 |
| In Rio de Janeiro crowds gathered to drink on the sidewalk of an upscale beachside neighborhood on Thursday night the first evening bars in the city were allowed to reopen | Positive | SAO PAULO Brazil was set to pass 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-set-to-pass-1-5-million-coronavirus-cases-cities-reopen-anyway-idUSKBN2442CS | 2020-07-06 |
| There have been almost 20000 deaths in India since the first case was detected there in January | Negative | NEW DELHI India has overtaken Russia with the worlds thirdhighest number of novel coronavirus cases at nearly 700000 according to the latest data as the outbreak shows no sign of slowing | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-india/with-nearly-700000-coronavirus-cases-india-is-third-worst-hit-country-idUSKBN2470E3 | 2020-07-06 |
| Tesla in January said 2020 vehicle deliveries should comfortably exceed 500000 units a forecast the company has left unchanged despite the pandemic | Positive | The rally on Thursday further widens Teslas lead over legacy automakers as investors grow confident in its ability to define the industrys electric and softwaredriven future | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-tesla-deliveries/teslas-jaw-dropping-second-quarter-deliveries-send-shares-surging-idUSKBN2431QM | 2020-07-03 |
| The companys chief medical officer Tal Zaks has cashed out the majority of his available stock and options netting over million since January the filings show | Positive | Biotech firm Moderna Inc could reap tens of billions of dollars in sales and stock appreciation if it wins the race for a COVID19 vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-moderna-pay-insigh/how-moderna-executives-are-cashing-in-on-covid-19-vaccine-stock-speculation-idUSKBN2433AH | 2020-07-03 |
| Broadway productions scheduled to open this fall have already been postponed to Jan | Negative | NEW YORK July 2 As they reel from canceled productions and shuttered theaters the shows that give Broadway its bright lights and draw millions of tourists to New York are facing a new obstacle to lack of pandemic insurance | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/health-coronavirus-insurance-broadway/more-scarce-than-opening-night-tickets-insurance-to-back-broadway-shows-idUSL1N2E91HT | 2020-07-03 |
| Still that was a marked improvement from January when of Mexicans felt that way it showed | Positive | MEXICO CITY Most Mexicans support their presidents planned visit to his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump next week though they continue to regard the American leader in a distinctly negative light an opinion poll showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-usa-poll/most-mexicans-back-presidents-u-s-visit-but-dislike-trump-poll-shows-idUSKBN2432F2 | 2020-07-03 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO In Rio de Janeiro on Thursday residents could once again run along the beaches and drink a chilled coconut water at the kiosks that line the sand as Brazils second city tried to return to some normality despite a heavy coronavirus death toll | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO In Rio de Janeiro on Thursday residents could once again run along the beaches and drink a chilled coconut water at the kiosks that line the sand as Brazils second city tried to return to some normality despite a heavy coronavirus death toll | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/rio-de-janeiro-beaches-open-for-exercise-not-sunbathing-experts-still-worried-idUSKBN243330 | 2020-07-03 |
| The Brazilian navy has issued a bad weather alert for the states of Rio Grande do Sul Santa Catarina Paulo Rio de Janeiro Santo and Bahia | Negative | SAO PAULO The port authority of Brazils second busiest port for grains and sugar said on Wednesday that two shiploaders at the port were displaced by strong winds on Tuesday but added in a subsequent statement that the situation was gradually returning to normal | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-ports/brazils-second-largest-port-disrupted-by-strong-winds-authority-says-idUSKBN2426SQ | 2020-07-02 |
| The areas at risk of being set ablaze compare with 5539 square kilometers deforested and burned from January 2019 to April 2020 IPAM said in its analysis earlier this month | Negative | BRASILIA The number of fires in Brazils Amazon rainforest rose in June to a 13yearhigh for the month government data showed on Wednesday as researchers worry that it could signal a repeat of last years surge in forest fires | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment-fires/fires-in-brazils-amazon-jump-in-june-stoking-fears-for-dry-season-idUSKBN242662 | 2020-07-02 |
| The report comes amid rising tensions between the United States and China the worlds two largest economies despite the signing of a Phase 1 U.S.China trade agreement in January | Negative | WASHINGTON A vast in U.S. multinational business activity in China since 2000 may threaten American industrial competitiveness and longterm tech leadership a new report by a congressional U.S.China advisory commission found on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china-report/vast-u-s-business-expansion-in-china-may-threaten-u-s-tech-leadership-report-idUSKBN2426NA | 2020-07-02 |
| Besides Sao Paulo the tests with a total of 9000 volunteers will also be conducted in Brasilia Rio de Janeiro Minas Gerais Rio Grande do Sul and Parana he added | Neutral | SAO PAULO A potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinas Sinovac will be tested in Brazil by 12 research centers in six Brazilian states the governor of Sao Paulo state Joao Doria said on Wednesday adding the trials still need to be approved by local health vigilance agency Anvisa | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac-bio/brazil-to-test-sinovacs-potential-vaccine-against-covid-19-in-six-states-idUSKBN2426XG | 2020-07-02 |
| Under the lockdown in the mountain city above Rio de Janeiro bars are not allowed to open while pet shops are viewed as an essential service that can | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO The shutters were down but the pub chatter in the midst of a coronavirus quarantine gave the game a crowded Brazilian bar under the cover of a pet shop with no pets | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-speakeasy/pet-shop-speakeasy-busted-in-brazilian-city-idUSKBN2413HY | 2020-07-01 |
| Most Libyan oil production has been shut down since January due to a blockade on exports by forces in eastern Libya | Negative | BENGHAZI Libya Libyas Messla oil field has resumed production with output of 10000 barrels a day to be used for local consumption rather than export two sources at the field said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-oil/libyas-messla-oil-field-resumes-two-field-sources-say-idUSKBN2413GC | 2020-07-01 |
| Japan slipped into recession for the first time in years in JanuaryMarch and is set to suffer its deepest postwar slump in the current quarter | Negative | TOKYO Japanese manufacturers confidence sank in the second quarter to levels not seen since the 2009 global financial crisis underscoring the damage the coronavirus pandemic inflicted on the exportreliant economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-economy-tankan/pandemic-sinks-japan-business-mood-to-lowest-since-2009-crisis-idUSKBN2423X6 | 2020-07-01 |
| Decotelli was Bolsonaros third education minister since his term began in January last year | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaros pick for education minister quit on Tuesday in a storm over irregularities in his curriculum vitae just five days after he was appointed and before he was sworn in | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-education/brazil-education-minister-quits-after-five-days-over-inflated-resume-idUSKBN2413OO | 2020-07-01 |
| The shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran in January was due to human error and not an order from senior military authorities the military prosecutor for Tehran province Gholam Abbas Torki said on Monday Tasnim news agency reported | Negative | The shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran in January was due to human error and not an order from senior military authorities the military prosecutor for Tehran province Gholam Abbas Torki said on Monday Tasnim news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-ukraine-crash/iran-prosecutor-says-human-error-led-to-shooting-down-of-ukrainian-airliner-idUSKBN2401AL | 2020-06-30 |
| Ng is imprisoned in Allenwood Pennsylvania and is eligible for release in January 2022 according to federal records | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Sengs appeal of his conviction and fouryear prison sentence for bribing two U.N. ambassadors to help him build a multibilliondollar conference center | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-court-ng/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-macau-billionaires-bribery-appeal-idUSKBN2401V8 | 2020-06-30 |
| Despite the rising number of deaths and infections Brazil has been trying to restart its economy with major cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo allowing businesses to reopen | Positive | Brazil has the worlds secondhighest COVID19 death toll with more than 57000 fatalities 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-workers-trf/labor-groups-slam-brazils-guidelines-for-worker-safety-in-pandemic-idUSKBN240309 | 2020-06-30 |
| Jan Pieter Krahnen a finance expert at the Goethe University in Frankfurt said the case showed that Germanys lighttouch approach to controlling companies was failing | Negative | FRANKFURT German regulators twice looked into tightening the supervision of collapsed payments firm Wirecard and discussed it with the German and European central banks but no action was taken a person with direct knowledge of the talks told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-wirecard-accounts-regulators-exclusiv/exclusive-germany-missed-chances-to-put-wirecard-on-watchlist-source-says-idUSKBN2402C4 | 2020-06-30 |
| The GNA says the LNA is behind the blockade which was announced in January by local groups including tribes | Negative | TUNIS Libyas National Oil Corporation hopes oil production will resume after international talks to end a blockade by easternbased forces in the civil war which has stopped almost all energy exports for six months it said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-oil/libyas-noc-confirms-international-talks-on-resuming-oil-output-idUSKBN24017M | 2020-06-30 |
| As news of the mystery illness started to emerge from China in early January Crisanti said he immediately believed the virus could be transmitted by asymptomatic patients | Negative | ROME Andrea Crisanti says his one regret is that he didnt yell loudly enough at the beginning when the dead had yet to pile up | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-crisanti/italys-cassandra-the-scientist-who-challenged-who-guidelines-idUSKBN240233 | 2020-06-30 |
| Radiation protection expert Jan Johansson at the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority said the variations were extremely low and had no impact on radiation protection | Positive | Russia said on Monday it had detected no sign of a radiation emergency after an international body reported last week that sensors in Stockholm had picked up unusually high levels of radioactive isotopes produced by nuclear fission | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-nuclear-particles-baltic-russia/russia-denies-nuclear-incident-after-international-body-detects-isotopes-idUSKBN24015K | 2020-06-30 |
| Broadway theaters will remain closed through Jan | Neutral | Broadway theaters will remain closed through Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-broadway/broadway-theaters-to-remain-closed-through-early-january-2021-idUSKBN24029T | 2020-06-30 |
| We hope local governments and local regulators as well as lenders insurers and investors take these recommendations into said Earthworks Jan Morrill who coauthored the report | Positive | Mining companies should be required to buy private insurance for tailings dams and their board of directors should be held legally responsible for any disasters a coalition of 140 environmental groups said in a report published on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-mining-tailings-standards/environmental-groups-propose-tailings-dam-safety-standards-idUSKBN2410EY | 2020-06-30 |
| In January SGX said it was acquiring independent index provider Scientific Beta Pte Ltd for 186 million euros in its biggest deal to date | Positive | SGX first acquired of BidFX in March 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-sgx-bidfx/singapore-exchange-to-pay-128-million-to-fully-acquire-forex-trading-platform-idUSKBN24009X | 2020-06-29 |
| Tshisekedi came to power in January 2019 forming a coalition with Kabila but the alliance has shown increasing signs of disharmony | Positive | KINSHASA Democratic Republic of Congos prime minister protested on Sunday over the brief arrest of the justice minister saying the coalition government could resign over the issue and calling on the president to guarantee cabinet members legal protections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-justice/congo-pm-threatens-government-resignation-over-ministers-arrest-idUSKBN23Z0B2 | 2020-06-29 |
| The first cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed on Jan | Negative | BEIJING Global coronavirus cases exceeded 10 million on Sunday according to a Reuters tally marking a major milestone in the spread of the respiratory disease that has so far killed almost half a million people in seven months | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-cases/global-coronavirus-cases-exceed-10-million-idUSKBN23Z00F | 2020-06-28 |
| The patterns are causing concern about overlapping curves as cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro pass their peaks and fall while smaller cities are still on the rise | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO The novel coronavirus now spreading through the smaller towns of Brazils interior risks returning to major cities in a socalled boomerang as a lack of specialized medical treatment forces patients into larger urban centers | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-interior/coronavirus-spreading-in-brazils-interior-threatens-to-boomerang-back-to-major-cities-idUSKBN23X2PJ | 2020-06-27 |
| France said on Friday it would download the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner shot down by an Iranian missile in January easing a standoff over where they should be read | Positive | France said on Friday it would download the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner shot down by an Iranian missile in January easing a standoff over where they should be read | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-crash/france-confirms-it-will-read-black-boxes-of-downed-ukrainian-jet-canada-to-help-idUSKBN23X2CJ | 2020-06-27 |
| Decotelli is Bolsonaros third education minister since taking office in January last year | Neutral | SAO PAULO Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he would appoint economist Carlos Alberto Decotelli da Silva as education minister according to an announcement on social media | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-education/bolsonaro-appoints-economist-decotelli-as-brazil-education-minister-idUSKBN23W3GI | 2020-06-26 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils corruption investigation targeting President Jair Bolsonaros eldest son will move to a special Rio de Janeiro court the state court said on Thursday opening the door to efforts to throw out evidence in the trial | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils corruption investigation targeting President Jair Bolsonaros eldest son will move to a special Rio de Janeiro court the state court said on Thursday opening the door to efforts to throw out evidence in the trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/graft-probe-of-brazil-presidents-son-moved-to-special-court-idUSKBN23W3B0 | 2020-06-26 |
| A Boeing spokeswoman said the company continues to make steady progress on the new jet which began flight testing in January | Positive | DUBAI Gulf airline Emirates needs to redefine its strategy after the coronavirus pandemic brought global aviation to a near halt its chief operating officer said on Thursday flagging an increased focus on bringing more visitors to Dubai | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates-airline/emirates-will-have-to-review-strategy-after-coronavirus-pandemic-coo-idUSKBN23W2IG | 2020-06-26 |
| Lordstown Motors which hopes to start delivering the electric pickup to customers by January 2021 will face significant competition from other automakers | Positive | WASHINGTON Lordstown Motors Corp unveiled its future electric pickup truck at an event on Thursday as the startup seeks to begin producing vehicles at a former General Motors factory in northeastern Ohio | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-auto-plant-usa/start-up-unveils-new-ev-truck-at-former-gm-ohio-auto-plant-idUSKBN23W1IA | 2020-06-26 |
| The United States and most other Western countries have recognized Guaido as the OPEC nations interim president since January 2019 regarding Maduros 2018 reelection as a sham | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reaffirmed Washingtons backing for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-venezuela-iran-gasoline/u-s-puts-sanctions-on-five-iranian-ship-captains-for-bringing-oil-to-venezuela-idUSKBN23V25I | 2020-06-25 |
| 1 billion is being investigated by the Philippines which said that the German payments firms former chief operating officer Jan Marsalek may be in the country | Negative | Wirecards missing | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-wirecard-accounts/philippines-to-investigate-wirecards-phantom-billions-idUSKBN23V0Y2 | 2020-06-25 |
| It had shuttered 596 underperforming stores from January 2018 to March 2020 | Negative | The 85yearold company filed for Chapter 11 protection late Tuesday night in the U.S. bankruptcy court in Wilmington Delaware | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-gnc-bankruptcy/vitamin-chain-gnc-files-for-bankruptcy-may-close-1200-stores-and-sell-itself-idUSKBN23V27N | 2020-06-25 |
| Advanced MicroFabrication Equipment Inc which makes etching equipment for chip manufacturing has seen its share price jump since January | Positive | SHANGHAI U.S. curbs on Chinese tech firms amid the intensifying SinoU.S. battle for tech supremacy are feeding an investment boom across Chinas semiconductor industry driving prices of both publicly traded and venturebacked companies into bubble territory | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-semiconductors-analysis/sino-u-s-tech-race-turbo-charges-china-chip-investment-triggering-bubble-fear-idUSKBN23V3DW | 2020-06-25 |
| But cumulative production was still up by in JanuaryMay after a 1 | Neutral | LONDON Chinas giant aluminium production sector seems to have emerged unscathed from the COVID19 crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-metals-aluminium-ahome/column-covid-19-will-tilt-aluminium-axis-further-towards-china-andy-home-idUSKBN23V2SN | 2020-06-25 |
| The countrys aluminium production was down an average over the JanuaryMay period with Aluar operating at of capacity in May local consultancy Economic Trends found | Neutral | LONDON Chinas giant aluminium production sector seems to have emerged unscathed from the COVID19 crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-metals-aluminium-ahome/column-covid-19-will-tilt-aluminium-axis-further-towards-china-andy-home-idUSKBN23V2SN | 2020-06-25 |
| Gulf production is booming up last year and a further in JanuaryMay this year as Aluminium Bahrain ramps up its new 540000tonne per year Potline 6 expansion | Positive | LONDON Chinas giant aluminium production sector seems to have emerged unscathed from the COVID19 crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-metals-aluminium-ahome/column-covid-19-will-tilt-aluminium-axis-further-towards-china-andy-home-idUSKBN23V2SN | 2020-06-25 |
| India did not want a confrontation but its experience with China has not been good Ram Madhav a general secretary of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party told The Economic Times | Positive | NEW Indian and Chinese military commanders have agreed to step back from a confrontation over a disputed stretch of border where a clash last week left 20 Indian soldiers dead government officials in New Delhi and Beijing said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china/indian-and-chinese-military-agree-to-disengage-on-disputed-himalayan-border-idUSKBN23U115 | 2020-06-24 |
| Two people familiar with the matter said state prosecutors were also considering issuing an arrest warrant for Jan Marsalek a board member fired on Monday | Negative | Wirecards meteoric rise was however accompanied by repeated allegations from whistleblowers journalists and speculators that its revenue and profits had been pumped up through fake transactions with obscure partners | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-wirecard-accounts/wirecard-ex-boss-braun-arrested-as-creditors-hunt-lost-billions-idUSKBN23U12D | 2020-06-24 |
| Its likely to start picking up in Vos said with increased cases hitting in November December and January | Neutral | CHICAGO Infectious disease experts economists and politicians have raised concerns about a second wave of coronavirus infections in the United States that could worsen in the coming months | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-wave/explainer-what-is-a-second-wave-of-a-pandemic-and-has-it-arrived-in-the-u-s-idUSKBN23U396 | 2020-06-24 |
| The rule is scheduled to take effect on Jan | Neutral | A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a challenge by hospital groups to a federal rule requiring them to disclose prices they quietly negotiate with insurers in a victory for White House efforts to make healthcare pricing more transparent to patients | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-hospitals-lawsuit/u-s-hospitals-lose-legal-challenge-to-trump-price-transparency-rule-idUSKBN23U3FY | 2020-06-24 |
| Storebrand Asset Management CEO Jan Erik Saugestad said in an interview that while previous initiatives focused on pressuring Brazilian companies this new effort is aimed squarely at the government | Positive | BRASILIA A group of 29 global investment firms that manage | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment-investors/global-investors-demand-to-meet-brazil-diplomats-over-deforestation-idUSKBN23U0L8 | 2020-06-24 |
| Spirits profits were already under pressure after Boeing halted production of its once bestselling 737 MAX from January through late May following a safety ban after two fatal crashes | Negative | Spirit now expects to deliver only 72 shipsets to Boeing | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-spirit-aerosystm-boeing/spirit-aerosystems-shares-fall-company-holds-talks-with-boeing-on-737-max-idUSKBN23U38S | 2020-06-24 |
| USDA sees Brazil exporting 77 million tonnes of soybeans between February 2020 and January 2021 which the agency defines as the local 201920 marketing year | Positive | FORT COLLINS Colo | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-soybeans-braun/column-does-china-still-need-u-s-soybeans-after-brazils-export-bonanza-braun-idUSKBN23U2LC | 2020-06-24 |
| The ICC the worlds first permanent war crimes court said in January last year that prosecutors had failed to prove any case against Gbagbo | Negative | THE HAGUE Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said grave were made in acquittal last year of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo as they began their bid to overturn the decision at an appeals hearing on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-warcrimes-ivorycoast-gbagbo/icc-prosecutors-cite-grave-errors-in-gbagbo-acquittal-at-start-of-appeal-idUSKBN23T1FU | 2020-06-23 |
| The Ivorian cotton season runs from May to April with sowing from April to June and harvesting from October to January | Neutral | ABIDJAN Ivory Coasts cotton industry will struggle to cover its costs after exporting just of last seasons 210902 tonnes of fibre because of COVID19 disruptions in top buying destinations in Asia the cotton ginners association told Reuters on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-cotton-ivorycoast-agriculture/coronavirus-slowdown-squeezes-ivory-coast-cotton-sector-idUSKBN23T2MM | 2020-06-23 |
| Ackman is raising the SPAC after his hedge fund gained roughly since January despite the COVID19 pandemic | Positive | Billionaire investor William Ackman said on Monday he was looking to raise billion and commit at least billion from his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP for a new blankcheck investment vehicle the largest of its kind | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-pershingsquare-investment/ackman-seeks-3-billion-for-largest-ever-blank-check-company-idUSKBN23T2QX | 2020-06-23 |
| RIO DE Brazil reached more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases and 50000 deaths over the weekend as throngs of people swarmed Rio de Janeiro beaches but the World Health Organization said on Monday that even more cases were likely going uncounted | Negative | RIO DE Brazil reached more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases and 50000 deaths over the weekend as throngs of people swarmed Rio de Janeiro beaches but the World Health Organization said on Monday that even more cases were likely going uncounted | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazilians-flock-to-beach-as-who-says-country-undercounting-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN23T31T | 2020-06-23 |
| Before the pandemic major airlines in January rerouted or cancelled flights to avoid airspace over Iraq and Iran following an Iranian missile strike on U.S.led forces in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Iran is drawing up plans to offer discounts to some foreign airlines using its airspace state news agency IRNA quoted a senior aviation official as saying on Saturday after a slump in flights due to the coronavirus pandemic and regional tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-airlines-airspace/iran-may-offer-discounts-to-lure-airlines-to-fly-through-its-airspace-idUSKBN23R0QY | 2020-06-21 |
| On Jan 8 all 176 people aboard a Ukrainian airliner flight were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff en route from Tehran to Kiev | Negative | DUBAI Iran is drawing up plans to offer discounts to some foreign airlines using its airspace state news agency IRNA quoted a senior aviation official as saying on Saturday after a slump in flights due to the coronavirus pandemic and regional tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-airlines-airspace/iran-may-offer-discounts-to-lure-airlines-to-fly-through-its-airspace-idUSKBN23R0QY | 2020-06-21 |
| The Canadian foreign ministry said it was deeply that the two Canadians hadnt been granted access to consular visits since midJanuary and called for their immediate release | Positive | BEIJING Chinese prosecutors said on Friday they have charged two detained Canadians for suspected espionage indictments that could result in life imprisonment in a case that has driven a diplomatic wedge between Ottawa and Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-canada/china-charges-two-detained-canadians-with-suspected-espionage-trudeau-very-disappointed-idUSKBN23Q0JI | 2020-06-20 |
| Since being appointed to the post in January 2018 Berman has not shied from taking on powerful figures in Trumps orbit | Positive | WASHINGTON A top U.S. federal prosecutor whose office has been investigating Rudolph W. Giuliani the personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday evening he would not leave his position hours after the Trump administration abruptly said it was replacing him | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-justice-newyork/u-s-prosecutor-who-has-investigated-trump-lawyer-says-he-wont-resign-idUSKBN23R02N | 2020-06-20 |
| South Korea has surpassed the United States as the top country for sales of the BMW 5 series from January to April this year according to BMWs South Korean unit | Positive | SEOUL Hwang Minyong a 37yearold South Korean businessman recently received his black Porsche Cayenne coupe with red leather seats after a sevenmonth wait and took it out for a spin on a scenic road overlooking a river near Seoul | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-southkorea-auto-premium/south-koreas-wealthy-passed-over-by-pandemic-pain-splurge-on-porsches-and-bmws-idUSKBN23Q1D3 | 2020-06-20 |
| Hankison who was hired by the department in 2003 had previously been disciplined in January 2019 for reckless conduct that injured an innocent person Schroeders letter said | Negative | The police chief in Louisville Kentucky said on Friday he intended to fire one of three officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor a Black woman killed in a burst of gunfire when drug investigators mistakenly entered her home | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-kentucky/louisville-police-chief-takes-step-to-fire-officer-in-breonna-taylor-shooting-idUSKBN23Q2V1 | 2020-06-20 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Friday to extend until the end of January next year their economic sanctions against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and the turmoil in eastern Ukraine | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Friday to extend until the end of January next year their economic sanctions against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and the turmoil in eastern Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-summit-russia/eu-leaders-agree-to-extend-economic-sanctions-against-russia-idUSKBN23Q287 | 2020-06-20 |
| In this years oil price outlook survey conducted in January before the coronavirus epidemic spread outside China most respondents predicted prices would average around through 2024 | Negative | LONDON Oil prices are no longer particularly cheap by historical standards | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil-kemp/column-oil-prices-no-longer-especially-cheap-after-strong-rally-kemp-idUSKBN23Q1YN | 2020-06-20 |
| European Union leaders are expected on Friday to back extending the blocs main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine until the end of January 2021 diplomatic sources and officials said | Negative | European Union leaders are expected on Friday to back extending the blocs main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine until the end of January 2021 diplomatic sources and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-russia-sanctions/eu-leaders-to-support-extending-russia-economic-sanctions-sources-say-idUSKBN23P1XP | 2020-06-19 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian football will kick off again in Rio de Janeiro this week after the citys mayor gave the go ahead for the local league to start after a threemonth hiatus caused by the new coronavirus | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian football will kick off again in Rio de Janeiro this week after the citys mayor gave the go ahead for the local league to start after a threemonth hiatus caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-soccer-brazil-retu/football-to-return-in-brazil-on-thursday-idUSKBN23P0FB | 2020-06-19 |
| Hardline nationalist groups with ties to Modis Bharatiya Janata Party have stepped up calls for a boycott of Chinese goods and a cancellation of contracts with Chinese firms | Negative | AHMEDABAD India In their last phone conversation Neha Ojha the wife of an Indian soldier said she laughed off her husbands idea to name their daughter Snow White because he received the news of her birth while patrolling a snowcovered valley on the border with China | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china-funerals/indian-families-demand-justice-as-they-await-bodies-of-soldiers-killed-in-clash-with-china-idUSKBN23P1BC | 2020-06-19 |
| Reuters reported that Crenshaw was expected to be nominated for the post in January | Positive | WASHINGTON The White House announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump intends to nominate Caroline Crenshaw to fill a Democratic vacancy at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-sec-nominations/trump-to-nominate-lawyer-crenshaw-to-fill-sec-democratic-commissioner-slot-idUSKBN23P30A | 2020-06-19 |
| Since taking office in January 2017 President Donald Trump and Democrats have talked about infrastructure but have been unable to agree on financing | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Thursday unveiled a | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-infrastructure-congress/u-s-house-democrats-unveil-1-5-trillion-infrastructure-plan-idUSKBN23P3FI | 2020-06-19 |
| Jan 8 2016 Security forces recaptured El Chapo in a predawn shootout and chase through drains in his native Sinaloa | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico has been blighted by rising violence during its socalled on Drugs that began in 2006 during the administration of former President Felipe Calderon who sent in armed forces to tackle the increasingly powerful drug cartels | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-cartels-fac/factbox-major-incidents-in-mexicos-drug-gang-conflict-idUSKBN23P1X7 | 2020-06-19 |
| HONG KONG Hong Kongs lossmaking Disneyland theme park reopened on Thursday to a limited number of local visitors and with enhanced health measures after the coronavirus outbreak forced it to close in late January | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kongs lossmaking Disneyland theme park reopened on Thursday to a limited number of local visitors and with enhanced health measures after the coronavirus outbreak forced it to close in late January | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong-disneylan/hong-kongs-disneyland-reopens-after-five-month-coronavirus-break-idUSKBN23P174 | 2020-06-19 |
| In January 2019 the Supreme Court allowed the Pentagons transgender limits to take effect which were implemented in April that year | Negative | WASHINGTON Nic Talbott a transgender man was driving his truck in Chicago when his phone started buzzing in July 2017 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-lgbt-military/supreme-court-lgbt-ruling-gives-hope-to-those-challenging-military-transgender-ban-idUSKBN23O3C3 | 2020-06-18 |
| The new members will start their twoyear term on the 15member council on Jan | Neutral | UNITED NATIONS Mexico India Ireland and Norway were elected to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday but the 193 U.N. member states must return on Thursday to continue voting to fill one more vacant seat after there was no clear winner | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-un-elections/mexico-india-ireland-norway-elected-to-u-n-security-council-one-seat-still-open-idUSKBN23O3FZ | 2020-06-18 |
| A separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday showed applications for loans to buy a home increased last week to their highest level since January 2009 | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. homebuilding increased less than expected in May but a strong rebound in permits for future home construction suggested the housing market was starting to emerge from the COVID19 crisis along with the broader economy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy-housingstarts/u-s-homebuilding-rises-moderately-jump-in-permits-hints-at-green-shoots-idUSKBN23O20J | 2020-06-18 |
| CFO Jane Nielsen said the summer collection would stay in stores through August to maximize fullprice selling | Neutral | YORK From Armani to Gucci top fashion houses are redesigning their calendars to slow down the frantic pace of catwalk shows and new collections as the coronavirus pandemic forces a rethink of the way the industry works | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-fashion-reset/designers-fashion-a-go-slow-future-for-catwalks-and-collections-idUSKBN23O1TP | 2020-06-18 |
| There is a crisis we sympathize with bereaved families but it is said Braga Netto who spoke during a webinar held by the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil reported a record 34918 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday the same day that one of the senior officials leading the countrys widely criticized response to the crisis said the outbreak was under control | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronvirus-brazil/brazil-sees-record-daily-coronavirus-cases-official-says-outbreak-under-control-idUSKBN23N3EE | 2020-06-17 |
| After she was released on bail in January 2018 she sought asylum in Canada | Positive | It was a rare public show of support for rights in the conservative Muslim country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-egypt-lgbt-activist-trfn/death-of-egypt-lgbt-activist-jailed-for-waving-rainbow-flag-mourned-idUSKBN23M2YQ | 2020-06-16 |
| Public television in Poland is more similar to public television in Russia or Belarus than to public television in a democratic said Jan Grabiec | Negative | WARSAW Polish public television has raised the sensitive issue of Jewish property restitution during the countrys presidential campaign by accusing the main opposition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski of putting foreign interests first | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-poland-election-restitution/polish-state-tv-uses-jewish-property-restitution-issue-to-attack-opposition-idUSKBN23M2M5 | 2020-06-16 |
| Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White Trump said at a rally of abortion opponents in Washington in January | Negative | The political advocacy arm of reproductiveservices provider Planned Parenthood on Monday endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for U.S. president calling his race against Republican President Donald Trump a fight for our countrys very survival | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-endorsement/biden-lands-planned-parenthood-endorsement-in-u-s-presidential-race-idUSKBN23M2GJ | 2020-06-16 |
| But those swaps have been declining since the Trump administration imposed sanctions on PDVSA in January 2019 | Negative | Lopez Obrador said he had not received such a request from the Venezuelan government | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-gasoline-venezuela/mexican-president-says-he-would-sell-gasoline-to-venezuela-for-humanitarian-needs-if-asked-idUSKBN23M1ZD | 2020-06-16 |
| The PBOC said in January that it had received American Expresss application to start operations in China | Positive | The approval comes against a backdrop of high SinoU.S. tensions with disagreements over trade and Beijings imposition of a national security law for Hong Kong | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-finance-pboc/american-express-jv-gets-final-approval-to-launch-operations-in-china-idUSKBN23K07K | 2020-06-15 |
| JanMay runs 12 | Neutral | May crude runs about 13 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy-output-oil/update-2-chinas-may-refinery-output-rises-8-2-to-near-peak-rates-idUSL4N2DS0QQ | 2020-06-15 |
| The research team in Thailand includes Supaporn Wacharapluesadee who identified the countrys first case of COVID19 in January | Neutral | BANGKOK Researchers in Thailand began collecting samples from horseshoe bats to test them for coronavirus amid concerns they may pose a threat to local residents a government statement said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-bats/researchers-in-thailand-testing-horseshoe-bats-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN23K0FR | 2020-06-15 |
| HONG KONG Hong Kongs Disneyland theme park said on Monday it will reopen on June 18 to a reduced number of visitors and with enhanced health measures after the coronavirus outbreak forced it to close in late January | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kongs Disneyland theme park said on Monday it will reopen on June 18 to a reduced number of visitors and with enhanced health measures after the coronavirus outbreak forced it to close in late January | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong-disneylan/hong-kongs-disneyland-to-reopen-on-june-18-after-coronavirus-break-idUSKBN23M0BQ | 2020-06-15 |
| In her January 2018 complaint Tirschwell said her former boss Jess Ravich who led TCWs alternative products group had coerced her into having sex in return for advancing her career | Neutral | NEW YORK A New York state judge dismissed a substantial portion of Sara Tirschwells sexual harassment lawsuit against her former employer asset manager TCW Group Inc | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tcw-tirschwell-harassment/new-york-judge-dismisses-much-of-ex-tcw-managers-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-idUSKBN23J2EO | 2020-06-13 |
| It has one of the highest crime rates in New Jersey and in January was ranked Americas 10th most dangerous city by neighborhoodscout | Negative | CAMDEN N.J. Zsakhiem James a police captain in Camden New Jersey once considered the most dangerous city in the United States sees every encounter with a resident as an opportunity to build social to prevent or solve a future crime | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-camden/one-american-citys-model-of-policing-reform-means-building-social-currency-idUSKBN23J2RU | 2020-06-13 |
| From January to May deforestation rose compared with a year ago to 2032 square kilometers square an area more than two times the size of New York City | Negative | BRASILIA Deforestation in Brazils Amazon rainforest rose for a 13th consecutive month in May government data showed on Friday despite President Jair Bolsonaros deployment of the military to fight soaring environmental destruction in the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/brazils-military-unsuccessful-in-taming-rising-amazon-deforestation-in-may-idUSKBN23J22W | 2020-06-13 |
| The coalition first announced at a January summit after a series of attacks killing over 200 soldiers was ratified during virtual meetings of more than 40 defence and foreign ministers | Negative | France launched a coalition of West African and European allies on Friday to fight jihadi militants in the Sahel region hoping more political cooperation and special forces would boost a military effort that has so far failed to stifle violence | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sahel-security-france/france-launches-sahel-coalition-to-fight-rising-jihadi-violence-idUSKBN23J1XA | 2020-06-13 |
| June 11 A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would require new safety equipment on helicopters that carry six or more passengers in the wake of a crash that killed NBA star Kobe Bryant in January | Negative | June 11 A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would require new safety equipment on helicopters that carry six or more passengers in the wake of a crash that killed NBA star Kobe Bryant in January | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/usa-helicopters-safety/u-s-lawmakers-back-new-helicopter-safety-equipment-after-kobe-bryant-crash-idUSL1N2DO1KO | 2020-06-12 |
| Thieves stole the mural in January last year apparently using portable grinders to remove a fireexit door before carrying it off in a van the daily La Repubblica reported | Negative | ROME A mural by secretive British street artist Banksy stolen from the Bataclan theater in Paris where Islamist gunmen killed 90 people in 2015 has been found in a farmhouse in central Italy police said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-art-banksy-italy/banksy-mural-stolen-from-bataclan-theater-found-in-italian-farmhouse-idUSKBN23I28V | 2020-06-12 |
| WASHINGTON A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would require new safety equipment on helicopters that carry six or more passengers in the wake of the crash that killed NBA star Kobe Bryant in January | Negative | WASHINGTON A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would require new safety equipment on helicopters that carry six or more passengers in the wake of the crash that killed NBA star Kobe Bryant in January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-helicopters-safety/u-s-lawmakers-back-new-helicopter-safety-equipment-after-kobe-bryant-crash-idUSKBN23I2TR | 2020-06-12 |
| The alliance was forged in January 2019 and expanded later as carmakers join forces to invest in electric and selfdriving technology in a bid to save billions of dollars | Positive | The alliance was forged in January 2019 and expanded later as carmakers join forces to invest in electric and selfdriving technology in a bid to save billions of dollars | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-ford-motor-volkswagen-electric/ford-volkswagen-target-8-million-vehicles-in-van-alliance-idUSKBN23H1T1 | 2020-06-11 |
| They also said the next Grammy Awards show would go ahead as planned in January 2021 despite the coronavirus epidemic that has sidelined multiple cultural events | Positive | LOS ANGELES Organizers of the annual Grammy Awards on Wednesday announced tighter rules regarding conflicts of interest after claims that nominations for the highest honors in the music industry were rigged | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-awards-grammys/grammy-awards-organizers-tighten-conflict-of-interest-rules-say-show-to-go-ahead-in-january-idUSKBN23H2YO | 2020-06-11 |
| In Rio de Janeiro the second hardest hit Brazilian city the mayor announced malls will also reopen on Thursday as part of a scheduled easing of restrictions | Negative | SAO PAULO Brazils most populous state Sao Paulo reported a record number of COVID19 deaths for the second day running on Wednesday even as its homonymous metropolis allowed shops to resume business and prepared to reopen its malls | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazils-biggest-cities-start-reopening-as-covid-19-surges-idUSKBN23H381 | 2020-06-11 |
| Allegations that the Grammy nominations process is tainted were made in a complaint filed in January by the former chief executive of the Recording Academy Deborah Dugan | Negative | LOS ANGELES Organizers of the annual Grammy Awards on Wednesday announced tighter rules regarding conflicts of interest after claims that nominations for the highest honors in the music industry were rigged | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-awards-grammys/grammy-awards-organizers-tighten-conflict-of-interest-rules-say-show-to-go-ahead-in-january-idUSKBN23H2YO | 2020-06-11 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiros state legislature voted unanimously on Wednesday to start impeachment proceedings against Governor Wilson Witzel for alleged graft in the purchase of ventilators and other medical supplies to fight the COVID19 outbreak | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiros state legislature voted unanimously on Wednesday to start impeachment proceedings against Governor Wilson Witzel for alleged graft in the purchase of ventilators and other medical supplies to fight the COVID19 outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-riodejaneiro/rio-de-janeiro-governor-faces-impeachment-proceedings-over-graft-investigations-idUSKBN23H36E | 2020-06-11 |
| Monthly data shows that deforestation has continued to worsen in 2020 rising for January to April as compared to the same period in 2019 | Negative | BRASILIA Deforestation of Brazils Amazon rainforest was worse than previously reported in 2019 revised government data showed on Tuesday during the first year of President Jair Bolsonaro who is keen to develop the forest crucial to curbing global warming | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/brazil-deforested-10000-square-km-of-amazon-rainforest-in-2019-up-34-on-year-idUSKBN23H21U | 2020-06-11 |
| Beijing has in recent months rolled out fiscal and monetary stimulus to prop up the economy which contracted for the first time on record in the JanuaryMarch period | Negative | BEIJING Chinas producer prices fell by the sharpest rate in more than four years underscoring pressure on the manufacturing sector as the COVID19 pandemic reduces trade flows and global demand | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-inflation/china-factory-gate-deflation-deepens-on-global-demand-slump-idUSKBN23H0A2 | 2020-06-10 |
| Almost all Libyan oil exports were stopped in January by forces based in the east of the North African nation | Negative | CAIRO Libyas National Oil Corporation declared force majeure on exports from its Sharara oilfield on Tuesday as an armed group repeatedly halted production just days after output had resumed following a blockade that had lasted months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-oil/libyas-sharara-oilfield-declares-force-majeure-after-brief-shutdown-idUSKBN23G0YX | 2020-06-10 |
| Kubera died in January before he could make the trip | Negative | PRAGUE The speaker of the Czech upper house of parliament will travel to Taiwan with a trade mission at the end of August potentially further souring his countrys relations with China which regards the island as a part of its territory | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-czech-taiwan/czech-senate-speaker-to-visit-taiwan-in-trip-that-could-irk-china-idUSKBN23G139 | 2020-06-10 |
| 2 city Rio de Janeiro which has 38 malls has scheduled the reopening for June 17 | Neutral | SAO PAULO More than half of Brazilian malls have resumed activities with reduced opening hours an industry group said on Tuesday as authorities increasingly lift social distancing measures despite a growing number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Latin Americas largest market | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-malls/brazil-reopens-more-than-half-of-all-malls-despite-covid-19-surge-shares-jump-idUSKBN23G31E | 2020-06-10 |
| Olof Palme was born in Stockholm on Jan 30 1927 the youngest child of a prominent and wealthy family | Positive | STOCKHOLM The 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme generated dozens of conspiracy theories but few serious leads | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sweden-crime-palme-factbox/factbox-swedish-prime-minister-palme-the-man-and-the-murder-idUSKBN23G385 | 2020-06-10 |
| Before a fivemonth blockade began in January the field had produced 300000 barrels per day equivalent to about a third of Libyas output at the time | Positive | CAIRO Libyas National Oil Corporation declared force majeure on exports from its Sharara oilfield on Tuesday as an armed group repeatedly halted production just days after output had resumed following a blockade that had lasted months | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-libya-oil/libyas-sharara-oilfield-declares-force-majeure-after-brief-shutdown-idUSKBN23G0YX | 2020-06-10 |
| The government plans to release a draft of the proposed changes by next month for legislative debate with planned implementation on Jan | Positive | KONG Australia announced the biggest shakeup of its foreign investment laws in almost half a century on Friday including giving the government the power to force the sale of a business if it creates a national security risk | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-australia-investment/australia-shakes-up-foreign-investment-laws-for-national-security-idUSKBN23C01J | 2020-06-09 |
| The U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis has said the differing figures along with other factors only the countrys position in the IMF talks | Positive | BEIRUT June 8 Lebanon agreed on Monday that the governments figures on losses in the financial system will form a good starting for talks with the International Monetary Fund the presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-meeting/lebanon-agrees-on-governments-financial-loss-figures-as-starting-point-presidency-says-idUSL8N2DL41G | 2020-06-09 |
| At the same time Libya which has been out of the market since January has resumed producing | Positive | MELBOURNE Oil prices climbed on Tuesday paring losses from the previous session as markets broadly rose on growing confidence in a global recovery with pandemic lockdowns easing | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-rise-on-optimism-easing-of-lockdowns-to-spur-fuel-demand-idUSKBN23G04O | 2020-06-09 |
| Following conclusion of the investigation and a fourth whereabouts failure in January 2020 a Notice of Charge was issued and Ms Naser subject to an immediate provisional suspension | Negative | World 400 meters champion Salwa Eid Naser was provisionally suspended for registering four whereabouts the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-athletics-doping-bahrain-naser/athletics-aiu-says-suspended-naser-missed-four-tests-as-she-pleads-innocence-idUSKBN23E0GN | 2020-06-08 |
| The Australian and New Zealand dollars both rose to their strongest since January after data showed a smallerthanexpected fall in Chinese exports which supports commodity currencies | Positive | Australian and New Zealand dollars rise | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-dips-as-commodity-currencies-gain-on-recovery-hopes-idUSL4N2DL06L | 2020-06-08 |
| The Australian and New Zealand dollars both rose to their highest since January after data showed a smallerthanexpected fall in Chinese exports which supports commodity currencies | Positive | Australian and New Zealand dollars rise early | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-is-dented-as-data-bolsters-hope-for-economic-recovery-idUSL4N2DK0K4 | 2020-06-08 |
| Brazil The killing of another black teenager by Rio de Janeiro police last month was based on the numbers unremarkable one of hundreds gunned down every year by some of the worlds deadliest cops | Negative | Brazil The killing of another black teenager by Rio de Janeiro police last month was based on the numbers unremarkable one of hundreds gunned down every year by some of the worlds deadliest cops | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-protests-race-feature/in-violent-rio-u-s-protests-stoke-backlash-against-deadly-cops-idUSKBN23E0QF | 2020-06-08 |
| The trial had been due to start in January but was postponed after new documents containing testimony from his son and codefendant Papa Massata Diack were submitted to the court | Negative | PARIS Lamine Diack the disgraced former head of athletics governing body goes on trial in Paris on Monday on charges of corruption and money laundering linked to a Russian doping scandal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-corruption/trial-of-former-athletics-chief-diack-for-doping-cover-up-to-begin-idUSKBN23F00B | 2020-06-08 |
| Diab took office in January with the support of the Iranbacked Hezbollah and its allies after the previous government was toppled by the protests that erupted last October | Negative | BEIRUT Hundreds of Lebanese protesters took to the streets on Saturday to voice outrage over the governments handling of a deep economic crisis with security forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse rockthrowing demonstrators | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/hundreds-of-lebanese-join-anti-government-protests-as-lockdown-eased-idUSKBN23D0OE | 2020-06-07 |
| BRASILIA A Brazilian Supreme Court minister on Friday prohibited police raids in Rio de Janeiros favelas during the novel coronavirus pandemic as a groundswell of criticism of brutal police tactics grows in Latin Americas largest nation | Negative | BRASILIA A Brazilian Supreme Court minister on Friday prohibited police raids in Rio de Janeiros favelas during the novel coronavirus pandemic as a groundswell of criticism of brutal police tactics grows in Latin Americas largest nation | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-police/brazils-supreme-court-halts-police-raids-in-rios-favelas-during-pandemic-idUSKBN23D00O | 2020-06-06 |
| Among the highways administrated by CCR is the Via Dutra the main connector between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro | Neutral | SAO PAULO Brazilian highway operator CCR SA said on Friday that vehicle traffic on its roads reached its highest level since midMarch as state authorities throughout the nation begin to relax quarantine measures | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-traffic-ccr-sa/brazil-highway-operator-ccr-says-traffic-has-rebounded-sharply-idUSKBN23C379 | 2020-06-06 |
| For settler leaders like Elhayani the peace plan Trump published in January which includes Israel keeping most of its settlements in the West Bank has a dangerous flip side | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels intention to annex parts of the occupied West Bank is being challenged by Jewish settlers who might have been expected to cheer the plan promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under a U.S. peace blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/some-israeli-settlers-hit-out-at-trump-backed-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23B1IX | 2020-06-05 |
| Sweetwater Superintendent Karen Janney did not respond to attempts to reach her for comment | Positive | Late last month San Diego high school teacher Jessica Macias put aside her worries about her future psyched herself up and launched into an enthusiastic lesson via video feed to her class on the theory of knowledge | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-teachers-insig/u-s-schools-lay-off-hundreds-of-thousands-setting-up-lasting-harm-to-kids-idUSKBN23B39R | 2020-06-05 |
| The mayor of Rio de Janeiro Brazils second largest city home to nearly 7 million people allowed more than 10000 street vendors to go back to work on Thursday | Positive | RIO DE CITY The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil blew past Italys toll on Thursday while Mexico reported a record number of new cases as regional leaders in Latin America push to end quarantine measures and kick their economies back into gear | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/coronavirus-deaths-surge-in-brazil-mexico-as-regional-leaders-look-to-reopen-idUSKBN23C01N | 2020-06-05 |
| WASHINGTON The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday urged six major manufacturers to equip turbinepowered helicopters with crashresistant systems to record data audio and images after former NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others were killed in a helicopter crash in January | Negative | WASHINGTON The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday urged six major manufacturers to equip turbinepowered helicopters with crashresistant systems to record data audio and images after former NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others were killed in a helicopter crash in January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-helicopters-safety/u-s-board-urges-helicopter-manufacturers-to-add-crash-data-recorders-idUSKBN2392OK | 2020-06-03 |
| CAAM expects January to May auto sales in China to fall 23 | Negative | BEIJING Chinas vehicle sales are estimated to rise 11 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-autos/china-auto-sales-growth-seen-for-second-straight-month-boosting-recovery-hopes-idUSKBN23910U | 2020-06-03 |
| Deforestation hit an 11year high in 2019 and has continued to climb in 2020 rising between January and April as compared to a year ago | Negative | MANAUS Brazil Police stormed a dozen sawmills in Brazils Amazon rainforest in a dawn raid on Tuesday arresting about 30 people accused of involvement in an illegal logging ring | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/brazil-police-arrest-dozens-in-illegal-amazon-rainforest-logging-ring-idUSKBN23938G | 2020-06-03 |
| A second commercial line at Lonzas site in Visp Switzerland had been slated for completion in January or February 2021 but now could be ready in December he added | Positive | ZURICH Lonza aims to speed completion of two commercial production lines for Moderna Incs trial COVID19 vaccine so manufacturing could start four to six weeks earlier than planned if the project is successful the Swiss drugmakers chairman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-lonza-excl/exclusive-lonza-sets-new-goal-to-make-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-ingredients-idUSKBN2392C4 | 2020-06-03 |
| BEIJING Chinas services sector returned to growth last month for the first time since January as the economy recovers from strict coronavirusinduced containment measures although employment and overseas demand remained weak a private survey showed | Positive | BEIJING Chinas services sector returned to growth last month for the first time since January as the economy recovers from strict coronavirusinduced containment measures although employment and overseas demand remained weak a private survey showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-economy-pmi/chinas-services-sector-bounces-back-into-growth-job-losses-continue-caixin-pmi-idUSKBN23A0CG | 2020-06-03 |
| The central city capital of Hubei province was placed under a lockdown on Jan | Negative | BEIJING The Chinese city of Wuhan where the novel coronavirus outbreak began has found no new cases of people suffering from COVID19 after testing almost its entire population and 300 asymptomatic carriers of the virus officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan/no-new-covid-sufferers-300-asymptomatic-after-wuhan-wide-tests-idUSKBN23915R | 2020-06-03 |
| Since the court decision in late January D6 credits have jumped from 11 cents each | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. renewable fuel credits have gained by more than a third over the last month as refiners have bought the credits while the Trump administration decides the future of a program that exempts smaller refineries from blending laws traders said | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-biofuel-rins/u-s-renewable-fuel-credits-climb-as-epa-considers-ruling-on-waiver-program-idUSKBN2383O5 | 2020-06-02 |
| Trade has been a drag on Brazilian economic growth in recent years and the accumulated figures for the JanuaryMay period suggest this continues to be the case | Negative | BRASILIA Brazil posted a trade surplus of | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-trade/brazil-posts-4-5-billion-trade-surplus-in-may-down-11-on-the-year-idUSKBN2383EA | 2020-06-02 |
| 7 last month marking the highest reading since January as easing of lockdowns allowed companies to get back to work and clear outstanding orders | Positive | TOKYO Asias factory pain deepened in May as the slump in global trade caused by the coronavirus pandemic worsened with export powerhouses Japan and South Korea suffering the sharpest declines in business activity in more than a decade | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-economy/asias-factory-pain-worsens-as-chinas-recovery-fails-to-lift-demand-idUSKBN23815Z | 2020-06-01 |
| In January 2019 the U.S. Supreme Court said a federal arbitration law did not require transportation workers including independent contractors engaged in interstate commerce to arbitrate their claims | Positive | NEW YORK Lyft Inc was sued on Friday by a former driver who accused the ridesharing company of failing to provide required paid sick leave to drivers in Washington D.C. a policy she said could fuel the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-lyft-lawsuit/lyft-violates-washington-dc-sick-day-law-during-pandemic-lawsuit-claims-idUSKBN2352X2 | 2020-05-30 |
| London aluminium prices which stayed flat on Friday were set for their strongest monthly gain since January 2019 underpinned by a solid recovery in demand from top consumer China | Positive | FTSE decline in fourth paragraph to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/corrected-global-markets-stocks-slip-as-investors-await-trumps-hong-kong-response-idUSL8N2DB1ZD | 2020-05-30 |
| The coronavirus has killed 57 people in Thailand since it was first detected in January | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported one new coronavirus case on Saturday and no new deaths taking the total number of infections to 3077 as local transmission of the new virus appears to wane | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-reports-1-new-coronavirus-case-no-new-deaths-idUSKBN23608I | 2020-05-30 |
| The government which said in January after meeting officials from the RenaultNissan alliance that jobs at the plant were lamented the decision and urged Nissan to look at other options | Negative | BARCELONA Spain said on Thursday it would do everything possible to stop Nissan from closing its main car factory in the country as angry workers burned tyres and shouted outside the Barcelona plant | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-results-spain-closure/spain-says-it-will-do-all-it-can-to-reverse-nissan-closure-workers-protest-idUSKBN2340TZ | 2020-05-29 |
| Tsai and her Democratic Progressive Party won presidential and parliamentary elections by a landslide in January vowing to stand up to Beijing | Positive | BEIJING China will attack Taiwan if there is no other way of stopping it from becoming independent one of the countrys most senior generals said on Friday a rhetorical escalation between China and the democratically ruled island Beijing claims as its own | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-taiwan-security/attack-on-taiwan-an-option-to-stop-independence-top-china-general-says-idUSKBN2350AD | 2020-05-29 |
| Britain left the European Union at the end of January but has various financial obligations to the 27nation bloc that will last many years | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Commission wants higher guarantees for the next longterm EU budget to back Commission borrowing for economic recovery and as a safeguard against a hard EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-brexit/eu-executive-seeks-higher-eu-budget-guarantees-in-case-of-hard-brexit-idUSKBN2342IY | 2020-05-29 |
| The main Shanghai index lost more than between midJanuary and midMarch but has pared losses since to be down 6 | Negative | May 29 As Chinese firms return to work after a pandemic lockdown faster than their peers worldwide and the government ramps up economic stimulus the mainland has become the only major market where investors expect earnings to grow this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/china-stocks-earnings/graphic-chinese-stock-markets-ride-on-earnings-optimism-idUSL4N2D829G | 2020-05-29 |
| Cuban officials in January blasted the limits calling the action a violation of human rights that would hinder family reunification | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States will impose a cap on charter flights to Cuba at 3600 per year the U.S. Transportation Department said on Thursday as President Donald Trumps administration moves to curb the Cuban governments access to revenue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-cuba-flights/u-s-caps-charter-flights-to-cuba-at-3600-per-year-idUSKBN2342M6 | 2020-05-29 |
| Starting in January Disney closed theme parks around the world to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus | Negative | After MacPhees presentation an Orange County task force OKd the plan sending it to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for final approval | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-walt-disney/disney-plans-to-reopen-walt-disney-world-starting-on-july-11-idUSKBN2332DW | 2020-05-28 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Sea turtles have been spotted swimming amid garbage next to an airport in Brazils tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro as the scream of jet engines that would normally keep them away has been largely silenced due to the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Sea turtles have been spotted swimming amid garbage next to an airport in Brazils tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro as the scream of jet engines that would normally keep them away has been largely silenced due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-turtles/sea-turtles-appear-next-to-rio-airport-thanks-to-fewer-flights-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN23332N | 2020-05-28 |
| It is clear there are difficult talks she said adding that the aim was to enable the fund to come into being by January 1 2021 | Negative | BERLIN Negotiations on establishing a recovery fund to help the economies of EU countries that have been battered by the coronavirus crisis will not be easy Chancellor Angela Merkel said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-merkel/eu-fund-talks-will-be-tough-but-well-get-there-merkel-idUSKBN23324L | 2020-05-28 |
| Trump in January offered to in another Himalayan trouble spot the disputed region of Kashmir that is at the center of a decadeslong quarrel between India and Pakistan | Positive | DELHI U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had offered to mediate a standoff between India and China at the Himalayan border where soldiers camped out in a highaltitude region have accused each other of trespassing over the disputed border | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china-usa/trump-offers-to-mediate-raging-india-china-border-dispute-idUSKBN2331N0 | 2020-05-28 |
| Health authorities have missed a target of testing 30000 people a day with nearly 290000 conducted since January equivalent to about 0 | Negative | MANILA The Philippines coronavirus task force has recommended President Rodrigo Duterte ease one of the toughest and longest lockdowns in the world for residents in the capital Manila who have endured nearly 11 weeks of restrictions on activity | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-health-coronavirus-philippines/philippines-task-force-backs-easing-one-of-worlds-toughest-lockdowns-idUSKBN234047 | 2020-05-28 |
| DE JANEIRO Brazilian federal police on Tuesday raided the residences of Rio de Janeiros rightwing Governor Wilson Witzel as part of a COVID19 corruption probe targeting one of President Jair Bolsonaros political foes as the pandemic sweeps the nation | Negative | DE JANEIRO Brazilian federal police on Tuesday raided the residences of Rio de Janeiros rightwing Governor Wilson Witzel as part of a COVID19 corruption probe targeting one of President Jair Bolsonaros political foes as the pandemic sweeps the nation | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazil-police-raid-rio-governors-residences-amid-covid-19-probe-idUSKBN2321FY | 2020-05-27 |
| Disney closed theme parks around the world starting in January to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus | Positive | LOS ANGELES Walt Disney Co will present its proposal for a phased reopening of its Orlando Florida theme parks to a local task force on Wednesday the company said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-disney/disney-to-present-reopening-plan-for-walt-disney-world-idUSKBN23233V | 2020-05-27 |
| It was the biggest deficit in nonseasonally adjusted terms since January 2019 | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico on Monday posted its sharpest trade deficit on record in seasonallyadjusted terms as demand for its products abroad fell faster than imports in a gloomy sign for Latin Americas second largest economy struggling with the pandemics fallout | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-economy/mexico-posts-largest-trade-deficit-on-record-as-exports-collapse-idUSKBN2311YV | 2020-05-26 |
| Giorgio Ferrami from Casalbuttano near Cremona said his 86yearold mother had had a stroke in January and was recently treated in intensive care after falling at home | Negative | MILAN Italys nursing homes ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic which claimed the lives of thousands of residents face financial pressures that threaten to put many out of business and create a fresh elderly care crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-nursinghomes/after-coronavirus-italian-nursing-homes-face-fight-to-survive-idUSKBN2320KG | 2020-05-26 |
| In January it announced that Cate Blanchett would preside over its 77th edition | Neutral | ROME The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled at the beginning of September Luca Zaia the governor of the region around the Italian city said on Sunday as the spread of the new coronavirus in the country slows | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-italy-venice-filmfestival/venice-film-festival-will-go-ahead-in-september-veneto-governor-idUSKBN2300J1 | 2020-05-25 |
| The 15 ventilators sent to New Jersey were delivered by FEMA and recalled by said state Department of Health spokeswoman Janelle Fleming | Positive | Russianmade ventilators now under investigation for causing deaths in Russia were not authorized by U.S. health regulators before the same model was sent to New York and New Jersey at the height of their coronavirus outbreaks Reuters has learned | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ventilators-ex/exclusive-russian-ventilators-reached-u-s-states-without-fda-oversight-idUSKBN22Y2F4 | 2020-05-23 |
| Why didnt the U.S. government take any control and prevention measures between January and said Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took fresh aim at China over the coronavirus on Wednesday calling the billion Beijing has pledged to fight the pandemic compared to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars of damage | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-pompeo-china/pompeo-calls-china-virus-response-paltry-compared-to-damage-done-idUSKBN22W2U0 | 2020-05-23 |
| In the early stages of the recovery the return of these old uncertainties will challenge the optimism that we have seen in world said Nordea chief analyst Jan von Gerich | Positive | China plan to impose new security law on HK rattles markets | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-hong-kong-tensions-unnerve-world-stocks-oil-tumbles-idUSL8N2D43EU | 2020-05-23 |
| Britain decided in January to allow Huawei into what the government said were nonsensitive parts of the network capping its involvement at | Positive | Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to reduce Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltds involvement in Britains 5G network in the wake of the coronavirus crisis the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-huawei-tec/uk-plans-cut-in-huaweis-5g-network-involvement-newspaper-report-idUSKBN22Y2VB | 2020-05-23 |
| BANGKOK Thailand on Saturday reported three new coronavirus cases and no new deaths bringing the countrys total to 3040 confirmed cases and 56 fatalities since the outbreak started in January | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand on Saturday reported three new coronavirus cases and no new deaths bringing the countrys total to 3040 confirmed cases and 56 fatalities since the outbreak started in January | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-reports-three-new-coronavirus-cases-no-new-deaths-idUSKBN22Z0AH | 2020-05-23 |
| Paul OConnor head of multiasset at Janus Henderson said April wasnt a rally that said the world is feeling better about growth or a reappraisal of the macro environment | Positive | YORK Global equity markets have shuffled up about this month despite the world starting to reopen after the coronavirusdriven lockdowns and U.S. and European economic data showing glimmers of a recovery | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-markets-outlook-an/rudderless-after-a-rally-stock-markets-look-for-next-catalyst-idUSKBN22Y0L4 | 2020-05-22 |
| Both the GNA and the Benghazi administration also face financial difficulties with a blockade of oil exports by easternbased forces preventing energy sales since January | Negative | Libya Turkey warned on Thursday against any attacks on its interests in Libya by Khalifa Haftars forces after his Libyan National Army threatened to respond to recent military setbacks by striking Turkish positions in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/threat-to-hit-turkey-in-libya-underscores-risk-of-escalation-idUSKBN22X29S | 2020-05-22 |
| in the JanuaryApril period the ministry said in a policy report citing the impact from the coronavirus outbreak and government efforts to cut taxes and fees | Negative | BEIJING Chinas fiscal revenue may maintain a declining trend in the second quarter due to significant economic uncertainties although it may start growing in the second half of the year the finance ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-budget-trend/chinas-fiscal-revenue-may-maintain-declining-trend-in-second-quarter-finance-ministry-idUSKBN22Y0AS | 2020-05-22 |
| A rare ethanol shipment of U.S. origin is expected to arrive in China this month according to three industry sources and shipping data probably the first such cargo since the two countries struck an initial trade deal in January | Positive | A rare ethanol shipment of U.S. origin is expected to arrive in China this month according to three industry sources and shipping data probably the first such cargo since the two countries struck an initial trade deal in January | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china-ethanol/china-to-receive-rare-u-s-ethanol-shipment-on-friday-sources-idUSKBN22X0CN | 2020-05-21 |
| Bear bile is sourced from captive breeding facilities which were also exempt from the January ban though the practice has been branded cruel by animal welfare groups | Negative | SHANGHAI As Chinas parliament prepares new laws to ban the trade and consumption of wildlife local action plans published this week suggest the countrys fur trade and lucrative traditional medicine sectors will continue as usual | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wildlife/china-legislators-take-on-wildlife-trade-but-traditional-medicine-likely-to-be-exempt-idUSKBN22X065 | 2020-05-21 |
| Kashaeva had been diagnosed with latestage bowel cancer in January | Negative | MOSCOW Before she died in a Moscow hospital earlier this month Liubov Kashaeva 74 twice tested positive for the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-casualties/russia-says-many-coronavirus-patients-died-of-other-causes-some-disagree-idUSKBN22V1Q7 | 2020-05-20 |
| The plan to begin the regulatory process to mandate Safety Management Systems comes in response to recommendations released in January by an expert panel named by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao | Positive | WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it would require Boeing Co and other aircraft manufacturers to adopt new safetymanagement tools following two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-boeing-737max/u-s-to-mandate-new-safety-management-tools-for-aircraft-makers-idUSKBN22V2I4 | 2020-05-20 |
| The mosttraded steel rebar and hotrolled coils contracts are typically delivered in January May and October | Positive | Chinas Shanghai Futures Exchange seeks to recruit market makers for five listed futures products including the flagship steel rebar and hotrolled coils saying it aims to resolve discontinuity issues of main contracts | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-steel-futures/shanghai-futures-exchange-to-recruit-market-makers-to-boost-liquidity-idUSKBN22W0FE | 2020-05-20 |
| Fund manager Janus Henderson calculated a firstquarter contraction that was the steepest among major markets | Neutral | HONG Australia has made the deepest dividend cuts globally this year with more than billion deferred or cancelled as companies conserve cash to ride out the coronavirus turning foreign investors wary of the countrys normally highyielding firms | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-dividend/coronavirus-crushes-australias-dividends-with-banks-leading-the-decline-idUSKBN22W0LM | 2020-05-20 |
| AKA Jane will be broadcast on the FX cable channel on Friday but was made available to television journalists in advance | Positive | LOS ANGELES Norma McCorvey the woman known as Jane in the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-abortion-jane-roe/plaintiff-in-roe-v-wade-u-s-abortion-case-says-she-was-paid-to-switch-sides-idUSKBN22V33D | 2020-05-20 |
| Weve avoided the said Sat Duhra who manages Janus Hendersons dividend strategy in Asia | Neutral | HONG Australia has made the deepest dividend cuts globally this year with more than billion deferred or cancelled as companies conserve cash to ride out the coronavirus turning foreign investors wary of the countrys normally highyielding firms | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-dividend/coronavirus-crushes-australias-dividends-with-banks-leading-the-decline-idUSKBN22W0LM | 2020-05-20 |
| In a separate blog post on Tuesday Schenck said he hoped people would watch AKA Jane Roe | Positive | LOS ANGELES Norma McCorvey the woman known as Jane in the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-abortion-jane-roe/plaintiff-in-roe-v-wade-u-s-abortion-case-says-she-was-paid-to-switch-sides-idUSKBN22V33D | 2020-05-20 |
| Net profit tumbled in JanuaryMarch to million but was ahead of a Refinitiv consensus estimate of | Negative | HONG KONG Lenovo Group the worlds biggest maker of personal computers reported a deep slump in fourthquarter profit due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus crisis although the result was far better than expectations | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-lenovo-results/lenovo-profit-beats-estimates-sees-growth-as-more-people-work-from-home-idUSKBN22W00D | 2020-05-20 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Threeyearold Sansa a black dog with a white spot on her belly spent nearly a year in a Rio de Janeiro animal shelter before the coronavirus pandemic restricted visitors making her odds of being adopted even dimmer | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Threeyearold Sansa a black dog with a white spot on her belly spent nearly a year in a Rio de Janeiro animal shelter before the coronavirus pandemic restricted visitors making her odds of being adopted even dimmer | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-pet-deliver/rio-pet-delivery-brings-companionship-to-brazilians-in-isolation-idUSKBN22U33B | 2020-05-19 |
| The bulk of that investment more than billion since January has flowed to big latestage companies such as Waymo and Didi Chuxing that are automating both ride and delivery services | Neutral | The coronavirus crisis is accelerating a shift in the world of autonomous cars toward delivering packages instead of people as big players open up a lead over startups in the race for funding | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-delivery-robots-fo/automated-delivery-cashes-in-on-pandemic-driven-demand-idUSKBN22U1F8 | 2020-05-19 |
| MANAGUA Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Monday that 309 people have died of pneumonia since January in the Central American country 87 more people than in the same period last year but that only some deaths were linked to the coronavirus | Negative | MANAGUA Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Monday that 309 people have died of pneumonia since January in the Central American country 87 more people than in the same period last year but that only some deaths were linked to the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-nicaragua/nicaragua-reports-more-pneumonia-deaths-some-tied-to-covid-19-idUSKBN22V0CZ | 2020-05-19 |
| Social distancing amid the pandemic has largely put a brake on protests since January but demonstrations are expected to resume later this year with the outbreak coming under control | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kongs legislature plunged into chaotic scuffles for a second time this month as proBeijing lawmakers on Monday took control of a key committee paving the way for a debate on a bill that would criminalise abuse of Chinas national anthem | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-hongkong-protests-legco/hong-kong-legislature-to-push-ahead-with-china-anthem-bill-after-chaotic-scuffles-idUSKBN22U0AE | 2020-05-18 |
| When the head of the World Health Organization returned from a whirlwind trip to Beijing in late January he wanted to praise Chinas leadership publicly for its initial response to the new coronavirus | Positive | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
| Norways Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner said on Friday that Norways current level of public spending to shield the economy from COVID19 was not sustainable over time | Negative | Greenback set for 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-set-for-0-6-weekly-gain-amid-worries-about-recovery-idUSL8N2CX4IU | 2020-05-16 |
| The 20212027 budget must be agreed on by the end of this year to become operational next January | Positive | BRUSSELS After a row over joint borrowing to respond to the new coronavirus pandemic the European Union looks set to clash over whether governments should assign new tax revenues to the EU to help finance a recovery from the pandemicinduced recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-tax-analysis/after-coronabonds-eu-heads-for-clash-over-corona-tax-in-next-budget-idUSKBN22R29E | 2020-05-16 |
| A total of 14684 tests have been done since January the ministry said | Neutral | PHNOM PENH Cambodias last patient with the new coronavirus has recovered and left hospital leaving the Southeast Asian country with zero cases the health ministry said on Saturday while urging continued vigilance | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-cambodia/cambodia-says-all-covid-19-patients-recovered-no-new-cases-for-a-month-idUSKBN22S09A | 2020-05-16 |
| in JanuaryMarch its sharpest quarteronquarter decline since 1995 the economy was shown in the latest poll shrinking by 11 | Negative | BENGALURU The euro zone economys worst recession on record will be even deeper than forecast less than a month ago according to a Reuters poll of economists who said the European Central Bank will ramp up its bondbuying again next month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-poll/as-euro-zone-recession-deepens-ecb-to-scale-up-bond-buying-next-month-idUSKBN22R01R | 2020-05-16 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S.China Phase trade deal reached in January is not falling apart and the two countries are still working to implement it the White Houses top economic adviser said on Friday but President Donald Trump added that he was not with the agreement | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S.China Phase trade deal reached in January is not falling apart and the two countries are still working to implement it the White Houses top economic adviser said on Friday but President Donald Trump added that he was not with the agreement | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/u-s-china-trade-deal-not-falling-apart-white-house-adviser-idUSKBN22R2DT | 2020-05-16 |
| Jansen however said last week he was focused on upgrading Britains broadband infrastructure and he confident the regulator Ofcom and the government would create the right conditions for investment | Positive | Macquarie however was not interested in a deal a source close to the investment firm told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bt-group-openreach/bt-in-talks-to-sell-multi-billion-pound-stake-in-openreach-ft-idUSKBN22Q33H | 2020-05-15 |
| Jansen said the pandemic which has seen a surge in the use of mobile phones and data had made the network upgrade a matter of extreme | Neutral | Macquarie however was not interested in a deal a source close to the investment firm told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bt-group-openreach/bt-in-talks-to-sell-multi-billion-pound-stake-in-openreach-ft-idUSKBN22Q33H | 2020-05-15 |
| Bright testified to the subcommittee on health that he would never an email he got in January from a U.S. supplier of medicalgrade face masks warning of a dire shortage | Negative | WASHINGTON A whistleblower who says he was removed from his government post for raising concerns about coronavirus preparedness told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the United States could face the darkest of recent times if it does not improve its response to the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bright/u-s-faces-darkest-winter-if-pandemic-planning-falters-whistleblower-idUSKBN22Q1JH | 2020-05-15 |
| JanApril refinery runs down 3 | Neutral | April crude runs 13 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy-output-oil/china-crude-oil-runs-rebound-in-april-as-fuel-demand-picks-up-idUSL4N2CV24T | 2020-05-15 |
| In a whistleblower complaint filed with a government watchdog last week Bright said that he warned about the virus in January and was met with hostility from HHS leaders | Negative | WASHINGTON A whistleblower who says he was removed from his government post for raising concerns about coronavirus preparedness told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the United States could face the darkest of recent times if it does not improve its response to the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bright/u-s-faces-darkest-winter-if-pandemic-planning-falters-whistleblower-idUSKBN22Q1JH | 2020-05-15 |
| Since starting a second term in January President Filipe Nyusi has vowed to dedicate more resources to fighting the insurgency | Positive | MAPUTO Mozambican security forces have killed around 50 insurgents in recent days in the northern Cabo Delgado region that has been plagued by violence for several years the interior minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mozambique-insurgency/mozambique-government-kill-50-insurgents-in-recent-days-minister-idUSKBN22Q3CH | 2020-05-15 |
| The entertainment giant shut its parks in Asia France and the United States starting in late January to help prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading | Negative | Disney shares rose 2 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-disney/walt-disney-world-and-unions-agree-on-safeguards-for-returning-to-work-idUSKBN22Q3AD | 2020-05-15 |
| BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday said he is considering releasing a video that sources say shows him explaining that he needs a friendly police chief in Rio de Janeiro to shield his family from investigations | Negative | BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday said he is considering releasing a video that sources say shows him explaining that he needs a friendly police chief in Rio de Janeiro to shield his family from investigations | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazils-bolsonaro-says-he-may-release-tape-in-police-probe-idUSKBN22P2H7 | 2020-05-14 |
| It said deliveries had been negatively by the conclusion of the carveout process in January to have everything ready for Boeing to close the purchase | Positive | SAO PAULO Planemaker Embraer | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-embraer-backlog/embraer-blames-failed-boeing-deal-for-sharp-drop-in-commercial-jet-deliveries-idUSKBN22O1MY | 2020-05-13 |
| Embraer in January sent its workers home for two weeks and suspended production to prepare for the Boeing takeover | Negative | SAO PAULO Planemaker Embraer | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-embraer-backlog/embraer-blames-failed-boeing-deal-for-sharp-drop-in-commercial-jet-deliveries-idUSKBN22O1MY | 2020-05-13 |
| Angolas chief prosecutor said in January that an international arrest warrant for dos Santos could be issued if she fails to appear to cooperate with the investigation | Negative | LISBON Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos called on Tuesday for a corruption case against her to be dropped accusing Angolan authorities of using forged documents including a bogus passport to get courts to seize her assets | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-angola-dossantos/angolas-dos-santos-wants-graft-case-dropped-cites-documents-she-calls-forged-idUSKBN22O2VU | 2020-05-13 |
| BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said in an April cabinet meeting that he needed to change Rio de Janeiros chief of the federal police to protect family members under investigation a person with knowledge of a video of the meeting told Reuters | Positive | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said in an April cabinet meeting that he needed to change Rio de Janeiros chief of the federal police to protect family members under investigation a person with knowledge of a video of the meeting told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-brazil-politics/on-tape-bolsonaro-cites-protecting-his-family-in-push-to-swap-top-rio-cop-source-idUSKBN22O30L | 2020-05-13 |
| Thailand has a total of 3017 cases and 56 deaths since the outbreak escalated in January | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand on Wednesday reported no new coronavirus cases for the first time since March 9 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-reports-no-new-coronavirus-cases-for-first-time-since-march-9-idUSKBN22P0LN | 2020-05-13 |
| Bolsonaro is walking toward the precipice and wants to take all of us with Rio de Janeiro Governor Wilson Witzel said on Twitter | Neutral | RIO DE Brazils confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus passed Germany on Tuesday as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fought states over his wish to reopen gyms and beauty parlors even as his country becomes a new global hotspot for the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazils-coronavirus-cases-pass-germanys-as-bolsonaro-fights-to-open-gyms-idUSKBN22O34J | 2020-05-13 |
| Trump still won in the Electoral College with the results certified by Congress in January 2017 and was sworn in as president later that month | Positive | Bret Chiafalo had his bags packed in the weeks following the 2016 U.S. presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-electoral/as-2020-presidential-contest-looms-u-s-supreme-court-mulls-power-of-electors-idUSKBN22M0JL | 2020-05-11 |
| The 46yearold Italian who took over as the chairman of ATP in January feels an online learning platform is a perfect fit for a professional player | Positive | MUMBAI The mens tennis tour has partnered with online learning platform Coursera to help players gain new skills and knowledge as well as look after their mental health during the COVID19 shutdown ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tennis-education/atp-ties-up-with-online-learning-platform-to-aid-players-idUSKBN22J20J | 2020-05-08 |
| The Bank of Japan adopted negative rates in January 2016 mostly to prevent an unwelcome strengthening of the yen from hurting an exportreliant economy | Negative | There is little chance the U.S. Federal Reserve will take interest rates into negative territory even as financial markets have begun pricing in such a move for the first time fund managers and economists said on the Reuters Global Markets Forum | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-rates-reutersforum/u-s-fed-wont-take-rates-negative-say-fund-managers-economists-idUSKBN22K0D5 | 2020-05-08 |
| We are confident of getting the regulatory and policy enablers to support our Jansen said | Positive | Therefore the dividend one of the biggest on the London stock exchange had to be pulled | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-bt/bt-scraps-dividend-invests-in-fibre-as-rivals-agree-merger-idUSKBN22J0O8 | 2020-05-08 |
| In January only South Africa and Senegal could now all African countries can except for tiny Lesotho and the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe | Neutral | NAIROBI African nations are facing a surge of COVID19 cases with less than one intensive care bed and one ventilator per 100000 people a Reuters survey has found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response-ex/exclusive-virus-exposes-gaping-holes-in-africas-health-systems-idUSKBN22J1GZ | 2020-05-08 |
| Republican President Donald Trump repeatedly has said he slowed the spread of the coronavirus into the United States by acting decisively to bar travelers from China on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration failed to conduct effective coronavirus screenings of airline passengers entering the United States from Italy and South Korea in early March when cases of the virus were multiplying a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-screenings/u-s-house-panel-calls-march-screening-of-travelers-from-italy-south-korea-ineffective-idUSKBN22J357 | 2020-05-08 |
| Vitesco warned in January that it faced pressure on its margins as it shifted its business beyond combustion engines which make up of its revenue to capture growth from electromobility | Negative | Investments in new information technology projects or to expand production capacity at factories have been put on hold as has some spending selfdriving technologies the company said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-continental-results/continentals-profit-almost-halves-as-lockdowns-hit-car-production-idUSKBN22J0QC | 2020-05-08 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be able to report in about a week or two whether China is fulfilling its obligations under a Phase 1 trade deal the two countries signed in January before the coronavirus spread globally | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be able to report in about a week or two whether China is fulfilling its obligations under a Phase 1 trade deal the two countries signed in January before the coronavirus spread globally | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/trump-says-could-say-in-a-week-or-two-whether-china-adhering-to-trade-deal-idUSKBN22I2ZF | 2020-05-07 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday an ousted health official who filed a whistleblowers complaint accusing the administration of retaliating when he voiced concerns about the coronavirus in January seemed to be a disgruntled person who wants to help Democrats | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday an ousted health official who filed a whistleblowers complaint accusing the administration of retaliating when he voiced concerns about the coronavirus in January seemed to be a disgruntled person who wants to help Democrats | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bright/trump-calls-ousted-whistleblower-bright-a-disgruntled-employee-idUSKBN22I31C | 2020-05-07 |
| The leadership has come from stocks that benefit from stayathome said Jack Janasiewicz portfolio strategist at Natixis Investment Managers | Positive | gold oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-world-shares-mixed-amid-hopes-for-business-pickup-oil-slips-idUSL1N2CO1FN | 2020-05-07 |
| Netanyahu was indicted in January on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus indictment on corruption charges does not disqualify him from forming a government Israels top court said on Wednesday paving the way for the veteran leader to remain in power | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israels-supreme-court-clears-netanyahu-to-form-government-despite-corruption-charges-idUSKBN22I35R | 2020-05-07 |
| The state prosecutors office in Rio de Janeiro said it had received a report from Brazils leading epidemiological institute Fiocruz recommending a lockdown in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro | Negative | BRASILIA Brazil one of the worlds emerging coronavirus hot spots registered a record number of cases and deaths on Wednesday prompting the health minister to flag the possibility of strict lockdowns in particularly hardhit areas | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-hits-record-for-coronavirus-deaths-raising-chances-of-lockdowns-idUSKBN22I39J | 2020-05-07 |
| May could end with a fall in orders versus January and February | Negative | SAO PAULO Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau plans to restart the blast furnace at its mill in the town of Ouro Branco at the end of June or beginning of July as the company expects a gradual rebound in orders Chief Executive Gustavo Werneck said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-gerdau-results/brazilian-steelmaker-gerdau-eyes-construction-rebound-after-profit-drop-idUSKBN22I1Q9 | 2020-05-07 |
| The region where the COVID19 pandemic started has fared better overall than North America and Europe since the first case was reported in Wuhan China on Jan | Neutral | SYDNEY Coronavirus cases in Asia rose to a quarter of a million on Tuesday according to a Reuters tally driven by outbreaks in Singapore Pakistan and India even as China South Korea and Japan significantly slowed the spread of the disease | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-asia/asia-coronavirus-cases-hit-250000-but-pace-much-slower-than-u-s-europe-idUSKBN22H1V2 | 2020-05-06 |
| The deal was approved by the European Union in January on condition that brazikumab be sold | Positive | WASHINGTON Drugmaker AbbVie Inc has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Botox maker Allergan a blockbuster billion deal when it was announced last year the companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-allergan-m-a-abbvie/abbvie-wins-u-s-antitrust-approval-to-buy-allergan-idUSKBN22H33M | 2020-05-06 |
| London has also been working out trade terms with the European Union following its exit from the bloc in January | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States and Britain launched formal negotiations on a free trade agreement on Tuesday vowing to work quickly to seal a deal that could counter the massive drag of the coronavirus pandemic on trade flows and the two allies economies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-britain/u-s-uk-launch-trade-talks-pledge-quick-deal-as-virus-ravages-global-economy-idUSKBN22H0E0 | 2020-05-06 |
| 31 and was not previously believed to have spread to Europe until January | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that a report that COVID19 had emerged in December in France sooner than previously thought was not and urged countries to investigate any other early suspicious cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-urges-countries-to-investigate-early-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN22H134 | 2020-05-06 |
| Mondays report brought the total number of cases to 2987 since the new virus was detected in Thailand in January with a total of 54 deaths | Negative | BANGKOK Thailands new coronavirus cases rose to 18 on Monday after falling to singledigits for the past week but the country reported no new deaths | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-reports-18-new-coronavirus-cases-no-new-deaths-idUSKBN22G0BJ | 2020-05-04 |
| TAOS N.M. David Elliot first thought of shooting an elk to help feed family and friends back in January when the United States reported its first novel coronavirus case | Negative | TAOS N.M. David Elliot first thought of shooting an elk to help feed family and friends back in January when the United States reported its first novel coronavirus case | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hunting/facing-meat-shortages-some-americans-turn-to-hunting-during-pandemic-idUSKBN22F0G4 | 2020-05-04 |
| The next opportunity of a summit is on 2 January Mene said | Positive | LAGOS A blockbuster African trade deal is unlikely to be implemented before early next year an official said on Friday after the disruption caused by the new coronavirus made the current July 1 deadline unworkable | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-trade/african-free-trade-deal-launch-unlikely-this-year-afcfta-secretary-general-says-idUSKBN22D5QV | 2020-05-02 |
| Lets face it Boeing is not an investmentgrade company by any stretch of the said Nick Maroutsos cohead of global bonds at Janus Henderson Investors | Neutral | The companys billion bond issue this week made all the difference | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-boeing-debt-investors-analysis/how-boeing-went-from-appealing-for-government-aid-to-snubbing-it-idUSKBN22E025 | 2020-05-02 |
| Among them was a Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON As Democratic presidential hopefuls descended on New Hampshire prior to the states Feb | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-financial-tax-specialrep/special-report-how-a-corporate-pr-machine-is-trying-to-kill-a-wall-street-tax-idUSKBN22D5DY | 2020-05-02 |
| Spero had dismissed an earlier version of the lawsuit on Jan | Negative | Uber Technologies Inc was ordered by a U.S. judge on Friday to face a lawsuit claiming its illegal predatory pricing and other anticompetitive practices stifled competition and drove rival Sidecar Technologies Inc out of business | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-uber-sidecar/uber-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-stifled-competition-drove-out-rival-sidecar-idUSKBN22D6AT | 2020-05-02 |
| The report which cited Energy Ministry data showed Aprils figure was the highest monthly average output since January 2019 when it was 11 | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia raised oil and gas condensate output in April to 46 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-russia/russian-oil-output-jumped-to-11-35-million-bpd-in-april-ahead-of-cuts-idUSKBN22E075 | 2020-05-02 |
| Since Thailand first detected the coronavirus in January a total of 54 patients have died 2732 have recovered and 180 are still hospitalised according to official figures | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported six new coronavirus cases and no new deaths on Saturday bringing the total number of cases to 2966 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-reports-six-new-coronavirus-cases-no-new-deaths-idUSKBN22E05P | 2020-05-02 |
| Nokia provides a wide range of telecom equipment in the China market but saw its Greater China revenue drop yearonyear in JanuaryMarch | Positive | Nokia has won a share of China Unicoms 5G core network order alongside Huawei and ZTE Nokias Chief Executive Rajeev Suri told Reuters in an interview citing information published by the telecom operator | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nokia-china/nokia-says-won-share-of-china-unicom-5g-core-network-order-idUSKBN22C16P | 2020-05-01 |
| Vitesco warned in January that it faced margin pressure as it shifts its business beyond combustion engines which make up of revenues to capture growth from electromobility | Negative | The spinoff requires better market Continental said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-continental-divestiture/continental-delays-vitesco-spin-off-blaming-market-turmoil-idUSKBN22C21S | 2020-05-01 |
| They were spotted together again in January in New York | Positive | LOS ANGELES Supermodel Gigi Hadid on Thursday confirmed she was expecting a baby with former One Direction singer Zayn Malik saying the couple were both excited and happy | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-hadid-malik/gigi-hadid-confirms-baby-on-way-with-zayn-malik-idUSKBN22C3ZM | 2020-05-01 |
| Janavss father cofounded Chef America Inc which created the microwave snack line Hot Pockets before being sold to Nestle SA for | Positive | BOSTON An heir to a microwave snack fortune and a former chief executive of investment firm Pimco cannot use the coronavirus pandemic as a reason to avoid prison time for convictions in the U.S. college admissions scandal a federal judge ruled on Thursday although they can delay starting their sentences | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/pandemic-delays-prison-for-hot-pockets-heir-ex-pimco-ceo-in-college-admissions-scandal-idUSKBN22C3LQ | 2020-05-01 |
| Latin America and Africa looked to be virusfree for January and February before the coronavirus spread rapidly through both continents | Negative | Despite infecting more than 3 million people around the world there are still 33 countries and territories that have yet to report a single case of the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-countries-graphic/the-last-places-on-earth-without-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN22B1JG | 2020-04-30 |
| Oil prices have slumped about twothirds to around a barrel since Premier in January first announced its acquisition plans and the financial arrangements linked to Wednesdays ruling | Positive | LONDON A British court on Wednesday approved Premier Oils plans to extend debt maturities by two years and raise up to million in equity to buy North Sea assets from BP and others but the deal depends on market conditions Premier said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-premier-oil-debt-m-a/court-allows-premier-oil-to-delay-debt-repayment-raise-equity-for-bp-deal-idUSKBN22B22E | 2020-04-30 |
| BEIJING Nearly half of bankers in a Chinese central bank survey said that monetary policy for the JanuaryMarch quarter was loose according to results published by the Peoples Bank of China on Tuesday | Negative | BEIJING Nearly half of bankers in a Chinese central bank survey said that monetary policy for the JanuaryMarch quarter was loose according to results published by the Peoples Bank of China on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-survey/nearly-half-of-bankers-in-central-bank-survey-say-china-monetary-policy-loose-in-q1-idUSKCN22A1CR | 2020-04-29 |
| The U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis said the violence was a warning for Lebanons political leaders | Negative | TRIPOLI Lebanon Protests against growing economic hardship erupted in Tripoli and spread to other Lebanese cities on Tuesday with banks set ablaze and violence boiling over into a second night | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tripoli/lebanon-cities-erupt-against-economic-hardship-one-protester-killed-in-tripoli-idUSKCN22A00R | 2020-04-29 |
| Their eldest brother Senator Flavio Bolsonaro is also being investigated by state prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro over alleged money laundering and misuse of public funds | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday named a family friend to head the federal police days after his justice minister quit and accused the president of meddling in law enforcement for political motives | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/bolsonaro-taps-family-friend-as-brazil-top-cop-supreme-court-oks-probe-idUSKCN22A1KW | 2020-04-29 |
| China announced in January to waives consumption tax and valueadded tax on the fuel to make Chinese production competitive versus rival supplies from Singapore and South Korea | Positive | April 28 story with no changes in | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-oil-quotas-imo/rpt-update-1-china-set-to-issue-first-ever-export-quotas-for-vlsfo-of-10-mln-t-for-2020-sources-idUSL3N2CH0J6 | 2020-04-29 |
| Bolsonaro called the accusations unfounded but they have set off the worst political crisis since he took office in January last year and lost the farright leader valuable allies | Negative | BRASILIA A Supreme Court judge on Monday authorized an investigation of allegations that Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro tried to interfere in the work of the countrys federal police force for political motives the top court said on its website | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazil-court-oks-investigating-allegations-bolsonaro-tried-to-interfere-with-police-idUSKCN22A0CT | 2020-04-29 |
| Since clinching reelection in January President Filipe Nyusi has vowed to dedicate more resources to fighting the insurgency | Positive | MAPUTO Mozambique security forces killed at least 129 insurgents in the northern Cabo Delgado region that has been besieged by violence for at least the last three years the interior minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mozambique-insurgency/mozambique-forces-killed-over-100-islamist-insurgents-in-past-month-government-idUSKCN22A38T | 2020-04-29 |
| Diabs government formed in January with the support of the powerful Iranbacked Hezbollah has struggled to enact reforms demanded by foreign donors to release billions of dollars in pledged financing | Positive | TRIPOLI Lebanon Protests against growing economic hardship erupted in Tripoli and spread to other Lebanese cities on Tuesday with banks set ablaze and violence boiling over into a second night | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-tripoli/lebanon-cities-erupt-against-economic-hardship-one-protester-killed-in-tripoli-idUSKCN22A00R | 2020-04-29 |
| Weaves occupancy rate in the first quarter was down slightly from in January and at the end of last year | Neutral | HONG KONG Hong Kongs distinction as a shoppers paradise used to draw tens of thousands of tourists to the Chinaruled city every month but a year of political unrest and the coronavirus crisis are driving some hotels to the brink of financial ruin | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-hongkong-property-hotel/hong-kong-hotels-on-cliff-edge-from-protest-pandemic-pain-idUSKCN22932C | 2020-04-28 |
| Hong Kong has confirmed 1038 cases and four deaths since the outbreak began in January | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday most civil servants will gradually return to work from May 4 although the government had not yet decided whether to ease travel and social distancing restrictions that are due to expire next week | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong/hong-kong-civil-servants-to-return-to-work-as-lockdown-eases-idUSKCN22A0B5 | 2020-04-28 |
| Ai was reprimanded in January for sharing information about the outbreak | Negative | BEIJING Chinese police have detained two people who contributed to an online archive of censored articles about the coronavirus outbreak a friend and a family member of one told Reuters on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-rights/china-police-detain-three-linked-to-censored-coronavirus-archive-idUSKCN2291FP | 2020-04-28 |
| BP remains committed to completing the sale even in these volatile and difficult market Janet Weiss BPs Alaska president said in a statement | Negative | The new agreement retains the original sale price but provides for vendor financing smaller payments in 2020 and for cashflow sharing in the near term the British oil major said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bp-divestiture/bp-revises-5-6-billion-alaska-deal-after-oil-price-crash-idUSKCN2290W1 | 2020-04-28 |
| Diabs government was formed in January with the support of the powerful Iranianbacked Shiite movement Hezbollah and has struggled to enact the economic reforms demanded by foreign donors | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has warned that removing the central bank governor would send the currency tumbling and threaten deposits after the prime minister slammed Riad Salameh for the pounds fall | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-centralbank/lebanese-parliament-speaker-warns-against-sacking-central-bank-governor-idUSKCN2280G5 | 2020-04-27 |
| Since the outbreak escalated in January 2609 patients have recovered and gone home | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand on Monday reported nine new coronavirus cases and one death bringing the countrys totals to 2931 cases and 52 fatalities | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-nine-new-coronavirus-cases-one-new-death-idUSKCN2290H0 | 2020-04-27 |
| The STC which has said it wants to be included in any political negotiations in January pulled out of committees implementing the Riyadh deal | Positive | ADEN Yemens main southern separatist group announced early on Sunday it would establish selfrule in areas under its control which the Saudibacked government warned would have catastrophic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-south/yemen-separatists-announce-self-rule-in-south-complicating-peace-efforts-idUSKCN228003 | 2020-04-27 |
| In the letter the interior ministry said the government had acknowledged Chinas efforts to contain the pandemic particularly since Jan | Negative | BERLIN Chinese diplomats approached German government officials in an attempt to encourage them to make positive statements on how Beijing is handling the coronavirus pandemic the German interior ministry said in a letter this month | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-china/germany-says-china-sought-to-encourage-positive-covid-19-comments-idUSKCN2280JW | 2020-04-27 |
| The Treasurys January report said that Taiwan along with Thailand were close to triggering thresholds to be added to the currency monitoring list | Neutral | TAIPEI The U.S. Treasurys latest semiannual report on trade practices of its major trading partners which was due this month has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic two sources with direct knowledge at Taiwans central bank told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-taiwan-economy-usa/u-s-treasury-currency-report-on-trade-partners-delayed-taiwan-central-bank-sources-say-idUSKCN2290EV | 2020-04-27 |
| Treasury announced in January that it plans to issue new 20year bonds | Negative | NEW YORK The Federal Reserves gradual withdrawal from the U.S. Treasury market as the coronavirus pandemic eases and liquidity improves could dry up appetite for longerdated government debt and push up longterm interest rates months from now | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-treasuries-analysi/taper-tantrum-ii-feds-slowing-treasury-purchases-may-boost-bond-yields-idUSKCN2290D5 | 2020-04-27 |
| Since the outbreak escalated in January Thailand has reported a total of 2907 cases and 51 deaths while 2547 patients have recovered and gone home | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported 53 new coronavirus cases and the death of a 48yearold Thai man who was infected with the virus along with four other family members | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-53-new-coronavirus-cases-one-new-death-idUSKCN22708A | 2020-04-25 |
| Total is also seeking to reduce its Kenyan stake sources told Reuters in January | Negative | LONDON Total has agreed to buy Tullow Oils entire stake in jointlyheld onshore oil fields in Uganda for million Tullow said on Thursday as it strives to raise billion this year to reduce its | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tullow-m-a-total/tullow-exits-uganda-project-sells-stake-to-total-for-575-million-idUSKCN2250KD | 2020-04-24 |
| Prior to the banks JanuaryMarch results analysts had on average expected fullyear net income to fall by a quarter to 2 | Negative | Thiam quit after a scandal over spying on senior executives hit the banks reputation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-credit-suisse-gp-results/credit-suisse-warns-over-coronavirus-uncertainties-after-first-quarter-earnings-beat-idUSKCN2250GS | 2020-04-24 |
| in JanuaryMarch from the same period a year earlier the first such decline since at least 1992 when quarterly records were first published | Negative | SHANGHAI Chinas central bank cut the interest rate on its targeted mediumterm lending facility on Friday following similar reductions to borrowing costs on other liquidity tools in the past few weeks to support the economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-tmlf/china-cuts-tmlf-interest-rate-by-20-basis-points-in-latest-economy-support-step-idUSKCN22606G | 2020-04-24 |
| Avraham said he found evidence that an attacker was taking advantage of the vulnerability as far back as January 2018 but that he could not determine who the hackers were | Positive | San Franciscobased security firm ZecOps on Wednesday detailed a flaw that it said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-apple-cyber/apple-says-no-evidence-iphone-mail-flaw-used-against-customers-idUSKCN2260F0 | 2020-04-24 |
| TMLF a liquidity tool introduced by the PBOC in December 2018 and deployed in January last year is targeted at directly funding parts of the economy that are still struggling | Negative | SHANGHAI Chinas central bank cut the interest rate on its targeted mediumterm lending facility on Friday following similar reductions to borrowing costs on other liquidity tools in the past few weeks to support the economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-tmlf/china-cuts-tmlf-interest-rate-by-20-basis-points-in-latest-economy-support-step-idUSKCN22606G | 2020-04-24 |
| NEW YORK Business payments processing firm AvidXchange Inc whose investors include Mastercard Inc and PayPal Holdings Inc cofounder Peter Thiel said on Thursday it had added an additional million to a million fundraising round it closed in January | Positive | NEW YORK Business payments processing firm AvidXchange Inc whose investors include Mastercard Inc and PayPal Holdings Inc cofounder Peter Thiel said on Thursday it had added an additional million to a million fundraising round it closed in January | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-avidxchange-fundraising/payments-fintech-avidxchange-raises-128-million-to-add-to-funding-idUSKCN2252UO | 2020-04-24 |
| com beat tech investment giant Prosus in a battle to buy Just Eat in January | Negative | LONDON Britains competition regulator on Thursday cleared online food delivery company Takeaway | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-just-eat-m-a-takeaway-com-regulator/britain-clears-takeaway-coms-purchase-of-just-eat-idUSKCN2250R7 | 2020-04-24 |
| Among the halfdozen investors involved in the funding were Sixth Street Partners which led the January fundraising as well as Mastercard Lone Pine Capital and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors | Positive | NEW YORK Business payments processing firm AvidXchange Inc whose investors include Mastercard Inc and PayPal Holdings Inc cofounder Peter Thiel said on Thursday it had added an additional million to a million fundraising round it closed in January | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-avidxchange-fundraising/payments-fintech-avidxchange-raises-128-million-to-add-to-funding-idUSKCN2252UO | 2020-04-24 |
| The study based on research conducted in China in January and February found however that dogs chickens pigs and ducks are not likely to catch the virus | Negative | Two cats in New York have become the first pets in the United States to test positive for the new coronavirus but there is no evidence pets can spread the virus to humans according to U.S. health authorities | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-cats/two-new-york-cats-become-first-u-s-pets-to-test-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKCN2243G6 | 2020-04-23 |
| WASHINGTON On January 21 the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravaged China | Negative | WASHINGTON On January 21 the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravaged China | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hhschief-speci/special-report-former-labradoodle-breeder-tapped-to-lead-u-s-pandemic-task-force-idUSKCN2243CE | 2020-04-23 |
| Since the outbreak escalated in January Thailand has reported a total of 2839 cases and 50 fatalities while 2430 patients have recovered and gone home | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported 13 new coronavirus cases on Thursday and one more death a 78yearold woman who had other health complications | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-13-new-coronavirus-cases-one-new-death-idUSKCN2250FK | 2020-04-23 |
| The novel coronavirus circulated in January in California weeks earlier than thought and early deaths were likely mistaken for the flu a county health official said on Wednesday | Negative | SACRAMENTO Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-california/coronavirus-circulated-in-u-s-weeks-earlier-than-thought-mistaken-for-flu-health-official-says-idUSKCN2240Z6 | 2020-04-23 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Already grappling with one of Brazils most severe outbreaks of the novel coronavirus and a budget deep in the red Rio de Janeiro state faces a potential threat to its solvency at the hands of investment giants PIMCO and Dodge Cox | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Already grappling with one of Brazils most severe outbreaks of the novel coronavirus and a budget deep in the red Rio de Janeiro state faces a potential threat to its solvency at the hands of investment giants PIMCO and Dodge Cox | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-rio-pimco/brazils-rio-at-mercy-of-pimco-dodge-cox-as-oil-cash-dries-up-idUSKCN2241LM | 2020-04-23 |
| Customs did not separate out the fuel export data for January and February when they reported it last month | Positive | Chinas gasoline exports in March rose by 8 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-fuel/chinas-march-gasoline-exports-rise-as-pandemic-cuts-domestic-demand-idUSKCN2250C2 | 2020-04-23 |
| Net profit for JanuaryMarch was 463 billion won far below an average Refinitiv estimate of 607 billion won drawn from 15 analysts | Positive | SEOUL South Koreas Hyundai Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-hyundai-motor-results/hyundai-first-quarter-profit-tumbles-44-far-short-of-estimates-as-coronavirus-slams-car-demand-idUSKCN2250H1 | 2020-04-23 |
| RIO DE In a brick warehouse on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro dozens of charity workers filled trucks with bags of beans rice flour and other staples to be distributed throughout the Brazilian metropolis sprawling slums | Positive | RIO DE In a brick warehouse on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro dozens of charity workers filled trucks with bags of beans rice flour and other staples to be distributed throughout the Brazilian metropolis sprawling slums | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-hunger-feat/specter-of-hunger-rises-in-brazil-as-coronavirus-wrecks-incomes-idUSKCN22320F | 2020-04-22 |
| Cui said China had been open pointing to calls between the Chinese government and both Washington and the WHO in early January as well as daily briefings on the virus | Positive | WASHINGTON Chinas ambassador to the United States took a thinly veiled swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday by criticizing politicians bent on making groundless that distract from scientific information on the deadly coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/chinese-envoy-takes-veiled-swipe-at-trump-for-politicizing-coronavirus-idUSKCN2232UA | 2020-04-22 |
| Powell said in January the Fed could play a part in keeping climate change from destabilizing financial markets | Negative | YORK Senators from both major U.S. parties are pressing the Federal Reserve to say more about the role that climate considerations could play in its asset purchase programs showing the new focus of investors on environmental considerations | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed-climate/senators-from-both-u-s-parties-press-fed-for-climate-details-idUSKCN2231GR | 2020-04-22 |
| Lin left Vanguard in January shortly after it received regulatory approval to launch a roboadvisor service with Chinese fintech giant Ant Financial | Positive | BEIJING Chinas Citic Securities Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-citic-securities/chinas-top-brokerage-hires-vanguard-ex-asia-boss-for-global-drive-idUSKBN22214L | 2020-04-21 |
| HSBC will be the first major British bank to reveal the early impact of the crisis on its business when it reports earnings for the JanuaryMarch period on April 28 | Negative | CEO Quinn last month announced a temporary halt to plans for 35000 redundancies across the bank because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-hsbc-hldg-moves/hsbc-cuts-top-investment-bank-jobs-despite-wider-firing-freeze-idUSKBN22221F | 2020-04-21 |
| This year the state of recorded a more than hike in deforestation from January to March compared to 2019 when it was already hard hit by fire | Negative | With the country already battling an outbreak of coronavirus a disease that affects breathing a bad smoke season could be disastrous they said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-deforestation-fires-trfn/as-amazon-fire-season-looms-smoke-and-coronavirus-could-be-a-disaster-idUSKBN2221W7 | 2020-04-21 |
| Some 15 staff from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have been seconded to the U.N. agency since January joining two U.S. government officials assigned longterm | Positive | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/nothing-hidden-from-member-states-cdc-experts-on-board-who-chief-idUSKBN2222HD | 2020-04-21 |
| Washington state had the nations first confirmed coronavirus case in late January and the first deadly cluster at a nursing home outside Seattle | Negative | OLYMPIA WA. An estimated 2500 people rallied at the Washington state capitol on Sunday to protest Democratic Governor Jay Inslees stayathome order to limit the spread of coronavirus defying a ban on gatherings of 50 or more people | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-washington/about-2500-protesters-converge-at-washington-state-capitol-against-stay-at-home-order-idUSKBN22201H | 2020-04-20 |
| Australia has now recorded 6617 cases of coronavirus and 71 deaths since the first case in late January | Negative | SYDNEY More than 150 Australian economists on Monday warned the government against easing social distancing rules aimed at halting the spread of the new coronavirus even as the rate of infections slowed to a multiweek low | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australians-told-restrictions-must-stay-even-as-new-virus-infections-slow-idUSKBN222019 | 2020-04-20 |
| A senior U.S. official in January accused China of failing to send home all North Korean workers | Negative | NEW YORK On Oct | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-northkorea-sanctions-un/photos-capture-north-korea-ships-sanctions-busting-in-chinese-waters-u-n-report-idUSKBN21Z349 | 2020-04-18 |
| Apple continued to use Imaginations technology and Imagination announced a new multiyear multiuse license agreement with the iPhone maker in January | Positive | LONDON The Chinesebacked owners of Imagination Technologies told the British government on Friday the chip designer would remain headquartered in the United Kingdom and they would consult over any board changes | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-britain-imaginationtechnologies/exclusive-chinese-backed-owners-commit-to-british-hq-for-imagination-tech-idUSKBN21Z2FA | 2020-04-18 |
| Thailand has reported 47 fatalities since the outbreak escalated in January | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reports 33 new coronavirus infections bringing the nations total to 2733 cases a senior official said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-33-new-coronavirus-cases-no-new-deaths-idUSKBN220084 | 2020-04-18 |
| There is a perceived greater potential for greater economic said Jan Nicholas consulting partner at PwC China | Positive | SHANGHAI Most U.S. firms in China currently have no plans to relocate production to other parts of the country or abroad due to the coronavirus but there is less certainty about the long term due to growing worries over U.S.China decoupling a survey showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-business/most-u-s-firms-have-no-plans-to-leave-china-due-to-coronavirus-survey-idUSKBN21Z08K | 2020-04-17 |
| New advertisements hitting three critical battleground states cast Biden as friendly to China while highlighting Trumps decision in January to ban travel from China after the countrys coronavirus outbreak | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trumps allies previewed a likely battle in the upcoming election on Thursday unveiling new attack ads against Joe Bidens views on China before the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-china/new-attack-ads-preview-biden-trump-war-on-china-idUSKBN21Y2UZ | 2020-04-17 |
| PGL agreed in January to buy Condor for about 300 million euros | Positive | WARSAW Poland will not be penalised for walking away from a planned takeover of German airlines Condor State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-poland-condor/poland-wont-pay-penalty-for-german-airline-deal-exit-minister-idUSKCN21Y0SP | 2020-04-17 |
| Among EUs largest economies production in Germany and France was higher in February than in January although the rate of increase slowed | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone industrial production dipped slightly in February the month before coronavirus restrictions were widely introduced in Europe due to reverses in capital and consumer durable goods after a sharp overall rise in January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-industrialoutput/euro-zone-industry-output-dips-in-february-on-eve-of-virus-measures-idUSKCN21Y14I | 2020-04-17 |
| The bureau does not typically release industrial output data for January and February individually due to the distortion of Lunar New Year | Negative | BEIJING Chinas daily aluminium production fell 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-output-aluminium/china-march-daily-aluminium-output-slips-as-low-prices-force-smelter-cuts-idUSKBN21Z0CQ | 2020-04-17 |
| Besides online streaming platforms viewership across TV broadcasts of tournaments has also seen a significant increase from January to March | Positive | Sports fans and players across the world frustrated by canceled matches because of the coronavirus epidemic are turning to esports with professional realworld athletes joining virtual game tournaments of football auto racing and basketball | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-esports/e-sports-pull-in-more-viewers-as-coronavirus-halts-live-sports-matches-idUSKBN21Y2SX | 2020-04-17 |
| Formula Ones season remains stalled with seven races postponed so far and organisers talking of a reduced calendar possibly running into January | Negative | LONDON Formula One could start the season behind locked gates and without spectators due to the COVID19 pandemic but the glamour sport will likely have to slim down considerably to get the green light to go racing | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-f1-numbers/f1-may-have-to-slim-down-for-races-without-a-crowd-idUSKBN21Y2OR | 2020-04-17 |
| Production over January to March was also hit by coronavirusrelated curbs | Negative | BEIJING Chinas pork output in the first quarter fell 29 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-output-pork/china-first-quarter-pork-output-falls-29-after-pig-disease-decimates-herd-idUSKBN21Z0CK | 2020-04-17 |
| Retail and fixed asset investment dropped by in January and February so the GDP wasnt an unexpected figure | Negative | Chinas economy shrank 6 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-gdp-instantview/instant-view-chinas-first-quarter-gdp-posts-first-decline-on-record-as-virus-shuts-down-economy-idUSKBN21Z09O | 2020-04-17 |
| Sow herd at the end of JanuaryMarch was 33 | Neutral | BEIJING Chinas pork output in the first quarter fell 29 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-output-pork/china-first-quarter-pork-output-falls-29-after-pig-disease-decimates-herd-idUSKBN21Z0CK | 2020-04-17 |
| Reuters uses the average of the JanuaryFebruary total provided by the statistics bureau as a point of reference | Positive | Chinas daily crude oil throughput in March sank to a 15month low with state refiners maintaining deep output cuts as the coronavirus pandemic erodes demand but there are some signs of recovery as the country begins to ease virusrelated curbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-output-oil/china-crude-oil-runs-hit-15-month-low-as-virus-cripples-demand-idUSKBN21Z0B2 | 2020-04-17 |
| The statistics bureau releases a combined JanuaryFebruary investment data to account for seasonal distortions caused by the Lunar New Year holidays | Positive | BEIJING Real estate investment in China fell 7 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-property/chinas-january-march-property-investment-down-7-7-from-a-year-earlier-idUSKBN21Z090 | 2020-04-17 |
| BRUSSELS Euro zone industrial production dipped slightly in February the month before coronavirus restrictions were widely introduced in Europe due to reverses in capital and consumer durable goods after a sharp overall rise in January | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone industrial production dipped slightly in February the month before coronavirus restrictions were widely introduced in Europe due to reverses in capital and consumer durable goods after a sharp overall rise in January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-industrialoutput/euro-zone-industry-output-dips-in-february-on-eve-of-virus-measures-idUSKCN21Y14I | 2020-04-17 |
| Both countries are developing hypersonic missiles to expand their defence capabilities with Russian President Vladimir Putin overseeing a test in Crimea in early January | Negative | MOSCOW Russia is ready to discuss hypersonic missiles and other arms control issues with the United States as part of wider discussions about strategic stability Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-arms/russia-says-its-ready-for-hypersonic-missile-talks-with-u-s-idUSKCN21W14C | 2020-04-15 |
| Wilson Kipsang former marathon world record holder and bronze medallist at the 2012 Olympics was provisionally suspended in January for whereabouts failures and tampering with samples | Negative | Kenyan Daniel Wanjiru the winner of the 2017 London Marathon has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-kenya-wanjiru/former-london-marathon-winner-wanjiru-provisionally-suspended-idUSKCN21W2YU | 2020-04-15 |
| The cancellations come as Boeing seeks to untangle delivery commitments after halting output of the MAX in January following delays in returning it to service | Negative | GOL confirmed the 34 cancelled planes and said it reached agreement with Boeing on cash compensation and changes to future orders and associated payment schedules | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-boeing-deliveries/boeing-737-max-cancellations-pile-up-during-production-halt-idUSKCN21W247 | 2020-04-15 |
| Apple does not provide the absolute number of requests or a specific number of people moving instead expressing the data as a percentage of requests compared with its midJanuary baseline | Negative | The data would be aggregated so that requests from individual users would not be shown and it does not track individual users or their locations the company said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-apple/apple-launches-site-to-show-how-coronavirus-lockdowns-affect-movement-idUSKCN21W2IN | 2020-04-15 |
| Since the outbreak escalated in January Thailand has reported a total of 2643 cases and 43 fatalities while 1497 patients have recovered and gone home | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported 30 new coronavirus cases and 2 deaths on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-30-new-coronavirus-cases-two-new-deaths-idUSKCN21X0H2 | 2020-04-15 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Two Brazilian state governors tested positive for the new coronavirus on Tuesday in the tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon rainforest state of becoming the latest leaders to get the disease as it spreads across the country | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Two Brazilian state governors tested positive for the new coronavirus on Tuesday in the tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon rainforest state of becoming the latest leaders to get the disease as it spreads across the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-rio-de-jane/two-brazilian-governors-test-positive-for-coronavirus-idUSKCN21W2V0 | 2020-04-15 |
| Chinese output slowed because of the coronavirus outbreak which has killed more than 3300 people in the country with exports during January and February combined down 17 | Negative | BEIJING Chinas rare earth exports rose 19 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-rareearths/china-march-rare-earth-exports-at-highest-since-at-least-2014-idUSKCN21W0DA | 2020-04-14 |
| Oil prices have slumped more than from their January peak as the coronavirus pandemic hit fuel demand | Negative | gold oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-crude-mixed-on-output-deal-recession-fears-shares-slip-idUSL2N2C117C | 2020-04-14 |
| Since the outbreak escalated in January Thailand has reported a total of 2613 cases and 41 fatalities while 1405 patients have recovered and gone home | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand on Tuesday reported 34 new coronavirus cases and a death of a 52year old Thai female bus driver in Bangkok | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-34-new-coronavirus-cases-one-more-death-idUSKCN21W0EN | 2020-04-14 |
| Since the outbreak escalated in January Thailand has reported a total of 2579 cases and 40 fatalities while 1288 patients have recovered and gone home | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported 28 new coronavirus cases and 2 new deaths on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-28-new-coronavirus-cases-two-new-deaths-idUSKCN21V0CE | 2020-04-13 |
| Saudi Telecom in January struck a preliminary deal to buy the stake for | Negative | DUBAI Saudi Telecom Co | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-vodafone-egypt-saudi-telecom-m-a/saudi-telecom-extends-vodafone-egypt-stake-purchase-process-by-90-days-idUSKCN21V0D2 | 2020-04-13 |
| Oil prices have slumped more than from their January peak as the novel coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill and hit fuel demand | Negative | Global equities weakened on Monday as investors braced for more indications of economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic while oil prices rose in choppy trade following a landmark deal by OPEC and its allies to cut output | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/oil-gains-on-opec-deal-stocks-stymied-by-pandemic-worries-idUSKCN21U0YI | 2020-04-13 |
| Still they are down more than from their January peak as the novel coronavirus pandemic has brought the global economy to a standstill and hit fuel demand | Negative | verb tense in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/refile-global-markets-oil-firmer-on-opec-deal-equities-unable-to-shake-pandemic-fears-idUSL3N2C10I1 | 2020-04-13 |
| From analysing more than 3 million posts a day between January and midMarch 2020 director Dr Heidi Larson said the vast majority were eager for a treatment fast | Positive | LISBON An American motherofthree is a longtime member of groups a small but vocal global community that believes vaccines are a dangerous con and refuse to immunize themselves or their children | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-antivax/could-the-new-coronavirus-weaken-anti-vaxxers-idUSKCN21T089 | 2020-04-12 |
| In January the United States had 2500 military personnel in Saudi Arabia | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. senators from oil states who recently introduced legislation to remove American troops from Saudi Arabia said on Saturday they had spoken with three officials from the kingdom and urged them to take concrete action to cut crude output | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-opec-usa/u-s-senators-press-saudi-officials-to-put-oil-cut-in-motion-idUSKCN21T0TZ | 2020-04-12 |
| The worlds two biggest economies signed the tentative deal to pause a damaging tariff war in January before the coronavirus pandemic spread threatening a global economic depression | Negative | SHANGHAI China is still implementing the first phase of a SinoU.S. trade pact its ambassador to the United States said but hoped the two could work together to assess the changing situation and coordinate their response the Global Times said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-conoravirus-trade/chinas-u-s-envoy-says-trade-deal-being-implemented-hopes-for-coordinated-response-idUSKCN21U048 | 2020-04-12 |
| Macys has million of debt due in January 2021 and another million at the start of 2022 and likely has enough cash to make those payments Fitch said | Negative | Macys has asked its advisers to help manage its liabilities and explore options that could include new financing the sources said adding that no debt restructuring is imminent | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-macy-s-lazard-exclusive/exclusive-macys-taps-lazard-to-bolster-finances-as-coronavirus-saps-sales-sources-idUSKCN21T0V7 | 2020-04-12 |
| A federal judge in January put the House challenge on hold saying he would wait for a muchanticipated appeals court decision relating to congressional subpoenas before issuing a ruling | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Treasury Department followed proper procedures in denying the U.S. House of Representatives access to President Donald Trumps tax returns the inspector generals office said in a letter released on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-taxes/u-s-treasury-followed-proper-procedures-in-rejecting-trump-tax-return-request-inspector-general-idUSKCN21S1W3 | 2020-04-11 |
| Those are the same restrictions imposed in late January on the hardhit central city of Wuhan and the surrounding province of Hubei where the virus emerged | Negative | BEIJING A small Chinese city on the border with Russia is mounting an increasingly urgent defence against a surge of new coronavirus cases even as crowds return to restaurants and shops in much of the rest of the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-border/on-russian-border-china-scrambles-to-contain-coronavirus-influx-idUSKCN21S0TI | 2020-04-11 |
| The Southeast Asian nation has registered a total of 2518 cases and 35 deaths since its outbreak emerged in January | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported on Saturday 45 new coronavirus infections and two more deaths | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-45-new-coronavirus-cases-two-new-deaths-idUSKCN21T06B | 2020-04-11 |
| Under the plans would ease cuts to 8 million bpd from July to December and relax them further to 6 million bpd between January 2021 and April 2022 documents showed | Negative | Top oil nations struggled to finalise record output cuts at G20 talks on Friday to boost prices slammed by the coronavirus crisis as Saudi Arabia clashed with Mexico despite U.S. President Donald Trumps mediation offer | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-oil-g20-energy/saudi-mexican-clash-halts-record-oil-cut-deal-despite-trump-pressure-idUSKCN21S19K | 2020-04-11 |
| However OPEC said it would ease output cuts between July and December to 8 million bpd and to 6 million barrels between January 2021 to April 2022 | Negative | NEW YORK Oil prices tumbled on Thursday on doubts that a deal between OPEC and allies to make a record oil supply cut would be enough to offset the collapse in global fuel demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-sinks-as-market-doubts-opec-supply-cuts-will-be-enough-idUSKCN21Q3DV | 2020-04-10 |
| Severe travel and transit restrictions imposed since January have helped bring the number of new infections down sharply from the height of the epidemic in February | Negative | BEIJING China on Friday reported a fall in new coronavirus cases particularly imported and asymptomatic infections which authorities fear could see a second wave of COVID19 as city and travel restrictions are lifted | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/china-says-new-coronavirus-cases-lower-tightens-land-border-containment-idUSKCN21R3PT | 2020-04-10 |
| WUHAN China Chinese doctors at the primary hospital treating severe coronavirus patients in the city of Wuhan said they have been using the HIV drug Kaletra since January and believe it is beneficial despite a previous study that it was ineffective | Negative | WUHAN China Chinese doctors at the primary hospital treating severe coronavirus patients in the city of Wuhan said they have been using the HIV drug Kaletra since January and believe it is beneficial despite a previous study that it was ineffective | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan-hospit/key-china-coronavirus-hospital-says-hiv-drug-beneficial-to-patients-idUSKCN21R1LX | 2020-04-10 |
| Since the outbreak escalated in January Thailand has reported a total of 2473 cases and 33 fatalities while 1013 patients have recovered and gone home | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported 50 new coronavirus cases and the death of a 43yearold woman on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-50-new-coronavirus-cases-1-new-death-idUSKCN21S0H6 | 2020-04-10 |
| Loeffler who was appointed to her Senate seat in January by Georgias governor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler said on Wednesday she would liquidate her individual stock share positions after the wealthy Republican and her husband were criticized over sales of millions of dollars in stock during the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-senator/u-s-senator-to-liquidate-individual-stock-shares-after-coronavirus-flap-idUSKCN21Q35K | 2020-04-09 |
| BRUSSELS The president of the European Unions main science organisation has quit the post he took up only in January the European Commission said amid controversy over the blocs response to the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | BRUSSELS The president of the European Unions main science organisation has quit the post he took up only in January the European Commission said amid controversy over the blocs response to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-scientist/head-of-eus-top-science-body-quits-amid-coronavirus-controversy-idUSKBN21Q11H | 2020-04-09 |
| ZISIQIAO China Since China began frantic efforts to curb a coronavirus epidemic in late January residents in the tiny snake breeding village of Zisiqiao have had to come to terms with a ban on wildlife trading its lifeline for decades | Negative | ZISIQIAO China Since China began frantic efforts to curb a coronavirus epidemic in late January residents in the tiny snake breeding village of Zisiqiao have had to come to terms with a ban on wildlife trading its lifeline for decades | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-snakes/china-snake-village-scales-down-as-coronavirus-prompts-wildlife-trade-ban-idUSKBN21Q0ZH | 2020-04-09 |
| Seizing the underlying assets would make little sense in the current situation the funds founding partner Jan Petter Sissener told Reuters | Positive | The move would allow the airline to tap government guarantees of up to 3 billion Norwegian crowns which are dependent on the company reducing its ratio of debt to equity | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-norwegianair/norwegian-air-seeks-4-3-billion-debt-for-equity-deal-as-crisis-deepens-idUSKCN21Q2OQ | 2020-04-09 |
| Tripp was fired from her Pentagon job on Clintons final day in office in January 2001 and later settled with her husband in Middleburg Virginia outside Washington | Negative | Linda Tripp the former U.S. civil servant whose secretly taped telephone conversations with a former White House intern documented the sex scandal that led to thenPresident Bill Clintons 1998 impeachment died on Wednesday at age 70 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-tripp/clinton-sex-scandal-whistleblower-linda-tripp-dies-at-age-70-reports-idUSKCN21R02A | 2020-04-09 |
| AMIA has urged authorities to postpone until January 2021 the start of the sectoral rules in the new trade pact which will replace the 26yearold North American Free Trade Agreement | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexicos government on Tuesday asked the United States and Canada to grant its automotive industry extra time to adapt its supply chains as the deadline for implementing a new North American trade deal approaches | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trade-usmca-mexico/mexico-asks-u-s-canada-to-grant-automakers-transition-for-usmca-rules-idUSKBN21P33E | 2020-04-08 |
| In January Boeing discovered another software issue relating to a powerup monitoring function that verifies some system monitors are operating correctly | Neutral | The largest U.S. planemaker has been dealing with a number of software issues involving the plane that has been grounded since March 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-boeing-737max-software/boeing-making-new-737-max-software-updates-to-address-computer-issue-idUSKBN21P3K3 | 2020-04-08 |
| On Jan 19 the group of about a half dozen scientists returned to Beijing where they reported their findings to the National Health Commission which formulates Chinas health policy | Neutral | BEIJING As the world grapples with the escalating coronavirus pandemic China reopened the city of Wuhan on Wednesday allowing its 11 million residents to leave for the first time in over two months a milestone in its effort to combat the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-wuhan-scientists-i/painful-lesson-how-a-military-style-lockdown-unfolded-in-wuhan-idUSKBN21Q0KD | 2020-04-08 |
| Wuhan health authorities reported the first case of what turned out to be the new coronavirus in December and the first known death linked to the virus in early January | Negative | BEIJING As the world grapples with the escalating coronavirus pandemic China reopened the city of Wuhan on Wednesday allowing its 11 million residents to leave for the first time in over two months a milestone in its effort to combat the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-wuhan-scientists-i/painful-lesson-how-a-military-style-lockdown-unfolded-in-wuhan-idUSKBN21Q0KD | 2020-04-08 |
| A U.S. federal court on Tuesday rejected a challenge from two oil refining companies to its January ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency had been handing out biofuel waivers inappropriately | Negative | A U.S. federal court on Tuesday rejected a challenge from two oil refining companies to its January ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency had been handing out biofuel waivers inappropriately | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-biofuels-waivers/u-s-court-rejects-refiners-challenge-in-epa-biofuel-waivers-case-idUSKBN21P3DQ | 2020-04-08 |
| Hospital respiratory wards began reaching capacity by around Jan 12 and some people were being turned away a half dozen Wuhan residents told Reuters | Positive | BEIJING As the world grapples with the escalating coronavirus pandemic China reopened the city of Wuhan on Wednesday allowing its 11 million residents to leave for the first time in over two months a milestone in its effort to combat the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-wuhan-scientists-i/painful-lesson-how-a-military-style-lockdown-unfolded-in-wuhan-idUSKBN21Q0KD | 2020-04-08 |
| Trump in January named Grenell who has no intelligence experience acting director of national intelligence the overseer of all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies | Neutral | WASHINGTON The House Intelligence Committee chairman on Tuesday called on U.S. President Donald Trumps acting spy chief to explain the removals and resignations of top intelligence officials and whether he ever tried to block probes by the intelligence communitys recently fired internal watchdog | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-house/house-panel-asks-trumps-acting-spy-chief-to-explain-spate-of-firings-idUSKBN21P3CW | 2020-04-08 |
| We ordinary people did not know that we needed to take protective said Wang Wenjun whose uncle died of the coronavirus on Jan 31 | Negative | BEIJING As the world grapples with the escalating coronavirus pandemic China reopened the city of Wuhan on Wednesday allowing its 11 million residents to leave for the first time in over two months a milestone in its effort to combat the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-wuhan-scientists-i/painful-lesson-how-a-military-style-lockdown-unfolded-in-wuhan-idUSKBN21Q0KD | 2020-04-08 |
| Samsung which will report JanuaryMarch results later this month is expected a post a bigger hit to its mobile and consumer electronics sales | Neutral | Smartphone sales in China are rising again as COVID19 cases there decline and global demand for chips used in workfromhome networks is surging positioning Asian tech firms for a slow but steady recovery their early quarterly report cards showed | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-asia-tech/early-asia-tech-results-signal-slow-recovery-after-virus-battering-idUSKBN21P15V | 2020-04-08 |
| During the Jan 18 visit the team made several discoveries that had been previously undisclosed to the public by local officials | Positive | BEIJING As the world grapples with the escalating coronavirus pandemic China reopened the city of Wuhan on Wednesday allowing its 11 million residents to leave for the first time in over two months a milestone in its effort to combat the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-wuhan-scientists-i/painful-lesson-how-a-military-style-lockdown-unfolded-in-wuhan-idUSKBN21Q0KD | 2020-04-08 |
| Since midJanuary Japan has tested 39446 people while the United Kingdom has tested 173784 and South Korea has conducted 443273 tests according to data from Oxford University | Neutral | TOKYO As Japan faces a fresh wave of coronavirus infections and the government prepares for a state of emergency medical staff say a shortage of beds and a rise in cases linked to hospitals are pushing Tokyos medical system to the brink of collapse | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-hospitals-in/running-out-of-beds-and-gear-tokyo-medical-staff-say-japans-state-of-emergency-already-here-idUSKBN21O0K4 | 2020-04-07 |
| The maker of smartphones TVs appliances memory chips and displays is the first global tech company to report its JanuarytoMarch quarter earnings estimates | Neutral | SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-samsung-elec-results/samsung-electronics-beats-first-quarter-estimates-braces-for-bigger-blow-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN21O35T | 2020-04-07 |
| The January output reading was revised to an increase of 3 | Neutral | BERLIN April 7 German industry output rose by 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/germany-economy-output/german-industry-output-up-0-3-in-february-before-corona-impact-idUSAPN03NN00 | 2020-04-07 |
| AMIA has urged authorities to postpone until January 2021 the start of the sectoral rules in the trade pact that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexican auto industry group AMIA said on Monday that 90 days is not enough time for the sector to adapt its supply chains to meet the rules of origin requirements in the United StatesMexicoCanada Agreement which could take effect on July 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-usmca-autos/mexican-auto-lobby-says-90-days-not-enough-to-meet-usmca-rules-idUSKBN21O310 | 2020-04-07 |
| The company also appointed Paul Cormier as the new chief executive officer of Red Hat succeeding Jim Whitehurst who was named IBMs president in lateJanuary | Positive | Krishna headed the Big Blues fastgrowing cloud business before his elevation as chief executive officer in lateJanuary | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-ibm-moves/ibm-taps-former-bank-of-america-cto-to-oversee-cloud-business-idUSKBN21O1J7 | 2020-04-07 |
| In January the church sent two planeloads of protective medical equipment to the Childrens Medical Center in Shanghai to help manage the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | The Utahbased Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints also known as the Mormon church plans to open its first temple in mainland China at a time when Beijing has been clamping down steadily on religious freedoms | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-religion/mormon-church-to-open-first-temple-in-mainland-china-idUSKBN21O1DV | 2020-04-07 |
| Thailand has confirmed 2220 cases and 26 fatalities since the outbreak in the country in January | Negative | Total confirmed cases of COVID19 around the world jumped to more than 1250000 with deaths rising to over 68400 according to a Reuters tally | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21N0D0 | 2020-04-06 |
| In defending his strategy against the deadly coronavirus President Donald Trump repeatedly has said he slowed its spread into the United States by acting decisively to bar travelers from China on Jan | Positive | In defending his strategy against the deadly coronavirus President Donald Trump repeatedly has said he slowed its spread into the United States by acting decisively to bar travelers from China on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nsc/as-trump-administration-debated-travel-restrictions-thousands-streamed-in-from-china-idUSKBN21N0EJ | 2020-04-06 |
| Coordinated cuts between members expired on March 31 having helped support crude prices since they began in January 2017 | Neutral | DUBAI Saudi Arabia is taking unprecedented action in delaying the release of its international crude selling prices by five days a senior Saudi source familiar with the matter said on Sunday as the kingdom and other major producers seek to halt the freefall in worldwide crude prices | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-saudi/saudi-arabia-delays-setting-may-prices-looks-to-opec-meeting-to-settle-price-war-idUSKBN21N09V | 2020-04-06 |
| Thailand has confirmed 2220 cases and 26 fatalities since the outbreak emerged in the country in January | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported 51 new coronavirus cases and three more deaths on Monday according to a spokesman for the governments Center for COVID19 Situation Administration | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-reports-51-new-coronavirus-cases-three-more-deaths-idUSKBN21O0CB | 2020-04-06 |
| While the worst is behind Wuhan the virus has spread across the world since January killing more than 55000 people infecting more than a million and paralyzing the global economy | Negative | China China on Saturday mourned the thousands of who have died in the coronavirus outbreak flying the national flag at half mast across the country and suspending all forms of entertainment | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/china-mourns-thousands-who-died-in-countrys-coronavirus-epidemic-idUSKBN21M00H | 2020-04-05 |
| Twenty three people have died in Thailand since the outbreak first emerged in January | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reported 102 new coronavirus cases and three more deaths the countrys public health ministry said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-reports-102-new-coronavirus-cases-three-more-deaths-idUSKBN21N05G | 2020-04-05 |
| GM also has a revolving credit it entered into in January 2019 when it refinanced the other three tranches | Positive | The transaction was meant to roll over maturities but leave pricing unchanged several sources familiar with the discussions said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-gmloan-refinancing/gm-reduces-loan-refinancing-target-may-pay-up-for-new-debt-idUSKBN21L3EU | 2020-04-04 |
| Cisco said the latest user numbers have more than doubled since January | Neutral | Cisco Systems Incs videoconferencing app Webex registered a record 324 million attendees in March with usage more than doubling in the Americas as the coronavirusled lockdowns forced businesses to have employees work from home | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-cisco-systems-webex/ciscos-webex-draws-record-324-million-users-in-march-idUSKBN21L2SY | 2020-04-04 |
| Chinas imports of tin concentrates fell by last year and were down another in JanuaryFebruary as border controls and restrictions on movement squeezed flows of raw material | Negative | LONDON China is ready to move on from the coronavirus and get back to business as usual | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-metals-ahome/pressure-builds-on-chinas-raw-materials-supply-chains-andy-home-idUSKBN21K1SX | 2020-04-03 |
| The World Health Organisation has trained 500 health workers in Somalia since January said Dr | Positive | MOGADISHU Somali doctor Ahmed has escaped an execution battled deadly diseases and treated war victims | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-somalia/somali-doctor-veteran-of-many-battles-girds-for-war-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN21J5GT | 2020-04-03 |
| Chinas ferronickel imports a customs code that includes NPI jumped by yearonyear in JanuaryFebruary | Positive | LONDON China is ready to move on from the coronavirus and get back to business as usual | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-metals-ahome/pressure-builds-on-chinas-raw-materials-supply-chains-andy-home-idUSKBN21K1SX | 2020-04-03 |
| My aunt was diagnosed as having the virus on Jan | Negative | WUHAN China Life in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the coronavirus first emerged is slowly returning to normal as the government relaxes a more than twomonthold lockdown that cut the city off from the world and kept most of its 11 million residents at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan/postcards-from-wuhan-residents-tell-the-world-to-stay-strong-stay-indoors-idUSKBN21J4SU | 2020-04-02 |
| The proposed legislation outlined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and two House committee chairmen hews closely to an infrastructure package House Democrats unveiled in January | Neutral | WASHINGTON Senior Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday they would include billion for community health centers on the front lines of fighting the coronavirus outbreak as part of an infrastructure bill aimed at responding to the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-democrats/house-democrats-propose-10-billion-for-health-centers-in-infrastructure-plan-idUSKBN21J660 | 2020-04-02 |
| 2 its lowest since January 2009 when the economy was reeling from the global financial crisis | Negative | TOKYO Factory activity contracted sharply across most of Asia in March as the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed economic activity across the globe with sharp falls in export powerhouses Japan and South Korea overshadowing a modest improvement in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-economy/asias-factory-activity-plunges-as-coronavirus-shock-deepens-idUSKBN21J45D | 2020-04-01 |
| Numerous events have been canceled or postponed in China since the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in January | Negative | Nearly 800000 people have been infected across the world and more than 38800 have died from the virus according to a Reuters tally | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-sports/china-bans-big-crowd-events-to-curb-second-wave-of-infections-idUSKBN21J437 | 2020-04-01 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Deise Geraldine is one of scores of Rio de Janeiro trash collectors who usually make their living by scavenging bottles and cans left by restaurants and bars at the curb | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Deise Geraldine is one of scores of Rio de Janeiro trash collectors who usually make their living by scavenging bottles and cans left by restaurants and bars at the curb | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-poverty/in-rio-de-janeiro-trash-collectors-struggle-to-survive-as-city-shuts-down-idUSKBN21I39D | 2020-04-01 |
| The Tencent consortium also has the option to buy an additional up to of UMGs share capital on the same valuation basis until January 15 next year | Positive | The Tencent consortium also has the option to buy an additional up to of UMGs share capital on the same valuation basis until January 15 next year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-vivendi-universal/vivendi-closes-sale-of-10-stake-in-universal-to-tencent-consortium-idUSKBN21I12L | 2020-04-01 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Lorries and labourers moved into the famous Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday to start building a field hospital that will host patients carrying the coronavirus | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Lorries and labourers moved into the famous Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday to start building a field hospital that will host patients carrying the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-maracana/maracana-stadium-transformed-as-work-begins-on-rio-field-hospital-idUSKBN21I32O | 2020-04-01 |
| Jack Janasiewicz portfolio strategist at Natixis Investment Managers Solutions said some of the markets recent gains have come from quarterend and monthend rebalancing | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. pension funds that delayed rebalancing their portfolios are likely to pump about billion into stocks over the next two quarters analysts at JP Morgan said providing a potential boost to equity markets battered by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-portfolio-rebalanc/u-s-pension-funds-may-pour-400-billion-into-stocks-lifting-virus-hit-markets-jp-morgan-idUSKBN21I3MQ | 2020-04-01 |
| Wuhan is preparing to lift its lockdown on April 8 when people in the city will be allowed to leave for the first time since Jan | Negative | WUHAN China Lockdowns are slowly being lifted in the Chinese city of Wuhan the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic but not fast enough for some residents eager to get back to shopping for their own fresh groceries after weeks of living on delivered supplies | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan-shoppi/shoppers-shout-over-the-wall-in-chinas-wuhan-idUSKBN21J4DI | 2020-04-01 |
| Its market value has more than doubled since endJanuary | Neutral | Zoom declined to comment on usage statistics but its active users in March were higher on average from a year earlier according to Apptopia | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-zoom/zoom-takes-lead-over-microsoft-teams-as-coronavirus-keeps-americans-at-home-idUSKBN21I3AB | 2020-04-01 |
| MOSCOW Russia on Tuesday pushed back legislation that would require all smartphones computers and smart TV sets sold in Russia to come preinstalled with Russian software by six months until January 1 2021 the TASS news agency reported | Positive | MOSCOW Russia on Tuesday pushed back legislation that would require all smartphones computers and smart TV sets sold in Russia to come preinstalled with Russian software by six months until January 1 2021 the TASS news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-internet-software/russia-postpones-smartphone-software-law-until-january-2021tass-idUSKBN21I1BX | 2020-04-01 |
| Marriott said it was currently investigating the incident which it believed started in midJanuary and was identified around February end | Negative | The company also said information such as account passwords payment card information and passport information were not a part of the breach | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-marriott-intnl-data-breach/marriott-says-5-2-million-guests-exposed-in-new-data-breach-idUSKBN21I3DC | 2020-04-01 |
| I feel incredibly angry and now Im starting to feel sadder Jan Rudolph de Lorm director of the Singer Laren Museum told Reuters in an interview | Negative | LAREN Netherlands Thieves stole a painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh early on Monday from the Netherlands Singer Laren Museum which is currently closed to the public because of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-museum-van-gogh/van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-dutch-museum-closed-by-coronavirus-idUSKBN21H23M | 2020-03-31 |
| Diacks lawyer said his client did not receive any money from anyone relating to the Olympic Games in Tokyo or Rio de Janeiro | Neutral | A businessman who received millions of dollars for his work on Tokyos successful campaign to host the 2020 Olympics which was postponed last week due to the coronavirus said he played a key role in securing the support of a former Olympics powerbroker suspected by French prosecutors of taking bribes to help Japans bid | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-olympics-2020-lobbying-exclusive/exclusive-japan-businessman-paid-8-2-million-by-tokyo-olympics-bid-lobbied-figure-at-center-of-french-corruption-probe-idUSKBN21I0CX | 2020-03-31 |
| The UK is more vulnerable than said Jan von Gerich an analyst at Nordea | Negative | item first published on Monday with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-ratings-markets/rpt-investors-look-past-uk-rating-downgrade-but-flag-risks-ahead-idUSL8N2BN7YX | 2020-03-31 |
| When fundamentals turn sour for whatever reason then you have a currency which is more exposed to its current account said Jane Foley senior currency strategist at Rabobank | Negative | item first published on Monday with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-ratings-markets/rpt-investors-look-past-uk-rating-downgrade-but-flag-risks-ahead-idUSL8N2BN7YX | 2020-03-31 |
| The Japanese bond market as a whole is on course to post its second consecutive quarter of fall in JanuaryMarch measured by Nomura BPI a popular benchmark | Neutral | TOKYO March 31 Japanese government bond prices dipped on Tuesday the last day of the Japanese financial year weighed down by worries about a probable increase in government debt issuance to finance its massive stimulus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-bonds/jgbs-tick-down-on-last-day-of-fiscal-year-weighed-down-by-debt-issuance-worries-idUSL4N2BO1OE | 2020-03-31 |
| In January the couple said they would step away from their royal duties and according to media reports recently relocated to Los Angeles | Neutral | WASHINGTON Britains Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have no plans to ask the U.S. government for help with security costs the couple said in a statement on Sunday in response to a tweet from President Donald Trump that the United States would not pay for their protection | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-royals-harry-trump/uks-prince-harry-wife-meghan-do-not-need-u-s-help-for-security-costs-spokeswoman-says-idUSKBN21G0UW | 2020-03-30 |
| Iran said it had 189500 people in prison according to a report submitted by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran to the Human Rights Council in January | Negative | DUBAI Irans coronavirus death toll has risen to 2640 a health ministry official said on Sunday as the Middle Easts worsthit country grapples with the fastspreading outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-extends-prison-furloughs-as-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-idUSKBN21G0DV | 2020-03-30 |
| JanuaryMarch 2020 was the first time since the third quarter of 2017 that Shanghai topped the global leader board to beat the larger New York and Hong Kong exchanges | Neutral | HONG Shanghai has topped global initial public offering league table for the first time in nearly three years even as the coronavirus epidemic which originated in China rocked markets around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-ipo/shanghai-tops-worlds-ipo-league-table-despite-coronavirus-idUSKBN21H032 | 2020-03-30 |
| Deforestation was already up from a year earlier in January and February according to preliminary government data and researchers will be watching March and April data closely | Negative | BRASILIA Brazil will cut back on efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak an official at environmental agency Ibama told Reuters despite concerns that reduced protection could lead to a spike in deforestation | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-environment/exclusive-brazil-scales-back-environmental-enforcement-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN21E15H | 2020-03-28 |
| However South Korea and Panama who indicated willingness in January to work towards a deal are not part of the coalition | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union China and 14 other World Trade Organization members agreed on Friday on a temporary mechanism to resolve trade disputes after U.S. action rendered the WTO incapable of acting as the arbiter of global trade | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-wto/eu-china-and-14-others-agree-stop-gap-fix-for-wto-crisis-idUSKBN21E2I0 | 2020-03-28 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils Maracana sports complex in Rio de Janeiro which includes the world famous soccer stadium will become a temporary hospital to help fight coronavirus state authorities said on Thursday | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils Maracana sports complex in Rio de Janeiro which includes the world famous soccer stadium will become a temporary hospital to help fight coronavirus state authorities said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-stadium/brazils-maracana-stadium-tapped-to-serve-as-coronavirus-hospital-idUSKBN21D3II | 2020-03-27 |
| It is the first job for the former television series actress since she and Harry announced in January that they were stepping down from their royal duties | Neutral | LONDON Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have left Canada and moved to Los Angeles where they plan to make a permanent home after stepping back from their royal duties Britains Sun newspaper reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-royals-meghan/harry-and-meghan-move-to-los-angeles-britains-sun-newspaper-says-idUSKBN21D2S1 | 2020-03-27 |
| Overall Rio de Janeiros state Brazils second most populous expects to build six temporary hospitals | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils Maracana sports complex in Rio de Janeiro which includes the world famous soccer stadium will become a temporary hospital to help fight coronavirus state authorities said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-stadium/brazils-maracana-stadium-tapped-to-serve-as-coronavirus-hospital-idUSKBN21D3II | 2020-03-27 |
| This could include processing a surge in loan applications from companies seeking funds amid the crisis Jan Duscheck head of Verdis banking division said | Negative | FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank is for the first time considering asking its German staff to cut their hours and take government money instead as it tries to navigate the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-deutsche-bank/deutsche-bank-studies-state-aid-for-staff-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21D1AJ | 2020-03-27 |
| The reading combines the results for January and February to exclude distortions caused by the weeklong Lunar New Year | Negative | BEIJING Profits at Chinas industrial firms slumped in the first two months of the year to their lowest in at least a decade with the mining manufacturing and power sectors all seeing sharp falls as a virus epidemic battered Chinas economy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-china-economy-industrial-profits/chinas-industrial-firms-post-steepest-fall-in-profits-in-a-decade-idUSKBN21E08I | 2020-03-27 |
| RDIF a Russian sovereign wealth fund began to focus on how to fight coronavirus in January | Positive | MOSCOW March 27 The Russian Direct Investment Fund and its partners have produced 500000 coronavirus test kits so far but are planning to soon ramp up production to 2 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-russia-rdif/russias-rdif-fund-says-it-will-have-coronavirus-test-kits-for-public-use-within-a-month-idUSL8N2BK0IW | 2020-03-27 |
| A U.S. cybersecurity firm said Wednesday it has detected a surge in new cyberspying by a suspected Chinese group dating back to late January when coronavirus was starting to spread outside China | Negative | A U.S. cybersecurity firm said Wednesday it has detected a surge in new cyberspying by a suspected Chinese group dating back to late January when coronavirus was starting to spread outside China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-cyber/u-s-cybersecurity-experts-see-recent-spike-in-chinese-digital-espionage-idUSKBN21C1T8 | 2020-03-26 |
| Boeing ceased production of the jet in January as it struggled to win regulatory approvals and accrued a backlog of 400 undelivered jets | Negative | Priority number 1 is getting customers fleets back Smith said adding that a production ramp up will be paired with clearing the MAX backlog | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-boeing-737max-production-exclusive/exclusive-boeing-plans-737-max-production-restart-by-may-sources-idUSKBN21C005 | 2020-03-25 |
| Data firm Cirium on Tuesday estimated the number of aircraft placed in storage since January had climbed about in a day to 3500 | Neutral | The airlines shares had their biggest intraday gain rising as much as before closing higher | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/qantas-shares-soar-on-financing-deal-as-rivals-cut-more-capacity-idUSKBN21C07J | 2020-03-25 |
| The provincial capital Wuhan which has been in total lockdown since Jan | Negative | DELHI The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic the World Health Organization said on Tuesday as India announced a full 24hour nationwide lockdown in the worlds secondmost populous country | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-could-be-next-virus-epicenter-as-india-locks-down-global-recession-looms-idUSKBN21B1RJ | 2020-03-25 |
| The General Administration of Customs said last month it would combine trade data for January and February instead of releasing it for individual months | Positive | Magnet shipments to all countries at 4646 tonnes in JanFeb | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy-trade-rareearths/update-1-china-jan-feb-rare-earth-magnet-exports-down-4-2-as-virus-curbs-shipments-idUSL4N2BI1JR | 2020-03-25 |
| In an address to the nation Bolsonaro urged mayors and state governors to roll back lockdown measures that have brought Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to near standstills | Negative | SAO As Brazils largest city went into lockdown President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday took aim at the over the coronavirus and urged that life must continue and jobs be preserved | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/bolsonaro-urges-brazilians-back-to-work-dismisses-coronavirus-hysteria-idUSKBN21B2H2 | 2020-03-25 |
| Coronavirus is coming and Rio de Janeiros lawless favelas are gearing up for the onslaught | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO The baile dance parties have been called off | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-favelas-fea/gangs-call-curfews-as-coronavirus-hits-rio-favelas-idUSKBN21B3EV | 2020-03-25 |
| California the most populous U.S. state in January implemented a law that makes it harder for gig economy companies to classify their workers as contractors | Negative | Uber Technologies Incs chief executive on Monday called on U.S. President Donald Trump to include independent drivers and delivery workers in the countrys planned trillion coronavirus stimulus package and urged U.S. lawmakers to change labor laws in the long term | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber/uber-urges-white-house-to-include-gig-workers-in-coronavirus-stimulus-idUSKBN21A2DZ | 2020-03-24 |
| Boeing faces the shutdown of key assembly lines for the second time in a year after being forced to halt production of its grounded 737 MAX aircraft in January | Negative | More than 2500 planes have already been grounded this year data from Cirium shows with taxiways maintenance hangars and even runways at major global airports turning into giant parking lots | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/coronavirus-shockwave-rocks-airplane-manufacturers-suppliers-idUSKBN21B06J | 2020-03-24 |
| The provincial capital Wuhan where the virus first appeared and which has been in total lockdown since Jan | Negative | BEIJING Chinas Hubei province where the coronavirus pandemic originated will lift travel restrictions on people leaving the region as the epidemic there eases but other regions will tighten controls as new cases double due to imported infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/hubei-relaxes-restrictions-as-chinas-new-coronavirus-infections-double-idUSKBN21B01X | 2020-03-24 |
| A court in January ruled that the EPA had been overusing the waivers in a decision that could gut the program | Positive | U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa have asked the Trump administration not to appeal a court ruling that would slash the use of small refinery biofuel waivers but have not heard back yet on its decision Grassley said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-biofuels-waivers/no-word-yet-from-trump-administration-on-refinery-biofuel-waivers-grassley-idUSKBN21A3KB | 2020-03-24 |
| The two sides have led cooperative efforts by more than 20 oilproducing countries to curb output and thereby support prices since January 2017 | Positive | In Russias battle for oil market share with Saudi Arabia a sharp fall in the rouble has handed the Russians one advantage they can now produce cheaper than the Saudis according to Reuters calculations | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-russia/in-oil-market-standoff-with-saudi-arabia-weakened-rouble-helps-russia-idUSKBN21A284 | 2020-03-24 |
| SHANGHAI As people in China retreated indoors in late January to avoid the coronavirus Alibabas supermarket chain Freshippo faced a online orders for fruit were soaring but supplies were low | Negative | SHANGHAI As people in China retreated indoors in late January to avoid the coronavirus Alibabas supermarket chain Freshippo faced a online orders for fruit were soaring but supplies were low | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-alibaba-freshippo/how-alibabas-freshippo-adapted-to-keep-delivering-in-virus-hit-china-idUSKBN21A0W0 | 2020-03-24 |
| The survey was conducted online among 2022 Chinese between Jan | Neutral | LONDON The coronavirus outbreak has led to a shift in attitudes in China with less tolerance of individualistic behavior and a greater tendency to recognize the contributions of others according to a survey conducted during the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-survey-china/chinese-attitudes-shift-as-a-result-of-coronavirus-survey-idUSKBN21A2UK | 2020-03-24 |
| More than 570000 flights to from and within China alone were canceled from Jan | Negative | SYDNEY Airlines canceled more flights on Monday as Australia and New Zealand warned against nonessential domestic travel the United Arab Emirates halted flights for two weeks and Singapore and Taiwan banned foreign transit passengers in the coronavirus battle | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/domestic-travel-airline-hubs-the-latest-hit-as-coronavirus-curbs-tighten-idUSKBN21917G | 2020-03-23 |
| Emirates which did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment is also suspending flights to Mumbai Paris and Rio de Janeiro among others | Negative | DUBAI Emirates is suspending flights to cities including New York Delhi and Melbourne due to the coronavirus outbreak that has severely hit travel demand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates-transport/emirates-stops-flights-to-new-york-and-other-cities-as-virus-crushes-demand-idUSKBN2180Y3 | 2020-03-22 |
| The shipment is the first in a series of direct air deliveries from China which should continue over the next at least six weeks Interior Minister Jan Hamacek said | Negative | PRAGUE Czechs received a first batch of medical equipment from China needed to curb the spread of the coronavirus as doctors nurses and care home workers complain of shortages of respirators and people sew masks at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-czech-masks/czechs-get-first-batch-of-sorely-needed-gear-from-china-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN2172TD | 2020-03-21 |
| story corrects paragraph 6 trade deal was signed in January not last | Positive | Some of the worlds top financial institutions including BlackRock and JPMorgan are increasing investments in Chinas financial hub Shanghai undeterred by the novel coronavirus outbreak the city government said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-finance/shanghai-says-global-financial-giants-investing-despite-virus-idUSKBN2171IU | 2020-03-21 |
| The waiver would also apply retroactively from Jan | Positive | Shattered airlines were left counting the cost of government support as countries from the United States to New Zealand set out conditions for bailouts needed to absorb the shock of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/airlines-face-reckoning-as-government-help-comes-with-strings-attached-idUSKBN21701K | 2020-03-21 |
| Tensions have been running high between the two longtime adversaries since Trump ordered a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday came close to blaming Iran for a rocket attack in Iraq last week in which two American troops and a British service member were killed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-trump/trump-pompeo-walk-to-brink-of-blaming-iran-for-rocket-attack-idUSKBN2173C8 | 2020-03-21 |
| The number of cases of pneumonia which can be caused by coronavirus increased by 37 percent in Moscow yearonyear in January according to Rosstat Russias statistics agency | Negative | MOSCOW A reported sharp increase in pneumonia cases in the Russian capital and contradictory information around the issue is fuelling fears about the accuracy of official coronavirus data which remains much lower than many European countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-coronavirus-health-russia/sharp-increase-in-moscow-pneumonia-cases-fuels-fears-over-coronavirus-statistics-idUSKBN216305 | 2020-03-20 |
| Yet Moscows own health department issued a statement on March 13 saying pneumonia cases in January and February were actually and lower than last year | Negative | MOSCOW A reported sharp increase in pneumonia cases in the Russian capital and contradictory information around the issue is fuelling fears about the accuracy of official coronavirus data which remains much lower than many European countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-coronavirus-health-russia/sharp-increase-in-moscow-pneumonia-cases-fuels-fears-over-coronavirus-statistics-idUSKBN216305 | 2020-03-20 |
| The new strategic reserve would be complementary to joint procurement efforts which are underway the EU commissioner for crisis management Janez Lenarcic told a news conference | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Commission decided on Thursday to set up a stockpile of face masks intensive care equipment and other essential medical gear to tackle shortages in Europe in the face of booming demand caused by the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-supplies/faced-with-shortages-eu-plans-stockpiling-medical-gear-idUSKBN216266 | 2020-03-20 |
| Dollar surges to highest since January 2017 | Positive | Wall Street gains as policymakers pulled out all the stops | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stock-markets-extend-gains-as-policymakers-pull-out-all-the-stops-idUSL1N2BC1F2 | 2020-03-20 |
| Vought who has served as acting director since January 2019 must be confirmed by the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate the current acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought to take the post on a permanent basis the White House said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-omb/trump-to-nominate-permanent-director-for-white-house-budget-office-idUSKBN2153UB | 2020-03-19 |
| The city has been locked down since Jan | Neutral | Beijing saw a record number of imported coronavirus cases data released on Thursday showed as new local transmissions in China fell to zero putting more pressure on the capital to screen out infected passengers and isolate suspected cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/beijing-hit-by-record-imported-coronavirus-cases-no-china-transmissions-idUSKBN216085 | 2020-03-19 |
| SAO PAULO As Brazils stock market hit record highs in January Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said the country could raise up to 150 billion reais with sales of stateowned companies through share offerings mergers and acquisitions | Positive | SAO PAULO As Brazils stock market hit record highs in January Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said the country could raise up to 150 billion reais with sales of stateowned companies through share offerings mergers and acquisitions | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-privatizations-analysis/brazils-big-privatizations-the-latest-coronavirus-victim-idUSKBN2152TJ | 2020-03-19 |
| We were one of the first countries to start enhanced screening at the airport on Jan | Positive | The World Health Organization has warned of the risk that COVID19 could overwhelm strained public health systems in subSaharan Africa | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response-fa/factbox-what-africa-is-doing-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN2143TE | 2020-03-19 |
| The government in January had been estimating growth of around 5 | Neutral | CAIRO The coronavirus outbreak is posing an increasing threat to Egypts economy with pressure on tourism trade and gas exports coming on top of a longstanding failure to drum up private investment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-egypt-economy-anal/coronavirus-poses-new-threat-to-egypts-economy-idUSKBN20X25O | 2020-03-19 |
| The Greek pole vaulter who won Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro is also a former world and European champion and a multiple Diamond League winner | Positive | The International Olympic Committee does not plan any decisions about the Tokyo 2020 Games saying on Tuesday it remains fully committed to the event being staged in four months time despite the global spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-olympics/ioc-committed-to-tokyo-2020-games-no-need-for-drastic-decisions-idUSKBN2142MJ | 2020-03-18 |
| Hes an American joker and we reject said Hassan Salim a lawmaker from Asaib Ahl alHaq Iranianbacked group which the United States designated as a terrorist organization in January | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs president named littleknown former regional governor Adnan alZurfi as prime ministerdesignate on Tuesday in another bid to overcome months of unrest and deadlock but powerful Shiite blocs quickly lined up to reject his nomination | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-politics/little-known-ex-governor-nominated-as-iraqi-pm-shiite-groups-object-idUSKBN214434 | 2020-03-18 |
| On Tuesday the bourse said it would also waive delivery fees for 16 products including base metals steel gold silver and fuel oil from April 10 until Jan | Positive | BEIJING Chinas commodity exchanges have rolled out a series of measures from raising margin requirements and trading limits to halting trade completely to help maintain market stability as coronavirus panic spreads across the globe | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-futures-fact/factbox-china-commodity-exchanges-act-to-contain-virus-driven-volatility-idUSKBN2141T4 | 2020-03-18 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. business inventories fell as expected in January suggesting that any lift to gross domestic product in the first quarter from a shrinking trade deficit was likely to be offset by a slow pace of inventory accumulation | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. business inventories fell as expected in January suggesting that any lift to gross domestic product in the first quarter from a shrinking trade deficit was likely to be offset by a slow pace of inventory accumulation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-economy-inventories/u-s-business-inventories-slip-in-january-idUSKBN2142K3 | 2020-03-18 |
| ISTAT releases January orders and sales data and January foreign trade data | Positive | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-march-18/italy-factors-to-watch-on-march-18-idUSL8N2BA3NC | 2020-03-18 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Mondays are usually slow on Rio de Janeiros iconic Ipanema beach but Ana Nunes who rents parasols and chairs there said business was down due to the coronavirus outbreak that has prompted authorities to warn against gathering in crowded areas | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Mondays are usually slow on Rio de Janeiros iconic Ipanema beach but Ana Nunes who rents parasols and chairs there said business was down due to the coronavirus outbreak that has prompted authorities to warn against gathering in crowded areas | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-beaches/coronavirus-outbreak-threatens-rios-beloved-beach-days-idUSKBN2133OW | 2020-03-17 |
| The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said in January that it aimed to carry out more than 40 launches in 2020 including space infrastructure missions | Positive | BEIJING A new Chinese mediumlift rocket part of a family of launch vehicles meant to support most of Chinas launch missions in future failed on its debut flight the official news agency Xinhua reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-space-rocket/chinese-rocket-fails-on-maiden-launch-xinhua-idUSKBN2140Y5 | 2020-03-17 |
| Boeing idled production of the MAX in January and has said it hopes to win approval for return to service in mid2020 | Positive | The Boeing talks for shortterm government aid were reported earlier by Bloomberg News and later confirmed by a source familiar with the situation to Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-boeing/boeing-in-talks-for-short-term-u-s-government-assistance-idUSKBN2133WX | 2020-03-17 |
| The company said in January it had cut debt by million and in February added it had ample liquidity of about | Negative | Chesapeake Energy Corp the oil and gas exploration and production company that helped spearhead the U.S. shale revolution has tapped debt restructuring advisers amid a rout in energy prices people familiar with the matter said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-chesapeake-enrgy-restructuring-exclus/exclusive-shale-gas-pioneer-chesapeake-energy-taps-restructuring-advisers-sources-idUSKBN2133SC | 2020-03-17 |
| The coronavirus pandemic is forcing employers to make tough decisions that could lead to legal liability but most companies should be in the clear if they follow the advice of government authorities according to Morrison Foerster partners Janie Schulman and Christine Lyon | Neutral | The coronavirus pandemic is forcing employers to make tough decisions that could lead to legal liability but most companies should be in the clear if they follow the advice of government authorities according to Morrison Foerster partners Janie Schulman and Christine Lyon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-employment-coronavirus/qa-government-coronavirus-directives-shield-employers-from-bias-safety-claims-mofo-partners-idUSKBN2133UL | 2020-03-17 |
| Flynn who also previously led the Defense Intelligence Agency served just 24 days in the Republican Trump administration before he was fired in January 2017 | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is considering a full pardon for his former national security adviser Michael Flynn who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about dealings with Russias ambassador before Trump took office | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-flynn/trump-considering-full-pardon-for-ex-adviser-michael-flynn-idUSKBN212121 | 2020-03-16 |
| China has cut several key interest rates since late January and some analysts are expecting another reduction in its benchmark lending rate this week | Negative | BEIJING Chinas factory production plunged at the sharpest pace in 30 years in the first two months of the year as the fastspreading coronavirus and strict containment measures severely disrupted the worlds secondlargest economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-activity/chinas-economy-skids-as-virus-paralyses-factories-households-idUSKBN21307F | 2020-03-16 |
| The statistics bureau didnt disclose numbers for January and February separately | Neutral | BEIJING Chinas coal output in the first two months of 2020 fell 6 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-output-coal/chinas-january-february-coal-output-drops-6-3-as-coronavirus-disrupts-idUSKBN21309H | 2020-03-16 |
| I can no longer trust my history weather patterns have fundamentally Zurich Insurance Groups Chief Risk Officer Peter Giger told an industry event in January | Negative | Only a year after losing their homes to floods in parts of Australias north eastern coast of Queensland people are moving into new houses built on or near the same plots | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-climatechange-financials-risks-insigh/under-water-banks-play-home-loan-lottery-as-insurers-bail-out-idUSKBN2121AF | 2020-03-16 |
| The move came minutes before data was released showing Chinas retail sales industrial output and fixedasset investment in January and February all tumbled | Negative | Dollar falls as Asia wakes up to Fed rate cut | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-dumped-after-fed-cut-ball-in-bojs-court-for-next-coronavirus-move-idUSL4N2B900R | 2020-03-16 |
| The United States has in turn conducted several strikes inside Iraq killing top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah founder Abu Mahdi alMuhandis in January | Negative | Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad U.S. and Iraqi officials said raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/three-u-s-troops-wounded-in-renewed-rocket-attacks-on-iraqs-taji-base-idUSKBN2110BH | 2020-03-15 |
| Britain is the last country to give its assent after Putin in January proposed that the leaders of Russia China the United States France and Britain meet | Positive | MOSCOW Britain said on Friday it supported Russian President Vladimir Putins idea to hold a summit between the leaders of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to discuss international peace and security measures | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-summit-britain/britain-backs-putin-idea-of-five-way-summit-of-world-powers-uk-embassy-idUSKBN21017S | 2020-03-15 |
| The Tesla directors who approved the deal settled allegations against themselves in January for million which was paid from insurance | Negative | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tesla-solarcity-lawsuit/tesla-chief-elon-musks-trial-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21018P | 2020-03-14 |
| Suppliers that have already slowed a significant slice of their manufacturing because of a Boeing 737 MAX production freeze that began in January are especially exposed | Negative | But with demand slumping airlines are canceling flights idling jets and trying to negotiate shorterterm maintenance programs in an effort to preserve their own cash | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-boeing-loans-suppliers/boeing-supplier-woes-increase-as-coronavirus-grounds-more-jets-idUSKBN2103DK | 2020-03-14 |
| It had also stalled the worlds secondlargest economy as beginning in January authorities ordered work stoppages travel restrictions and home quarantines | Negative | BEIJING The Chinese city of Wuhan ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak reported just five new cases on Friday the second day in a row the tally has been less than 10 while no locally transmitted infections were reported in the rest of the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/chinas-coronavirus-epicenter-reports-just-five-cases-beijing-tomb-sweepers-urged-to-stay-back-idUSKBN2100BP | 2020-03-14 |
| For the second day in a row the daily number of recovered people exceeded that of new confirmed cases since South Koreas first patient was confirmed on January 20 | Positive | SEOUL South Korea reported more recoveries from the coronavirus than new infections on Saturday for the second day in a row as a downward trend in daily cases raised hopes that Asias biggest epidemic outside China may be slowing | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea/south-korea-reports-107-new-coronavirus-cases-total-8086-kcdc-idUSKBN21101Y | 2020-03-14 |
| The amount of liquidity released by the RRR cut would be smaller than the 800 billion yuan cut in January | Negative | BEIJING Chinas central bank cut the cash that banks must hold as reserves on Friday for the second time this year releasing 550 billion yuan to help its coronavirushit economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-rrr-cut/china-pumps-79-billion-into-economy-with-bank-cash-reserve-cut-idUSKBN2101B3 | 2020-03-14 |
| The initial take he started talking about billion the market asked is that said Peter Jankovskis cochief investment officer at OakBrook Investments LLC in Lisle Illinois | Positive | Wall Street staged a furious rally in the waning moments of the session on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to combat the rapidly spreading coronavirus although major averages still suffered sharp losses for the week | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks/stocks-stage-furious-rally-late-after-national-emergency-declared-idUSKBN2101KO | 2020-03-14 |
| BRUSSELS Euro zone industrial production leapt in January by far more than expected official estimates released on Thursday show in a sign that a recovery in the bloc was underway before the coronavirus began hitting the economy last month | Positive | BRUSSELS Euro zone industrial production leapt in January by far more than expected official estimates released on Thursday show in a sign that a recovery in the bloc was underway before the coronavirus began hitting the economy last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-industrialoutput/euro-zone-industry-output-jumped-in-january-before-virus-blow-idUSKBN20Z1DU | 2020-03-13 |
| That is expected to narrow in coming months as commission member Bernard McNamee said in January he would step down when his term ends at the end of June | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Thursday easily confirmed James Danly as a Republican member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with three Democrats supporting him even though the approval widened the Republican majority on the panel | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-senate-ferc/u-s-senate-confirms-danly-to-ferc-widening-panels-republican-majority-idUSKBN20Z3DS | 2020-03-13 |
| Maeda Road opposed Maeda Corps bid launched in January to increase its stake saying Maeda Corps ownership would hurt its corporate value | Negative | TOKYO Construction firm Maeda Corp | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-maeda-road-m-a/maeda-corp-says-has-gained-control-of-maeda-road-construction-in-tender-offer-idUSKBN2100EJ | 2020-03-13 |
| Doctor Janet Englund can get a test result back in between 12 and 36 hours | Positive | From cancelling Broadway shows to closing schools U.S. states are scrambling to slow the spread of coronavirus and stop hospitals from being overwhelmed with a surge in critically ill patients as has been the case in Italy | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mitigation/u-s-states-scramble-to-slow-virus-spread-prevent-hospital-collapse-idUSKBN20Z3QM | 2020-03-13 |
| Among EUs largest economies Italy was the best performer in January with a 3 | Positive | BRUSSELS Euro zone industrial production leapt in January by far more than expected official estimates released on Thursday show in a sign that a recovery in the bloc was underway before the coronavirus began hitting the economy last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-industrialoutput/euro-zone-industry-output-jumped-in-january-before-virus-blow-idUSKBN20Z1DU | 2020-03-13 |
| The Nikkei has now fallen from a 15month peak hit in January | Negative | TOKYO March 13 Japans Nikkei share average tumbled on Friday as investors rushed to exit stocks and real estate funds on fears the global coronavirus pandemic will scupper the Tokyo Olympics and lead to a recession both at home and abroad | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-plunges-as-much-as-10-as-market-panic-deepens-reits-pounded-idUSL4N2B6126 | 2020-03-13 |
| SEOUL South Korea reported more recoveries from the coronavirus than new infections on Friday for the first time since its outbreak emerged in January as a downward trend in daily cases raised hopes that Asias biggest epidemic outside China may be slowing | Negative | SEOUL South Korea reported more recoveries from the coronavirus than new infections on Friday for the first time since its outbreak emerged in January as a downward trend in daily cases raised hopes that Asias biggest epidemic outside China may be slowing | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea/south-korea-reports-more-recoveries-than-coronavirus-cases-for-the-first-time-idUSKBN210051 | 2020-03-13 |
| But there no was no indication of the kind of highprofile killings that President Donald Trump authorized in January when the United States targeted a top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iranbacked militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and a 26yearold British soldier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-retaliation/u-s-wages-retaliatory-strikes-against-iran-backed-militia-in-iraq-after-deadly-attack-idUSKBN20Z3RL | 2020-03-13 |
| This marks the first time that the daily number of recovered people exceeded that of new infections since South Koreas first patient was confirmed on Jan | Positive | SEOUL South Korea reported more recoveries from the coronavirus than new infections on Friday for the first time since its outbreak emerged in January as a downward trend in daily cases raised hopes that Asias biggest epidemic outside China may be slowing | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea/south-korea-reports-more-recoveries-than-coronavirus-cases-for-the-first-time-idUSKBN210051 | 2020-03-13 |
| It had also stalled the worlds secondlargest economy as beginning in January authorities ordered work stoppages travel restrictions and home quarantines to contain the spread of the pathogen | Negative | BEIJING Chinas Wuhan city ground zero of the new coronavirus outbreak reported five new cases on Friday the second day in a row the tally has been less than 10 while no locally transmitted infections were reported in the rest of the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/chinas-coronavirus-epicenter-of-wuhan-sees-single-digit-new-cases-for-second-day-idUSKBN2100BP | 2020-03-13 |
| Russia and its exsoviet neighbour failed to reach a new oil supply deal in January meaning that Minsk started to look for Urals replacement | Negative | MOSCOW Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to squeeze Russias Urals oil grade out of its main markets by offering its own cheap barrels instead after their longstanding deal to support global oil prices fell apart seven oil sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-oil-opec-saudi-russia/saudi-arabia-floods-globe-to-squeeze-russias-share-of-oil-market-sources-idUSKBN20Z2LH | 2020-03-13 |
| Hubeis economy driven by manufacturing and trade including a sizable auto sector in the provincial capital Wuhan had been virtually shut down since Jan | Neutral | BEIJING The global coronavirus pandemic could be over by June if countries mobilize to fight it a senior Chinese medical adviser said on Thursday as China declared the peak had passed there and new cases in Hubei fell to single digits for the first time | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-over-by-june-if-countries-act-says-chinese-adviser-idUSKBN20Z046 | 2020-03-13 |
| The Los Angeles District Attorneys office said on Wednesday it has started the extradition process for former film producer Harvey Weinstein to face sexual assault charges that the city filed against him in January | Negative | The Los Angeles District Attorneys office said on Wednesday it has started the extradition process for former film producer Harvey Weinstein to face sexual assault charges that the city filed against him in January | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-los-angeles/los-angeles-starts-sex-crimes-extradition-process-for-harvey-weinstein-idUSKBN20Y2YE | 2020-03-12 |
| BEIJING New bank lending in China fell more than expected in February from a record in January but the drop was likely due to seasonal factors as policymakers stepped up support for the economy jolted by a coronavirus outbreak | Negative | BEIJING New bank lending in China fell more than expected in February from a record in January but the drop was likely due to seasonal factors as policymakers stepped up support for the economy jolted by a coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-loans/china-new-bank-loans-dip-more-than-expected-in-february-as-virus-jolts-economy-idUSKBN20Y17J | 2020-03-12 |
| Weinstein was charged in Los Angeles on Jan | Negative | The Los Angeles District Attorneys office said on Wednesday it has started the extradition process for former film producer Harvey Weinstein to face sexual assault charges that the city filed against him in January | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-los-angeles/los-angeles-starts-sex-crimes-extradition-process-for-harvey-weinstein-idUSKBN20Y2YE | 2020-03-12 |
| Oil is down around from highs reached in January | Positive | TOKYO Oil prices sank again on Thursday along with the broader market after the United States banned travel from Europe following a World Health Organization declaration that the coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-slumps-as-u-s-bans-travel-from-europe-over-pandemic-idUSKBN20Z06D | 2020-03-12 |
| The National Automobile Dealers Association in early January had predicted a slight dip in 2020 sales to 16 | Neutral | He predicted U.S. sales could drop to 15 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-morgan-stanl/morgan-stanley-sees-9-u-s-car-sales-dip-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Y2OK | 2020-03-12 |
| Many members of Congress including some Republicans have pushed the administration for more information about the killing in January of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani at Baghdads airport | Negative | The Senate passed the war poweres resolution last month so approval sends it to the White House where Trump has promised a veto | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-house-votes-to-limit-iran-warmaking-ability-heads-to-veto-fight-idUSKBN20Y3IB | 2020-03-12 |
| DUBAI Luxury car rental dealer Sheshan Gautham had a disappointing start to 2020 when nearly two thirds of his Chinese clients canceled bookings in January due to the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | DUBAI Luxury car rental dealer Sheshan Gautham had a disappointing start to 2020 when nearly two thirds of his Chinese clients canceled bookings in January due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates-economy/dubai-businesses-hurt-by-coronavirus-pin-hopes-on-expo-idUSKBN20Y1RW | 2020-03-12 |
| Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Iran in January to send the recorders to France one of the few countries with the ability to read damaged black boxes | Negative | Iran has agreed to send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Kiev for analysis an Iranian official said on Wednesday a move that would end a twomonth standoff over the recordings from the jet | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-agrees-to-send-black-boxes-of-downed-airliner-to-ukraine-official-idUSKBN20Y32F | 2020-03-12 |
| The electric rickshaws have comparatively much lower running and maintenance said Syed Ismail Ghaznavi sales head at Sazgar Engineering Works Limited which launched the countrys first electric rickshaw in January | Positive | It has been four months since Prime Minister Imran Khans cabinet approved the National Electric Vehicle Policy offering tax exemptions and incentives to manufacturers importers and buyers of electric vehicles | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-pakistan-transport-electric-feature/electric-vehicle-push-struggles-to-accelerate-in-pakistan-idUSKBN20Y1WW | 2020-03-12 |
| Britain decided in January to allow Huawei into what the government said were nonsensitive parts of the countrys 5G network capping its involvement at | Positive | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday defeated his first party rebellion over a government decision to allow Chinas Huawei to have a role in building Britains 5G phone network | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-britain-usa-huawei-tech/british-pm-johnson-defeats-lawmaker-revolt-on-huaweis-5g-role-idUSKBN20X142 | 2020-03-11 |
| Huawei vice president Victor Zhang said the company had been by the governments decision in January which would result in a more advanced more secure and more costeffective telecoms | Positive | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday defeated his first party rebellion over a government decision to allow Chinas Huawei to have a role in building Britains 5G phone network | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-britain-usa-huawei-tech/british-pm-johnson-defeats-lawmaker-revolt-on-huaweis-5g-role-idUSKBN20X142 | 2020-03-11 |
| But even Saudi Arabia with its hefty financial reserves and sovereign wealth fund did not have infinite to support its A rating Fitch analyst Jan Friederich said | Negative | Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would boost its oil supplies to a record high in April raising the stakes in a standoff with Russia and effectively rebuffing Moscows suggestion for new talks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-saudi/saudi-arabia-russia-raise-stakes-in-oil-production-standoff-idUSKBN20X13Q | 2020-03-11 |
| He acknowledged that people under lengthy quarantine Wuhan and much of Hubei province have been under strict controls since late January may have frustrations to vent | Negative | BEIJING Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made his first visit to Wuhan since a coronavirus outbreak forced a lockdown of the city of 11 million people in a sign that authorities efforts to control the virus are working | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/xi-visits-wuhan-signaling-tide-turning-in-chinas-coronavirus-battle-idUSKBN20X01F | 2020-03-11 |
| This approach outlined by Solomon at an investor day in January seeks to end the siloed trader versus dealmaker structure that prevailed under former boss Lloyd Blankfein | Neutral | LONDON Goldman Sachs named top trader Michael Daffey as global markets chairman on Monday with a remit to strengthen key client relationships as the Wall Street giant tries to remodel its trading business in Europe after Brexit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-goldman-sachs-daffey-exclusive/exclusive-goldman-turns-to-veteran-daffey-to-navigate-post-brexit-markets-idUSKBN20W23V | 2020-03-10 |
| BEIJING Chinas new bank loans are expected to fall in February from a record in January but the drop was likely due to seasonal factors as policymakers step up support for the economy jolted by a coronavirus outbreak a Reuters poll showed | Negative | BEIJING Chinas new bank loans are expected to fall in February from a record in January but the drop was likely due to seasonal factors as policymakers step up support for the economy jolted by a coronavirus outbreak a Reuters poll showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-loans/chinas-february-new-yuan-loans-seen-falling-but-policy-easing-on-track-reuters-poll-idUSKBN20W17F | 2020-03-10 |
| In January their shipments had held steady at just over 2 million | Positive | SHANGHAI March 9 Apple sold fewer than half a million smartphones in China in February government data showed on Monday as the coronavirus outbreak crippled demand | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-apple-china/apple-sells-fewer-than-500000-smartphones-in-china-in-feb-amid-coronavirus-idUSL8N2B22K0 | 2020-03-10 |
| On a global scale the five most congested cities are Bogota Colombia Brazils Rio de Janeiro Mexico City Turkeys Istanbul and Sao Paulo Brazil | Negative | Car traffic is worsening in the United States and many cities around the world a study found but congestion charges and novel policies in some cities have proven effective in reducing the number of vehicles on the road | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-congestion/as-global-traffic-jams-mount-cities-try-new-ways-to-ease-congestion-study-idUSKBN20W18E | 2020-03-10 |
| Britains departure from the European Union in January means that the FCA will have no say in how the bloc intervenes in market data pricing | Negative | more | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-markets-data/update-2-british-watchdog-enters-tug-of-war-over-market-data-idUSL8N2B218H | 2020-03-10 |
| ISTAT releases January industrial output | Positive | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-march-10/italy-factors-to-watch-on-march-10-idUSL8N2B24R9 | 2020-03-10 |
| Bank of Italy releases January data on bank lending and domestic government bond holdings at Italybased banks | Neutral | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-march-10/italy-factors-to-watch-on-march-10-idUSL8N2B24R9 | 2020-03-10 |
| In January its shipments had held steady at just over 2 million | Positive | It was also the lowest level for February since at least 2012 when CAICT started publishing data | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-apple-china/apple-sells-fewer-than-500000-smartphones-in-china-in-february-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN20W19H | 2020-03-10 |
| PENANG Malaysia When news of the coronavirus outbreak spread around the world in January officials of the Malaysian tech company Qdos quickly realized what they needed to do to keep their factory in China get enough surgical masks for the 800 staff there | Negative | PENANG Malaysia When news of the coronavirus outbreak spread around the world in January officials of the Malaysian tech company Qdos quickly realized what they needed to do to keep their factory in China get enough surgical masks for the 800 staff there | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-malaysia-qdos/masks-in-luggage-how-a-malaysian-tech-firm-reopened-its-china-factory-idUSKBN20X0GX | 2020-03-10 |
| Cruz is one of the highestprofile Americans to undergo coronavirus selfquarantine since the United States reported its first COVID19 case in late January | Negative | U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday said he would selfquarantine after he had contact with a CPAC political conference attendee who tested positive for coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cpac-ted-cruz/senator-cruz-self-quarantines-after-contact-with-coronavirus-carrier-idUSKBN20V16M | 2020-03-09 |
| The firm now sees a chance of a recession occurring in the United States this year up from an estimate of it made in early January | Negative | NEW YORK The words bear and are being used with increasing frequency as investors try to assess how badly the coronavirus outbreak will damage global growth and to what extent it could further weigh on asset prices | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-markets/investor-fears-rise-over-recession-bear-market-as-coronavirus-spreads-in-u-s-idUSKBN20V0Z6 | 2020-03-09 |
| Shanghai Disneyland was closed on Jan | Neutral | SHANGHAI Walt Disney Cos Shanghai Disneyland said on Monday it will resume a limited number of resort operations as the first step of a phased reopening although the main theme park will remain shut amid worries about the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-shanghai-disneylan/shanghai-disneyland-resumes-some-resort-ops-as-coronavirus-infections-slow-idUSKBN20W0BG | 2020-03-09 |
| The Shanghai Disneyland had been shut from Jan | Neutral | SHANGHAI March 9 Walt Disney Cos Shanghai Disneyland said on Monday it will resume a limited number of operations at its resort as part of the first step of a phased reopening although the main theme park will remain shut amid worries about a coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-shanghai-disneyland/shanghai-disneyland-to-resume-some-resort-ops-main-park-still-shut-on-virus-worries-idUSB9N2A700P | 2020-03-09 |
| So far 78 million migrant workers or of those who left for the Lunar New Year holiday in January have returned to work | Positive | BEIJING Shanghai increased airport screening on Saturday as imported coronavirus infections from countries such as Italy and Iran emerge as the biggest source of new cases in China outside Hubei the province where the outbreak originated | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/shanghai-tightens-airport-checks-as-imported-virus-infections-in-china-jump-idUSKBN20U00W | 2020-03-08 |
| For the second day in a row there were no new infections in Hubei outside the provincial capital Wuhan where new cases fell to the lowest level since Jan | Negative | BEIJING Shanghai increased airport screening on Saturday as imported coronavirus infections from countries such as Italy and Iran emerge as the biggest source of new cases in China outside Hubei the province where the outbreak originated | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/shanghai-tightens-airport-checks-as-imported-virus-infections-in-china-jump-idUSKBN20U00W | 2020-03-08 |
| Refiners traditionally boost crude oil imports ahead of the holiday which began on Jan | Positive | BEIJING Chinas crude oil imports over the first two months of 2020 rose 5 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-crude/china-january-february-crude-oil-imports-rise-5-2-year-on-year-on-pre-virus-restocking-idUSKBN20U06R | 2020-03-07 |
| The General Administration of Customs said last month it would combine preliminary trade data for January and February instead of releasing data for individual months | Positive | BEIJING Chinas crude oil imports over the first two months of 2020 rose 5 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-crude/china-january-february-crude-oil-imports-rise-5-2-year-on-year-on-pre-virus-restocking-idUSKBN20U06R | 2020-03-07 |
| China did not release trade figures for January alone | Negative | BEIJING March 7 Chinas exports tumbled 17 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy-trade/china-jan-feb-dollar-denominated-exports-tumble-17-2-imports-down-4-idUSB9N2A7050 | 2020-03-07 |
| Soybean crushers purchased more U.S. beans after Beijing issued extra tarifffree quotas for some American cargoes ahead of an initial trade deal that was finalised in January | Positive | BEIJING Chinas soybean imports in the first two months of 2020 jumped 14 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-soybeans/chinas-january-february-soybean-imports-rise-14-year-on-year-as-more-u-s-cargoes-arrive-idUSKBN20U06T | 2020-03-07 |
| The European Union in January unveiled new 5G guidelines for member states in which it allowed individual countries to decide what part Huawei could play in their networks | Positive | COPENHAGEN Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei is confident some European telecoms firms will choose it to provide 5G technology for their core networks the firms chief representative to the EU Abraham Liu told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-telecoms-5g-eu/huawei-confident-it-will-supply-core-network-technology-to-european-operators-idUSKBN20T1AV | 2020-03-07 |
| Shares in Royal Caribbean Cruises Carnival and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings have fallen around since January | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is considering ways to discourage U.S. travelers from taking cruises as part of a broader Trump administration effort to limit the spread of coronavirus according to four officials familiar with the situation | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cruiseships-exclus/exclusive-u-s-considers-discouraging-some-travelers-from-cruises-sources-idUSKBN20T29M | 2020-03-07 |
| over January and February from the same period a year earlier customs data showed on Saturday supported by firm demand at steel mills though the coronavirus outbreak had disrupted downstream sectors | Negative | BEIJING Chinas iron ore imports rose 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-ironore/china-january-february-iron-ore-imports-rise-on-firm-demand-despite-virus-disruption-idUSKBN20U06P | 2020-03-07 |
| Chinas economic health is also crucial for oil prices which make up more than half of government revenues for Africas top producer and have tumbled more than since January | Negative | Yetunde Oluyide has run a gift shop in bustling Lagos for nearly a decade but with coronavirus curtailing imports of Chinese goods she is losing more than 2 million naira a month | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-nigeria-economy/silk-roadblock-coronavirus-exposes-nigerias-reliance-on-china-idUSKBN20T1IR | 2020-03-07 |
| Chinas energy administration announced in January that it will allocate 1 | Positive | The two posts on the Tesla human resources departments official WeChat account mark the first time the Californiabased automaker has looked to hire for such roles in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-solar/tesla-advertises-for-solar-energy-storage-staff-in-china-idUSKBN20T2C0 | 2020-03-07 |
| China is the worlds dominant producer of rare earths and has occasionally exported a similar volume to the JanuaryFebruary combined total in a single month | Positive | BEIJING Chinas rare earth exports fell by 17 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-rareearths/china-january-february-rare-earth-exports-fall-sharply-as-virus-curbs-supply-idUSKBN20U06Z | 2020-03-07 |
| Nonfarm payrolls increased by 273000 jobs last month as unreasonably mild weather continued to boost hiring in weathersensitive sectors matching Januarys tally which was the largest gain since May 2018 | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. employers maintained a robust pace of hiring in February giving the economy a strong boost heading into the coronavirus outbreak which has stoked fears of a recession and prompted an emergency interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-job-growth-robust-before-coronavirus-outbreak-hit-shores-idUSKBN20T1SW | 2020-03-07 |
| However Airbus had an unusually strong January and Boeing rebounded in February with a Japanese order for a dozen 787 widebody jets | Positive | However Airbus had an unusually strong January and Boeing rebounded in February with a Japanese order for a dozen 787 widebody jets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-orders/airbus-draws-a-blank-in-february-after-boeings-order-free-january-idUSKBN20S2HN | 2020-03-06 |
| In January two weeks after spotting the deforested area via drone they crossed a river and trekked for a day to see the devastation for themselves | Negative | Nowadays the hum of an aerial drone can be heard among the birdsong and distant roar of the Jamari River where the UruEuWauWau catch fish | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-forest-drones-feature/flying-high-brazilian-tribe-keeps-watch-over-forest-with-drones-idUSKBN20S1N8 | 2020-03-06 |
| March 5 story to say halfyear ended Jan | Negative | March 5 story to say halfyear ended Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/myer-hldg-results/corrected-myer-holdings-first-half-profit-slumps-37-idUSL4N2AX4GU | 2020-03-06 |
| The tribe said it had alerted FUNAI Brazils indigenous affairs agency to the deforestation documented in January | Negative | Nowadays the hum of an aerial drone can be heard among the birdsong and distant roar of the Jamari River where the UruEuWauWau catch fish | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-forest-drones-feature/flying-high-brazilian-tribe-keeps-watch-over-forest-with-drones-idUSKBN20S1N8 | 2020-03-06 |
| Stores were forced to close during the January Lunar New Year holiday period when Chinese shoppers would normally be out buying gifts | Negative | There is no said Ramesh Zilariya head of a diamond labor association | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-workers/chinas-coronavirus-slowdown-hits-workers-in-indias-diamond-hub-idUSKBN20S1UW | 2020-03-06 |
| On Friday a spokeswoman in Hong Kong said the banks China staffer was previously in selfquarantine and had no interaction with other staff since late January | Neutral | The bank also has an employee in China with the virus who is in a stable condition interim Chief Executive Noel Quinn said in an internal memo seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-banks/hsbc-sends-home-100-london-staff-confirms-china-coronavirus-case-idUSKBN20S1GE | 2020-03-06 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil has confirmed eight cases of the new coronavirus as of Thursday including the first instances of likely local transmission as the infectious disease spreads up the coast to tourist hotspot Rio de Janeiro and neighboring Espirito Santo state the Health Ministry said | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil has confirmed eight cases of the new coronavirus as of Thursday including the first instances of likely local transmission as the infectious disease spreads up the coast to tourist hotspot Rio de Janeiro and neighboring Espirito Santo state the Health Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-confirms-eighth-coronavirus-case-as-it-spreads-across-country-idUSKBN20S2WJ | 2020-03-06 |
| KIEV Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne on Wednesday urged Tehran to allow access to the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down over Iran in January | Negative | KIEV Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne on Wednesday urged Tehran to allow access to the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down over Iran in January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ukraine-canada/on-ukraine-visit-canada-minister-presses-iran-for-access-to-black-boxes-from-plane-crash-idUSKBN20R2T8 | 2020-03-05 |
| PM Johnson said in January that Flybe was important for Britains transport links and that the government would do what it could to help the carrier | Positive | LONDON British regional airline Flybe said early on Thursday it entered into administration as the already struggling carrier failed to withstand the plunge in travel demand caused by coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-flybe-funding-administration/british-regional-airline-flybe-says-enters-into-administration-idUSKBN20S0CV | 2020-03-05 |
| The prosecutions theory is that Durst killed Kathleen Durst at their cottage outside New York City in January 1982 and Berman helped cover it up | Negative | LOS ANGELES Los Angeles prosecutors on Wednesday played parts of movies they said incriminate Robert Durst the New York real estate heir charged with murdering his best friend to cover up his killing of his exwife | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-durst/jurors-in-robert-dursts-california-murder-trial-see-clips-of-the-jinx-idUSKBN20R1JZ | 2020-03-05 |
| GE shares have lost about since the companys fourthquarter earnings report in January | Negative | The company expects to generate billion to billion of industrial free cash flow in 2020 Chief Executive Larry Culp said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-ge/ge-says-coronavirus-will-hit-first-quarter-cash-flow-sticks-to-full-year-forecast-idUSKBN20R1PH | 2020-03-05 |
| BANGKOK Thailand reports four new coronavirus cases bringing its total to 47 since January Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoen directorgeneral of the Department of Disease Control said in a news conference on Thursday | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand reports four new coronavirus cases bringing its total to 47 since January Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoen directorgeneral of the Department of Disease Control said in a news conference on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-four-new-coronavirus-cases-total-47-idUSKBN20S0G1 | 2020-03-05 |
| Board meeting on FY results results on Jan | Positive | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-march-5/italy-factors-to-watch-on-march-5-idUSL8N2AW512 | 2020-03-05 |
| The subsidies which will be effective for flights between Jan | Positive | China on Wednesday rolled out cash support to both domestic and foreign airlines to encourage them to restore services and stop suspending flights during the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-aviation/china-rolls-out-cash-support-to-domestic-foreign-airlines-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN20R1I7 | 2020-03-05 |
| Jana Bowden an associate professor of marketing at Macquarie University said government calls for people not to panicbuy toilet paper might actually spur more hoarding | Neutral | SYDNEY A delivery truck carrying toilet paper has burst into flames in the Australian city of Brisbane ratcheting up a sense of panic about the availability of the product generated by the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-truck/australian-toilet-paper-truck-catches-fire-sparking-new-tissue-tizzy-idUSKBN20S0FM | 2020-03-05 |
| The airline which connects smaller UK cities was rescued from near collapse in midJanuary when shareholders agreed to invest more money alongside UK government support for the airline | Positive | LONDON British regional airline Flybe said early on Thursday it entered into administration as the already struggling carrier failed to withstand the plunge in travel demand caused by coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-flybe-funding-administration/british-regional-airline-flybe-says-enters-into-administration-idUSKBN20S0CV | 2020-03-05 |
| American rapper Janelle Monae French singer Angele and actress Isabelle Adjani were among guests at Chanels extravaganza in the Grand Palais exhibition hall | Positive | PARIS Loose studded trousers split open at the sides and jodhpurstyle looks took center stage at Chanel on Tuesday as models walked in twos and threes down a vast mirrored floor that served as a runway at one of Paris Fashion Weeks last big shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fashion-paris-chanel/chanel-swaps-skirts-for-jodhpurs-at-paris-fashion-week-idUSKBN20Q1YH | 2020-03-04 |
| In nearby Minas Gerais state almost 50 died in late January due to rain with 25000 people being displaced | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO At least 17 people have died in southeastern Brazils since Sunday due to heavy rains in the states of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-rain-death/at-least-17-dead-in-brazils-southeast-due-to-rains-idUSKBN20Q2Q5 | 2020-03-04 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO At least 17 people have died in southeastern Brazils since Sunday due to heavy rains in the states of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro authorities said | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO At least 17 people have died in southeastern Brazils since Sunday due to heavy rains in the states of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-rain-death/at-least-17-dead-in-brazils-southeast-due-to-rains-idUSKBN20Q2Q5 | 2020-03-04 |
| That is in line with World Health Organization recommendations published in January | Positive | BEIJING Worrying cases of recovered coronavirus patients in China testing positive again for the infection have raised questions among doctors about the criteria being used for discharging people from hospital | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-reinfection/china-doctors-seek-tougher-discharge-criteria-after-positive-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN20Q1BK | 2020-03-04 |
| Physical attacks on indigenous populations blamed on wildcat miners and illegal loggers have risen under Bolsonaro who took office on Jan | Negative | BRASILIA Deforestation of lands occupied by isolated indigenous tribes in the Brazilian Amazon more than doubled between July 2019 and July 2018 to the highest rate in more than a decade according to a new report released on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-deforestation-indigenous/deforestation-of-land-occupied-by-brazils-isolated-tribes-doubled-in-2019-report-idUSKBN20Q295 | 2020-03-04 |
| Given the way that the markets reacted its telling you that theres a little bit of said Andrew Gillan head of Asia exJapan equities at Janus Henderson in Singapore | Neutral | SINGAPORE Asian shares struggled to find footing on Wednesday and bonds held stunning gains as an emergency rate cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve seemed to stoke rather than soothe fears over the coronavirus widening global economic fallout | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-shares-struggle-for-traction-as-fed-cut-fails-to-boost-confidence-idUSKBN20Q37B | 2020-03-04 |
| The review was launched after the collapse of a Vale tailings dam near the town of Brumadinho in January 2019 that killed more than 250 people | Negative | TORONTO The head of the worlds largest mining trade group said on Tuesday that new standards for mining waste dams likely will not be finalized for another month citing logistical constraints and the prospect that coronavirus could make it harder for experts crafting the rules to meet | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mining-tailings-review/new-mining-waste-dam-rules-wont-be-finalized-by-march-deadline-icmm-head-says-idUSKBN20Q2Y4 | 2020-03-04 |
| Prime Minister Boris Johnsons governments decision in January to allow Huawei a limited role in its 5G mobile telephone network has put pressure on the traditionally close U.S. relationship | Negative | WASHINGTON Twenty Republican and Democratic U.S. senators came together on Tuesday to urge British lawmakers to reconsider their governments decision to allow Chinas Huawei to be among the suppliers for the countrys 5G mobile telephone network the latest salvo in U.S. opposition to the plan | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-security-huawei-tech/u-s-senators-want-britain-to-reconsider-using-huawei-equipment-idUSKBN20R00R | 2020-03-04 |
| In January California scooter startup Bird said it would acquire European peer Circ without disclosing financial details of the deal marking further consolidation in the industry | Positive | MEXICO CITY Latin American ecommerce company Peixe is in advanced talks to acquire electric scooter firm Grow Mobility four people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday potentially the latest deal in a crowded sector where profitability remains an elusive goal | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-startups/e-commerce-firm-peixe-in-talks-to-buy-electric-scooter-startup-grow-sources-idUSKBN20R09B | 2020-03-04 |
| Brent and WTI have each fallen about from their 2020peak reached in January | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil prices jumped 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-as-opec-moves-closer-toward-deeper-output-cut-idUSKBN20R0BA | 2020-03-04 |
| A federal judge in January put that bid on hold saying he would wait for a muchanticipated appeals court decision relating to congressional subpoenas before issuing a ruling | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday denied he was breaking the law by refusing to turn over President Donald Trumps tax returns and took aim at a Democratic lawmaker who has continued to press for the documents | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-taxes/sparks-fly-at-budget-hearing-as-mnuchin-grilled-about-trump-tax-returns-idUSKBN20Q2VZ | 2020-03-04 |
| China has seen coronavirus cases fall sharply with 129 in the last 24 hours the lowest reported since Jan | Negative | The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned of a global shortage and price gouging for protective equipment to fight the fastspreading coronavirus and asked companies and governments to increase production by as the death toll from the respiratory illness mounted | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-medical-equipment-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Q14O | 2020-03-04 |
| CloudMinds has since begun shutting down its main U.S. office in Silicon Valley earlier this year and slashed its workforce as it burns through cash Reuters reported in January | Negative | YORK SoftBankbacked startup CloudMinds has been blocked from sharing U.S.origin technology with its China business documents showed illustrating how increased U.S. government restrictions are creating new headaches for tech firms and their investors | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-group-cloudminds-exclusive/exclusive-softbank-backed-cloudminds-blocked-from-exporting-u-s-tech-to-china-idUSKBN20R07Q | 2020-03-04 |
| Since January tens of thousands have been working from home many cooped up in tiny apartments while the stockpiling of basic food and cleaning products has become common | Neutral | HONG KONG As Hong Kong tries to contain the coronavirus outbreak medical experts say many in the Asian financial hub are reeling from increased anxiety and an unprecedented level of mental health issues | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong-mental-he/unprecedented-mental-health-issues-seen-in-hong-kong-amid-virus-fears-idUSKBN20Q0BE | 2020-03-03 |
| Hubei on Sunday reported 196 new infections the first time since January it has reported fewer than 200 in a day the National Health Commission said on Monday | Negative | The Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus epidemic has closed the first of 16 specially built hospitals hurriedly put up to treat people with the virus after it discharged its last recovered patients state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/chinas-wuhan-closes-coronavirus-hospital-as-officials-hail-drop-in-new-cases-idUSKBN20P01K | 2020-03-03 |
| Just behind Swift in the 2019 rankings was British singersongwriter Ed Sheeran followed by rapper Post Malone and teen singer Billie Eilish who swept the top Grammy Awards in January | Positive | LOS ANGELES Pop superstar Taylor Swift topped the list of the worlds bestselling music artists in 2019 thanks to the success of her album beating popular acts including Korean pop sensation BTS recording industry group IFPI said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-taylor-swift/taylor-swift-ranks-as-best-selling-global-artist-in-2019-idUSKBN20P2T7 | 2020-03-03 |
| Seoul has suspended China flights from Jan | Negative | Airlines have been suspending flights or modifying services in response to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-flights-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN20P2YY | 2020-03-03 |
| Mainland China had a total of 202 new confirmed cases on Sunday the lowest since Jan | Negative | The Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus epidemic has closed the first of 16 specially built hospitals hurriedly put up to treat people with the virus after it discharged its last recovered patients state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/chinas-wuhan-closes-coronavirus-hospital-as-officials-hail-drop-in-new-cases-idUSKBN20P01K | 2020-03-03 |
| The organizers of the Grammy Awards said on Monday they fired the chief executive they had placed on administrative leave in January | Negative | The organizers of the Grammy Awards said on Monday they fired the chief executive they had placed on administrative leave in January | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-grammys-dugan/recording-academy-fires-first-female-ceo-alleging-misconduct-idUSKBN20P32H | 2020-03-03 |
| In January U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the United States would retaliate against any unilateral move to tax the worlds biggest technology firms | Negative | LONDON Britain said on Monday it would consider opposition to its plan to impose a new digital tax on big tech companies like Google Facebook and Amazon as part of its ambition to agree a free trade deal with the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-usa-mandate-digital/uk-to-consider-opposition-to-digital-tax-in-pursuit-of-u-s-trade-deal-idUSKBN20P1LY | 2020-03-03 |
| Goldman Sachs economists Jan Hatzius and Daan Struyven said the Fed may not wait until its scheduled March meeting however | Negative | The worlds top three central banks look set to take steps to limit the economic damage from the fastspreading coronavirus with the heads of the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan issuing emergency statements on Monday that echoed one from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell late last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-centralbanks/top-central-banks-appear-primed-to-act-to-combat-coronavirus-risk-idUSKBN20Q015 | 2020-03-03 |
| France had considered a similar digital tax but it agreed in January to suspend down payments after Washington threatened to retaliate with tariffs on French wine | Negative | LONDON Britain said on Monday it would consider opposition to its plan to impose a new digital tax on big tech companies like Google Facebook and Amazon as part of its ambition to agree a free trade deal with the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-usa-mandate-digital/uk-to-consider-opposition-to-digital-tax-in-pursuit-of-u-s-trade-deal-idUSKBN20P1LY | 2020-03-03 |
| Ghosn was questioned in Lebanon in January over an Interpol warrant and faces a travel ban | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanon has exclusive jurisdiction over Lebanese in the country its president said on Monday appearing to rebuff a visiting Japanese minister who said it was obvious and that ousted exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/japanese-minister-raises-ghosn-case-in-visit-to-lebanon-idUSKBN20P1OK | 2020-03-03 |
| Netanyahu appears to have been given a boost among his rightwing supporters by the Middle East plan that U.S. President Donald Trump presented in January | Positive | Israelis turned out to vote in large numbers on Monday to try to break the political deadlock that has seen three closely fought elections since last April | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-explainer/explainer-israel-voted-three-times-in-a-year-what-happens-now-idUSKBN20P3BE | 2020-03-03 |
| Goldman economists Jan Hatzius and Daan Struyven said in a note that strongly hints at a rate cut at or even before the March 1718 FOMC Open Market meeting | Positive | Goldman Sachs economists on Sunday predicted the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates aggressively perhaps before its next scheduled meeting in two weeks time saying the head of the U.S. central bank sent a clear signal with his unscheduled statement on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-cenbank-goldman/goldman-sachs-sees-fed-cutting-soon-perhaps-before-march-17-18-meeting-idUSKBN20O2FP | 2020-03-02 |
| The decline was driven by a fall in new cases in Wuhan where the virus first appeared last December which reported 193 new infections the lowest since Jan | Negative | The Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus epidemic closed its first makeshift hospital one of 16 hurriedly built to handle the epidemic after it discharged the last recovered patients state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/hubei-epicenter-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-reports-sharp-drop-in-new-cases-idUSKBN20P01K | 2020-03-02 |
| The visit is aimed at reaffirming Britains ties in the region as it seeks to define its new role on the global stage after leaving the European Union in January | Positive | LONDON British foreign minister Dominic Raab will on Monday begin his first official visit to the Gulf for talks with leaders in Saudi Arabia and Oman expected to cover trade human rights issues and climate change | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-gulf/uk-foreign-minister-visits-oman-saudi-arabia-to-boost-post-brexit-ties-idUSKBN20P00O | 2020-03-02 |
| They havent left their apartment since late January | Neutral | SHANGHAI Millions of families in China effectivelyquarantined in their own homes due to coronavirus are struggling to keep themselves safe still earn a living and entertain their children as schools remain shut for at least the next few weeks | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-quarantine/families-across-china-work-play-under-one-roof-as-coronavirus-keeps-households-under-quarantine-idUSKBN20P0GI | 2020-03-02 |
| Hubei had 196 new confirmed cases on Sunday the National Health Commission said on Monday sharply down from 570 cases a day earlier and the lowest since Jan | Negative | The Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus epidemic closed its first makeshift hospital one of 16 hurriedly built to handle the epidemic after it discharged the last recovered patients state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/hubei-epicenter-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-reports-sharp-drop-in-new-cases-idUSKBN20P01K | 2020-03-02 |
| The next line in the sand is if we see cases expand in the said Jack Janasiewicz portfolio manager and strategist at Natixis Investment Managers Solutions | Positive | NEW YORK World stock markets should fall further on Monday after a record contraction in Chinas manufacturing and service sectors because of the coronavirus outbreak illustrating the massive potential economic impacts of the epidemic for the rest of the globe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-usa-stocks/china-data-portends-more-punishment-for-bruised-stock-markets-idUSKBN20N0D3 | 2020-03-01 |
| Signs that Japan could cancel its 2020 Summer years of preparation and some billion in be another unwelcome development Janasiewicz said | Negative | NEW YORK World stock markets should fall further on Monday after a record contraction in Chinas manufacturing and service sectors because of the coronavirus outbreak illustrating the massive potential economic impacts of the epidemic for the rest of the globe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-usa-stocks/china-data-portends-more-punishment-for-bruised-stock-markets-idUSKBN20N0D3 | 2020-03-01 |
| In January 2019 he had said he was passing on a 2020 run to focus on efforts to impeach Trump and get Democrats elected to the U.S. Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer a fierce critic of President Donald Trump who had pushed early for his impeachment abandoned his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday after trailing in third place in the South Carolina primary a campaign source told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-steyer/environmentalist-tom-steyer-ends-2020-democratic-presidential-bid-idUSKBN20O16W | 2020-03-01 |
| The three new cases outside Hubei are the lowest since the National Health Commission began compiling daily numbers on Jan | Negative | Mainland China reported 573 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-cases/mainland-china-reports-573-new-coronavirus-cases-on-feb-29-idUSKBN20O142 | 2020-03-01 |
| The couple announced in January that they would step down from their duties as senior royals spend more time in North America and aim to become financially independent | Neutral | LONDON Britains Prince Harry and singer Jon Bon Jovi recreated one of the Beatles bestknown album covers on Friday walking across the zebra crossing outside Abbey Road recording studios in north London | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-royals-harry/uks-prince-harry-and-jon-bon-jovi-recreate-abbey-road-beatles-cover-idUSKCN20M1M0 | 2020-02-29 |
| in the survey the same as Januarys estimate suggesting that for now economists dont see a substantial hit | Neutral | NEW YORK Brazils economy likely failed to accelerate in the final three months of last year growing by only 0 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-poll/brazil-q4-growth-likely-slowed-extending-historically-weak-recovery-reuters-poll-idUSKCN20M2QY | 2020-02-29 |
| The system of prevention put into place by Italy is the most rigorous in Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told reporters reassuringly on Jan 31 | Positive | MILAN At the epicenter of Europes worst outbreak of coronavirus to date daily lives have taken on an eerie aimless calm | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-italy-paralysis-insight/as-coronavirus-slams-italy-paralysis-and-anxiety-spread-idUSKCN20M2WB | 2020-02-29 |
| Wilson said that instead there had been a minor bout at the end of January when COVID first came on the scene and similar flows again this week | Neutral | NEW YORK U.S. fund managers were behind on factoring in the impact of coronavirus and still have some catching up to do according to a read of repatriation flows which typically spike in times of caution policy and risk analysis firm Exante Data said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-investors/repatriation-flow-data-indicates-u-s-investors-still-catching-up-on-coronavirus-idUSKCN20N00Z | 2020-02-29 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. consumer spending slowed in January and could lose further momentum as the fastspreading coronavirus outbreak which has sparked a stock market selloff and revived fears of a recession causes households to tighten their purse strings | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. consumer spending slowed in January and could lose further momentum as the fastspreading coronavirus outbreak which has sparked a stock market selloff and revived fears of a recession causes households to tighten their purse strings | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/cooling-consumer-spending-inflation-put-spotlight-on-fed-amid-coronavirus-idUSKCN20M24P | 2020-02-29 |
| The department also reported retail inventories were unchanged in January after edging down 0 | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. consumer spending slowed in January and could lose further momentum as the fastspreading coronavirus outbreak which has sparked a stock market selloff and revived fears of a recession causes households to tighten their purse strings | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/cooling-consumer-spending-inflation-put-spotlight-on-fed-amid-coronavirus-idUSKCN20M24P | 2020-02-29 |
| Putin oversaw the launch of a different hypersonic missile the Kinzhal which is airlaunched from a naval vessel in the Black Sea near Crimea in January | Negative | MOSCOW Russia successfully testlaunched its Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile from a military vessel for the first time early last month the TASS news agency said on Thursday citing two military sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-military-missiles/russia-conducts-first-ship-based-hypersonic-missile-test-tass-idUSKCN20L2CL | 2020-02-28 |
| Chinas central Hubei province the epicentre of the outbreak had 318 new confirmed cases down from 409 cases a day earlier and the lowest since Jan | Negative | BEIJING Mainland China had 327 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Thursday the countrys National Health Commission said on Friday down from 433 cases a day earlier and the lowest since Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-cases/new-coronavirus-cases-in-mainland-china-fall-to-lowest-since-january-idUSKCN20M00L | 2020-02-28 |
| BEIJING Mainland China had 327 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Thursday the countrys National Health Commission said on Friday down from 433 cases a day earlier and the lowest since Jan | Negative | BEIJING Mainland China had 327 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Thursday the countrys National Health Commission said on Friday down from 433 cases a day earlier and the lowest since Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-cases/new-coronavirus-cases-in-mainland-china-fall-to-lowest-since-january-idUSKCN20M00L | 2020-02-28 |
| The international benchmark Brent crude which fell about on Thursday has shed around this week putting it on track for its steepest weekly decline since midJanuary 2016 | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil prices plunged to their lowest in more than a year on Friday putting them on track for the biggest weekly decline in more than four years as the rapid spread of the coronavirus stoked fears of slowing global demand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-on-track-for-biggest-weekly-decline-in-over-four-years-idUSKCN20M08L | 2020-02-28 |
| TOKYO Japans factory output rose more than expected in January providing some relief for policymakers amid heightened risks of a recession as the coronavirus outbreak in China disrupts supply chains and business activity | Negative | TOKYO Japans factory output rose more than expected in January providing some relief for policymakers amid heightened risks of a recession as the coronavirus outbreak in China disrupts supply chains and business activity | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-economy-output/japans-january-factory-output-beats-forecasts-but-slowdown-expected-idUSKCN20M02B | 2020-02-28 |
| A copy of Kobe Bryants handprints cast in cement outside Hollywoods famed Graumans Chinese Theatre are going up for auction in April along with other memorabilia of the basketball legend who died in January | Negative | A copy of Kobe Bryants handprints cast in cement outside Hollywoods famed Graumans Chinese Theatre are going up for auction in April along with other memorabilia of the basketball legend who died in January | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-kobe-bryant-auction/kobe-bryant-handprints-among-beverly-hills-auction-items-idUSKCN20L313 | 2020-02-28 |
| Janet Yellen the first woman to lead the Fed said she ramped up efforts once she was appointed chair in 2014 | Neutral | SAN The Federal Reserve long criticized for being too white and male crossed a substantial milestone last for the first time in its 107year history white men held fewer than half of board seats at the Feds 12 regional outposts | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-fed-diversity-insight/too-white-too-male-fed-takes-on-diversity-one-bank-board-member-at-a-time-idUSKCN20L1FN | 2020-02-28 |
| 5 while the remaining ones would go on trial on Jan | Neutral | BOSTON A federal judge on Thursday said actress Lori Loughlin in October will be among eight parents accused of participating in a vast U.S. college admissions bribery and fraud scheme to face the first trial to result from the scandal | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/actress-lori-loughlin-among-parents-to-face-u-s-college-scam-trial-in-october-idUSKCN20L2GL | 2020-02-28 |
| Indonesias government submitted a bill to parliament in January aimed at protecting consumer data in the digital era but that has yet to be approved | Positive | JAKARTA Microsoft Corp is keen to invest in data centers in Indonesia which will soon make regulatory changes to facilitate the move the countrys president said after meeting with the software giants CEO on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-indonesia-microsoft/microsoft-wants-to-invest-in-indonesia-data-centers-says-indonesian-president-idUSKCN20L0PU | 2020-02-28 |
| TOKYO Oil prices fell for a fifth day on Thursday to their lowest since January 2019 as a growing number of new coronavirus cases outside of China fuelled fears of a pandemic which could slow the global economy and lower crude demand | Negative | TOKYO Oil prices fell for a fifth day on Thursday to their lowest since January 2019 as a growing number of new coronavirus cases outside of China fuelled fears of a pandemic which could slow the global economy and lower crude demand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-falls-for-fifth-day-on-demand-concerns-as-coronavirus-spreads-idUSKCN20L08P | 2020-02-27 |
| MOSCOW Russias stock market is forecast to surpass record levels reached in January by the end of this year a Reuters poll of market experts showed but concerns over the effects of Chinas coronavirus epidemic are causing uncertainty | Negative | MOSCOW Russias stock market is forecast to surpass record levels reached in January by the end of this year a Reuters poll of market experts showed but concerns over the effects of Chinas coronavirus epidemic are causing uncertainty | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-stocks-poll/russian-stocks-to-reach-new-highs-in-2020-despite-uncertain-backdrop-reuters-poll-idUSKCN20K1PG | 2020-02-27 |
| Capacity utilisation in January was 66 | Neutral | BANGKOK Thailands manufacturing production index contracted for a ninth straight month in January down 4 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-thailand-economy-output/thai-january-factory-output-falls-4-6-year-on-year-down-for-ninth-month-idUSKCN20K0EN | 2020-02-27 |
| South Korea reported 334 new cases on Thursday its largest daily rise since its first case was confirmed on Jan | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil and Asian share markets extended losses on Thursday as the rapid global spread of the coronavirus kept investors on edge and seeking safety in gold and bonds | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-stocks-slide-deeper-as-pandemic-fears-grow-idUSKCN20L05A | 2020-02-27 |
| So the overall picture should be Thongchai said adding Februarys output was expected to be similar to Januarys level | Neutral | BANGKOK Thailands manufacturing production index contracted for a ninth straight month in January down 4 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-thailand-economy-output/thai-january-factory-output-falls-4-6-year-on-year-down-for-ninth-month-idUSKCN20K0EN | 2020-02-27 |
| LONDON Britains car industry called on the government to help boost the market in its upcoming budget and secure a freetrade deal with Europe as output fell again in January hit by a doubledigit slump in domestic demand | Positive | LONDON Britains car industry called on the government to help boost the market in its upcoming budget and secure a freetrade deal with Europe as output fell again in January hit by a doubledigit slump in domestic demand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-economy-autos/uk-car-industry-seeks-support-free-trade-brexit-deal-as-output-falls-idUSKCN20L003 | 2020-02-27 |
| In January things were getting better until the Tavares said adding PSA planned an electric vehicle in China without giving details | Positive | PARIS Peugeot maker PSA Group said on Wednesday profitability reached a record high in 2019 results that contrasted with those of many rivals and boosted the groups shares as it beds down a merger with Italys Fiat Chrysler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-psa-results/profit-rise-lifts-peugeot-shares-ahead-of-fiat-merger-idUSKCN20K0QK | 2020-02-27 |
| in January more than expected and marking the industrys 19th consecutive month of sales decline data from the countrys biggest auto industry association showed on Wednesday | Negative | SHANGHAI Auto sales in China fell 18 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-autos/chinas-january-auto-sales-fell-18-7-year-on-year-worse-than-forecasted-idUSKCN20K12G | 2020-02-27 |
| Tsais offer in late January to China to provide necessary to fight the virus should be further the council said | Positive | TAIPEI Taiwan should continue to show goodwill to China during the outbreak of the new coronavirus and not give Beijing an excuse to attack the island as a way of relieving internal advisers to Taiwans Chinapolicy making body said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan-diplomacy/dont-give-china-excuse-to-attack-taiwan-during-virus-outbreak-ministry-advisers-say-idUSKCN20K06Z | 2020-02-26 |
| In court Janavs said she was so very sorry that I tried to create an unfair advantage for my children | Negative | BOSTON A California woman whose familys company created the microwavable snack Hot Pockets was sentenced on Tuesday to five months in prison for paying to help her daughters gain an illicit edge in the college admissions process through cheating and fraud | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/hot-pockets-heiress-gets-5-months-in-prison-for-u-s-college-admissions-scam-idUSKBN20J1K5 | 2020-02-26 |
| Jangho had previously offered to buyout Healius for | Positive | The Swiss private equity firm offered | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healius-m-a-partners-group/australias-healius-gets-1-4-billion-buyout-offer-from-swiss-private-equity-partners-group-idUSKCN20J109 | 2020-02-26 |
| Belarus is locked in a row over oil supply with Russia and flows to Belarus slowed dramatically from Jan | Negative | MOSCOW Belarusian state energy company Belneftekhim said on Tuesday that the countrys refineries were currently working at half their capacity and had refined 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-oil-russia-refineries/belarus-says-its-oil-refineries-operating-at-half-capacity-idUSKBN20J1PE | 2020-02-26 |
| Capacity utilization in January was 66 | Neutral | BANGKOK Thailands manufacturing production index contracted for a ninth straight month in January down 4 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-thailand-economy-output/thai-january-factory-output-falls-4-6-worse-than-forecast-idUSKCN20K0EN | 2020-02-26 |
| Oil output in Libya has fallen sharply since Jan | Negative | TOKYO Crude prices inched higher on Wednesday as investors covered short positions after three sessions of losses and eyed potential supply cuts even as fears of a coronavirus pandemic deepened | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-on-short-covering-hopes-for-deeper-output-cut-by-opec-idUSKCN20K08N | 2020-02-26 |
| Manley said in January that talks with PSA were progressing well and he hoped to complete the deal by early 2021 | Positive | DETROIT Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV Chief Executive Mike Manley received compensation of 13 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-fiat-chrysler-ceo-pay/fiat-chrysler-ceo-manley-received-13-3-million-euros-in-2019-compensation-filing-idUSKBN20J2TY | 2020-02-26 |
| The World Health Organization has said the epidemic in China peaked between Jan | Negative | SHANGHAI The northwestern Chinese regions of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang and the southwestern province of Sichuan have downgraded their emergency response level after assessing that health risks from the coronavirus outbreak have receded state media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-response/three-more-chinese-regions-lower-emergency-response-level-as-virus-threat-recedes-idUSKCN20K029 | 2020-02-26 |
| The World Health Organization however has said the epidemic in China where it began in December peaked between Jan | Negative | By Rodrigo Campos | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-oil-fall-further-on-accelerating-coronavirus-concerns-idUSL1N2AP11A | 2020-02-26 |
| Gorton also ordered Janavs to pay a fine | Positive | BOSTON A California woman whose familys company created the microwavable snack Hot Pockets was sentenced on Tuesday to five months in prison for paying to help her daughters gain an illicit edge in the college admissions process through cheating and fraud | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-cheating/hot-pockets-heiress-gets-5-months-in-prison-for-u-s-college-admissions-scam-idUSKBN20J1K5 | 2020-02-26 |
| Vietnams first report of the virus was about two Chinese citizens infected on Jan | Negative | HANOI All 16 people in Vietnam infected with a new coronavirus have been cured the health ministry said on Tuesday adding that no new cases have been recorded since Feb | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-vietnam-cured/all-16-of-vietnams-coronavirus-sufferers-cured-idUSKCN20J0IC | 2020-02-25 |
| Smollett who is black and openly gay has insisted he told the truth in his account of being accosted on a darkened street in January 2019 by two masked strangers | Neutral | CHICAGO Former actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty in a Chicago court on Monday to renewed felony charges that he made false reports to police about being attacked in a hate crime that he is accused of staging in a bid to advance his career | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jussie-smollett/actor-smollett-pleads-not-guilty-to-new-chicago-hoax-charges-seeks-stay-dismissal-idUSKCN20I19I | 2020-02-25 |
| Since then Team GB has risen to third at home in London 2012 and second in Rio de Janeiro four years ago | Neutral | BISHAM ABBEY England The heat and humidity of Tokyo in August will come as no surprise to Britains Olympic athletes even if they have never been to Japan and are more used to training in the cold and rain | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-olympics-britain-temperature/olympics-in-wintery-britain-uk-athletes-turn-the-heat-up-for-tokyo-idUSKCN20I1Z3 | 2020-02-25 |
| Were not likely to make any progress higher until we have evidence the spread of the coronavirus is said Mark Luschini chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia | Positive | New York The 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday suffered their biggest oneday percentage losses in two years after a surge in coronavirus cases outside China fanned worries about the global economic impact of a potential pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-stocks/wall-street-plunges-on-fears-of-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKCN20I1GD | 2020-02-25 |
| At the start of the case in January Weinsteins legal team objected to which jurors were chosen and what evidence the jury was allowed to hear | Positive | without changes to fix | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-harvey-weinstein-appeal/rpt-after-conviction-weinstein-has-roadmap-for-appeal-idUSL2N2AO0VC | 2020-02-25 |
| However he said that a local armed group had stolen 125 of the camels as they passed through the Tripoli suburb of Janzour | Negative | TRIPOLI Three thousand camels have been walked out of Libyas capital Tripoli in an overnight evacuation after the port where they arrived came under artillery fire | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-camels/imported-camels-evacuated-from-libyas-capital-after-port-comes-under-fire-idUSKBN20E1TY | 2020-02-24 |
| BUENOS AIRES Argentine beef exports to its top buyer China fell almost a third in January due to a price dispute with Chinese importers and the effects of a coronavirus outbreak the head of the South American countrys meat export chamber told Reuters | Negative | BUENOS AIRES Argentine beef exports to its top buyer China fell almost a third in January due to a price dispute with Chinese importers and the effects of a coronavirus outbreak the head of the South American countrys meat export chamber told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-china-beef/price-tussle-coronavirus-hammer-argentinas-beef-gravy-train-to-china-idUSKCN20I07C | 2020-02-24 |
| Egypt in January issued new regulations that appeared to eliminate the need for mining companies to form joint ventures with the government and to limit state royalties to a maximum | Positive | CAIRO Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris said on Sunday that he was holding talks to acquire a stake in the stateowned Shalateen mining company | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-commodities-mining/sawiris-in-talks-to-buy-51-stake-in-egypt-state-owned-mining-firm-idUSKCN20H07S | 2020-02-24 |
| Italy was the first euro zone country to suspend all direct flights to and from China after two Chinese tourists from Wuhan tested positive in Rome in late January | Negative | MILAN An outbreak of the new coronavirus has killed two people and infected another 51 in northern Italy forcing authorities to ban public events and companies to tell workers in affected areas to stay at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy/italys-coronavirus-outbreak-infects-51-people-kills-two-idUSKCN20G0CQ | 2020-02-23 |
| 4 percentage points from its January outlook and shave 0 | Neutral | RIYADH Feb 22 The fastspreading coronavirus outbreak will likely lower Chinas economic growth this year to 5 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/g20-coronavirus-imf/imfs-georgieva-says-coronavirus-to-shave-0-1-percentage-points-from-global-growth-idUSD5N29W00M | 2020-02-23 |
| Beijings containment measures look set to delay the rollout of 5G as tenders for six big projects have been postponed since Jan | Negative | China reported a sharp decrease in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus on Saturday but a doubling of infections in South Korea and 10 new cases in Iran added to unease about its rapid spread and global reach | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKCN20G0PQ | 2020-02-23 |
| President Donald Trump raised the stakes in his standoff with Tehran when Irans top general Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad airport in January | Negative | DUBAI Candidates affiliated with Irans Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority on Saturday reportedly leading in the race in Tehran and across the country after a vote stacked in favor of loyalists to the supreme leader | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election/hardline-guards-make-early-gains-in-restricted-iran-election-idUSKCN20G08A | 2020-02-23 |
| NTSB board member Jennifer Homendy said in January that clouds fog and limited visibility reported in the vicinity of the crash would be a key focus of the investigation | Negative | The Federal Aviation Administration faulted the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in January killing basketball great Kobe Bryant and eight others for violating flight rules in a 2015 incident | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-kobe-bryant/pilot-in-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-counseled-by-faa-after-2015-incident-idUSKCN20G07Y | 2020-02-22 |
| Zobayan was killed in the January crash along with Bryant 41 his 13yearold daughter Gianna and the other six onboard | Negative | The Federal Aviation Administration faulted the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in January killing basketball great Kobe Bryant and eight others for violating flight rules in a 2015 incident | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-kobe-bryant/pilot-in-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-counseled-by-faa-after-2015-incident-idUSKCN20G07Y | 2020-02-22 |
| Xerox said in January it plans to nominate 11 independent candidates to HPs board | Positive | Xerox Holdings Corp said on Friday it would continue to pursue HP Inc even after the PC maker said it would implement a poison pill plan to shield itself against a takeover offer from the U.S. printer maker | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-hp-m-a-xerox-hlngs/xerox-to-press-ahead-despite-hps-poison-pill-plan-against-takeover-offer-idUSKBN20F250 | 2020-02-22 |
| Modis ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party denies any bias against the countrys 180 million Muslims | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week a senior administration official said a sensitive subject for the Indian government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-india-usa-trump/trump-plans-to-raise-issue-of-religious-freedom-with-indian-pm-modi-official-idUSKCN20G06C | 2020-02-22 |
| in January the biggest drop since March 2009 according to the Commerce Department while overall core retail sales were unchanged | Neutral | NEW YORK Expectations that spending on items ranging from hotels to clothing will continue to rise have helped make consumer discretionary stocks the most expensive sector in the 500 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead/fund-managers-look-for-value-in-high-priced-consumer-sector-idUSKBN20F1PK | 2020-02-22 |
| Irans action plan to meet with the FATF requirements implemented in 2016 expired in January 2018 | Positive | PARIS The global dirty money watchdog placed Iran on its blacklist on Friday after it failed to comply with international antiterrorism financing norms a move that will deepen the countrys isolation from financial markets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-fatf/global-watchdog-places-iran-on-terrorism-financing-blacklist-idUSKBN20F1Z6 | 2020-02-22 |
| Seasonal factors and the virus impact were behind the flat M1 money supply or cash in circulation plus corporate demand deposits in January from a year earlier Liu said | Negative | Chinas central bank will take further steps to support the virushit economy including releasing more liquidity and lowering funding costs for companies a vice governor of the bank told state media | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-economy-interestrates/chinas-central-bank-vows-to-take-more-steps-to-support-virus-hit-economy-idUSKCN20G03G | 2020-02-22 |
| That was the lowest January inventory since 1999 | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. manufacturing and services sectors activity stalled in February amid growing concerns about the deadly coronavirus impact on the economy boosting investor demand for safehaven assets like government bonds | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/coronavirus-fears-weigh-on-u-s-manufacturing-services-sectors-idUSKBN20F23S | 2020-02-22 |
| Sadowski said that a manuscript of his book was submitted to Apple in January | Neutral | BERLIN Apple has become embroiled in a publishing row in Germany after it tried to halt sales of a book written by a former executive saying it disclosed secrets about the App Store | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-apple-germany/what-secrets-apple-embroiled-in-row-over-book-by-german-former-executive-idUSKBN20E2FT | 2020-02-21 |
| 7 million of his own wealth in January into his bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination for a total spend of million a campaign finance disclosure showed on Thursday | Neutral | WASHINGTON Businessman Tom Steyer poured | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-steyer-fundraising/businessman-steyer-pumps-64-7-million-of-own-funds-into-u-s-presidential-bid-in-january-idUSKBN20F0GH | 2020-02-21 |
| Sanders had a January payroll of | Neutral | NEW U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised more money than most of her Democratic presidential rivals in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses but spent so heavily that her campaign took out a million loan fearing she would run out of cash | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fundraising/democrat-warren-worried-campaign-will-run-out-of-cash-taps-3-million-loan-idUSKBN20F0LZ | 2020-02-21 |
| BEIJING Chinas exports and imports will fall sharply in January and February as the coronavirus outbreak severely disrupts activity in the worlds secondlargest economy the commerce ministry said on Friday adding more measures are being studied to support companies | Negative | BEIJING Chinas exports and imports will fall sharply in January and February as the coronavirus outbreak severely disrupts activity in the worlds secondlargest economy the commerce ministry said on Friday adding more measures are being studied to support companies | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-mofcom/china-says-january-february-trade-to-take-sharp-hit-from-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN20F0AY | 2020-02-21 |
| For Air France and stablemate KLM as for global peers the January outbreak came just as an easing of global trade tensions seemed to promise stronger demand in 2020 | Negative | Thats the hypothesis were using for the moment but we dont know how credible it Chief Financial Officer Frederic Gagey said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-air-france-klm-results/air-france-says-coronavirus-impact-could-climb-above-200-million-idUSKBN20E0KN | 2020-02-21 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised million in January for her presidential bid but spent nearly all the money her campaign had amassed and ended the month with only | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised million in January for her presidential bid but spent nearly all the money her campaign had amassed and ended the month with only | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren-fundraising/elizabeth-warrens-presidential-campaign-raised-11-million-in-january-idUSKBN20F0EZ | 2020-02-21 |
| We expect JanuaryFebruary import and export growth to decline he said citing delays in business reopenings and logistics issues in addition to seasonal holiday factors | Negative | BEIJING Chinas exports and imports will fall sharply in January and February as the coronavirus outbreak severely disrupts activity in the worlds secondlargest economy the commerce ministry said on Friday adding more measures are being studied to support companies | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-mofcom/china-says-january-february-trade-to-take-sharp-hit-from-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN20F0AY | 2020-02-21 |
| 2 billion which it announced in January and which should be completed this year | Neutral | Fullyear results announced on Thursday at the upper end of forecasts helped to drive shares 3 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-bae-systems-results/bae-systems-predicts-2020-growth-despite-saudi-ban-idUSKBN20E0S0 | 2020-02-21 |
| WASHINGTON Former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg raised million in January but has seen his campaigns fundraising rise in the wake of strong performances in early primary contests | Positive | WASHINGTON Former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg raised million in January but has seen his campaigns fundraising rise in the wake of strong performances in early primary contests | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-buttigieg-fundraising/pete-buttigiegs-campaign-raised-6-million-in-january-idUSKBN20E2XD | 2020-02-21 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. government expects China to honor its commitments to buy more U.S. goods under a trade deal signed by the worlds two largest economies in January despite the fastspreading coronavirus outbreak a senior U.S. official said on Thursday | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. government expects China to honor its commitments to buy more U.S. goods under a trade deal signed by the worlds two largest economies in January despite the fastspreading coronavirus outbreak a senior U.S. official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/outbreak-will-not-change-chinas-commitments-to-buy-u-s-goods-senior-u-s-official-idUSKBN20E2NX | 2020-02-21 |
| That may be in part thanks to her decision to increase her spending on payroll in January | Positive | NEW U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised more money than most of her Democratic presidential rivals in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses but spent so heavily that her campaign took out a million loan fearing she would run out of cash | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fundraising/democrat-warren-worried-campaign-will-run-out-of-cash-taps-3-million-loan-idUSKBN20F0LZ | 2020-02-21 |
| We have started well into January and grew sales in Peter said adding that the carmaker had sold around 175000 cars in January | Positive | Peter reiterated that BMW expected to grow sales in 2020 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-bmw-emissions-cfo/bmw-expects-to-cut-average-emissions-in-europe-by-20-this-year-idUSKBN20E1KK | 2020-02-21 |
| MEXICO CITY The Mexican government on Thursday ratified an environmental rule that requires truck and bus makers to manufacture and sell only vehicles running on clean diesel starting in January 2021 despite criticism from the industry | Positive | MEXICO CITY The Mexican government on Thursday ratified an environmental rule that requires truck and bus makers to manufacture and sell only vehicles running on clean diesel starting in January 2021 despite criticism from the industry | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-autos/mexico-ratifies-rule-requiring-trucks-buses-to-run-on-cleaner-diesel-idUSKBN20F0AD | 2020-02-21 |
| China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday although the pace of increase was at its slowest since January a downward trend that the World Health Organization called encouraging | Negative | China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday although the pace of increase was at its slowest since January a downward trend that the World Health Organization called encouraging | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-latest-factbox/latest-on-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN20E1BF | 2020-02-21 |
| New York media mogul Bloomberg was still ramping up his staff in January after launching his campaign in November | Neutral | NEW U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised more money than most of her Democratic presidential rivals in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses but spent so heavily that her campaign took out a million loan fearing she would run out of cash | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fundraising/democrat-warren-worried-campaign-will-run-out-of-cash-taps-3-million-loan-idUSKBN20F0LZ | 2020-02-21 |
| The benchmark STOXX 600 index has bounced back from a slight dip in January and is on course for its best monthly gain in a year | Positive | European shares eased from record highs on Thursday as a raft of disappointing earnings added to concerns about the global impact of the coronavirus outbreak after research suggested the illness is more contagious than previously thought | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-shares-mark-worst-day-in-3-weeks-on-weak-earnings-virus-risks-idUSKBN20E0XU | 2020-02-21 |
| MOSCOW Inured to interminable winters Muscovites have been stunned this year by springlike temperatures and virtually snowfree sidewalks after the Russian capital recorded its warmest January in history | Negative | MOSCOW Inured to interminable winters Muscovites have been stunned this year by springlike temperatures and virtually snowfree sidewalks after the Russian capital recorded its warmest January in history | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-weather/moscow-meltdown-russian-capital-has-warmest-january-as-experts-point-to-global-warming-idUSKBN20E2GD | 2020-02-21 |
| It said in January nonEU ownership had fallen to 39 | Negative | In an endorsement of the AngloSpanish group just weeks before its founder Willie Walsh steps down Qatar said on Wednesday the move showed its support for IAG and its strategy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iag-qatar-stake/qatar-airways-spends-600-million-to-lift-stake-in-ba-owner-to-25-idUSKBN20D0Q2 | 2020-02-20 |
| In addition to the New York case Weinstein was charged in Los Angeles on Jan | Negative | A New York jury began deliberations on Tuesday in the rape trial of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-legal/weinsteins-legal-problems-extend-beyond-new-york-criminal-trial-idUSKBN20D1G3 | 2020-02-20 |
| Hubei had 349 new confirmed cases reported on Wednesday down from 1693 on Tuesday and the lowest since Jan | Negative | BEIJING Mainland China reported on Thursday the lowest number of confirmed cases of a new coronavirus since late January partly due to a change in diagnostic criteria for patients in Hubei province the epicenter of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-toll/china-reports-394-new-cases-of-coronavirus-lowest-since-jan-23-idUSKBN20E088 | 2020-02-20 |
| Racing Point owner Lawrence Stroll bought a stake at the end of January with that F1 team set to change its name to Aston Martin next season | Positive | LONDON Aston Martin said on Wednesday it was putting on hold a planned entry into the World Endurance Championship and Le Mans 24 Hours with its Valkyrie hypercar | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-motor-endurance-astonmartin/aston-martin-puts-planned-wec-le-mans-hypercar-entry-on-hold-idUSKBN20D1M7 | 2020-02-20 |
| Under mounting pressure Morrison in January deployed 6500 military reservists to support state authorities which he said created a constitutional gray | Negative | SYDNEY Australia will hold a wideranging enquiry into the causes of recent bushfires that killed 33 people and razed an area the size of South Korea Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-australia-bushfires/australia-to-hold-wide-ranging-enquiry-into-disastrous-bushfires-idUSKBN20E0BW | 2020-02-20 |
| BEIJING Chinas central Hubei province had 349 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Wednesday the provinces health commission said on Thursday down from 1693 a day earlier and the lowest since Jan | Negative | BEIJING Chinas central Hubei province had 349 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Wednesday the provinces health commission said on Thursday down from 1693 a day earlier and the lowest since Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/chinas-hubei-reports-349-new-coronavirus-cases-lowest-since-jan-25-idUSKBN20D2UO | 2020-02-20 |
| Japan which is set to host the 2020 Summer Olympics in July saw its foreign visitor numbers fall for the fourth month in January with sharper falls expected | Negative | China reported a dramatic drop in coronavirus infections on Thursday although scientists warned it may spread even more easily than previously believed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN20B0EI | 2020-02-20 |
| WASHINGTON Since his January 2019 arrest President Donald Trumps longtime adviser Roger Stone has repeatedly tested the patience of the federal judge who presided over his trial | Negative | WASHINGTON Since his January 2019 arrest President Donald Trumps longtime adviser Roger Stone has repeatedly tested the patience of the federal judge who presided over his trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/long-time-trump-adviser-stone-to-be-sentenced-by-judge-he-antagonized-idUSKBN20D2KU | 2020-02-20 |
| TOKYO The number of foreign visitors to Japan fell for the fourth month in January as the impact of a South Korean boycott weighed with further sharper falls expected as the coronavirus outbreak keeps away Chinese travellers | Negative | TOKYO The number of foreign visitors to Japan fell for the fourth month in January as the impact of a South Korean boycott weighed with further sharper falls expected as the coronavirus outbreak keeps away Chinese travellers | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan-tourism/japan-warns-of-coronavirus-hit-on-tourism-but-keeps-40-mln-visitor-target-idUSKBN20D0NR | 2020-02-20 |
| Reuters reported in January that judges who have wider powers than investigators to pursue a criminal case were set to get involved potentially bringing prosecution a step closer | Negative | PARIS French prosecutors have stepped up their investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds at Renault by former boss Carlos Ghosn saying a judge had now been assigned to the case to launch a formal investigation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-ghosn/french-judges-step-up-ghosn-probe-over-palace-party-oman-dealings-idUSKBN20D2FS | 2020-02-20 |
| Overall foreign visitors to Japan in January fell for the fourth month data released on Wednesday showed with sharper falls expected ahead as the impact of the coronavirus hits | Negative | TOKYO The number of foreign visitors to Japan fell for the fourth month in January as the impact of a South Korean boycott weighed with further sharper falls expected as the coronavirus outbreak keeps away Chinese travellers | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan-tourism/japan-warns-of-coronavirus-hit-on-tourism-but-keeps-40-mln-visitor-target-idUSKBN20D0NR | 2020-02-20 |
| China had 394 new confirmed cases on Wednesday the National Health Commission said sharply down from 1749 cases a day earlier and the lowest since Jan | Negative | BEIJING Mainland China reported on Thursday the lowest number of confirmed cases of a new coronavirus since late January partly due to a change in diagnostic criteria for patients in Hubei province the epicenter of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-toll/china-reports-394-new-cases-of-coronavirus-lowest-since-jan-23-idUSKBN20E088 | 2020-02-20 |
| The billion deal which is expected to close this quarter was approved by the European Union in January | Positive | AbbVie did not immediately respond to a request for comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-allergan-m-a-abbvie-consumers/consumer-groups-unions-oppose-fix-for-planned-merger-of-abbvie-and-allergan-idUSKBN20C2H1 | 2020-02-19 |
| GumusutKakap faced operational issues in late January which has reduced Kimanis output to about 160000170000 barrels per day down from 190000 bpd the source said | Negative | Kimanis crude exports fall to 4 cargoes in April | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/us/article/malaysia-oil-exports/update-1-malaysias-kimanis-crude-exports-to-halve-in-april-due-to-maintenance-sources-idUSL4N2AJ1BP | 2020-02-19 |
| In January Cosby asked Pennsylvanias highest court to overturn the conviction | Negative | A Manhattan jurys verdict in the sexual assault trial of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein may well hang on the testimony of three women whose accusations were not part of the underlying criminal case | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-testimony/harvey-weinstein-rape-case-may-turn-on-history-of-prior-bad-acts-idUSKBN20C1C9 | 2020-02-19 |
| Tesla plans to host a battery event probably in April to share its future battery strategy and technology Musk said at an earnings conference in January | Positive | Tesla Inc and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd declined to comment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-tesla-china-electric-exclusive/exclusive-tesla-in-talks-to-use-catls-cobalt-free-batteries-in-china-made-cars-sources-idUSKBN20C0RP | 2020-02-19 |
| The former mayor didnt qualify for Democratic debates in December January and early February | Negative | WASHINGTON When Michael Bloomberg steps onto the Democratic debate stage for the first time on Wednesday he will be ready to dismiss rivals like Joe Biden who as vice president made speeches that somebody writes for and Pete Buttigieg mayor of a town | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg-rivals/bloomberg-has-barbs-at-the-ready-for-his-first-2020-debate-idUSKBN20C1EL | 2020-02-19 |
| The drop comes as the coronavirus outbreak in China the worlds largest automobile market is expected to hit auto sector sales in January | Negative | BERLIN European car sales fell in January hit by a sluggish global economy higher car taxes in some EU countries and uncertainty over Britains departure from the bloc the European Auto Industry Association said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-europe-vehicleregistrations-january/european-new-car-sales-down-7-4-in-january-acea-idUSKBN20C0NB | 2020-02-19 |
| Supporting prices oil output in Libya has collapsed since Jan | Negative | NEW YORK Oil prices were near flat on Tuesday pressured by concerns over the impact on crude demand from the coronavirus outbreak in China but prices drew support from a reduction in supply from Libya | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-near-flat-virus-impact-offsets-libya-supply-disruptions-idUSKBN20C04D | 2020-02-19 |
| Investors are looking to the minutes from the Federal Reserves January meeting due to be released at 1900 GMT for insight in to the Feds thinking about virus risks | Positive | Virus deaths top 2000 economic paralysis deepens | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-shines-against-euro-riskier-peers-as-virus-hit-widens-idUSL4N2AJ0CE | 2020-02-19 |
| The U.N. human rights office said it had recorded 299 civilian deaths since Jan | Negative | Government air strikes have hit hospitals and refugee camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar alAssads forces press an assault against the last rebel stronghold the United Nations said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/air-strikes-hit-hospitals-camps-in-northwest-syria-turkey-demands-pull-back-idUSKBN20C1P3 | 2020-02-19 |
| Chinese officials reported 1886 new cases the first time the daily figure has fallen below 2000 since Jan | Negative | oil gold settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-slide-on-apples-virus-warning-euro-near-three-year-low-idUSL1N2AI0Z3 | 2020-02-19 |
| The number of new daily infections in mainland China had not been below 2000 since Jan | Negative | The number of new coronavirus infections in mainland China fell below 2000 on Tuesday for the first time since January although global experts warn it is still too early to say the outbreak is being contained | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-infections-slow-in-china-as-apple-becomes-latest-business-casualty-idUSKBN20C03X | 2020-02-18 |
| The number of new coronavirus infections in mainland China fell below 2000 on Tuesday for the first time since January although global experts warn it is still too early to say the outbreak is being contained | Negative | The number of new coronavirus infections in mainland China fell below 2000 on Tuesday for the first time since January although global experts warn it is still too early to say the outbreak is being contained | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-infections-slow-in-china-as-apple-becomes-latest-business-casualty-idUSKBN20C03X | 2020-02-18 |
| Oil output from Libya has fallen sharply since Jan | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil prices fell on Tuesday tracking losses in financial markets on lingering concerns over the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China and its effect on oil demand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-fall-as-market-weighs-coronavirus-demand-impact-idUSKBN20C04D | 2020-02-18 |
| At least 150 people were injured in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Kerbala in January alone due to similar tactics UNAMI said in a statement | Negative | BAGHDAD The top United Nations envoy to Iraq condemned on Monday the use of hunting rifles loaded with birdshot against peaceful protesters in Baghdad and urged the government to ensure those demonstrating are not harmed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/u-n-envoy-condemns-use-of-birdshot-against-iraqi-protesters-idUSKBN20B16V | 2020-02-18 |
| The number of new coronavirus cases in mainland China fell below 2000 on Tuesday for the first time since January but the virus remains far from contained as its economic impact spreads globally with South Korea announcing an economic emergency | Negative | The number of new coronavirus cases in mainland China fell below 2000 on Tuesday for the first time since January but the virus remains far from contained as its economic impact spreads globally with South Korea announcing an economic emergency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-infections-slow-in-china-as-apple-becomes-latest-business-casualty-idUSKBN20C03X | 2020-02-18 |
| The White House informed Bolton in January that his book manuscript appeared to contain significant amounts of classified and could not be published in its current form | Positive | WASHINGTON John Bolton the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump raised concern on Monday about his unpublished book being by the White House and suggested he should be able to respond to the presidents tweets about him | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bolton/bolton-says-he-hopes-book-is-not-suppressed-by-white-house-idUSKBN20C07S | 2020-02-18 |
| Apple says will not meet revenue target for JanMarch | Negative | Apple says will not meet revenue target for JanMarch | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-fall-after-apple-warns-on-coronavirus-impact-idUSL4N2AI0OF | 2020-02-18 |
| 30 which was the highest since late January | Neutral | SYDNEY Asian shares reversed earlier losses on Monday and moved back toward a threeweek top as Chinese efforts to cushion the blow from a coronavirus outbreak cheered investors although Japanese stocks faltered amid growing recession risks | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/asian-shares-hover-around-three-week-highs-on-chinese-support-measures-idUSKBN20B01Z | 2020-02-17 |
| About of Democrats and independents who are women support Bloombergs nomination bid the same share as in the general population according to polling conducted between Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Democratic presidential candidates said on Sunday billionaire Michael Bloomberg should face the same rigorous scrutiny as his rivals and they would welcome the chance to square off with him in a 2020 presidential debate | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/democratic-rivals-tell-billionaire-bloomberg-lets-debate-idUSKBN20A0IM | 2020-02-17 |
| Its operations in Chineseruled Hong Kong had resumed work on Jan | Positive | British product quality testing firm Intertek Group Plc said on Sunday it had temporarily shut its Hong Kong Garment Centre in Kowloon from Feb | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-intertek-group/uks-intertek-temporarily-shuts-hong-kong-garment-office-over-coronavirus-case-idUSKBN20A0OT | 2020-02-17 |
| Hubei province and its capital Wuhan have been virtually sealed off and locked down since Jan | Neutral | SHANGHAI Japan and Singapore appeared to be on the brink of recession on Monday as the coronavirus epidemic disrupted tourism and supply chains around the world and as China imposed tougher restrictions to try and stop the virus spreading further | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-cases-rise-as-recessions-loom-in-singapore-japan-idUSKBN20B014 | 2020-02-17 |
| Next month will see the formal launch of negotiations on a new relationship after Britain left the EU at the end of January | Neutral | LONDON British consumers face higher prices and reduced availability of goods if the government fails to agree pragmatic solutions with the European Union on regulatory checks at ports in any postBrexit deal the retail industrys lobby group warned on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-retail/uk-shoppers-face-pain-without-comprehensive-post-brexit-trade-deal-brc-idUSKBN20B00C | 2020-02-17 |
| We did what we were supposed to do now it is your said head of the Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati | Neutral | DUBAI Hardliners are set to tighten control of Iran this week in a parliamentary election stacked in their favor as the leadership closes ranks in a deepening confrontation with Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-election-preview/khamenei-loyalists-may-tighten-grip-at-iran-elections-idUSKBN20B0BV | 2020-02-17 |
| Official data release on Chinas gas imports for January has been postponed until March | Neutral | BEIJING Feb 17 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-gas-consumption/chinas-jan-natgas-consumption-sees-first-contraction-in-2-years-idUSL4N2AH1GL | 2020-02-17 |
| With new leadership in Brussels the EU has launched into a flurry of diplomacy since January particularly on the Middle East | Positive | MUNICH European Union governments need to be willing to intervene in international crises or risk prolonging paralysis in their foreign policy the EUs top diplomat said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-germany-security-europe/eu-must-develop-appetite-for-power-borrell-says-idUSKBN20A0BX | 2020-02-17 |
| Burundis Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found more than 6000 bodies in six mass Province the largest finding since the government launched a nationwide excavation in January | Positive | Burundis Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found more than 6000 bodies in six mass Province the largest finding since the government launched a nationwide excavation in January | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-burundi-graves/over-6000-bodies-found-in-burundis-mass-graves-idUSKBN2090GP | 2020-02-16 |
| The province and its capital Wuhan have been virtually sealed off and locked down since Jan | Neutral | SHANGHAI The number of new cases of a coronavirus in China fell slightly on Sunday more than three weeks after the outbreaks epicenter was locked down and a Chinese tourist died from the virus in France the first fatality in Europe | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/new-chinese-coronavirus-cases-show-slight-fall-chinese-tourist-dies-in-france-idUSKBN20A036 | 2020-02-16 |
| Egypt said in January it had signed two deals with Exxon Mobil for oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean | Positive | CAIRO Egypt has reached initial agreements with five major energy firms to explore for oil and gas in deep waters in off its western coast on the Mediterranean the petroleum minister said the first such deals in that offshore region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-oil/egypt-agrees-with-five-energy-firms-on-exploration-in-mediterranean-minister-idUSKBN2090DS | 2020-02-16 |
| MUNICH Qatars foreign minister said on Saturday efforts to resolve a bitter Gulf dispute had not succeeded and were suspended at the start of January | Negative | MUNICH Qatars foreign minister said on Saturday efforts to resolve a bitter Gulf dispute had not succeeded and were suspended at the start of January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-qatar/qatar-says-talks-to-end-gulf-dispute-were-suspended-in-january-idUSKBN2090N7 | 2020-02-16 |
| Unfortunately efforts did not succeed and were suspended at the beginning of January and Qatar is not responsible for he said | Positive | MUNICH Qatars foreign minister said on Saturday efforts to resolve a bitter Gulf dispute had not succeeded and were suspended at the start of January | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-qatar/qatar-says-talks-to-end-gulf-dispute-were-suspended-in-january-idUSKBN2090N7 | 2020-02-16 |
| Bryant was on his way with his daughter and seven others to a youth basketball tournament on Jan | Neutral | CHICAGO Three weeks after Kobe Bryant one of the most dominant players in NBA history was killed with his daughter and seven others in a helicopter crash the global sports icon was named a finalist to the Basketball Hall of Fame | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-basketball-nba-allstar-hall-of-fame/bryant-named-basketball-hall-of-fame-finalist-three-weeks-after-death-idUSKBN2082OA | 2020-02-16 |
| However friends of the former Santos and New York Cosmos player said this January was one of his busiest in years | Positive | Former Brazil striker Pele dismissed talk he is depressed and reclusive on Thursday and assured fans he is doing well and maintaining a busy schedule | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-soccer-brazil-pele/pele-dismisses-talk-of-depression-tells-fans-he-is-well-idUSKBN20731X | 2020-02-15 |
| Mom where have you Have you been thinking of Nayeon said prompting a chokedup Jang to Always | Neutral | SEOUL Wearing virtual reality goggles Jang Jisung burst into tears as her 7yearold daughter Nayeon emerged from behind piles of wood in a neighborhood park her playground until she died from bloodrelated diseases three years ago | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-virtualreality-reunion/south-korean-mother-given-tearful-vr-reunion-with-deceased-daughter-idUSKBN2081D6 | 2020-02-15 |
| 11 that Canadas complaint about the plane that was mistakenly shot down by Irans Revolutionary Guards in January had no legal basis | Negative | MUNICH Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had impressed Irans foreign minister on Friday that a complete and independent investigation into the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January had to be carried out | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-canada-iran/canadas-trudeau-demands-from-iran-independent-probe-into-downed-airliner-idUSKBN2082B5 | 2020-02-15 |
| MUNICH Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had impressed Irans foreign minister on Friday that a complete and independent investigation into the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January had to be carried out | Negative | MUNICH Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had impressed Irans foreign minister on Friday that a complete and independent investigation into the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January had to be carried out | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-canada-iran/canadas-trudeau-demands-from-iran-independent-probe-into-downed-airliner-idUSKBN2082B5 | 2020-02-15 |
| in January matching forecasts but Decembers manufacturing output was revised lower to a 0 | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. industrial production fell 0 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-economy-output/u-s-january-industrial-output-falls-on-weather-boeing-drop-idUSKBN2081TO | 2020-02-15 |
| Our counting teams have noted since January that production will be down compared to last season following the lack of said an Ivory Coastbased director of a European export company | Neutral | Adverse weather and hoarding in Ivory Coast could see sales of the top cocoa producers largest export fall some way short of consensus which could push global prices higher traders said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-cocoa-output-ivory-coast/cocoa-traders-expect-adverse-weather-hoarding-to-hit-ivorian-sales-idUSKBN2081S6 | 2020-02-15 |
| I really want to touch you just Jang said her voice and hands quivering | Neutral | SEOUL Wearing virtual reality goggles Jang Jisung burst into tears as her 7yearold daughter Nayeon emerged from behind piles of wood in a neighborhood park her playground until she died from bloodrelated diseases three years ago | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-virtualreality-reunion/south-korean-mother-given-tearful-vr-reunion-with-deceased-daughter-idUSKBN2081D6 | 2020-02-15 |
| Lukashenko said refineries in Belarus had received only 500000 tonnes of Russian oil in January down from a planned 2 million tonnes | Positive | MINSK Belarus threatened to siphon off oil from Russias transit pipeline to Europe unless Moscow restarted crude supplies and accused the Kremlin on Friday of using energy prices as leverage to try to swallow up its former Soviet neighbor | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-oil-lukashenko/belarus-to-russia-well-siphon-off-your-transit-oil-to-europe-if-necessary-idUSKBN20823P | 2020-02-15 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. consumer spending slowed further in January with sales at clothing stores declining by the most since 2009 a trend that could raise concerns about the economys ability to continue expanding at a moderate pace | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. consumer spending slowed further in January with sales at clothing stores declining by the most since 2009 a trend that could raise concerns about the economys ability to continue expanding at a moderate pace | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-consumer-spending-slowing-industrial-production-weak-idUSKBN2081S4 | 2020-02-15 |
| Plans to hold the parliament and regional council elections in May were postponed as neither authorities nor parties would be ready Mideksa said in January | Neutral | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias election board on Friday set a date of Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-election/ethiopia-to-hold-parliamentary-elections-on-august-29-idUSKBN2081MF | 2020-02-15 |
| Kim Jongwoo who produced the documentary said he focused on Nayeon instead of recreating her so Jang and her family would feel as if her daughter had lived on | Positive | SEOUL Wearing virtual reality goggles Jang Jisung burst into tears as her 7yearold daughter Nayeon emerged from behind piles of wood in a neighborhood park her playground until she died from bloodrelated diseases three years ago | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-virtualreality-reunion/south-korean-mother-given-tearful-vr-reunion-with-deceased-daughter-idUSKBN2081D6 | 2020-02-15 |
| The mother was diagnosed with coronavirus on Jan | Negative | BEIJING After being treated for coronavirus in a Beijing hospital for over two weeks three members of the Liu family have recovered and were allowed to return home on Friday a family member said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-bejing-family/family-recovered-from-coronavirus-returns-home-in-beijing-idUSKBN20822C | 2020-02-15 |
| His appointment raised expectations the upcoming budget would increase public spending to boost the economy following Britains Jan | Positive | Euro weakest since April 2017 on growth concerns | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-drops-to-new-low-as-gdp-data-confirm-weak-growth-idUSL8N2AE3OC | 2020-02-15 |
| For Jang her last wish was to tell Nayeon she loved her and has never forgotten her | Positive | SEOUL Wearing virtual reality goggles Jang Jisung burst into tears as her 7yearold daughter Nayeon emerged from behind piles of wood in a neighborhood park her playground until she died from bloodrelated diseases three years ago | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-virtualreality-reunion/south-korean-mother-given-tearful-vr-reunion-with-deceased-daughter-idUSKBN2081D6 | 2020-02-15 |
| In the latest allegations Amnesty said Nigerian soldiers razed three villages after forcing hundreds of men and women to leave their homes in the northeastern state of Borno in January | Negative | ABUJA Nigerias military burned down villages and forcibly displaced hundreds of people in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the countrys northeast rights group Amnesty International alleged on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-security-amnesty/nigerias-military-razed-villages-in-war-on-islamist-insurgents-amnesty-international-idUSKBN208009 | 2020-02-15 |
| NEW YORK Global stock markets rose slightly on Friday as investors bet on a lull in proliferation of the coronavirus while oil prices registered their first weekly gain since early January | Negative | NEW YORK Global stock markets rose slightly on Friday as investors bet on a lull in proliferation of the coronavirus while oil prices registered their first weekly gain since early January | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/stocks-edge-up-with-positive-chipmaker-forecast-oil-gains-for-the-week-idUSKBN20804H | 2020-02-15 |
| He has been jailed in Manhattan since Jan | Negative | NEW YORK A U.S. jury on Friday found Michael Avenatti guilty in a criminal trial accusing the celebrity lawyer of trying to extort Nike Inc out of millions of dollars and defraud a youth basketball coach he represented | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/celebrity-lawyer-michael-avenatti-is-found-guilty-in-nike-extortion-case-idUSKBN2082EB | 2020-02-15 |
| NEW YORK Oil prices rose over on Friday posting their first weekly gain since early January as investors bet the economic impact of the coronavirus would be shortlived and hoped for further Chinese central bank stimulus to tackle any slowdown | Positive | NEW YORK Oil prices rose over on Friday posting their first weekly gain since early January as investors bet the economic impact of the coronavirus would be shortlived and hoped for further Chinese central bank stimulus to tackle any slowdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-over-1-on-hopes-demand-will-rebound-from-coronavirus-effect-idUSKBN20808Z | 2020-02-15 |
| Its heartbreaking that her time has stopped at the age of Jang said with a faint smile | Negative | SEOUL Wearing virtual reality goggles Jang Jisung burst into tears as her 7yearold daughter Nayeon emerged from behind piles of wood in a neighborhood park her playground until she died from bloodrelated diseases three years ago | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-virtualreality-reunion/south-korean-mother-given-tearful-vr-reunion-with-deceased-daughter-idUSKBN2081D6 | 2020-02-15 |
| to progress the Sangomar Field Development which achieved final investment decision in January Woodside said in a statement on the tribunals ruling on Friday | Positive | At that level the shares were also well below the 4 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-far-senegal-woodside/woodside-holds-on-to-stake-in-senegal-oil-field-as-far-challenge-fails-idUSKBN208093 | 2020-02-15 |
| He said planes from military forces from Austria Sweden Denmark and France had flown to Jan Mayen between 2017 and 2019 | Neutral | Russia said on Thursday it was alarmed by a trip to a Norwegian outpost in the Arctic by a U.S. Air Force unit and urged Oslo to refrain from what it said were destabilizing moves in the strategic region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-norway-usa/russia-alarmed-by-u-s-air-force-visit-to-norwegian-island-idUSKBN20721H | 2020-02-14 |
| He said a request to help with transport flights to Jan Mayen was sent to allied countries in 2019 as Norways air force was stretched | Positive | Russia said on Thursday it was alarmed by a trip to a Norwegian outpost in the Arctic by a U.S. Air Force unit and urged Oslo to refrain from what it said were destabilizing moves in the strategic region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-norway-usa/russia-alarmed-by-u-s-air-force-visit-to-norwegian-island-idUSKBN20721H | 2020-02-14 |
| Airbus will buy back Quebecs entire stake on Jan | Positive | Bombardier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-bombardier-results/bombardier-exits-commercial-aviation-ending-bold-bet-on-promising-jet-idUSKBN2071FJ | 2020-02-14 |
| Jan Mayen will not be used for military he said | Neutral | Russia said on Thursday it was alarmed by a trip to a Norwegian outpost in the Arctic by a U.S. Air Force unit and urged Oslo to refrain from what it said were destabilizing moves in the strategic region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-norway-usa/russia-alarmed-by-u-s-air-force-visit-to-norwegian-island-idUSKBN20721H | 2020-02-14 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. underlying consumer prices picked up in January while the number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week suggesting the economy was stable enough for the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold this year | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. underlying consumer prices picked up in January while the number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week suggesting the economy was stable enough for the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy/rents-lift-u-s-core-inflation-weekly-jobless-claims-rise-slightly-idUSKBN2071XI | 2020-02-14 |
| Brent and WTI have fallen more than from their January peak because of the disease outbreak | Negative | NEW YORK Oil prices edged higher on Thursday as investors hoped the worlds biggest producers would cut output more while they largely shrugged off forecasts of slumping demand due to the coronavirus outbreak in top oil importer China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-climb-on-prospects-for-deeper-opec-output-cuts-idUSKBN20707C | 2020-02-14 |
| Underlying inflation in January was also lifted by increases in the prices of airline tickets healthcare recreation and education | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. underlying consumer prices picked up in January while the number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week suggesting the economy was stable enough for the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy/rents-lift-u-s-core-inflation-weekly-jobless-claims-rise-slightly-idUSKBN2071XI | 2020-02-14 |
| But the January sales meeting in a luxury Singapore hotel was far from auspicious | Positive | As lion dancers snaked between conference room tables laden with plastic bottles pens notebooks and laptops some staff from British gas analytics firm Servomex snapped photos of the performance meant to bring good luck and fortune | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-singapore-meeting/hunt-on-for-patient-zero-who-spread-coronavirus-globally-from-singapore-idUSKBN2071F5 | 2020-02-14 |
| Short selling of U.S.listed companies from China and Hong Kong has climbed since the coronavirus outbreak was confirmed on Jan | Negative | Short selling of U.S.listed companies from China and Hong Kong has climbed since the coronavirus outbreak was confirmed on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-stocks-shorts/some-u-s-listed-china-firms-see-shorting-spike-others-see-short-covering-jump-idUSKBN2072US | 2020-02-14 |
| Individual transport flights to Jan Mayen with planes from allied countries will not impact the security policy picture in the he told parliament | Neutral | Russia said on Thursday it was alarmed by a trip to a Norwegian outpost in the Arctic by a U.S. Air Force unit and urged Oslo to refrain from what it said were destabilizing moves in the strategic region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-norway-usa/russia-alarmed-by-u-s-air-force-visit-to-norwegian-island-idUSKBN20721H | 2020-02-14 |
| The woman fell ill in January but only later showed symptoms of pneumonia and was hospitalised then transferred to another hospital when her condition worsened | Negative | TOKYO A woman has died from the coronavirus in Japan the first such death in the country since the epidemic spread from China the health minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan-ship/japan-records-first-coronavirus-death-two-taxi-drivers-test-positive-idUSKBN20708N | 2020-02-14 |
| However according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security data through January a total of about 57000 nonMexican migrants have been returned since MPP started about a year ago | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos foreign minister said on Wednesday the number of migrants returned to Mexico to await the outcome of U.S. immigration cases has fallen significantly although activists said large numbers of people remain in the program | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/mexico-says-u-s-returning-sharply-fewer-migrants-under-remain-in-mexico-idUSKBN20622B | 2020-02-13 |
| However investor enthusiasm may be tested once economic data from late January and February begins to roll in Joy said | Positive | oil gold settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-gain-as-china-says-fewer-new-coronavirus-cases-idUSL1N2AC1DK | 2020-02-13 |
| NEW YORK Oil prices rose over on Wednesday as China reported its lowest daily number of new coronavirus cases since late January stoking investor hopes that fuel demand in the worlds secondlargest oil consumer may begin to recover | Positive | NEW YORK Oil prices rose over on Wednesday as China reported its lowest daily number of new coronavirus cases since late January stoking investor hopes that fuel demand in the worlds secondlargest oil consumer may begin to recover | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-over-3-as-demand-worries-ease-amid-fewer-new-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN20605W | 2020-02-13 |
| Brent and WTI have fallen more than from their 2020peak in January because of the disease outbreak | Negative | SEOUL Oil prices were mixed on Thursday as concerns about falling demand caused by travel restrictions tied to the coronavirus outbreak in China the worlds biggest oil importer outweighed expectations of supply cuts from major producers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-mixed-as-demand-concerns-outweigh-output-cut-expectations-idUSKBN20707C | 2020-02-13 |
| UKbased consultancy Ascend by Cirium said the number of flights scheduled to operate to from and within China had dropped by from Jan | Negative | A drop in airline flights from China and Hong Kong due to the coronavirus is increasing demand for private jets as wealthy passengers try to get out executives say but travel bans and nervous crew have kept that from translating to more business | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-singapore-airshow-private-jets/interest-in-private-jets-surges-as-coronavirus-keeps-airlines-away-from-china-idUSKBN2070CF | 2020-02-13 |
| Zhangs removal follows Beijings move in January to replace the head of its Hong Kong liaison office | Neutral | BEIJING China has replaced the head of its office overseeing matters in Hong Kong making him the most senior Beijingappointed official to lose his job in the wake of sometimesviolent antigovernment protests in the Chinesecontrolled territory | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-hongkong/china-replaces-head-of-its-hong-kong-and-macau-affairs-office-idUSKBN2070CV | 2020-02-13 |
| NEW YORK Feb 12 Stock markets around the world scaled fresh records after China reported the lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January boosting investor hopes the epidemic will be contained and driving up the price of crude oil and other commodities | Negative | World stocks hit new highs Wall Street indexes too | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-gain-as-data-shows-lower-new-coronavirus-cases-idUSL8N2AC5XY | 2020-02-13 |
| A national hotline run by Beijing Normal University was overwhelmed when it went live at the end of January said Cheng Qi a Shanghaibased psychologist | Negative | SHENZHEN China Hundreds of 24hour mental health support telephone hotlines have sprung up in China in recent weeks as millions of people fret about catching the coronavirus and try to avoid infection by staying at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-mental/chinese-public-dial-in-for-support-as-coronavirus-takes-mental-toll-idUSKBN2070H2 | 2020-02-13 |
| Construction consortium Otoyol AS said in late January last year that it had started seeking international advisers to value the project ahead of a possible stake sale | Positive | Construction consortium Otoyol AS said in late January last year that it had started seeking international advisers to value the project ahead of a possible stake sale | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-m-a-infrastructure/jpmorgan-picked-as-adviser-for-sale-of-stake-in-7-3-billion-turkish-motorway-sources-idUSKBN2060ND | 2020-02-13 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Preparing for Rio de Janeiros Carnival when well over 1 million visitors pour into the Marvelous for roundtheclock revelry is always a daunting task for city officials | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Preparing for Rio de Janeiros Carnival when well over 1 million visitors pour into the Marvelous for roundtheclock revelry is always a daunting task for city officials | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-china-health-brazil-carnival/rio-braces-for-coronavirus-risk-during-carnival-party-idUSKBN20630S | 2020-02-13 |
| However investor enthusiasm may be tested once economic data from late January and February begins to roll in he said | Positive | World stocks hit new highs Wall Street indexes too | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-gain-as-data-shows-lower-new-coronavirus-cases-idUSL8N2AC5XY | 2020-02-13 |
| It has suspended all flights to and from mainland China since the end of January directly affecting 70000 visitors per month between the two countries it said | Negative | HANOI Vietnam Airlines HVN.HM said on Thursday it was losing up to 250 billion dong | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-vietnam-airlines/vietnam-airlines-says-losing-10-8-million-in-revenue-a-week-due-to-virus-idUSKBN2070FW | 2020-02-13 |
| BEIJING Auto sales in China are expected to fell for a 19th consecutive month in January with the number of new energy vehicles sold contracting for a seventh month in a row data from the countrys biggest auto industry association showed on Thursday | Negative | BEIJING Auto sales in China are expected to fell for a 19th consecutive month in January with the number of new energy vehicles sold contracting for a seventh month in a row data from the countrys biggest auto industry association showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-autos/chinas-january-auto-sales-expected-to-fall-18-percent-year-on-year-19th-month-of-decline-idUSKBN2070K3 | 2020-02-13 |
| Despite that recovery however the publics trust in Putin has continued to recede and in January it hit a sharp drop from recorded in November 2017 according to Levada | Positive | MOSCOW The Russian publics trust in President Vladimir Putin fell to its lowest in six years last month the Levada opinion pollster said on Wednesday despite the Russian leaders approval rating remaining high | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-trust/russias-trust-in-putin-falls-to-six-year-low-despite-high-approval-rating-pollster-idUSKBN2062GQ | 2020-02-13 |
| She replaces Assaf Rappaport who moved on in January | Neutral | TEL AVIV Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed Michal BravermanBlumenstyk as the general manager of the Microsoft Israel Development Center | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-microsoft-moves-israel/microsoft-names-braverman-blumenstyk-head-of-israel-development-center-idUSKBN2060WS | 2020-02-13 |
| U.S.China relations improved in January with the signing of a trade deal that defused an 18month row that has hit global growth but strains remain | Positive | SYDNEY China is threatening the sovereignty of small Pacific Islands and undermining the regions stability a top U.S. military commander said on Thursday in comments likely to inflame tension with China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-usa-defence/china-threatens-stability-in-the-pacific-u-s-commander-idUSKBN2070FU | 2020-02-13 |
| Since late January the CDC has rushed to distribute the kits to allow states to do their own faster testing rather than ship all samples to CDC headquarters in Atlanta | Positive | Several U.S. states said new coronavirus test kits did not work while others said they were reliable as the United States tried to speed up testing for virus cases which rose to 14 on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/some-u-s-states-launch-coronavirus-testing-while-faulty-test-kits-delay-others-idUSKBN2062HT | 2020-02-13 |
| Chinas announcement that new cases of the socalled COVID19 detected on Tuesday were at their lowest since Jan 30 has only consolidated those gains | Positive | World markets started shrugging off the worst of the coronavirus impact last week and stock markets have since reached record highs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-markets-q-a/new-coronavirus-what-markets-should-watch-now-idUSKBN20621L | 2020-02-13 |
| Levada said the poll was conducted on Jan | Neutral | MOSCOW The Russian publics trust in President Vladimir Putin fell to its lowest in six years last month the Levada opinion pollster said on Wednesday despite the Russian leaders approval rating remaining high | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-trust/russias-trust-in-putin-falls-to-six-year-low-despite-high-approval-rating-pollster-idUSKBN2062GQ | 2020-02-13 |
| Assuming the outbreak lasts for three months from the end of January to April it will knock 0 | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan plans to spend billion to help cushion the impact on the exportreliant economy from the new coronavirus offering loans to small businesses and even vouchers to spend on food at night markets | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan-economy/taiwan-plans-2-billion-package-to-soften-coronavirus-hit-to-economy-idUSKBN2070B2 | 2020-02-13 |
| Both benchmarks are down more than from highs reached in January | Positive | SEOUL Oil prices climbed on Wednesday as China reported its lowest daily number of new coronavirus cases since late January stoking investor hopes that fuel demand in the worlds secondlargest oil consumer may begin to recover from the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-jumps-as-slowdown-in-new-china-coronavirus-cases-eases-fuel-demand-concerns-idUSKBN20605W | 2020-02-12 |
| SEOUL Oil prices climbed on Wednesday as China reported its lowest daily number of new coronavirus cases since late January stoking investor hopes that fuel demand in the worlds secondlargest oil consumer may begin to recover from the epidemic | Positive | SEOUL Oil prices climbed on Wednesday as China reported its lowest daily number of new coronavirus cases since late January stoking investor hopes that fuel demand in the worlds secondlargest oil consumer may begin to recover from the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-jumps-as-slowdown-in-new-china-coronavirus-cases-eases-fuel-demand-concerns-idUSKBN20605W | 2020-02-12 |
| German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported in January that Deutsche Bahn was refusing to buy 25 intercity trains worth 400 million euros from Bombardier due to technical defects | Negative | Canadas Bombardier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-deutsche-bahn-bombardier/bombardier-says-deutsche-bahns-new-trains-to-be-ready-by-summer-idUSKBN2052FB | 2020-02-12 |
| The report was based on data and 480 interviews mostly with people from the Northern Triangle that the agency has conducted since January 2018 MSF said | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Central Americans asylum seekers sent to Mexico by the United States to await their U.S. court dates increasingly become the victims of kidnappings and other types of violence aid group Doctors Without Borders said in a report published on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/central-americans-sent-to-mexico-by-u-s-increasingly-victims-of-kidnappings-aid-group-idUSKBN20526Z | 2020-02-12 |
| Lyft in January cut of its workforce in its sales and marketing department to achieve its profitability target but said it plans to hire more people this year | Positive | Investors were left disappointed sending shares down 5 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-lyft-results/lyft-forecasts-slower-growth-in-2020-leaves-target-profit-date-unchanged-idUSKBN2052M5 | 2020-02-12 |
| Reuters reported exclusively on Monday that Volkswagen had visited Atacama in January amid a broader push to encourage sustainable production of key links in the EV supply chain | Positive | SANTIAGO German automakers Volkswagen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-chile-lithium-exclusive/exclusive-germanys-volkswagen-and-daimler-push-for-more-sustainable-chile-lithium-idUSKBN20524Z | 2020-02-12 |
| BEIJING China on Wednesday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January lending credence to a prediction from the countrys senior medical adviser that the outbreak could be over by April | Negative | BEIJING China on Wednesday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January lending credence to a prediction from the countrys senior medical adviser that the outbreak could be over by April | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/new-coronavirus-cases-fall-experts-disagree-over-whether-peak-is-near-idUSKBN20609M | 2020-02-12 |
| January however is not always a reliable indicator for the year as a whole analysts said | Negative | That is going to see pressure as he told reporters at the Singapore Airshow referring to the U.S.China deal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-singapore-airshow-boeing/boeing-sees-airline-profits-hit-stagnant-air-cargo-market-due-to-virus-idUSKBN2060A1 | 2020-02-12 |
| Canadian teenager Felix AugerAliassime outlasted Germanys JanLennard Struff to win 63 16 63 and advance while Italys Fabio Fognini was upset 63 63 by Russias Karen Khachanov | Neutral | Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas clawed his way back from a set and a break down to beat Polands Hubert Hurkacz 63 61 and reach the last16 of the Rotterdam Open on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennis-rotterdam/tsitsipas-progresses-in-rotterdam-fognini-out-idUSKBN205294 | 2020-02-12 |
| In January Nigerias attorney general said he had withdrawn a billion tax demand against the group bringing to a close its latest disagreement with the government | Negative | JOHANNESBURG South Africas MTN Group expects fullyear headline earnings to rise as much as it said on Tuesday still a slowdown from the previous year due to oneoff items including interest on regulatory fines in Nigeria | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mtn-group-outlook/south-africas-mtn-flags-2019-profit-jump-of-up-to-50-idUSKBN2052EN | 2020-02-12 |
| It was a slow Jan but it doesnt mean it is going to be a slow Feb or slow March so watch this space | Negative | That is going to see pressure as he told reporters at the Singapore Airshow referring to the U.S.China deal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-singapore-airshow-boeing/boeing-sees-airline-profits-hit-stagnant-air-cargo-market-due-to-virus-idUSKBN2060A1 | 2020-02-12 |
| Calling the need to boost Russias birth rate historic duty in January Putin outlined a number of support measures estimated to cost 4 trillion roubles over four years | Negative | The decision to sell the stake will remove an issue of potential conflicts of Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in a statement on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-banks-sberbank/russia-to-tap-rainy-day-fund-to-buy-central-banks-stake-in-sberbank-idUSKBN2052EF | 2020-02-12 |
| We anticipate that Footasylum will contribute less than of the Groups earnings in the year to January JD said | Neutral | JD has outperformed Britains struggling retail sector helped by a strong online operation and the continuing popularity of its often discounted athleisure wear and trainers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-cma-jdsports/jd-sports-may-have-to-sell-footasylum-if-it-doesnt-address-competition-concerns-watchdog-idUSKBN2050N5 | 2020-02-12 |
| DUBAI Feb 10 Former Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Jan | Negative | DUBAI Feb 10 Former Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-usa-rouhani/former-commander-soleimani-sought-stability-iran-president-idUSC6N2A400C | 2020-02-11 |
| CRACPF repelled a major attack by Los Ardillos in January 2019 but residents live in fear of the siren a community alarm system going off again | Negative | RINCON DE CHAUTLA Mexico When the 56yearold motherinlaw of David Sanchez Luna was tortured and killed after venturing out of her small Mexican community encircled by drug cartels he let his seven and tenyearold daughters receive militarystyle weapons training | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence-guerrero-widerimage/under-siege-desperate-mexico-region-uses-guns-children-to-fend-off-cartels-idUSKBN2041P4 | 2020-02-11 |
| The bill were to be submitted to Congress in midJanuary | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexico has scaled back a planned judicial reform that alarmed rights defenders and caused a backlash within President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors cabinet three officials told Reuters adding that the revised version could be unveiled within days | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexico-prepares-to-unveil-less-ambitious-justice-reform-sources-idUSKBN205079 | 2020-02-11 |
| UK economys postelection rebound strengthens in January PMI | Positive | LONDON | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-global-markets-themes/take-five-chinas-virus-paralysis-idUSKBN204151 | 2020-02-11 |
| BANGKOK Thailand has recorded one new case of coronavirus bringing the total in the country to 33 since January a health ministry official said on Tuesday | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand has recorded one new case of coronavirus bringing the total in the country to 33 since January a health ministry official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-thailand-cases/thailand-reports-new-case-of-coronavirus-total-now-33-idUSKBN2050DM | 2020-02-11 |
| Oil has dropped more than from a peak in January after the spreading virus hit demand in the worlds largest oil importer and fueled concerns of excess supplies | Negative | gold oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-safe-havens-rise-on-coronavirus-concerns-stocks-rebound-idUSL1N2AA104 | 2020-02-11 |
| But many companies are hurting from disruptions felt since lateJanuary after local governments extended Lunar New Year holidays and urged people to stay home | Negative | SHANGHAI A Chinese media company said it will lay off 500 employees due to the coronavirus outbreak the latest among a string of firms to do so in the past two weeks as the epidemic takes a toll on smalltomedium sized businesses | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-employment/china-firms-cut-staff-on-virus-outbreak-as-xi-vows-no-large-scale-layoffs-idUSKBN20508A | 2020-02-11 |
| After spending more than a quarterbillion dollars nationwide on advertising since November Bloomberg has surged to third place behind Biden and Sanders according to a national poll conducted Jan | Positive | MANCHESTER New Hampshire For the past year Democratic voters have been anxious to settle on a savior capable of defeating President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-democrats-insight/democrats-in-disarray-in-new-hampshire-as-sanders-surges-and-trump-provokes-idUSKBN20415Y | 2020-02-11 |
| Analysts at Nomura said measures of returning workers and passenger traffic flows within China suggested the virus had a devastating impact on economy in January and February | Negative | SYDNEY Asian share markets followed Wall Street higher on Tuesday as Chinas factories struggled to reopen after an extended break though analysts warned investors might be underestimating how economically damaging the challenge was likely to be | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/asian-shares-rally-slow-pace-of-china-factory-reopenings-a-worry-idUSKBN20501G | 2020-02-11 |
| Slack Technologies Inc said it was not updating its forecasts for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending in January responding to a report of an expanded partnership with International Business Machines Corp for its workplace messaging app | Neutral | Slack Technologies Inc said it was not updating its forecasts for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending in January responding to a report of an expanded partnership with International Business Machines Corp for its workplace messaging app | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-slack-outlook/slack-responds-to-ibm-partnership-report-says-not-updating-forecast-idUSKBN2042HD | 2020-02-11 |
| That compares with 77 hours for his predecessor Janet Yellen over her four years as Fed chair | Neutral | Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is likely to sound fairly upbeat about the outlook for U.S. economic growth when he testifies this week in the first of his twiceayear updates to Congress even as he nods to the potential threat from the coronavirus in China | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed-powell/fed-chair-powell-likely-to-give-congress-largely-positive-economic-update-idUSKBN2050HO | 2020-02-11 |
| BEIJING Chinas factorygate prices snapped six months of yearonyear declines in January although prolonged business closures from the coronavirus outbreak mean positive momentum is unlikely to persist | Negative | BEIJING Chinas factorygate prices snapped six months of yearonyear declines in January although prolonged business closures from the coronavirus outbreak mean positive momentum is unlikely to persist | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-china-economy-inflation/chinas-producer-prices-break-deflation-spell-but-coronavirus-risks-grow-idUSKBN204040 | 2020-02-10 |
| Oil is off more than from peaks struck in January after a spreading virus hit demand in the worlds largest oil importer and fueled concerns of excess supplies | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil prices edged down on Monday but held recent ranges as traders assessed Chinas oil demand following the coronavirus outbreak and awaited a decision by major producers to cut output further to balance markets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-edge-down-as-traders-assess-chinas-oil-demand-await-opec-cuts-idUSKBN20403G | 2020-02-10 |
| BEIJING Feb 10 Chinas factorygate prices snapped six months of yearonyear declines in January although prolonged business closures from the coronavirus outbreak mean positive momentum is unlikely to persist | Negative | the milestone in paragraph 2 to a more than 8year high not | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy-inflation/corrected-update-1-chinas-producer-prices-break-deflation-spell-but-coronavirus-heightens-risks-idUSL4N2A62J8 | 2020-02-10 |
| Japan chartered a third flight to repatriate Japanese people which arrived from Wuhan on Jan | Positive | A growing number of countries around the world are evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from parts of China hit by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-evacuation/factbox-countries-evacuating-nationals-from-china-coronavirus-areas-idUSKBN2040HU | 2020-02-10 |
| Actorsinger Janelle Monae pointed to the diversity problem in the shows opening musical dance number Its time to come alive | Negative | LOS ANGELES Feb 9 At an Oscars ceremony nearly devoid of acting nominees of color and lacking any women among the contenders for best director it fell to an Asian filmmaker and his cast to bring diversity to the American film industrys highest honors | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/awards-oscars-diversity/south-korean-film-injects-diversity-back-into-oscars-idUSL1N2AA043 | 2020-02-10 |
| Authorities had told businesses to tack up to 10 extra days on to holidays that had been due to finish at the end of January and some restrictions continued | Negative | China raised the death toll from its coronavirus outbreak to 811 on Sunday passing the number killed globally by the SARS epidemic as authorities made plans for millions of people returning to work after an extended Lunar New Year break | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/enemy-of-mankind-coronavirus-deaths-top-sars-as-china-returns-to-work-idUSKBN2020SN | 2020-02-10 |
| Wearing a crystalstudded hooded Ralph Lauren gown that reportedly took 600 hours to make actress and singer Janelle Monae delivered her message during a preshow interview with Billy Porter | Positive | star Billy Porter had promised a surprise for Sundays Oscars red carpet and he delivered with a goldfilled grand entrance | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-oscars-fashion/billy-porter-wows-oscars-red-carpet-with-gold-feathers-spike-lee-honors-kobe-bryant-idUSKBN20400Z | 2020-02-10 |
| Euro zone bond yields fell after German industrial output tumbled in December to notch its biggest fall since January 2009 fanning concerns about the blocs biggest economy | Negative | SYDNEY Asian shares pared early losses on Monday as Chinese authorities lifted some coronavirusrelated restrictions on work and travel helping businesses resume work though overall sentiment was still jittery as the death toll from the epidemic climbed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-markets-stem-losses-as-china-returns-to-work-but-sentiment-jittery-idUSKBN20402K | 2020-02-10 |
| After the nominations were announced in January Bong said he saw it as a sign that language is no longer a barrier to global success | Positive | SEOUL South Korean social media erupted in celebration on Monday after the dark comedy became the first nonEnglish language movie to win the Best Picture award already having netted three other Oscars in a historic first for the country | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-oscars-southkorea-parasite/south-koreans-celebrate-as-parasite-snags-historic-wins-at-oscars-idUSKBN20409L | 2020-02-10 |
| Authorities told businesses to add up to 10 extra days onto Lunar New Year holidays that had been due to finish at the end of January | Neutral | BEIJING Workers began trickling back to offices and factories around China on Monday as the government eased some restrictions on working during a coronavirus epidemic that has killed more than 900 people most of them on the mainland | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-slowly-returns-to-work-as-coronavirus-toll-hits-daily-record-idUSKBN20402G | 2020-02-10 |
| BRASILIA Brazilian inflation kicked off the year on a soft footing official figures on Friday showed as the IPCA consumer price index posted its smallest January increase since the countrys Real was launched more than quarter of a century ago | Positive | BRASILIA Brazilian inflation kicked off the year on a soft footing official figures on Friday showed as the IPCA consumer price index posted its smallest January increase since the countrys Real was launched more than quarter of a century ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-inflation/brazil-inflation-posts-lowest-january-rise-since-real-plan-launch-in-1994-idUSKBN2011K4 | 2020-02-08 |
| Khazanah has filed a police report about Focus Malaysias news reports The Edge Financial Daily reported on Jan | Neutral | KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian business news website Focus Malaysia said on Friday that the countrys sovereign wealth fund has asked it to stop reporting confidential information about the sale of Malaysia Airlines and has threatened it with legal action | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-m-a-media/malaysia-sovereign-fund-asks-news-website-to-stop-reports-on-airline-sale-idUSKBN2011MV | 2020-02-08 |
| Shares of Royal Caribbean have fallen since Jan | Negative | Azamara Club Cruises CEO Lawrence Pimentel sold 16000 shares at per share on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-royal-carib-crus-stocksale/royal-caribbean-unit-ceo-sells-third-of-his-stake-in-cruise-operator-idUSKBN2012Q9 | 2020-02-08 |
| Immigration advocacy groups have criticized detentions of Iranian nationals at the U.S.Canadian border in the aftermath of an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general on Jan | Negative | TORONTO of passengers killed aboard an airliner shot down by Iran over month are grappling in Canada with the daily challenges funeral arrangements empty homes cars left in driveways and unpaid bills | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-families/unpaid-bills-empty-homes-families-of-iran-crash-victims-put-lives-back-together-idUSKBN2002JB | 2020-02-08 |
| use this platform to speak when false information is spread to the he wrote in late January in an uncommonly personal statement for an executive in Switzerland | Negative | ZURICH As the chairman of Credit Suisse prepared for a crunch meeting of directors over the future of its chief executive the vocal backing of a U.S. investor for Tidjane Thiam had unintended consequences helping seal the ousted CEOs fate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-credit-suisse-gp-spying-power/investor-backing-proved-poison-chalice-for-credit-suisse-ceo-idUSKBN2012GI | 2020-02-08 |
| The suit was filed Jan | Neutral | TORONTO Canadian lawyers who previously successfully sued Iran are seeking class action status in a lawsuit on behalf of victims aboard a Ukrainian plane shot down over Tehran last month looking for at least | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada-lawsuit/canadian-lawyers-file-lawsuit-against-iran-over-victims-of-downed-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN2012BT | 2020-02-08 |
| Muhlhauser said the process was track to be completed by January 2021 as planned | Positive | The companys Milanlisted shares closed down 4 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-cnh-industrial-results/cnh-industrial-warns-on-profit-as-farmers-in-americas-cut-spending-idUSKBN2011NH | 2020-02-08 |
| BRASILIA Aggressive deforestation is starting earlier this year in Brazils Amazon rainforest environmental enforcement agents say with government data on Friday showing destruction doubling in January compared with a year ago | Negative | BRASILIA Aggressive deforestation is starting earlier this year in Brazils Amazon rainforest environmental enforcement agents say with government data on Friday showing destruction doubling in January compared with a year ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/brazil-environment-agents-surprised-by-deforestation-through-rainy-season-idUSKBN2011SQ | 2020-02-08 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. job growth accelerated in January with unseasonably mild temperatures boosting hiring in weathersensitive sectors indicating the economy will probably continue to grow moderately despite a deepening slump in business investment | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. job growth accelerated in January with unseasonably mild temperatures boosting hiring in weathersensitive sectors indicating the economy will probably continue to grow moderately despite a deepening slump in business investment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/mild-weather-boosts-u-s-job-growth-jobless-rate-ticks-up-idUSKBN2010G3 | 2020-02-08 |
| moving away from highs this week that were shy of a record peak set early in January | Neutral | throughout adds oil gold settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-fall-on-fears-china-virus-to-slow-growth-gold-gains-idUSL1N2A717V | 2020-02-08 |
| A second agent said that normally there is not much enforcement work needed in January but this year deforestation is higher so were out in the field earlier | Negative | BRASILIA Aggressive deforestation is starting earlier this year in Brazils Amazon rainforest environmental enforcement agents say with government data on Friday showing destruction doubling in January compared with a year ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/brazil-environment-agents-surprised-by-deforestation-through-rainy-season-idUSKBN2011SQ | 2020-02-08 |
| Airbus Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer told Reuters in January the company was progressing toward its target of a doubledigit percentage reduction in the A220s production costs | Neutral | Airbus and Bombardier both declined to comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-bombardier-jet/airbus-likely-to-acquire-bombardiers-remaining-stake-in-a220-passenger-jet-sources-idUSKBN2012KN | 2020-02-08 |
| Li was forced to sign a letter on Jan | Positive | Chinese President Xi Jinping assured U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday that China was doing all it can to contain a new coronavirus that has killed almost 640 people including a doctor who sounded the alarm only to be threatened by police | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-will-defeat-coronavirus-xi-tells-trump-as-doctors-death-sparks-outcry-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-07 |
| January 31 story was refiled to correct spelling of coronavirus in | Negative | January 31 story was refiled to correct spelling of coronavirus in | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-atotech-ipo-delay-exclusive/exclusive-coronavirus-outbreak-delays-carlyles-atotech-ipo-sources-idUSKBN1ZU2X7 | 2020-02-07 |
| 31 per barrel but is flat for the week and remains below its Jan | Neutral | SINGAPORE Asian share markets slipped on Friday and oil price gains stalled as the growing death toll and economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak put a lid on the weeks sharp rally | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/rally-in-stocks-runs-out-of-steam-as-coronavirus-toll-climbs-idUSKBN20105A | 2020-02-07 |
| Machester N.H. Bernie Sanders raised million in January toward his run for president his campaign said on Thursday as it announced it was sending more staff to the 14 states that vote on March 3 in the Democratic Partys nominating contest | Positive | Machester N.H. Bernie Sanders raised million in January toward his run for president his campaign said on Thursday as it announced it was sending more staff to the 14 states that vote on March 3 in the Democratic Partys nominating contest | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders/sanders-raises-25-million-in-january-campaign-announces-super-tuesday-ad-buy-idUSKBN2001LN | 2020-02-07 |
| The January 2022 interest rate future DIJF22 for example was last up around 12 basis points at 5 | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazils real slumped on Thursday to within sight of its alltime low against the dollar despite the central banks signal a day earlier that its latest interest rate cut could be its last and a broad rise in marketbased interest rates | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-forex/brazil-real-tumbles-close-to-record-low-despite-central-bank-signal-rate-futures-rise-idUSKBN2002P7 | 2020-02-07 |
| Reuters was first reporting Huishangs plan to take over the four branches of Baoshang in January | Positive | BEIJING Chinas Huishang Bank plans to raise up to 20 billion yuan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-huishang/chinas-huishang-bank-to-raise-3-billion-to-take-over-baoshangs-four-branches-idUSKBN2001W0 | 2020-02-07 |
| The other 10 Democrats running for president have not yet announced their January fundraising figures | Negative | Machester N.H. Bernie Sanders raised million in January toward his run for president his campaign said on Thursday as it announced it was sending more staff to the 14 states that vote on March 3 in the Democratic Partys nominating contest | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders/sanders-raises-25-million-in-january-campaign-announces-super-tuesday-ad-buy-idUSKBN2001LN | 2020-02-07 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. job growth likely picked up in January with unseasonably mild temperatures seen boosting hiring in the weathersensitive sectors indicating the economy will probably continue to grow moderately despite a deepening slump in business investment | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. job growth likely picked up in January with unseasonably mild temperatures seen boosting hiring in the weathersensitive sectors indicating the economy will probably continue to grow moderately despite a deepening slump in business investment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-payroll-gains-seen-picking-up-benchmark-revisions-under-spotlight-idUSKBN2010G3 | 2020-02-07 |
| One Czech mask manufacturer told Reuters in late January that orders had increased with in four days | Neutral | The move highlights how private companies are pitching in to alleviate a nationwide shortage of medical gear amid the health crisis at times expanding beyond their core lines of business | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-masks/foxconn-chinese-firms-refit-production-lines-to-make-masks-amid-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN2010GZ | 2020-02-07 |
| The new population controls mean that the January unemployment rate and other measures derived from the household survey will not be directly comparable to December data | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. job growth likely picked up in January with unseasonably mild temperatures seen boosting hiring in the weathersensitive sectors indicating the economy will probably continue to grow moderately despite a deepening slump in business investment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-payroll-gains-seen-picking-up-benchmark-revisions-under-spotlight-idUSKBN2010G3 | 2020-02-07 |
| For now the focus has shifted to the closelywatched U.S. nonfarm payrolls report due later on Friday which is forecast to show job creation accelerated in January | Neutral | Dollar stands tall before NFP report | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-up-before-payrolls-yuan-slips-on-china-virus-woes-idUSL4N2A7090 | 2020-02-07 |
| The grievances were outlined in a 23page letter sent to the Justice Department in January detailing the crisis in the prison system plagued with gang violence | Negative | Civil rights advocates on Thursday called for urgent changes at Mississippis state prison system where 15 people have died in gang violence since December after the U.S. Justice Department launched a probe into the unrest | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mississippi-prison/violence-in-mississippi-prisons-poses-urgent-threat-rights-groups-say-idUSKBN2002UH | 2020-02-07 |
| Government payrolls are forecast rising by 10000 jobs in January with some hiring for the 2020 Decennial census seen | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. job growth likely picked up in January with unseasonably mild temperatures seen boosting hiring in the weathersensitive sectors indicating the economy will probably continue to grow moderately despite a deepening slump in business investment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-payroll-gains-seen-picking-up-benchmark-revisions-under-spotlight-idUSKBN2010G3 | 2020-02-07 |
| 37 per barrel but is flat for the week and remains below its Jan | Neutral | Coronavirus cases rise Asian markets slip | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-rally-in-stocks-runs-out-of-steam-as-coronavirus-toll-climbs-idUSL4N2A70A2 | 2020-02-07 |
| 9 pursuit of Centamin in January citing a lack of information on the company while Centamin said the offer was too low | Negative | CAPE TOWN West Africafocused gold miner Endeavor Mining is not looking for other potential acquisitions after its failed offer for Centamin CEO Sebastien de Montessus said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mining-indaba-endeavour/endeavor-not-on-tinder-for-acquisitions-after-dropping-centamin-idUSKBN1ZZ2C6 | 2020-02-06 |
| The Thai baht and Korean won have both been heavily sold in recent weeks each giving up since Jan | Negative | Yen soft Aussie firm on virus optimism | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-solid-u-s-data-and-virus-optimism-supports-dollar-idUSL4N2A60BH | 2020-02-06 |
| Gray market prices for the drugs in India where he sourced them started to rise on Jan | Negative | BEIJING The rapidly spreading virus in China and a shortage of medical resources are prompting people to resort to unorthodox ways to obtain treatment with some appealing to HIV patients and unauthorized importers for medicine | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health-drugs/desperate-for-coronavirus-solutions-chinese-turn-to-hiv-drugs-gray-market-and-traditional-cures-idUSKBN2000HA | 2020-02-06 |
| The market was on fire in January | Negative | Lineage Logistics is a case in point | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/lineage-loantlb/demand-for-leveraged-loans-ignites-market-concerns-on-risk-idUSL1N2A50OK | 2020-02-06 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO When marketing Rio de Janeiro Brazils national tourism agency typically focuses on the citys worldclass beaches sambafilled music scene and caipirinhafueled parties | Neutral | RIO DE JANEIRO When marketing Rio de Janeiro Brazils national tourism agency typically focuses on the citys worldclass beaches sambafilled music scene and caipirinhafueled parties | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-tourism/come-to-rio-get-robbed-brazil-tourism-body-shares-awkward-instagram-post-idUSKBN1ZZ2UM | 2020-02-06 |
| Oil prices have slumped more than since reaching their highest this year on Jan | Neutral | TOKYO Oil futures rose for a second day on Thursday amid investor optimism over unconfirmed reports of possible advances in combating the coronavirus outbreak in China as a sign fuel demand may rebound in the worlds biggest oil importer | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-extending-gains-amid-optimism-over-china-coronavirus-idUSKBN20004P | 2020-02-06 |
| SINGAPORE Chinas aviation fuel sales were down a quarter during the last week of January as domestic and international flights fell sharply amid the spread of the coronavirus a senior oil industry source with direct knowledge of the matter said | Negative | SINGAPORE Chinas aviation fuel sales were down a quarter during the last week of January as domestic and international flights fell sharply amid the spread of the coronavirus a senior oil industry source with direct knowledge of the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-oil-aviation/china-aviation-fuel-sales-down-25-in-last-week-of-january-due-to-virus-source-idUSKBN1ZZ0F5 | 2020-02-05 |
| The game which allows users to create and evolve a pathogen to destroy the world generated 78000 downloads in January up from 16000 in December according to Sensor Tower | Neutral | Online games and short video apps have been among the few beneficiaries of Chinas virus outbreak raking in millions of views and downloads as people stuck in selfquarantine at home seek entertainment and ways to beguile their time | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-online/millions-in-china-banish-virus-blues-with-online-games-video-apps-idUSKBN1ZY0OQ | 2020-02-05 |
| A new study published in January said around 410000 German jobs are at risk by 2030 according to Germanys National Platform for Future Mobility | Negative | FRANKFURT Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035 in an attempt to reduce air pollution a step which accelerates a shift toward electric vehicles | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-accord-britain-factbox/factbox-britains-2035-ban-on-new-combustion-car-sales-puts-jobs-at-risk-idUSKBN1ZY1KY | 2020-02-05 |
| The Idlib violence has accelerated in recent months despite several ceasefire efforts including as recently as January | Negative | President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey and Russia should resolve differences over the conflict in Syrias Idlib without anger after a deadly flareup in violence challenged the fragile cooperation between Moscow and Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-russia-can-tackle-syria-escalation-without-anger-erdogan-idUSKBN1ZY1PI | 2020-02-05 |
| Chinas largest online booking platform said more than 300000 hotels on its platform had agreed to refunds on bookings between Jan | Neutral | Companies around the world have warned that a coronavirus outbreak in China could disrupt supply chains or hurt their bottomlines as factories and shops shut and airlines suspend flights | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-business-impact-factbox/companies-feel-impact-of-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china-idUSKBN1ZZ0B1 | 2020-02-05 |
| its biggest oneday gain since January 2019 boosted by a rally on Wall Street lifted the index which is weighted to U.S. stocks | Positive | oil gold settlement prices close of European | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-surge-safe-havens-fall-as-confidence-grows-in-chinas-virus-efforts-idUSL1N2A4179 | 2020-02-05 |
| The sources also said that around 400000 tonnes of Russian Urals oil were shipped to Belarus via pipelines in January | Positive | The presidents of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko will meet on Friday the Kremlin said as the oil row between the two rolls into a second month forcing Minsk to look for crude from as far afield as the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-oil-russia-kremlin/russia-belarus-leaders-meet-on-friday-as-oil-row-rolls-on-idUSKBN1ZY0Z2 | 2020-02-05 |
| The cooling trend in the private sector survey which focuses more on small exportoriented companies contrasts with the official nonmanufacturing PMI which showed the sectors activity quickened in January | Negative | BEIJING Growth in Chinas services sector slowed for a second straight month in January a traditionally busy sales season hitting a threemonth low as companies cut prices and new orders dipped a private sector survey showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-pmi/chinas-services-sector-growth-hits-three-month-low-in-january-caixin-pmi-idUSKBN1ZZ06G | 2020-02-05 |
| Russneft and Neftisa were also supplying oil to Belarus by rail sending 100000 tonnes in January | Positive | The presidents of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko will meet on Friday the Kremlin said as the oil row between the two rolls into a second month forcing Minsk to look for crude from as far afield as the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-oil-russia-kremlin/russia-belarus-leaders-meet-on-friday-as-oil-row-rolls-on-idUSKBN1ZY0Z2 | 2020-02-05 |
| Mitsui had expected a pickup in the auto and electronic parts sectors from the JanuaryMarch period but the coronavirus outbreak has overturned such a hope he said | Neutral | TOKYO Japans Mitsui Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-mitsui-co-results/mitsui-cfo-china-virus-outbreak-may-slow-manufacturing-activity-idUSKBN1ZY0KN | 2020-02-05 |
| He his 13yearold daughter Gianna and seven other people were killed when their helicopter slammed into a hillside on Jan | Negative | LONG BEACH Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-kobe-bryant-friend/brothers-for-life-former-lakers-attendant-remembers-kobe-bryant-idUSKBN1ZZ05N | 2020-02-05 |
| The figure is close to estimates of 141500 tonnes from Refinitiv which show sales to India in January may have plunged from a year earlier to 40400 tonnes | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR Pakistan will buy more palm oil from Malaysia Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday aiming to help offset lost sales after top buyer India put curbs on Malaysian imports last month amid a diplomatic row | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-pakistan/pakistan-pledges-to-buy-more-malaysian-palm-oil-to-compensate-for-indias-withdrawal-idUSKBN1ZY0DH | 2020-02-05 |
| Disney was forced to close both Shanghai Disney Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland in late January during the busy Chinese New Year holiday to help stop the spread of coronavirus | Negative | Walt Disney Cos new streaming service reached 28 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-walt-disney-results/baby-yoda-powers-disney-streaming-subscriptions-to-fast-start-idUSKBN1ZY2PE | 2020-02-05 |
| The national statistics institute will publish inflation figures for January on Friday | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexican annual inflation likely accelerated in January driven by higher prices for food beverages and tobacco after tax changes at the start of the year a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-economy-inflation/mexican-inflation-seen-accelerating-in-january-poll-idUSKBN1ZY2HQ | 2020-02-05 |
| Demand slipped in January with total new orders falling for the second time in three months and firms struggled to improve sales particularly within the domestic economy the survey said | Negative | DUBAI Activity in the United Arab Emirates private sector shrank in January for the first time since 2009 with jobs in the private nonoil sector declining at one of the strongest rates on record a survey showed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-economy-pmi/uae-non-oil-private-sector-shrinks-in-jan-for-first-time-since-2009-pmi-idUSKBN1ZY0CQ | 2020-02-04 |
| The Harvey Weinstein rape trial opened in January with celebrity appearances noisy protests and graphic accounts of alleged assaults and a spike in usage of the hashtag that has become closely associated with the former Hollywood powerbroker | Negative | The Harvey Weinstein rape trial opened in January with celebrity appearances noisy protests and graphic accounts of alleged assaults and a spike in usage of the hashtag that has become closely associated with the former Hollywood powerbroker | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-metoo/weinstein-trial-revives-metoo-a-hashtag-with-movements-longevity-idUSKBN1ZX1CG | 2020-02-04 |
| Futures tied to the Feds policy rate which in early January showed most bets were on rate cut by November now suggest two rate cuts are likely by years end | Negative | SAN DIEGO Chinas virus outbreak has prompted traders to begin pricing in a U.S. interest rate cut by June but has not swayed the views of Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic one of 17 Fed officials who set U.S. monetary policy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-bostic-rates/feds-bostic-says-new-virus-hasnt-changed-his-outlook-idUSKBN1ZX2QK | 2020-02-04 |
| ISTAT releases basket of goods used to calculate inflation in 2020 and January flash CPI and HICP data | Positive | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-feb-4/italy-factors-to-watch-on-feb-4-idUSL8N2A33C4 | 2020-02-04 |
| The court also directed Parliament to consider recalling the current electoral body which is headed by Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Jane Ansah to ensure smooth conduct of fresh elections | Positive | LILONGWE Malawis Constitutional Court on Monday annulled the May 2019 presidential vote that declared Peter Mutharika a winner and ordered a rerun after an application from opposition parties citing irregularities | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-malawi-election-court/malawi-court-annuls-president-mutharikas-2019-election-victory-idUSKBN1ZX2F2 | 2020-02-04 |
| Treated since developing chills and other symptoms from Jan 25 she did not improve until Sunday the KCDC added and Tuesday following checks National University Hospital | Negative | SEOUL A South Korean woman has tested positive for coronavirus after visiting Thailand South Korean officials said on Tuesday the first foreign tourist reported to have been infected after a visit to the southeast Asian nation | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-southkorea-thailand/south-korean-woman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-thailand-visit-idUSKBN1ZY0HC | 2020-02-04 |
| In Hong Kong hospital staff said the 39yearold male victim had a preexisting chronic illness and had visited Wuhan in January before falling ill | Negative | HONG Hong Kong reported its first death from the newly identified coronavirus on Tuesday the second fatality outside mainland China from an outbreak that has killed over 420 people spread around the world and raised fears for global economic growth | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/hong-kong-records-first-death-from-new-coronavirus-overall-toll-over-420-idUSKBN1ZY05A | 2020-02-04 |
| Oil slumps to lows last seen in January 2019 | Negative | oil gold settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-jump-as-china-markets-reopen-dollar-gains-idUSL1N2A30YS | 2020-02-04 |
| Amman had been released from prison on Jan | Negative | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would act to stop the early release from prison of convicted terrorists following a street attack by an Islamist militant days after he was set free half way through his jail term | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britain-security/johnson-says-he-will-toughen-rules-on-terrorism-cases-after-london-attack-idUSKBN1ZX0NV | 2020-02-04 |
| HONG KONG Hong Kong reported its first coronavirus death on Tuesday a 39yearold male who had been suffering from an underlying illness and had visited Chinas Wuhan city in January hospital staff said marking the second death outside mainland China | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kong reported its first coronavirus death on Tuesday a 39yearold male who had been suffering from an underlying illness and had visited Chinas Wuhan city in January hospital staff said marking the second death outside mainland China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hongkong-fatality/hong-kong-reports-first-coronavirus-death-as-hospital-workers-escalate-strike-idUSKBN1ZY08D | 2020-02-04 |
| 745 billion in January official data showed on Monday the first shortfall for the month of January in five years and an indication that trade might continue to be a drag on overall economic growth | Negative | BRASILIA Brazil posted a trade deficit of | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-trade/brazil-posts-first-january-trade-deficit-in-five-years-idUSKBN1ZX2HQ | 2020-02-04 |
| We dont want to cloud their Foxx said on the red carpet two days after Oscar nominations were announced in January | Positive | For some its the white male Oscars | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-oscars-diversity/oscarssowhite-looks-headed-for-a-sequel-idUSKBN1ZX1QS | 2020-02-04 |
| Both Brent and WTI are currently down by more than from this years peak on Jan | Neutral | SINGAPORE Oil prices rose on Tuesday matching moves in other financial markets as investors regained calm after Mondays sharp selloff on fears of the impact of the China coronavirus on demand for fuel sent crude to its lowest level in more than a year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-rebound-from-china-virus-slump-amid-ginger-recovery-across-markets-idUSKBN1ZY07W | 2020-02-04 |
| A high court in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang said people who intentionally spread the virus could face the death penalty according to a Jan | Negative | Police in China have detained a woman for deliberately her contact with someone from an area stricken by the coronavirus and jeopardizing efforts to stop its spread the Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-detention/chinese-woman-detained-for-hiding-virus-contact-xinhua-idUSKBN1ZX26A | 2020-02-04 |
| Within minutes da Cruz was among 75 prisoners who fled the facility in the early hours of Jan | Negative | PEDRO JUAN CABALLERO Paraguay Luis Alves da Cruz awoke around 3 a | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-paraguay-brazil-prisonbreak-insight/jailbreak-in-the-city-of-blood-brazils-drug-gangs-overrun-paraguay-idUSKBN1ZX1D4 | 2020-02-04 |
| DUBAI Growth in Saudi Arabias nonoil private sector was at its slowest in just over a year in January as cautious consumer spending hampered new business growth and export sales dipped a survey showed on Tuesday | Negative | DUBAI Growth in Saudi Arabias nonoil private sector was at its slowest in just over a year in January as cautious consumer spending hampered new business growth and export sales dipped a survey showed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-economy-pmi/saudi-private-sector-growth-in-january-slowest-since-december-2018-pmi-idUSKBN1ZY0CO | 2020-02-04 |
| All 176 people aboard the flight were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff en route from Tehran to Kiev on Jan | Negative | A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month despite denying it for days Ukraines president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iran-crash-investigation/recording-shows-iran-knew-immediately-it-had-shot-down-plane-zelenskiy-idUSKBN1ZX0XM | 2020-02-04 |
| There was an escalation in fighting late last year and a truce brokered by Russia and Turkey from Jan | Positive | GENEVA Military officers from rival factions in Libyas conflict began U.N.led talks in Geneva on Monday aimed at securing a ceasefire after 10 months of fighting on the outskirts of the capital Tripoli | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-un-talks/u-n-brokered-libya-military-talks-begin-in-geneva-idUSKBN1ZX1VG | 2020-02-04 |
| This will double the practical challenge at the border in January the source added | Neutral | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to impose full customs and border checks on all European Union goods entering Britain from next year in an attempt to increase pressure on the bloc in trade talks The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-checks/uks-johnson-plans-full-border-checks-on-eu-goods-telegraph-idUSKBN1ZV37H | 2020-02-03 |
| Chinese markets which were closed since the end of trade on Jan | Neutral | TOKYO Feb 3 Japanese shares fell on Monday tracking the sharp selloff in Chinese shares on their first trading day after the Lunar New Year break as worries mounted about the economic fallout due to the coronavirus outbreak in China | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/japan-shares-fall-as-china-stocks-tumble-on-coronavirus-fears-idUSL4N2A02RI | 2020-02-03 |
| Chinas factory activity stalled in January as export orders fell and analysts expect a big plunge in Februarys data as the virus outbreak hits demand in the country | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil prices extended their losses on Monday dragged down by worries about lower demand in China the worlds largest oil importer following a coronavirus outbreak there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-extends-decline-as-virus-hits-china-demand-idUSKBN1ZX033 | 2020-02-03 |
| The latest confirmed case were in the same flight from Wuhan China to Vietnam and had close contact with three previous patients detected on Jan | Negative | HANOI Vietnam confirmed an additional three cases of the new coronavirus the health ministry said bringing the countrys total to eight cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-vietnam/vietnam-confirms-three-new-cases-of-coronavirus-bringing-the-total-to-eight-idUSKBN1ZX077 | 2020-02-03 |
| It had stood at 17 when Chinese markets last traded on Jan | Neutral | KONG Investors erased billion from Chinas benchmark stock index on Monday sold the yuan and dumped commodities as fears about the spreading coronavirus and its economic impact drove selling on the first day of trade in China since the Lunar New Year | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-markets/virus-worries-wipe-420-billion-off-chinas-stock-market-idUSKBN1ZW0TA | 2020-02-03 |
| There has been no information available on the breakdown of condensate and oil production for January in Russia | Negative | MOSCOW Russian oil and gas condensate output CRUOUT rose to 11 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-energy-production/russian-oil-output-up-to-11-28-million-bpd-in-january-highest-since-august-idUSKBN1ZW086 | 2020-02-03 |
| But they likely did not reflect the early impact of the public health crisis which flared in late January which could weigh heavily on economic growth in coming months | Negative | BEIJING Chinas factory activity expanded at its slowest pace in five months in January even as an outbreak of a new virus added to risks facing the worlds secondlargest economy a private survey showed on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-china-economy-factory-caixin/china-january-factory-activity-growth-slows-to-five-month-low-caixin-survey-idUSKBN1ZX04I | 2020-02-03 |
| The company announced in early December that Mathrani would depart Brookfield and that his last day of work would be Jan | Positive | Softbank | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-wework-ceo/wework-names-real-estate-industry-veteran-mathrani-as-ceo-idUSKBN1ZV3WY | 2020-02-02 |
| The man developed severe pneumonia after being admitted to a government hospital in Manila on Jan | Negative | MANILA The Philippines said on Sunday a 44yearold Chinese man had died from the new coronavirus the first fatality from the growing outbreak to have died outside of China where the epidemic started | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-philippines/coronavirus-kills-chinese-man-in-philippines-first-death-outside-china-idUSKBN1ZW03L | 2020-02-02 |
| WASHINGTON Priorities USA a liberal political group raised million in January an uptick in donations as the impeachment trial of Republican President Donald Trump continues bolstering the cash the group will spend opposing his reelection | Negative | WASHINGTON Priorities USA a liberal political group raised million in January an uptick in donations as the impeachment trial of Republican President Donald Trump continues bolstering the cash the group will spend opposing his reelection | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fundraising-liberals/liberal-super-pac-boasts-111-million-raised-to-oppose-trump-idUSKBN1ZU2QY | 2020-02-02 |
| NEW YORK Jan 31 Global equity markets were poised for their first monthly loss since August on Friday as growing concerns about the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China sapped investors risk appetite and lifted the safehaven yen and Swiss franc | Negative | World share index heads for worst month since August | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-slump-on-china-virus-economic-concerns-gold-gains-idUSL8N2A05F4 | 2020-02-02 |
| Jan 31 ViacomCBS Inc said on Friday that senior NBCUniversal executive George Cheeks will take over the reins of CBS Entertainment Group from Joe Ianniello on March 23 | Positive | Jan 31 ViacomCBS Inc said on Friday that senior NBCUniversal executive George Cheeks will take over the reins of CBS Entertainment Group from Joe Ianniello on March 23 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/viacomcbs-george-cheeks/nbcuniversals-george-cheeks-to-lead-cbs-entertainment-group-idUSL4N2A04MW | 2020-02-02 |
| Independent media trackers estimate that the total Bloomberg has spent on his campaign exceeded million in January | Positive | WASHINGTON Two billionaire Democratic presidential hopefuls Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer collectively spent about million last year on their campaigns more than the rest of the remaining Democratic field combined according to disclosures filed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fundraising/billionaires-bombard-u-s-presidential-campaign-with-hundreds-of-millions-in-cash-idUSKBN1ZV3DF | 2020-02-02 |
| SHANGHAI Jan 31 The film Enter the Fat will premiere via video streaming on Saturday makers China iQiyi Inc said on Friday after plans for the films premiere in cinemas were affected by the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China | Negative | SHANGHAI Jan 31 The film Enter the Fat will premiere via video streaming on Saturday makers China iQiyi Inc said on Friday after plans for the films premiere in cinemas were affected by the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-film/second-chinese-movie-to-premiere-online-after-virus-outbreak-idUSB9N28N00F | 2020-02-02 |
| Air India said it was canceling its MumbaiDelhiShanghai flight from Jan | Negative | Airlines are suspending flights to China in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines-factbox/airlines-suspend-china-flights-because-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZU131 | 2020-02-02 |
| He has continued to pump millions of dollars into the campaign in January including blanketing national airwaves with political ads | Positive | WASHINGTON The Democratic Party on Friday announced new rules around how presidential hopefuls can qualify to take part in debates changes likely to allow billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg to join the stage in February | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate/democrats-announce-new-debate-rules-likely-to-allow-bloomberg-to-join-idUSKBN1ZU2UP | 2020-02-02 |
| They returned to Wuhan just in time for the Chinese government to impose a lockdown on January 23 restricting travel out of the city | Negative | SEOUL Kim Minjuns elation at news that South Korea would evacuate its citizens from the epicenter of a virus epidemic in China quickly faded when he learned his Chinese wife would be unable to accompany him | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-southkorea-families/escaping-the-virus-lockdown-in-wuhan-would-have-torn-his-family-so-he-stayed-idUSKBN1ZW060 | 2020-02-02 |
| That number has likely swelled in January as he has continued to pump millions of dollars into television ads and the costs of running a campaign | Neutral | Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg contributed more than million of his own money to his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination as of the end of 2019 according to disclosures his campaign filed on Friday with the Federal Election Commission | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/u-s-candidate-bloomberg-spent-200-million-of-own-wealth-on-presidential-bid-in-2019-idUSKBN1ZU2QP | 2020-02-02 |
| This will double the practical challenge at the border in January the source was quoted as saying | Neutral | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to impose full customs and border checks on all European goods entering the United Kingdom after Brexit in an attempt to ramp up pressure on the bloc in trade talks the Telegraph newspaper reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-checks/uks-johnson-plans-full-customs-and-border-checks-on-eu-goods-telegraph-idUSKBN1ZV37H | 2020-02-01 |
| Surveys showing Chinese manufacturing activity then came in much as expected in January while services actually firmed though this was likely before the virus took full hold | Negative | World share index heads for worst week since August | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-struggle-for-footing-after-virus-battered-week-idUSL8N2A0445 | 2020-02-01 |
| Ctrip Chinas largest online booking platform said more than 300000 hotels on its platform had agreed to refunds on bookings between Jan | Positive | Some companies have warned that a coronavirus outbreak in China that has killed more than 250 people and infected thousands could disrupt supply chains or hurt bottom lines as factories and shops shut and airlines suspend flights | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-business-impact/companies-feel-impact-of-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china-idUSKBN1ZU1LG | 2020-02-01 |
| As of 31 January some staff and dependants from the British Embassy and Consulates are being withdrawn from China | Negative | SHANGHAI Britain is withdrawing some staff from its embassy and consulates in China due to the coronavirus the UK government said in a statement on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-britain-embassy/uk-withdraws-some-staff-from-china-embassy-consulates-over-virus-idUSKBN1ZV3DP | 2020-02-01 |
| LONDON Jan 31 The United Kingdom finally cast off from the European Union on Friday for an uncertain Brexit future turning its back on postWorld War Two attempts to unite the once warring nations of Europe into a global power | Negative | LONDON Jan 31 The United Kingdom finally cast off from the European Union on Friday for an uncertain Brexit future turning its back on postWorld War Two attempts to unite the once warring nations of Europe into a global power | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-eu-exit/britain-brexits-united-kingdom-leaves-the-european-union-idUSL9N285022 | 2020-02-01 |
| Worries over the economic impact of Chinas coronavirus have rattled global markets helping send the price of crude down to around a barrel from above a barrel on Jan | Negative | MOSCOW Russia is ready to bring forward a meeting of OPEC and its allies to February from March to address a possible hit to global oil demand from coronavirus Russias energy minister said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-opec-coronavirus/russia-ready-to-hasten-opec-meeting-to-feb-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZU2H0 | 2020-02-01 |
| Yet for January it is up 1 | Neutral | World share index heads for worst week since August | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-struggle-for-footing-after-virus-battered-week-idUSL8N2A0445 | 2020-02-01 |
| SHANGHAI The total number of deaths from a coronavirus epidemic in China had reached 259 by the end of Friday Jan | Negative | SHANGHAI The total number of deaths from a coronavirus epidemic in China had reached 259 by the end of Friday Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-casualties/chinas-total-coronavirus-deaths-hit-259-by-end-of-jan-31-up-46-state-media-idUSKBN1ZV37N | 2020-02-01 |
| monthly loss was the worst January since 2016 | Negative | oil gold settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-slump-on-china-virus-economic-concerns-gold-gains-idUSL1N2A01GH | 2020-02-01 |
| Sarea said the recent Houthi attacks had occurred between January 25 and 30 and the targeted airports were in Jizan Abha Najran and Khamis Mushait | Negative | CAIRO Yemens Houthi military spokesman said on Friday the group had launched 26 rocket attacks in the past week against airports in southern Saudi Arabia facilities belonging to oil giant Saudi Aramco and two sensitive targets deep the kingdom | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-aramco/yemens-houthis-say-recent-attacks-on-aramco-airports-in-response-to-air-strikes-idUSKBN1ZU2I0 | 2020-02-01 |
| LONDON Jan 31 Britains National Health Service is very well prepared to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesman said on Friday | Neutral | LONDON Jan 31 Britains National Health Service is very well prepared to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesman said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health-britain-nhs/uk-well-prepared-to-deal-with-virus-pm-johnsons-spokesman-idUSL9N28503F | 2020-02-01 |
| The province has also confirmed 1347 new cases of infection on Jan | Negative | Chinas Hubei province the epicentre of a coronavirus epidemic reported 45 new deaths from the outbreak on Friday bringing the total to 249 the local health commission said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/chinas-hubei-reports-45-new-coronavirus-deaths-total-at-249-idUSKBN1ZU33J | 2020-02-01 |
| Brazils foreign trade secretary Marcos Troyjo said in Rio de Janeiro later on Friday that the country is very interested to work on a broad deal with Mexico | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico is negotiating with Brazil to expand economic cooperation and believes it can find areas of mutual benefit even though the Brazilian economy is very Economy Minister Graciela Marquez said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-brazil/mexico-aims-to-boost-business-with-brazils-very-closed-economy-idUSKBN1ZU2O4 | 2020-02-01 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 31 The U.S. Treasury on Friday said it has lifted sanctions on COSCO Shipping Tanker Co one of the two Dalian units of Chinese shipping company COSCO which Washington had accused of transporting Iranian oil | Positive | WASHINGTON Jan 31 The U.S. Treasury on Friday said it has lifted sanctions on COSCO Shipping Tanker Co one of the two Dalian units of Chinese shipping company COSCO which Washington had accused of transporting Iranian oil | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/iran-nuclear-cosco-treasury/u-s-treasury-lifts-iran-sanctions-on-dalian-unit-of-chinese-shipper-cosco-idUSW1N28M012 | 2020-02-01 |
| Oil output in Libya has plunged since Jan | Negative | LONDON OPEC oil output plunged in January to a multiyear low as top exporter Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members overdelivered on a new productionlimiting accord and Libyan supply dropped due to a blockade of ports and oilfields a Reuters survey found | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-survey/opec-january-oil-output-plunges-on-new-cuts-libyan-unrest-idUSKBN1ZU2EO | 2020-02-01 |
| LONDON Rhodium a precious metal used to reduce vehicle emissions rose to a record high of an ounce on Friday after a supply squeeze drove prices up more than in January alone | Neutral | LONDON Rhodium a precious metal used to reduce vehicle emissions rose to a record high of an ounce on Friday after a supply squeeze drove prices up more than in January alone | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-precious-rhodium/rhodium-prices-hit-record-high-after-spectacular-rally-idUSKBN1ZU184 | 2020-02-01 |
| LONDON Jan 31 World shares were heading for their biggest weekly losses since August on Friday and oil and metals markets were showing even more brutal damage as investors worried over the fallout from Chinas coronavirus epidemic | Negative | World share index heads for worst week since August | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-struggle-for-footing-after-virus-battered-week-idUSL8N2A0445 | 2020-02-01 |
| American Airlines said it will cancel flights to Beijing and Shanghai starting Jan | Negative | Airlines are suspending flights to China in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak which as of Friday had killed more than 200 people and infected nearly 10000 people | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-china-flights-because-of-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZU131 | 2020-02-01 |
| The January survey suggests Nigeria and Iraq both laggards in making cuts in 2019 achieved some progress | Positive | LONDON OPEC oil output plunged in January to a multiyear low as top exporter Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members overdelivered on a new productionlimiting accord and Libyan supply dropped due to a blockade of ports and oilfields a Reuters survey found | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-survey/opec-january-oil-output-plunges-on-new-cuts-libyan-unrest-idUSKBN1ZU2EO | 2020-02-01 |
| 3 percent in January yearonyear with the worlds biggest casino hub a near ghost town after authorities announced a raft of measures to keep visitors away and contain a fastspreading new coronavirus | Neutral | HONG Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau dropped 11 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-macau-revenues/macau-casino-revenue-drops-11-3-percent-in-january-as-coronavirus-worries-mount-idUSKBN1ZV3DR | 2020-02-01 |
| Jan 31 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | Positive | Jan 31 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/press-digest-wsj/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-31-idUSL4N2A02JK | 2020-01-31 |
| RAM has launched on January 16 a direct link with three flights weekly between its Casablanca hub to Beijing | Positive | RABAT Moroccan airline Royal Air Maroc temporarily suspended its direct flights to China due to the coronavirus outbreak state news agency MAP said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-china-morocco/moroccos-ram-airline-temporarily-suspends-flights-to-china-due-to-coronavirus-state-news-agency-idUSKBN1ZT2RH | 2020-01-31 |
| SYDNEY Jan 31 Asian share markets were praying for a reprieve at the end of a punishing week as investors snatched at hopes the coronavirus could be contained even as headlines spoke of more cases and deaths | Negative | Nikkei up 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-struggle-to-stabilise-after-punishing-week-idUSL4N29Z5QA | 2020-01-31 |
| Mellitahs Abu Attifel and El Feel fields have both been shut in by the blockade which started on Jan | Negative | CAIRO Libyas National Oil Corporation said on Thursday that Mellitah Oil and Gas its joint venture with Italys Eni was losing 155000 barrels per day of oil due to a blockade of most of Libyas oil ports and fields | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-oil-eni-gas-e-luce/joint-venture-between-libyas-national-oil-corp-and-italys-eni-losing-155000-bpd-of-oil-due-to-blockade-noc-idUSKBN1ZT342 | 2020-01-31 |
| Jan 30 European shares dropped on Thursday as concerns mounted about the economic impact of an epidemic in China that has now claimed 170 lives | Negative | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-skid-as-china-epidemic-fuels-economic-worry-idUSL4N29Z2LF | 2020-01-31 |
| Oils January correction a drop to be exact was ripe for a said Edward Moya senior market analyst at OANDA in New York | Neutral | SINGAPORE Oil prices jumped on Friday following sharp losses this week as the World Health Organization came out against travel and trade restrictions in declaring a global emergency over the spread of a coronavirus that originated in China last year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-jumps-as-who-declares-emergency-says-it-is-against-travel-trade-restrictions-idUSKBN1ZU0AC | 2020-01-31 |
| LONDON Jan 30 The United Kingdom has taken a risk by refusing to exclude Chinas Huawei from 5G networks but the United States will work with London to resolve their differences U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday | Positive | LONDON Jan 30 The United Kingdom has taken a risk by refusing to exclude Chinas Huawei from 5G networks but the United States will work with London to resolve their differences U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-usa-huawei-pompeo/pompeo-says-huawei-is-a-risk-but-u-s-will-resolve-differences-with-uk-idUSL9N28L01H | 2020-01-31 |
| TOKYO Jan 31 Japan will bring forward the date that the coronavirus will become a designated infectious and warned its citizens on Friday to put off nonurgent travel to China as a third chartered flight repatriating its nationals arrived from Wuhan | Negative | advisory level raised Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-japan/update-3-japan-to-enforce-special-virus-measures-from-sat-urges-citizens-against-non-urgent-china-trips-idUSL4N2A0087 | 2020-01-31 |
| Jan 30 Lebanons March 2020 bond rallied by a record amount on Thursday signalling growing investor hopes that the | Positive | quote from banking chief detail | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-eurobonds/update-1-lebanons-march-2020-bond-in-record-rally-on-payment-hopes-idUSL8N29Z7H6 | 2020-01-31 |
| It was one of the ambassadors first public appearances since he presented his credentials at Russias Foreign Ministry on Jan | Neutral | MOSCOW The United States new ambassador to Russia urged Moscow on Thursday to release a former U.S. Marine accused of spying and said Russian investigators had failed to present credible evidence to back up their case | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-whelan/new-u-s-envoy-tells-russia-to-end-nightmare-for-jailed-ex-marine-idUSKBN1ZT2NI | 2020-01-31 |
| U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox News earlier in January that he met with Chinese officials to talk about purchases of Iranian oil | Positive | The United States will likely lift sanctions within days on units of Chinese tanker company COSCO that Washington accused of transporting Iranian oil two industry sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-cosco/u-s-to-lift-iran-related-sanctions-on-units-of-chinese-shipper-cosco-sources-idUSKBN1ZU04I | 2020-01-31 |
| Britain will leave the European Union on Jan | Negative | ATHENS Greece will step up its campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from Britain and expects to win more support from European peers as Brexit sees British influence wane the Greek culture minister said | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-britain-marbles/brexit-will-strengthen-european-support-for-return-of-parthenon-marbles-says-greek-minister-idUSKBN1ZT1XF | 2020-01-31 |
| Air India said it was cancelling its MumbaiDelhiShanghai flight from Jan | Negative | Airlines have started suspending flights to China in the wake of a new coronavirus outbreak which as of Thursday had killed 170 people and infected almost 8000 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-china-flights-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZT1RZ | 2020-01-31 |
| Jan 31 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | Positive | Jan 31 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/press-digest-nyt/press-digest-new-york-times-business-news-jan-31-idUSL4N2A02CB | 2020-01-31 |
| On Wednesday Russia said it would limit its railway links with China from Jan | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will temporarily stop issuing electronic visas to Chinese nationals from Thursday in response to the outbreak of the coronavirus the foreign ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-visas/russia-to-pause-electronic-visas-to-chinese-nationals-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN1ZT11S | 2020-01-31 |
| NEW YORK Jan 30 Global equity markets tumbled on Thursday as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China hit 170 sending a closely watched bond indicator to invert and oil prices sharply lower on concerns about its impact on the worlds secondlargest economy | Negative | Virus toll rises | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-oil-tumble-on-fears-virus-to-hurt-chinas-economy-idUSL8N29Z62W | 2020-01-31 |
| Helping the mood were surveys showing Chinese manufacturing activity came in much as expected in January while services actually firmed though this was likely before the virus took full hold | Positive | SYDNEY Asian share markets fought to regain their footing on Friday as investors clutched at hopes China could contain the coronavirus even as headlines spoke of more cases and mounting deaths | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asia-shares-struggle-for-footing-after-fraught-week-idUSKBN1ZU01N | 2020-01-31 |
| Hong Kongs Cathay Pacific said it would progressively reduce capacity to and from mainland China by or more from Jan | Negative | Airlines have started suspending flights to China in the wake of a new coronavirus outbreak which as of Thursday had killed 170 people and infected almost 8000 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-china-flights-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZT1RZ | 2020-01-31 |
| TOKYO Jan 31 A slew of upbeat corporate earnings and forecasts helped Japanese shares bounce back on Friday although lingering fears over the coronavirus epidemic kept the market on track for its biggest weekly drop in nearly six months | Positive | TOKYO Jan 31 A slew of upbeat corporate earnings and forecasts helped Japanese shares bounce back on Friday although lingering fears over the coronavirus epidemic kept the market on track for its biggest weekly drop in nearly six months | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-bounces-back-on-earnings-to-cap-week-hit-by-epidemic-fears-idUSL4N2A018W | 2020-01-31 |
| As soon as the United Kingdom formally leaves the EU on Jan | Negative | LONDON Brexit is the United Kingdoms biggest geopolitical move in decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-changes-explainer/explainer-through-the-brexit-looking-glass-what-changes-and-what-stays-the-same-idUSKBN1ZT2JH | 2020-01-31 |
| SEOUL Jan 31 South Koreas SK Hynix Inc said on Friday that the newlyidentified coronavirus outbreak in China has so far caused no production disruptions at its businesses in the country including in its semiconductor factory in Wuxi China | Positive | SEOUL Jan 31 South Koreas SK Hynix Inc said on Friday that the newlyidentified coronavirus outbreak in China has so far caused no production disruptions at its businesses in the country including in its semiconductor factory in Wuxi China | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/sk-hynix-results-china-health/sk-hynix-says-so-far-no-production-disruption-from-china-virus-outbreak-idUSS6N29P033 | 2020-01-31 |
| WASHINGTON The United States is trying to secure permission from Iraq to take Patriot missile defenses into the country to better defend U.S. forces after Irans Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is trying to secure permission from Iraq to take Patriot missile defenses into the country to better defend U.S. forces after Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-mideast-crisis-iran-usa-iraq/u-s-seeks-iraqi-nod-to-bring-in-air-defenses-after-iran-attack-idUSKBN1ZT2DI | 2020-01-31 |
| 30 it has decided to suspend all flights to and from Shanghai and Beijing from Jan | Negative | Airlines have started suspending flights to China in the wake of a new coronavirus outbreak which as of Thursday had killed 170 people and infected almost 8000 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-china-flights-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZT1RZ | 2020-01-31 |
| SYDNEY Jan 31 Asian share markets battled to regain their footing on Friday as investors clutched at hopes China could contain the coronavirus even as headlines spoke of ever more cases and mounting deaths | Negative | Nikkei bounces 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-fight-for-footing-after-turbulent-week-idUSL4N2A00MR | 2020-01-31 |
| The sector was hit hard last year by global trade wars and seems to have benefited from an initial trade deal between the United States and China signed in midJanuary | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone economic sentiment jumped as confidence among manufacturers rose while unemployment was at its lowest level in more than a decade data showed on Thursday but the mood may quickly turn sour as fears over the coronavirus epidemic mount | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-sentiment/euro-zone-business-starts-year-upbeat-coronavirus-may-sour-mood-idUSKBN1ZT14J | 2020-01-31 |
| Samsung said it also expected JanuaryMarch earnings to fall from the preceding quarter reflecting low seasonal demand for chips and displays | Negative | SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-results/after-meager-2019-samsungs-modest-chip-recovery-outlook-falls-flat-idUSKBN1ZT001 | 2020-01-31 |
| MOSCOW Russia will limit railway service with China from Jan | Negative | MOSCOW Russia will limit railway service with China from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-railway/russia-limits-rail-service-with-china-from-jan-31-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZS2W8 | 2020-01-30 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 29 The White House has informed former national security adviser John Bolton that his book manuscript appeared to contain significant amounts of classified and could not be published in its current form | Positive | details from | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-impeachment-letter/update-1-white-house-tells-bolton-his-manuscript-contains-classified-material-cannot-be-published-idUSL1N29Y14F | 2020-01-30 |
| BEIJING Jan 30 Chinas anticorruption watchdog said on Thursday it will severely punish officials who slack off on the job in fighting a new virus that is spreading across the country | Negative | BEIJING Jan 30 Chinas anticorruption watchdog said on Thursday it will severely punish officials who slack off on the job in fighting a new virus that is spreading across the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-slack/china-says-will-punish-officials-who-slack-off-in-fighting-virus-idUSL4N29Z1S6 | 2020-01-30 |
| BEIJING Jan 30 Chinas agriculture ministry on Thursday urged feed producers and slaughter houses to speed up the resumption of production in a bid to increase supplies amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus | Negative | BEIJING Jan 30 Chinas agriculture ministry on Thursday urged feed producers and slaughter houses to speed up the resumption of production in a bid to increase supplies amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-food/china-urges-food-producers-to-resume-production-amid-virus-outbreak-idUSL4N29Z1Z2 | 2020-01-30 |
| TOKYO Jan 30 The dollar held near a twomonth high against a basket of major currencies while the Australian dollar and the yuan were under pressure on Thursday as investors tried to shield themselves from assets that could be hit by Chinas virus epidemic | Negative | Dollar yen Swiss franc in demand as safehavens | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-china-virus-anxiety-underpins-safe-haven-currencies-idUSL4N29Z079 | 2020-01-30 |
| January 26 story corrects quote in sixth paragraph to climate change not environmental | Neutral | January 26 story corrects quote in sixth paragraph to climate change not environmental | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-grammys/billie-eilish-sweeps-grammy-awards-with-top-four-prizes-idUSKBN1ZP0DA | 2020-01-30 |
| Domestic and international airlines have canceled flights between Wuhan and overseas cities since Jan | Negative | BEIJING Chinas aviation authority has approved chartered flights to bring home from overseas trips some residents of the central city of Wuhan the site of an epidemic caused by a new virus state television said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-aviation/china-regulator-approves-charter-flights-to-bring-home-wuhan-tourists-idUSKBN1ZT0DW | 2020-01-30 |
| ISTANBUL Jan 30 Turkeys lira was little changed on Thursday and remained close to a threeweek low against the dollar ahead of a quarterly report in which the central bank is expected to reaffirm its view that inflation will gradually slide this year | Negative | ISTANBUL Jan 30 Turkeys lira was little changed on Thursday and remained close to a threeweek low against the dollar ahead of a quarterly report in which the central bank is expected to reaffirm its view that inflation will gradually slide this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-currency/turkish-lira-steady-as-cenbank-set-to-reaffirm-inflation-optimism-idUSL8N29Z0LJ | 2020-01-30 |
| It will give some relief to our Warren said in a January debate | Positive | The Democratic contenders hoping to challenge President Donald Trump in November 2020 all argue the Republican leaders unorthodox foreign policy approach has endangered American interests | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-foreignpolicy-factbox/where-the-2020-democratic-presidential-hopefuls-differ-on-foreign-policy-idUSKBN1ZS1A7 | 2020-01-30 |
| In midJanuary Britains Competition and Markets Authority asked for comments on the proposed transaction and whether it would lead to a substantial lessening of competition | Neutral | WASHINGTON Textbook publishers Cengage Learning Holdings and McGrawHill Education who announced last year that they would merge have extended their merger agreement to May 1 the companies said on Wednesday as some countries are still reviewing the deal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mcgrawhill-m-a-cengage/textbook-publishers-cengage-mcgraw-hill-extend-merger-agreement-to-may-1-idUSKBN1ZS37C | 2020-01-30 |
| MUMBAI Jan 30 Sri Lankas central bank cut both its key interest rates by 50 basis points in an unexpected move on Thursday citing the need to support an economic recovery | Neutral | SDFR SLFR cut by 50 bps each | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/sri-lanka-economy-rates/update-2-sri-lanka-cenbank-unexpectedly-cuts-key-interest-rates-to-support-growth-idUSL4N29Z0SN | 2020-01-30 |
| Avenatti was jailed and had bail revoked after his Jan | Negative | NEW YORK Michael Avenatti was bent on a big payday when he demanded millions of dollars for himself from Nike Inc a federal prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday in his opening argument at the extortion trial of the celebrity lawyer and prominent critic of U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/at-trial-u-s-says-avenattis-greed-fueled-nike-extortion-defense-says-tenacity-is-no-crime-idUSKBN1ZS35M | 2020-01-30 |
| When I got to the Senate I pushed to bring our troops she said during Januarys debate | Neutral | The Democratic contenders hoping to challenge President Donald Trump in November 2020 all argue the Republican leaders unorthodox foreign policy approach has endangered American interests | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-foreignpolicy-factbox/where-the-2020-democratic-presidential-hopefuls-differ-on-foreign-policy-idUSKBN1ZS1A7 | 2020-01-30 |
| DUBAI The four members of a Chinese family who have been diagnosed in the United Arab Emirates with the new coronavirus were tourists who arrived from the Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan | Negative | DUBAI The four members of a Chinese family who have been diagnosed in the United Arab Emirates with the new coronavirus were tourists who arrived from the Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-emirates-official/four-chinese-citizens-with-coronavirus-in-uae-are-tourists-official-idUSKBN1ZS1OY | 2020-01-30 |
| JAKARTA Jan Indonesia is preparing to evacuate its citizens from the virushit Chinese city of Wuhan and will quarantine them for at least 14 days on arrival to avoid contagion its foreign minister said on Thursday | Negative | second paragraph to read She | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health-indonesia/corrected-indonesia-says-preparing-to-evacuate-citizens-from-wuhan-as-virus-spreads-idUSJ9N29000C | 2020-01-30 |
| The letter which was sent via email to Cooper was dated Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The White House has informed former national security adviser John Bolton that his book manuscript appeared to contain significant amounts of classified and could not be published in its current form | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-book/white-house-tells-bolton-his-manuscript-contains-classified-material-cannot-be-published-idUSKBN1ZS2LQ | 2020-01-30 |
| Samsung said it expected JanuaryMarch earnings to fall from the preceding quarter reflecting low seasonal demand for chips and displays | Negative | SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-samsung-elec-results/after-dismal-2019-samsung-pins-modest-recovery-hopes-on-chip-market-pick-up-idUSKBN1ZT001 | 2020-01-30 |
| BERLIN Jan 30 Deutsche Banks chief executive on Thursday told German broadcaster ntv that he did not think Germanys top bank would apply negative interest rates to the accounts of private customers in general | Positive | BERLIN Jan 30 Deutsche Banks chief executive on Thursday told German broadcaster ntv that he did not think Germanys top bank would apply negative interest rates to the accounts of private customers in general | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/deutsche-bank-sewing/deutsche-bank-ceo-negative-rates-not-an-option-generally-for-private-customers-idUSL8N29Z0NX | 2020-01-30 |
| SINGAPORE Jan 30 Asian stocks and currencies fell on Thursday as the death toll from a new virus spreading in China rose and more cases were reported around the world | Negative | Virus death toll rises WHO to reconsider declaring emergency | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-virus-fears-push-asian-stocks-to-7-week-low-boost-safe-haven-assets-idUSL4N29Z14I | 2020-01-30 |
| SINGAPORE Jan 29 PetroChinas Singapore bunkering unit moved up a notch to be the top marine fuel supplier in the worlds biggest ship refuelling hub in 2019 official data showed as the overall number of suppliers fell for a sixth year in a row | Positive | SINGAPORE Jan 29 PetroChinas Singapore bunkering unit moved up a notch to be the top marine fuel supplier in the worlds biggest ship refuelling hub in 2019 official data showed as the overall number of suppliers fell for a sixth year in a row | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/singapore-bunker/petrochina-tops-singapores-shrinking-list-of-2019-marine-fuel-suppliers-idUSL4N29X1KR | 2020-01-29 |
| The Jersey Shore beach town of Wildwood normally nearly empty in January was abuzz with restaurants and hotels packed despite the chilly temperature | Positive | WILDWOOD N.J. New Jersey supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday welcomed his first campaign rally in the state the same way they celebrate heroes from the New York Jets football team to native son Bruce Springsteen with a tailgate party | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-rally-new-jersey/trump-tailgate-new-jersey-republicans-pack-presidents-2020-rally-idUSKBN1ZR2US | 2020-01-29 |
| LONDON Jan 28 Prime Minister Boris Johnson told President Trump on Tuesday that countries should work together to break the dominance of a small number of companies after Britain granted Chinese firm Huawei a limited role in its 5G mobile network | Positive | LONDON Jan 28 Prime Minister Boris Johnson told President Trump on Tuesday that countries should work together to break the dominance of a small number of companies after Britain granted Chinese firm Huawei a limited role in its 5G mobile network | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-usa-huawei-call/uks-johnson-tells-trump-on-huawei-that-collaboration-is-needed-to-diversify-market-idUSL9N28L00U | 2020-01-29 |
| The company was due to make a bid on Jan | Positive | The company was due to make a bid on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-thyssenkrupp-divestiture-kone/kone-confirms-interest-in-thyssenkrupp-elevator-business-idUSKBN1ZR1JL | 2020-01-29 |
| U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported no new deaths from the mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping after their last update on Jan | Negative | U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported no new deaths from the mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping after their last update on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-usa-vaping-cdc/u-s-reports-no-new-deaths-tied-to-vaping-lung-illness-cases-rise-to-2711-idUSKBN1ZR2G2 | 2020-01-29 |
| TOKYO Jan 29 Japanese shares bounced back modestly on Wednesday partially clawing back hefty losses from the previous two sessions although gains were limited by worries over the fastspreading coronavirus from China | Negative | paragraph 5 time to 0600 GMT not 1600 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-close/japan-shares-rise-after-2-day-selloff-coronavirus-fears-linger-idUSL4N29Y0TN | 2020-01-29 |
| LONDON Jan 28 Britain called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to give fair consideration to a U.S. plan to bring peace to the Middle East foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday | Positive | detail | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-plan-britain-raab/update-1-britain-urges-israeli-palestinian-leaders-to-give-fair-consideration-to-u-s-plan-idUSL8N29X6SJ | 2020-01-29 |
| LONDON Jan 29 British Airways has suspended bookings on its website for direct flights from London to Beijing and Shanghai until March after warnings over travel to China due to the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | LONDON Jan 29 British Airways has suspended bookings on its website for direct flights from London to Beijing and Shanghai until March after warnings over travel to China due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-britain-ba/british-airways-suspends-bookings-for-china-flights-after-coronavirus-warnings-idUSL9N28501O | 2020-01-29 |
| Actors Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie TurnerSmith joined Matsoukas on the red carpet to celebrate ahead of the films release in Britain on Jan | Positive | LONDON Director Melina Matsoukas said making the jump from directing music videos for Beyonce to directing Queen for the big screen has given her the chance to tell what she calls a story about black people my people | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-film-queen-and-slim/director-matsoukas-says-queen-slim-debut-tells-story-of-my-people-idUSKBN1ZR2W0 | 2020-01-29 |
| Jan 29 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | Positive | Jan 29 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/press-digest-wsj/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-29-idUSL4N29Y1GA | 2020-01-29 |
| BA.com the airlines website shows no direct flights to China are available in January and February | Positive | LONDON British Airways has suspended all direct flights to and from mainland China after Britain warned against all but essential travel to the country due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-britain-ba/british-airways-suspends-bookings-for-china-flights-after-coronavirus-warnings-idUSKBN1ZS0OJ | 2020-01-29 |
| Jan 28 British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesperson said the U.S. Middle East plan could be a positive step after a phone call on Tuesday between Johnson and President Donald Trump | Positive | Jan 28 British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesperson said the U.S. Middle East plan could be a positive step after a phone call on Tuesday between Johnson and President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-plan-britain/britain-says-u-s-middle-east-peace-plan-could-be-positive-step-idUSL9N26A00A | 2020-01-29 |
| LONDON Jan 28 A whopping billion was wiped from European stocks at the start of this week as the deadly coronavirus prompted investors to cut back exposure to companies with a strong presence in China the worlds fastestgrowing consumer market | Negative | story published late on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/europe-stocks-coronavirus/rpt-graphic-why-the-devil-coronavirus-has-hit-european-stocks-hard-idUSL8N29X5UI | 2020-01-29 |
| TOKYO Jan 29 Japanese shares bounced back modestly on Wednesday partially clawing back hefty losses from the previous session even as the upside was limited on worries related to the fastspreading coronavirus | Positive | TOKYO Jan 29 Japanese shares bounced back modestly on Wednesday partially clawing back hefty losses from the previous session even as the upside was limited on worries related to the fastspreading coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/japan-shares-rebound-amid-lingering-coronavirus-worries-unizo-jumps-idUSL4N29Y0PL | 2020-01-29 |
| Chinas mainland airlines including Air China China Southern and China Eastern are offering free refunds across the mainland for tickets purchased before Jan | Positive | Companies around the globe from Facebook to Japans Nippon Steel have restricted travel to China as the outbreak of a new coronavirus which has killed over 100 people and infected more than 4000 in the worlds most populous country sparks international alarm | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-business-factbox/stores-closed-employees-evacuated-travel-restricted-as-coronavirus-spreads-idUSKBN1ZR1QT | 2020-01-29 |
| NEW YORK Jan 28 Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinsteins New York rape trial is expected to continue on Tuesday following explosive testimony from two women who have accused him of sexual assault | Negative | NEW YORK Jan 28 Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinsteins New York rape trial is expected to continue on Tuesday following explosive testimony from two women who have accused him of sexual assault | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-harvey-weinstein/harvey-weinsteins-new-york-rape-trial-moves-on-after-explosive-testimony-idUSL1N29W1SQ | 2020-01-29 |
| Jan 28 Most of the World Health Organizations criteria for declaring a global emergency have been met but it is awaiting clear evidence of a sustained spread of the new coronavirus outside China before doing so some experts and diplomats said | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
| TOKYO Jan 29 Risk currencies steadied on Wednesday as investors took stock of the economic damage from the outbreak of the coronavirus originating in China with focus on Hong Kong shares that will resume trading later in the day after the Lunar New Year break | Negative | TOKYO Jan 29 Risk currencies steadied on Wednesday as investors took stock of the economic damage from the outbreak of the coronavirus originating in China with focus on Hong Kong shares that will resume trading later in the day after the Lunar New Year break | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-risk-currencies-steady-as-investors-assess-virus-fallouts-idUSL4N29Y05I | 2020-01-29 |
| LOS ANGELES Jan 28 Investigators will continue after sunrise Tuesday to sift through the wreckage of Kobe Bryants illfated helicopter that crashed in California killing the former NBA star his daughter and seven others on board as they try to answer both the why and how of the accident | Negative | LOS ANGELES Jan 28 Investigators will continue after sunrise Tuesday to sift through the wreckage of Kobe Bryants illfated helicopter that crashed in California killing the former NBA star his daughter and seven others on board as they try to answer both the why and how of the accident | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-kobe-bryant/investigators-seek-answers-to-chopper-crash-as-nba-star-8-others-mourned-idUSL1N29X02K | 2020-01-29 |
| Malaysias AirAsia will offer free refunds for tickets booked before Jan | Positive | Companies around the globe from Facebook to Japans Nippon Steel have restricted travel to China as the outbreak of a new coronavirus which has killed over 100 people and infected more than 4000 in the worlds most populous country sparks international alarm | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-business-factbox/stores-closed-employees-evacuated-travel-restricted-as-coronavirus-spreads-idUSKBN1ZR1QT | 2020-01-29 |
| The renewed fighting comes despite a Jan | Positive | AZAZ Syria A renewed drive by President Bashar alAssad to recapture rebelheld territory in Syrias northwest sparked a fresh exodus of many thousands of civilians toward Turkeys border on Monday amid heavy air strikes aid workers and witnesses said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security/thousands-flee-northwest-syria-as-assad-pushes-closer-to-idlib-city-idUSKBN1ZQ25G | 2020-01-28 |
| TOKYO Jan 28 Japans government will send a chartered flight to Wuhan the epicentre of a virus outbreak in China on Tuesday night to evacuate its nationals wishing to return home | Negative | TOKYO Jan 28 Japans government will send a chartered flight to Wuhan the epicentre of a virus outbreak in China on Tuesday night to evacuate its nationals wishing to return home | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health-japan/japan-to-send-charter-flight-to-wuhan-to-bring-citizens-home-as-virus-spreads-idUST9N29K00L | 2020-01-28 |
| That move failed to convince Elliott which has built up a stake of over in Altran to tender its shares to the groups offer which closed on Jan | Positive | Capgemini was advised by Lazard while Altran worked with Perella Weinberg Partners and Citigroup | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-altran-tech-m-a-capgemini-elliott/capgemini-passes-first-hurdle-in-altran-bid-despite-elliott-resistance-idUSKBN1ZQ0XL | 2020-01-28 |
| Jan 27 When the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs face off at the National Football Leagues Super Bowl LIV in Miami on Sunday billionaire presidential candidates will battle for attention while big brands bearing positive messages hope to bring balance to the divisive political atmosphere | Positive | fourth paragraph to remove reference that Bloomberg campaign will air an attack ad | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/football-nfl-superbowl-advertising/corrected-super-bowl-to-feature-trump-bloomberg-and-corporate-america-battling-for-attention-idUSL1N29T0ML | 2020-01-28 |
| Earlier in January Capgemini had slightly raised the price of its friendly bid for Altran to 14 | Positive | Capgemini was advised by Lazard while Altran worked with Perella Weinberg Partners and Citigroup | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-altran-tech-m-a-capgemini-elliott/capgemini-passes-first-hurdle-in-altran-bid-despite-elliott-resistance-idUSKBN1ZQ0XL | 2020-01-28 |
| Jan 27 The television audience for the annual Grammy Awards show dipped to 18 | Positive | Jan 27 The television audience for the annual Grammy Awards show dipped to 18 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/awards-grammys-ratings/grammy-awards-show-television-audience-dips-to-18-7-million-idUSL1N29W0RK | 2020-01-28 |
| The stateowned carrier is providing hand sanitizer and face masks to crew operating flights to China the Jan | Positive | DUBAI Dubais Emirates airline is advising its flight crew to stay in their hotels when on a layover in China due to the new coronavirus outbreak there that has killed 81 people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-emirates-airline/emirates-advises-crew-to-stay-in-hotels-avoid-crowds-in-china-due-to-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZQ1F0 | 2020-01-28 |
| Brent crude oil prices have dropped by almost a fifth since a spike in tensions between the United States and Iran briefly lifted prices above a barrel on Jan | Negative | NEW YORK Crude futures dropped to threemonth lows on Monday as the death toll from Chinas coronavirus grew curtailing travel and fueling expectations of slowing oil demand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-sinks-to-three-month-lows-as-coronavirus-raises-demand-fears-idUSKBN1ZQ02Z | 2020-01-28 |
| TOKYO Jan 28 Japanese shares dropped to threeweek lows on Tuesday as a broad range of stocks came under pressure from the spread of the coronavirus that could curb global economic growth | Negative | TOKYO Jan 28 Japanese shares dropped to threeweek lows on Tuesday as a broad range of stocks came under pressure from the spread of the coronavirus that could curb global economic growth | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/japan-shares-slip-to-3-week-low-on-coronavirus-concerns-idUSL4N29X0FL | 2020-01-28 |
| The governments divestment plan could also face opposition from within with Subramanian Swamy an MP from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party threatening legal action against the sale | Negative | NEW DELHI India said on Monday it plans to sell its entire interest in Air India Ltd making a renewed push to sell the flag carrier after it drew no bids in an effort to auction a majority stake almost two years ago | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-air-india-sale/india-renews-push-to-sell-air-india-puts-entire-stake-on-the-block-idUSKBN1ZQ0DJ | 2020-01-28 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 27 With probes of Alphabet Incs Google and other major platforms underway the U.S. Justice Departments Antitrust Division is hiring both to bulk up for the big tech probes and to replace people who left according to two Justice Department officials with knowledge of the matter | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 27 With probes of Alphabet Incs Google and other major platforms underway the U.S. Justice Departments Antitrust Division is hiring both to bulk up for the big tech probes and to replace people who left according to two Justice Department officials with knowledge of the matter | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/tech-antitrust-hiring/u-s-justice-dept-adds-antitrust-staff-amid-big-tech-probes-sources-idUSL1N29J1YE | 2020-01-28 |
| SEOUL Jan 28 South Korea plans to send charter flights this week to evacuate its citizens from Wuhan the epicentre of a virus outbreak in China Prime Minister Chung Syekyun said on Tuesday | Negative | SEOUL Jan 28 South Korea plans to send charter flights this week to evacuate its citizens from Wuhan the epicentre of a virus outbreak in China Prime Minister Chung Syekyun said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-southkorea/s-korea-to-send-charter-flights-to-evacuate-citizens-from-wuhan-idUSS6N29P002 | 2020-01-28 |
| He was finally admitted on Jan | Neutral | BEIJING Yang Zhongyi was still waiting on Monday for a coronavirus test in the Chinese city of Wuhan two weeks after she started to show signs of a fever even though doctors privately told her family that she almost certainly has been infected her son Zhang Changchun told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-testing-insight/confusion-and-lost-time-how-testing-woes-slowed-chinas-coronavirus-response-idUSKBN1ZQ21K | 2020-01-28 |
| SYDNEY Jan 28 Asian stocks extended a global selloff on Tuesday as China took more drastic steps to combat a deadly new coronavirus while bonds shone on expectations central banks would need to keep stimulus flowing to offset the likely economic drag | Negative | Asian shares slip on coronavirus fears | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-crumble-as-china-virus-toll-mounts-safe-havens-in-demand-idUSL4N29X0EO | 2020-01-28 |
| From the day the deal was announced through Jan | Positive | Institutional Shareholder Services Inc recommended that Instructure shareholders vote against the companys planned sale to the private equity firm at a Feb | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-instructure-iss/iss-recommends-against-instructures-proposed-sale-to-thoma-bravo-note-idUSKBN1ZQ1Q8 | 2020-01-28 |
| Jan 28 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | Positive | Jan 28 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/press-digest-wsj/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-28-idUSL4N29X0W1 | 2020-01-28 |
| Boeing is expected to report its fourthquarter results on Jan | Neutral | The financing deal was not closed and not yet finalized the source added | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-boeing-loan/boeing-secures-financing-commitments-for-over-12-billion-source-idUSKBN1ZQ2AR | 2020-01-28 |
| TOKYO Jan 28 The yuan was mired near its weakest level in a month in offshore trade on Tuesday as heightened anxiety about the economic impact of a deadly new coronavirus in China battered riskier assets | Negative | Risk assets hit on worries about China virus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-yuan-wobbles-yen-holds-firm-as-traders-count-damage-from-china-virus-idUSL4N29X058 | 2020-01-28 |
| Bolsonaro who was elected in January 2019 has long advocated broadening gun laws to fight crime | Neutral | SAO PAULO Brazilian gunmaker Taurus Armas SA has signed a joint venture with Indian steelmaker Jindal Group to produce and sell guns in India according to a securities filing on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-taurus-jointventure/brazils-taurus-signs-deal-with-steel-group-jindal-to-produce-guns-in-india-filing-idUSKBN1ZQ0YX | 2020-01-28 |
| Avenatti has been jailed since Jan | Negative | NEW YORK The judge overseeing Michael Avenattis extortion trial said the case should not focus on Nike Incs alleged corruption or devolve into celebrity namedropping as jury selection began for the case against the lawyer and critic of U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/focus-on-avenatti-u-s-judge-says-as-trump-critics-nike-extortion-trial-begins-idUSKBN1ZQ11N | 2020-01-28 |
| MANILA Jan 28 The Philippines stopped issuing visas on arrival to Chinese nationals on Tuesday in a bid to keep the southeast Asian nation free of a new virus that has killed 106 and infected more than 4500 since emerging in China in December | Negative | Philippines temporarily suspends visa upon arrival facility | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health-philippines/update-1-philippines-halts-visas-on-arrival-for-chinese-on-virus-fears-idUSL4N29X0LE | 2020-01-28 |
| LONDON Jan 27 The security and resilience of Britains telecoms network is of paramount importance in the decision over Huaweis role in 5G digital and security minister Matt Warman said on Monday | Positive | LONDON Jan 27 The security and resilience of Britains telecoms network is of paramount importance in the decision over Huaweis role in 5G digital and security minister Matt Warman said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-usa-huawei-warman/security-and-resilience-of-uk-telecoms-network-paramount-junior-minister-idUSS8N2760E0 | 2020-01-28 |
| It is down about since Jan 17 | Neutral | SYDNEY Asian stocks took a battering on Tuesday as the death toll from a virus in China climbed leaving investors fretting over the widening economic fallout from the outbreak and lifting bonds on expectations central banks would need to keep stimulus flowing | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/stocks-crumble-as-china-virus-toll-mounts-safe-havens-in-demand-idUSKBN1ZQ2JL | 2020-01-28 |
| Fastjet projects that it will have sufficient resources to meet its operational needs until the end of March with cash reserves of only million at Jan | Positive | Back in November Fastjet said it was in discussions to sell the operations for million a deal which could help the South African lowcost carrier stay alive until 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fastjet-restructuring/fastjet-flags-going-concern-doubt-again-as-restructuring-plan-in-jeopardy-idUSKBN1ZQ0KX | 2020-01-28 |
| Hong Kongs popular amusement parks Disneyland and Ocean Park are closed from Jan | Positive | The coronavirus outbreak that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has killed 56 people in China and infected more than 2000 globally most of them in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-virus-factbox/latest-on-the-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN1ZO0AV | 2020-01-27 |
| The push deeper into rebelheld territory has taken place despite a deal between Turkey and Russia which back opposing sides in the conflict for a Jan | Negative | BEIRUT Syrian government forces have taken control of several towns in northwestern Idlib province a war monitor and Syrian state media reported amid a renewed push by President Bashar alAssad to recapture the last rebel stronghold | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security/syrian-government-forces-capture-towns-in-advance-on-rebel-held-idlib-idUSKBN1ZP0FC | 2020-01-27 |
| New York Jan 24 Wall Street is betting that the most popular U.S. technology and internet stocks can keep outshining the broader equities market but their latest rally leaves little room for error this earnings season | Positive | Wall Street Week Ahead column originally published on Jan 24 no | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-stocks-weekahead/rpt-wall-st-week-ahead-hopes-are-high-for-tech-stock-cadillacs-so-are-their-prices-idUSL1N29T0T4 | 2020-01-27 |
| The holidays had been due to end on Jan | Neutral | BEIJING Chinas cabinet announced it will extend the Lunar New Year holidays to Feb | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-holidays/chinas-cabinet-to-extend-lunar-new-year-holidays-state-broadcaster-idUSKBN1ZP0PQ | 2020-01-27 |
| Jan 26 Kobe Bryants 13yearold daughter Gianna was also on the helicopter that crashed near Los Angeles on Sunday killing him and all four others on board several major U.S. media outlets reported | Negative | Jan 26 Kobe Bryants 13yearold daughter Gianna was also on the helicopter that crashed near Los Angeles on Sunday killing him and all four others on board several major U.S. media outlets reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-kobe-bryant-daughter/kobe-bryants-13-year-old-daughter-also-killed-in-helicopter-crash-nbc-news-idUSL1N29V08S | 2020-01-27 |
| Nothing would please me than to keep references to Trump and Daniels out of the trial Gardephe said at a Jan | Positive | NEW YORK Michael Avenatti shot to fame from obscurity two years ago by taking to the airwaves as an outspoken selfdescribed nemesis of Donald Trump while representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against the U.S. president | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/michael-avenatti-faces-the-trial-of-his-life-his-own-idUSKBN1ZP0LI | 2020-01-27 |
| January is usually synonymous with a very very slow start to the year | Negative | LUTON England At Bruderer UK a small firm selling metalstamping machines from an industrial estate just north of London business kicked into high gear right after Prime Minister Boris Johnsons big election win last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-economy/after-brexit-settling-election-uk-firms-see-business-bounce-idUSKBN1ZP0IM | 2020-01-27 |
| Jan 26 U.S. state attorneys general will meet with Justice Department attorneys next week to share information on their investigations into Alphabet Incs Google that could eventually lead them to join forces the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with the matter | Negative | Jan 26 U.S. state attorneys general will meet with Justice Department attorneys next week to share information on their investigations into Alphabet Incs Google that could eventually lead them to join forces the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/tech-antitrust-google/u-s-state-attorneys-general-to-meet-justice-officials-to-coordinate-on-google-probe-wsj-idUSL4N29V0AI | 2020-01-27 |
| His fame worked against him when he was thrown into solitary confinement at Manhattans Metropolitan Correctional Center following his Jan | Positive | NEW YORK Michael Avenatti shot to fame from obscurity two years ago by taking to the airwaves as an outspoken selfdescribed nemesis of Donald Trump while representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against the U.S. president | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/michael-avenatti-faces-the-trial-of-his-life-his-own-idUSKBN1ZP0LI | 2020-01-27 |
| DUBAI Jan 27 Saudi Arabias Energy Minister said on Monday the kingdom was closely monitoring developments in global oil markets resulting from gloomy over the impact of the new coronavirus on the Chinese and global economy and oil market fundamentals | Negative | DUBAI Jan 27 Saudi Arabias Energy Minister said on Monday the kingdom was closely monitoring developments in global oil markets resulting from gloomy over the impact of the new coronavirus on the Chinese and global economy and oil market fundamentals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-saudi/saudi-energy-minister-says-confident-china-can-contain-eradicate-new-coronavirus-idUSL8N29V0RU | 2020-01-27 |
| Janet and I have no words to describe our shock and sadness on the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant today | Negative | Kobe Bryant a Hall of Fame basketball player who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers died aged 41 on Sunday in a helicopter crash in California | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-kobebryant-factbox/factbox-reaction-to-the-death-of-former-nba-player-kobe-bryant-idUSKBN1ZP0SH | 2020-01-27 |
| LONDON Britain will set out more details about its objectives for a free trade deal with the European Union next month after the country leaves the bloc on Jan | Positive | LONDON Britain will set out more details about its objectives for a free trade deal with the European Union next month after the country leaves the bloc on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-trade-objectives/uk-will-set-out-eu-trade-objectives-next-month-brexit-secretary-idUSKBN1ZP0JW | 2020-01-27 |
| The survey of 1689 registered voters in Iowa was conducted from Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON Senator Bernie Sanders is leading other Democratic presidential candidates with of the likely vote in Iowa just over a week before statewide caucuses in the state a New York College poll released Saturday showed | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-iowa/sanders-grabs-lead-in-iowa-race-as-support-for-warren-drops-new-york-times-idUSKBN1ZO0MO | 2020-01-26 |
| Sanya is one of the favorite tourist destinations during the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday which lasts until Jan 30 | Positive | BEIJING Chinas Sanya city in the southern island province of Hainan has shut down all tourist sites in the city to prevent the spread of the coronavirus the city government said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-sanya/chinas-sanya-city-shuts-down-all-tourist-sites-to-prevent-spread-of-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZO0AF | 2020-01-26 |
| Kramer did however join his band mates on stage as they accepted their MusiCares awards which also recognized Tylers Janies Fund charity for abused and neglected girls | Positive | LOS ANGELES Actor Johnny Depp and musician Alice Cooper joined Aerosmith on Friday at a gala dinner and performance in Los Angeles to celebrate the bands 50year career as one of the bestselling American hard rock bands of all times | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-grammys-aerosmith/johnny-depp-jams-with-aerosmith-as-band-celebrates-50-year-career-idUSKBN1ZO0CT | 2020-01-26 |
| BEIJING Government of Chinas central city of Wuhan said on Saturday it would ban nonessential vehicles in downtown area from Jan 26 to contain virus outbreak the Peoples Daily said | Negative | BEIJING Government of Chinas central city of Wuhan said on Saturday it would ban nonessential vehicles in downtown area from Jan 26 to contain virus outbreak the Peoples Daily said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-vehicle-ban/chinas-wuhan-city-to-ban-non-essential-vehicles-in-downtown-from-jan-26-idUSKBN1ZO09L | 2020-01-26 |
| The two patients in Paris are a Chinese couple who arrived in France on Jan | Negative | PARIS Two of the three Chinese nationals in France who have been diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus arrived without showing symptoms doctors at a Paris hospital said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-france/coronavirus-patients-arrived-in-france-without-symptoms-idUSKBN1ZO0NB | 2020-01-26 |
| LONDON Jan 25 Britain said on Saturday it was advising against all travel to Hubei province in China due to the outbreak of coronavirus | Negative | LONDON Jan 25 Britain said on Saturday it was advising against all travel to Hubei province in China due to the outbreak of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-britain/britain-advises-against-all-travel-to-chinas-hubei-province-idUSL1N29U09G | 2020-01-26 |
| 18 but did not show symptoms until Jan | Positive | PARIS Two of the three Chinese nationals in France who have been diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus arrived without showing symptoms doctors at a Paris hospital said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-france/coronavirus-patients-arrived-in-france-without-symptoms-idUSKBN1ZO0NB | 2020-01-26 |
| LONDON Jan 25 U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was optimistic about the potential for a trade deal between the United States and Britain and there was a focus on getting it done this year | Positive | LONDON Jan 25 U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was optimistic about the potential for a trade deal between the United States and Britain and there was a focus on getting it done this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-mnuchin/u-s-treasury-secretary-says-optimistic-about-u-s-uk-trade-deal-idUSS8N27T00M | 2020-01-26 |
| Fergusons team suggest as many as 4000 people in Wuhan were already infected by Jan | Negative | LONDON Each person infected with coronavirus is passing the disease on to between two and three other people on average at current transmission rates according to two separate scientific analyses of the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-transmission/coronavirus-contagion-rate-makes-it-hard-to-control-studies-idUSKBN1ZO0QW | 2020-01-26 |
| The 60yearold woman from Chicago had traveled to Wuhan in December and returned Jan | Positive | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed a second U.S. case of the new coronavirus from China in a Chicago woman and said as many as 63 potential cases were being investigated as the sometimes deadly illness continues to spread around the globe | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-health-officials-confirm-second-u-s-case-of-wuhan-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZN1WC | 2020-01-25 |
| LONDON Jan 24 The euro weakened to a sevenweek low on Friday as lacklustre PMI data added to the broader market conviction that European central bank policymakers will maintain a loose monetary policy for the near future | Negative | By Saikat Chatterjee | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-tumbles-to-7-week-lows-as-pmi-data-fails-to-excite-fx-bulls-idUSL8N29T2Y4 | 2020-01-25 |
| PARIS Jan 24 Telecoms and cable group Altice Europe which has been looking to reduce its debt burden has overhauled its capital structure to extend the maturity of its borrowings and cut costs | Negative | savings | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/altice-debt/update-1-altice-europe-overhauls-capital-structure-to-manage-debt-idUSL8N29T0YW | 2020-01-25 |
| Souza who had been provisionally suspended since March 2019 pending completion of the investigation was also fined following a disciplinary hearing in London on Jan | Negative | Brazilian Joao Souza has been banned from tennis for life after being convicted of multiple matchfixing and other corruption offences the Tennis Integrity Unit said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-tennis-brazil-souza/tennis-brazils-souza-gets-life-ban-for-match-fixing-idUSKBN1ZO07Q | 2020-01-25 |
| BERLIN Germanys private sector gained momentum in January as growth in services activity picked up and the pullback in manufacturing eased a survey showed on Friday suggesting Europes largest economy may be picking up at the start of 2020 | Positive | BERLIN Germanys private sector gained momentum in January as growth in services activity picked up and the pullback in manufacturing eased a survey showed on Friday suggesting Europes largest economy may be picking up at the start of 2020 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-germany-economy-pmi/growth-in-germanys-private-sector-picks-up-in-january-pmi-idUSKBN1ZN0Q5 | 2020-01-25 |
| The defendant had been scheduled to be released on Jan | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged a former Mexican federal police commander with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Mexican drug cartels to help them send cocaine into the United States in a case linked to imprisoned drug lord Joaquin El Guzman | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-corruption/u-s-charges-former-mexico-police-commander-in-el-chapo-linked-cocaine-probe-idUSKBN1ZN206 | 2020-01-25 |
| Britain will leave EU on Jan | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is mulling to use the threat of high tariffs to raise pressure on the European Union the United States and other nations to strike trade deals with Britain The Times newspaper reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-trade-usa/uk-to-use-high-tariff-threat-to-raise-pressure-in-trade-negotiations-the-times-idUSKBN1ZO01Y | 2020-01-25 |
| BEIJING Jan 24 Walt Disney Cos Shanghai Disney Resort will be closed until further notice to help China stop the spread of a flulike virus costing the theme park operator revenue during the countrys biggest holiday season | Negative | Reopening date has yet to be decided | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-disney/update-3-shanghai-disney-shuts-to-prevent-spread-of-virus-idUSL4N29T17W | 2020-01-25 |
| The unchanged reading for the euro zones Composite PMI in January leaves it still consistent with fairly slow GDP said Jack AllenReynolds at Capital Economics | Negative | LONDON Euro zone business activity remained lacklustre at the start of the year a survey showed a day after the European Central Bank said the manufacturing sector remained a drag on the economy but there were some glimmers of hope for policymakers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-pmi/euro-zone-economy-remains-weak-but-green-shoots-emerging-pmis-idUSKBN1ZN0T8 | 2020-01-25 |
| NEW YORK Jan 24 Speculators snapped a sixweek streak to add to their net long bets on the U.S. dollar in the latest week according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday | Positive | NEW YORK Jan 24 Speculators snapped a sixweek streak to add to their net long bets on the U.S. dollar in the latest week according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/cftc-forex/speculators-add-to-long-bets-on-u-s-dollar-cftc-reuters-idUSL1N29T12Y | 2020-01-25 |
| BEIJING China has confirmed 1287 cases of patients infected with the new coronavirus as of Jan | Negative | BEIJING China has confirmed 1287 cases of patients infected with the new coronavirus as of Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-toll/china-confirms-1287-coronavirus-cases-with-41-deaths-idUSKBN1ZO017 | 2020-01-25 |
| LONDON Jan 24 The cost of insuring exposure to Chinas sovereign debt remained at its highest level in six weeks on Friday amid rising concern over the spread of a virus that has killed 25 people and infected more than 800 in the country | Negative | LONDON Jan 24 The cost of insuring exposure to Chinas sovereign debt remained at its highest level in six weeks on Friday amid rising concern over the spread of a virus that has killed 25 people and infected more than 800 in the country | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-markets-cds/china-cds-stuck-at-6-week-high-on-virus-threat-idUSS8N26L03Z | 2020-01-25 |
| yearonyear when it releases results on Jan | Positive | New York Wall Street is betting that the most popular U.S. technology and internet stocks can keep outshining the broader equities market but their latest rally leaves little room for error this earnings season | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead/wall-street-week-ahead-hopes-are-high-for-tech-stock-cadillacs-so-are-their-prices-idUSKBN1ZN24H | 2020-01-25 |
| PARIS Jan 24 Telecoms and cable group Altice Europe which has been looking to reduce its debt burdens said on Friday that it had simplified its capital structure | Positive | PARIS Jan 24 Telecoms and cable group Altice Europe which has been looking to reduce its debt burdens said on Friday that it had simplified its capital structure | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/altice-debt/altice-europe-simplifies-its-capital-structure-idUSASN000289 | 2020-01-25 |
| As a doubles player he achieved his highest ranking of 70 in January 2013 | Positive | Brazilian Joao Souza has been banned from tennis for life after being convicted of multiple matchfixing and other corruption offences the Tennis Integrity Unit said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-tennis-brazil-souza/tennis-brazils-souza-gets-life-ban-for-match-fixing-idUSKBN1ZO07Q | 2020-01-25 |
| Hubei has confirmed 729 cases of the new coronavirus with 39 deaths as of Jan 24 the provincial health authorities said | Negative | BEIJING Chinas Haikou city capital of the southern island province of Hainan will start a 14day centralized medical observation for tourists from the central Hubei province center of the coronavirus outbreak from Saturday at noon the Haikou government said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-haikou/chinas-haikou-city-to-start-14-day-medical-observation-for-tourists-from-hubei-idUSKBN1ZO02S | 2020-01-25 |
| NEW YORK Jan 24 U.S. shares and crude prices dropped on Friday and 10year U.S. treasury yields fell to their lowest point in about three months amid concerns that a spreading virus from China would curb travel and hurt economic demand | Negative | European shares jump as positive PMI paints rosier picture | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-u-s-shares-oil-prices-slump-as-china-virus-fears-spread-idUSL1N29T0S9 | 2020-01-25 |
| The airport in Wuhan the epicenter of the virus was closed on Jan | Negative | KATHMANDU A Nepali student home from China tested positive for the new coronavirus an official in Kathmandu said on Friday making it the first confirmed case in the Himalayan nation | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-nepal/nepal-confirms-first-case-of-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZN1S2 | 2020-01-25 |
| Jan 24 Emerging market assets stabilised on Friday as investors took comfort from the World Health Organization confining an announcement of a coronavirus emergency to China but were still set to end the week lower for the first time in more than a month | Negative | EM stocks FX indexes to log first weekly fall in eight | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-assets-stable-still-set-for-first-weekly-decline-in-more-than-a-month-idUSL8N29T1Z4 | 2020-01-25 |
| World Athletics expects to announce the findings of a review into technology used in road and track shoes by the end of January | Neutral | LONDON Athletics ruling body will tighten regulations governing shoe technology two sources familiar with the matter said after Nikes popular Vaporfly brand helped rewrite running records and sparked debate about whether it was technological doping | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-shoe/athletics-body-to-tighten-rules-after-nikes-vaporfly-helps-records-tumble-sources-idUSKBN1ZN0MJ | 2020-01-25 |
| Jan 24 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is mulling to use the threat of high tariffs to raise pressure on the European Union the United States and other nations to strike trade deals with Britain The Times newspaper reported on Saturday | Negative | Jan 24 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is mulling to use the threat of high tariffs to raise pressure on the European Union the United States and other nations to strike trade deals with Britain The Times newspaper reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-eu-trade-usa/uk-to-use-high-tariff-threat-to-raise-pressure-in-trade-negotiations-the-times-idUSFWN29T0VT | 2020-01-25 |
| BEIJING Shanghai has shut down all cinemas during the Lunar New Year holidays which last until Jan | Neutral | BEIJING Shanghai has shut down all cinemas during the Lunar New Year holidays which last until Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-film/shanghai-shuts-down-all-cinemas-during-lunar-new-year-holidays-local-paper-idUSKBN1ZO05E | 2020-01-25 |
| NEW YORK Jan 24 The dollar rose to a near eightweek high against the euro on Friday as lukewarm European PMI data added to the broader market conviction that European central bank policymakers will maintain a loose monetary policy for the near future | Negative | Euro zone economy remains weak but green shoots emerging PMIs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-rises-vs-euro-as-european-pmi-data-fails-to-impress-idUSL8N29T475 | 2020-01-25 |
| Bombardier has seen its share price plunge since the start of the year after it flagged a 2019 profit warning on Jan | Negative | Bombardier | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-bombardier-railway-m-a/bombardier-scrambles-to-craft-rail-merger-with-alstom-hitachi-sources-idUSKBN1ZN24Z | 2020-01-25 |
| Steyer did surprise observers by qualifying for the January presidential debate in Iowa and his money may allow him to stay in the race longer than other fringe candidates | Positive | February kicks off the presidential nominating contest for both the Democratic and Republican parties | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-2020-candidates-factbox/12-democrats-still-in-u-s-presidential-race-days-before-iowa-caucuses-idUSKBN1ZN278 | 2020-01-25 |
| Sources previously told Reuters that the Russian Energy Ministry which oversees oil export quotas had granted the two companies permission to export 750000 tonnes in the JanuaryMarch period | Positive | Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday proposed a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to resolve a row over oil supplies Belarus state news agency Belta said with Moscows exports to Minsk set to dry up next month | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-oil-russia/lukashenko-asks-to-meet-putin-with-russian-oil-supplies-to-belarus-set-to-dry-up-idUSKBN1ZN1H0 | 2020-01-25 |
| Jan 24 Fitch Ratings on Friday upgraded Greeces credit rating to from saying that GDP growth and fiscal prudence were leading to government debt remaining at sustainable levels | Positive | Jan 24 Fitch Ratings on Friday upgraded Greeces credit rating to from saying that GDP growth and fiscal prudence were leading to government debt remaining at sustainable levels | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/greece-ratings-fitch/fitch-upgrades-greece-credit-rating-on-improving-debt-situation-idUSL4N29T2ZL | 2020-01-25 |
| LONDON Jan 24 European shares on Friday were set to post their first daily gain this week on signs of a recovery ahead for growth with easing worries over the coronavirus outbreak in China also emboldening investors | Positive | European shares gain 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-european-stocks-climb-as-economic-data-fuels-growth-hopes-idUSL8N29T1Z8 | 2020-01-25 |
| There were 1287 confirmed cases and 41 people had died in China as of Jan | Negative | An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has killed 41 people and infected more than 1300 globally | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-virus-factbox/factbox-the-latest-on-the-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN1ZO00Y | 2020-01-25 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 24 An audio recording appeared to capture U.S. President Donald Trump calling in 2018 for the firing of the then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine a main figure in the series of events that led to his impeachment ABC News reported on Friday | Negative | Parnas sends digital recording to Congress Trump comments paragraphs | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/usa-trump-impeachment-tape/update-1-take-her-out-recording-appears-to-have-trump-calling-for-ambassadors-ouster-abc-news-idUSL1N29U01J | 2020-01-25 |
| Jan 24 The U.S. television audience for Democrats arguments that President Donald Trump should be impeached declined on Thursday to roughly 7 | Negative | Jan 24 The U.S. television audience for Democrats arguments that President Donald Trump should be impeached declined on Thursday to roughly 7 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-impeachment-ratings/trump-impeachment-trials-u-s-tv-audience-slips-during-democrats-arguments-nielsen-idUSL1N29T188 | 2020-01-25 |
| On a daily basis combined Urals loadings from Primorsk and UstLuga ports are set to rise by in February 115 compared to the same period of January Reuters calculations show | Neutral | MOSCOW Russia plans to increase Urals crude oil loadings from its Baltic ports to 3 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-exports/urals-crude-oil-loadings-from-russias-baltic-ports-up-14-in-first-half-of-february-plan-idUSKBN1ZN1NV | 2020-01-25 |
| Jan 24 European shares gained on Friday as the World Health Organization stopped short of calling the virus outbreak in China a global emergency with focus turning to flash PMI readings from major economies in the region | Negative | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-climb-ahead-of-pmi-readings-idUSL4N29T1JO | 2020-01-25 |
| Poland will host its own ceremony at the AuschwitzBirkenau Memorial and Museum on Jan | Positive | JERUSALEM World leaders voiced alarm at resurgent antiSemitism on Thursday as they gathered at Israels national Holocaust Memorial to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/world-leaders-at-jerusalem-conference-condemn-rising-anti-semitism-idUSKBN1ZM0H5 | 2020-01-24 |
| NEW YORK Jan 23 The dollar rose against the euro on Thursday after the European Central Bank left unchanged its key interest rates and stimulus programs and launched a broad review of its policy that was likely to see new President Christine Lagarde redefine the ECBs main goal and how to achieve it | Positive | ECB launches review that will redefine its mission and tools | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-gains-vs-euro-as-ecb-holds-policy-steady-launches-review-idUSL8N29S4JA | 2020-01-24 |
| Jan 24 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | Neutral | Jan 24 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N29S70R | 2020-01-24 |
| STMicros results came on the back of a good performance by bigger rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co which forecast a rise of up to in JanuaryMarch revenue earlier this month | Positive | FrancoItalian chipmaker STMicroelectronics would still reach its midterm revenue target in the event of a ban of Huawei telecoms components in Europe its chief executive said after the group published betterthanexpected earnings on growing demand for its nextgeneration products | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-stmicroelectronics-results/stmicro-ceo-says-a-huawei-ban-would-not-threaten-12-billion-revenue-target-idUSKBN1ZM12Z | 2020-01-24 |
| TOKYO Jan 24 Most Japanese government bonds were little changed on Friday as investors stayed away from taking new positions while monitoring the outbreak of a flulike virus in China | Negative | TOKYO Jan 24 Most Japanese government bonds were little changed on Friday as investors stayed away from taking new positions while monitoring the outbreak of a flulike virus in China | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-bonds/jgbs-little-changed-as-investors-take-stock-of-china-virus-idUSL4N29T0UW | 2020-01-24 |
| BEIJING Jan 24 The Shanghai government said Shanghai Disneyland will be closed from Saturday to help prevent the spread of a deadly virus that broke out in the Chinese city Wuhan | Negative | BEIJING Jan 24 The Shanghai government said Shanghai Disneyland will be closed from Saturday to help prevent the spread of a deadly virus that broke out in the Chinese city Wuhan | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-disney/shanghai-disney-to-be-closed-from-saturday-to-help-prevent-spread-of-virus-idUSB9N29F02H | 2020-01-24 |
| Hubei has confirmed 549 cases of the new coronavirus with 24 death as of Jan 23 the provincial health authorities said | Negative | BEIJING A total of 10 cities in Chinas central Hubei province have suspended some public transportation over the coronavirus outbreak the Hubei Daily reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/ten-cities-in-chinas-hubei-province-suspend-some-public-transportation-idUSKBN1ZN08J | 2020-01-24 |
| Lower for longer is fast becoming lower said Jan Lambregts head of global economics and markets at Rabobank | Negative | BENGALURU A significant global upturn will remain elusive this year as many economies still face an array of daunting risks despite improved sentiment from an initial U.S.China trade deal and ebullience in financial markets Reuters polls showed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-global-economy-poll/global-economy-snapback-to-prove-elusive-despite-market-joy-reuters-polls-idUSKBN1ZN00H | 2020-01-24 |
| TOKYO Jan 24 Japanese shares gave up early gains on Friday to trade little changed as fears over a rising death toll from the new coronavirus in China outweighed hopes of an improvement in earnings of technology companies | Negative | TOKYO Jan 24 Japanese shares gave up early gains on Friday to trade little changed as fears over a rising death toll from the new coronavirus in China outweighed hopes of an improvement in earnings of technology companies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/japan-stocks-erase-gains-as-china-virus-fears-offset-tech-earnings-hopes-idUSL4N29T00Q | 2020-01-24 |
| local time on Friday will be closely watched for any clues on the BoEs next policy decision on Jan | Neutral | TOKYO The euro hovered near a sevenweek low against the dollar on Friday after the European Central Bank was seen as more cautious than expected while anxiety over Chinas coronavirus outbreak propped up the safehaven yen | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-forex/euro-near-seven-week-low-after-ecb-china-virus-worries-linger-idUSKBN1ZN03B | 2020-01-24 |
| Jan 23 German publisher Axel Springer SE on Thursday said it planned to delist from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and that U.S. private equity investor KKR will offer 63 euros per share in cash to the company | Positive | Jan 23 German publisher Axel Springer SE on Thursday said it planned to delist from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and that U.S. private equity investor KKR will offer 63 euros per share in cash to the company | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/axel-sprngr-ma-kkr/axel-springer-plans-delisting-from-exchange-idUSL1N29S1RZ | 2020-01-24 |
| Last weeks claims data covered the period during which the government surveyed business establishments for the nonfarm payrolls component of Januarys employment report | Neutral | WASHINGTON The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits increased less than expected last week suggesting the labor market continues to tighten even as job growth is slowing | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-rise-modestly-labor-market-tight-idUSKBN1ZM1YW | 2020-01-24 |
| The Justice Department has not concluded whether its prior surveillance of Page was justified he wrote in an opinion dated Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department has told a court it did not have enough evidence to justify continued surveillance of one of President Donald Trumps former campaign advisers in 2017 in a sign it believes the FBI on occasion went too far when it investigated Russian influence in the 2016 election | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/justice-department-says-it-should-not-have-continued-spying-on-former-trump-adviser-idUSKBN1ZM34W | 2020-01-24 |
| SINGAPORE Jan 24 Oil prices were steady on Friday but on track for a fall of up to for the week on growing concern that fuel demand will weaken as the spread of a respiratory virus from China that has killed 25 so far dents travel and darkens the economic outlook | Negative | SINGAPORE Jan 24 Oil prices were steady on Friday but on track for a fall of up to for the week on growing concern that fuel demand will weaken as the spread of a respiratory virus from China that has killed 25 so far dents travel and darkens the economic outlook | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-oil/oil-steadies-but-concern-over-spreading-china-virus-weighs-idUSL4N29T0DG | 2020-01-24 |
| Asked about invoking executive privilege if Bolton were to be subpoenaed Trump told Laura Ingraham of Fox News on Jan I think you have to for the sake of the office | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump would have a tough time blocking John Boltons testimony in his U.S. Senate impeachment trial by invoking the legal doctrine called executive privilege if his former national security adviser is subpoenaed as a witness according to legal experts | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-bolton-analysis/trump-will-have-hard-time-blocking-potential-bolton-trial-testimony-idUSKBN1ZM1PA | 2020-01-24 |
| JERUSALEM Jan 23 Germany has still not learned once and for its lesson from the Holocaust German President FrankWalter Steinmeier said on Thursday as he expressed sorrow for his countrys role in the murder of six million Jews during World War Two | Negative | JERUSALEM Jan 23 Germany has still not learned once and for its lesson from the Holocaust German President FrankWalter Steinmeier said on Thursday as he expressed sorrow for his countrys role in the murder of six million Jews during World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/holocaust-memorial-auschwitz-germany/germany-still-dealing-with-same-evil-that-led-to-holocaust-president-says-in-jerusalem-idUSL8N29S5DP | 2020-01-24 |
| TOKYO Jan 24 Japanese shares ended slightly higher on Friday in a seesaw session as worries about the spread of a new virus in China played tugofwar with bets that the health crisis will boost drug makers earnings | Negative | TOKYO Jan 24 Japanese shares ended slightly higher on Friday in a seesaw session as worries about the spread of a new virus in China played tugofwar with bets that the health crisis will boost drug makers earnings | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-closer/japan-shares-end-higher-as-traders-assess-china-virus-spread-bet-on-drugmakers-idUSL4N29T0UB | 2020-01-24 |
| The next hearing for bail applications will be Jan | Neutral | ABUJA Nigerias financial crime watchdog charged former attorney general Mohammed Adoke in court on Thursday for allegedly receiving bribes to facilitate a | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-oil/nigeria-charges-ex-attorney-general-in-court-over-1-3-billion-oil-deal-idUSKBN1ZM2QN | 2020-01-24 |
| TOKYO Jan 24 Stocks made a barely positive start in early Asian trade on Friday after the worlds health body called it a little too early to declare a coronavirus outbreak a global emergency | Negative | Too early to declare China virus a global health emergency WHO | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-steady-as-caution-on-china-virus-continues-euro-hits-7-week-low-after-ecb-idUSL4N29T053 | 2020-01-24 |
| January 21 story corrects reference to Copa being the only Latin American airline with a 737 MAX simulator clarifies 245 refers to 737 MAX pilots not total pilots in paragraph | Neutral | January 21 story corrects reference to Copa being the only Latin American airline with a 737 MAX simulator clarifies 245 refers to 737 MAX pilots not total pilots in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-boeing-737max-training/airlines-scour-the-world-for-scarce-737-max-simulators-idUSKBN1ZL0EH | 2020-01-24 |
| LONDON Jan 23 Three separate research teams backed by a global coalition set up to fight epidemic diseases are to start work on developing potential vaccines against the new coronavirus that has caused a disease outbreak in China | Negative | LONDON Jan 23 Three separate research teams backed by a global coalition set up to fight epidemic diseases are to start work on developing potential vaccines against the new coronavirus that has caused a disease outbreak in China | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-virus-vaccines/work-to-start-on-three-possible-china-virus-vaccines-epidemic-response-group-idUSKBN1ZM21P | 2020-01-24 |
| BEIJING Jan 24 Chinas central bank said on Friday it would temporarily raise the limit on small bank batch payments to 500 million yuan | Negative | BEIJING Jan 24 Chinas central bank said on Friday it would temporarily raise the limit on small bank batch payments to 500 million yuan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health-cenbank/china-c-bank-raises-limit-on-small-bank-payments-amid-virus-outbreak-idUSB9N29F02F | 2020-01-24 |
| SYDNEY Jan 23 Australian authorities have lost contact with a large air tanker fighting bush fires in alpine areas of the southeastern state of New South Wales they said on Thursday | Negative | SYDNEY Jan 23 Australian authorities have lost contact with a large air tanker fighting bush fires in alpine areas of the southeastern state of New South Wales they said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/australia-bushfires-airtanker/australia-authorities-lose-contact-with-air-tanker-fighting-fires-idUSS9N28T00D | 2020-01-23 |
| They have also stepped up monitoring and disinfection efforts ahead of the Lunar New Year break that starts on Jan | Negative | An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has killed 17 and infected nearly 600 people globally | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-virus-factbox/what-we-know-about-the-new-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN1ZM0C7 | 2020-01-23 |
| NEW YORK Jan 22 The U.S. dollar edged lower on Wednesday and the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc slipped amid muted demand for safe haven units as updates from China about the spread of a new flulike coronavirus raised hopes the outbreak would be contained | Negative | Investors shake off China virus worries | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-safe-haven-currencies-slip-as-china-virus-worries-ebb-idUSL8N29R4D8 | 2020-01-23 |
| TAIPEI Taiwans China Airlines on Thursday said it would suspend flights to the central Chinese city of Wuhan from Jan | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans China Airlines on Thursday said it would suspend flights to the central Chinese city of Wuhan from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-china-airlines/taiwans-china-airlines-suspends-flights-to-wuhan-idUSKBN1ZM0FT | 2020-01-23 |
| BEIRUT Jan 22 After three months of political paralysis Lebanon has finally formed a government under Prime Minister Hassan Diab | Positive | with amended no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-economy/explainer-can-lebanons-new-government-revive-the-economy-idUSL8N29R50B | 2020-01-23 |
| Tesla is set to report its earnings on Jan | Neutral | Tesla Inc shares surged on Wednesday and the company became the first publicly listed U.S. automaker to cross billion in market valuation more than Ford Motor Co and General Motors Co combined | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-tesla-stocks/teslas-furious-rally-pushes-market-value-past-100-billion-idUSKBN1ZL24Z | 2020-01-23 |
| DAVOS Switzerland Jan 22 U.S. President Donald Trump said he doesnt think climate change is a hoax and would have loved to have seen Greta Thunberg speak while he was at Davos | Positive | last paragraph to other more polluted not dirtier | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/davos-meeting-trump-thunberg/corrected-davos-trump-says-he-would-have-loved-to-have-seen-greta-thunberg-speak-idUSL8N29R41Q | 2020-01-23 |
| Jan 23 The following are the top stories in the Financial Times | Positive | Jan 23 The following are the top stories in the Financial Times | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-press-ft/press-digest-financial-times-jan-23-idUSL4N29S0A8 | 2020-01-23 |
| Shares in Cathay have fallen by since the start of January as the virus spread | Negative | SYDNEY Hong Kongs Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-cathay-pacific/cathay-to-let-crew-wear-masks-on-all-flights-due-to-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZL019 | 2020-01-23 |
| Jan 22 Google researchers have found multiple security flaws in Apple Incs Safari web browser that allowed the tracking of users browsing behavior Financial Times reported | Positive | Jan 22 Google researchers have found multiple security flaws in Apple Incs Safari web browser that allowed the tracking of users browsing behavior Financial Times reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/apple-privacy-google/google-finds-security-flaws-in-apples-web-browser-ft-idUSL4N29R45Q | 2020-01-23 |
| Prices have rocketed to an ounce from at the start of January ten times their level through the mid2010s and within a whisker of an alltime high of in 2008 | Neutral | LONDON A rally in rhodium a precious metal used to reduce vehicle emissions has exploded into high gear with surging demand and an uncertain supply outlook pushing prices up in just three weeks to near record highs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-precious-rhodium-graphic/rhodium-rally-goes-supersonic-as-auto-makers-clamor-for-supplies-idUSKBN1ZL1TL | 2020-01-23 |
| Wednesday evenings concert was the second show the star has canceled since kicking off her European tour in Lisbon on Jan | Negative | LISBON Pop legend Madonna has canceled another show in Portugals capital Lisbon the city that inspired her newest album Madame X as she struggles to cope with pain from ongoing her tour promoter said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-madonna-portugal/dont-cry-for-me-portugal-injured-madonna-cancels-second-show-in-lisbon-idUSKBN1ZL2JI | 2020-01-23 |
| UK parliament cleared the withdrawal agreement bill that will allow UK to leave the EU on January 31 and the legislation could receive royal assent as early as Thursday | Positive | Jan 23 The following are the top stories in the Financial Times | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-press-ft/press-digest-financial-times-jan-23-idUSL4N29S0A8 | 2020-01-23 |
| Chinese authorities have stepped up monitoring and disinfection efforts ahead of the Lunar New Year break that starts on Jan | Negative | At least nine people have died from a new coronavirus in China following an outbreak in the city of Wuhan and more than 470 cases have been reported globally most in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-factbox/factbox-what-we-know-about-the-new-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN1ZJ039 | 2020-01-23 |
| DAVOS Switzerland Jan 22 Just before he departed the slopes of Davos U.S. President Donald Trump had some final words for Greta Thunberg saying he would have loved to have seen her speak at the World Economic Forum | Positive | further quotes from Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/davos-meeting-trump-thunberg/davos-trump-has-parting-words-for-the-star-of-davos-greta-thunberg-idUSL1N29R0FI | 2020-01-23 |
| HONG KONG Jan 23 Hong Kong rail operator MTR Corp Ltd said on Thursday it would suspend sales of high speed tickets to and from Chinas Wuhan city the source of an outbreak of a new flulike virus | Negative | HONG KONG Jan 23 Hong Kong rail operator MTR Corp Ltd said on Thursday it would suspend sales of high speed tickets to and from Chinas Wuhan city the source of an outbreak of a new flulike virus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/hongkong-health-mtrcorp/hong-kong-rail-operator-to-suspend-some-ticket-sales-to-chinas-wuhan-idUSH9N27D03S | 2020-01-23 |
| Jan 22 European shares bounced back on Wednesday as Chinas efforts to contain a coronavirus outbreak eased worries of a global pandemic while the tradesensitive German shares hit record levels | Negative | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-rebound-german-stocks-climb-to-record-high-idUSL4N29R2AE | 2020-01-23 |
| He has been in solitary confinement following his Jan | Neutral | NEW YORK A U.S. judge on Wednesday said federal prosecutors may not try to show that Michael Avenattis heavy debts gave him a motive to extort Nike Inc giving a victory to the celebrity lawyer as he prepares for his upcoming criminal trial | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/judge-excludes-trump-critic-avenattis-financial-strains-from-nike-extortion-trial-idUSKBN1ZL2O4 | 2020-01-23 |
| when it meets Jan | Positive | BENGALURU The initial trade deal between Washington and Beijing is unlikely to provide a significant boost to the U.S. economy and will only reduce the downside risk or at best help activity moderately a Reuters poll showed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy-poll/u-s-economy-to-coast-no-big-boost-expected-from-trade-deal-reuters-poll-idUSKBN1ZM00Q | 2020-01-23 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 22 UN experts said on Wednesday that they had information pointing to the possible of Saudi Arabias crown prince in the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos phone in 2018 | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 22 UN experts said on Wednesday that they had information pointing to the possible of Saudi Arabias crown prince in the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos phone in 2018 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-bezos-saudi-un/saudi-prince-had-possible-involvement-in-hacking-of-bezos-phone-un-experts-idUSL1N29R0KF | 2020-01-23 |
| TAIPEI Jan 23 Taiwans China Airlines on Thursday said it would suspend flights to the central Chinese city of Wuhan from Jan | Negative | TAIPEI Jan 23 Taiwans China Airlines on Thursday said it would suspend flights to the central Chinese city of Wuhan from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-china-airlines/taiwans-china-airlines-suspends-flights-to-wuhan-idUSB9N28C01Z | 2020-01-23 |
| The Constitution Court is expected to announce its ruling between Jan | Neutral | BLANTYRE A prominent Malawi banker has been arrested in connection with a suspected attempt to bribe a panel of five judges presiding over the countrys presidential election voterigging case the AntiCorruption Bureau said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-malawi-corruption-election/prominent-malawi-banker-arrested-for-suspected-attempted-bribery-in-rigged-poll-case-idUSKBN1ZL2P4 | 2020-01-23 |
| TOKYO Jan 23 Asian shares and U.S. stock futures edged lower on Thursday as investors remained anxious about the spread of a new flulike virus in China just as millions prepared to travel for the Lunar New Year | Negative | Risk assets off to weak start in Asia | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-stocks-fall-safe-havens-up-as-china-virus-fears-grow-idUSL4N29R53K | 2020-01-23 |
| Jan 22 Opening statements begin on Wednesday in the rape trial in New York of Harvey Weinstein once one of Hollywoods most powerful producers | Negative | line about accusers | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-harvey-weinstein/update-1-explainer-what-to-expect-at-harvey-weinsteins-rape-trial-idUSL1N29R0GQ | 2020-01-23 |
| The United States struck a Phase 1 trade deal with China in January soothing some of the worries which have hampered the world economy in recent time | Positive | DAVOS Switzerland U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to impose high tariffs on imports of cars from the European Union if the bloc doesnt agree to a trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-davos-meeting-trump-trade/trump-threatens-big-tariffs-on-car-imports-from-eu-idUSKBN1ZL1GK | 2020-01-23 |
| In the city itself officials have been using infrared thermometers to screen passengers at airports railway stations and other passenger terminals since Jan | Neutral | BEIJING The toll from the Wuhan coronavirus in China rose to six deaths on Tuesday and the first case was reported in the United States sending markets tumbling on fears of economic damage as tourists canceled travel plans and airports stepped up screening | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-deaths/china-virus-spreads-to-u-s-curbing-travel-plans-and-spooking-markets-idUSKBN1ZJ2D2 | 2020-01-22 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 21 U.S. President Donald Trump will attend a breakfast meeting on Wednesday with Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook and other business leaders on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland according to sources familiar with the situation | Positive | meeting time to Wednesday breakfast from Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/davos-meeting-trump-apple/davos-trump-to-break-bread-with-apples-cook-and-other-ceos-sources-idUSL1N29Q10J | 2020-01-22 |
| SINGAPORE Jan 22 Singapore authorities on Wednesday started screening all passengers arriving on flights from China as the citystate stepped up measures to combat transmission of the fastspreading flulike coronavirus | Negative | SINGAPORE Jan 22 Singapore authorities on Wednesday started screening all passengers arriving on flights from China as the citystate stepped up measures to combat transmission of the fastspreading flulike coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-singapore/singapore-extends-coronavirus-screening-to-all-inbound-china-flights-idUSL8N29R0NR | 2020-01-22 |
| Trudeau said his minority Liberal government would unveil legislation on Jan | Neutral | WINNIPEG Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday urged legislators to quickly approve a new continental trade pact but the main opposition party said it wanted to study the deal indicating the ratification process could drag on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-usmca-canada/trudeau-wants-usmca-deal-ratified-quickly-opposition-says-not-so-fast-idUSKBN1ZK21C | 2020-01-22 |
| BEIRUT Jan 22 Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it rescue the country from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday hours after he was named | Positive | BEIRUT Jan 22 Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it rescue the country from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday hours after he was named | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-government-financeministe/lebanon-needs-foreign-support-decision-on-eurobond-minister-idUSB1N27H008 | 2020-01-22 |
| The CDC said it has screened more than 1200 passengers since Jan | Neutral | A Washington state man who recently traveled to China has been diagnosed with the coronavirus becoming the first confirmed U.S. case of the newly identified illness that has killed six people in China and sickened some 300 others across Asia | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/washington-state-man-who-traveled-to-china-is-first-u-s-victim-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZK2FF | 2020-01-22 |
| BEIJING Jan 22 About twothirds of Chinas provinces regions and municipalities have cut their 2020 growth targets from last year despite easing trade tensions with the United States | Negative | BEIJING Jan 22 About twothirds of Chinas provinces regions and municipalities have cut their 2020 growth targets from last year despite easing trade tensions with the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-gdp-provinces/many-of-chinas-provinces-cut-2020-gdp-growth-targets-despite-easing-trade-tension-idUSKBN1ZL0EA | 2020-01-22 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 21 U.S. President Donald Trump is attending a dinner on Tuesday with Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook and other CEOs on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland according to a source familiar with the situation | Positive | WASHINGTON Jan 21 U.S. President Donald Trump is attending a dinner on Tuesday with Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook and other CEOs on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland according to a source familiar with the situation | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/davos-meeting-trump-apple/davos-trump-attending-dinner-with-apples-cook-and-other-ceos-source-idUSL1N29Q0RW | 2020-01-22 |
| Jan 22 The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on | Neutral | Jan 22 The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/germany-stocks-factors/german-stocks-factors-to-watch-on-january-22-idUSL8N29Q3TO | 2020-01-22 |
| The U.S. traveler from Washington state had returned on Jan | Neutral | A Washington state man who recently traveled to China has been diagnosed with the coronavirus becoming the first confirmed U.S. case of the newly identified illness that has killed six people in China and sickened some 300 others across Asia | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/washington-state-man-who-traveled-to-china-is-first-u-s-victim-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZK2FF | 2020-01-22 |
| Janetti will write and executive produce The Prince | Positive | NEW YORK Animated versions of Britains Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle will have supporting roles in a British royal family satire that will make its debut on Incs HBO Max streaming video service the company said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-royals-television/animated-british-royal-comedy-the-prince-to-make-debut-on-hbo-max-idUSKBN1ZK2W1 | 2020-01-22 |
| Shares in Cathay have fallen by since the start of January as the virus has spread | Negative | SYDNEY Hong Kongs Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will allow cabin crew to wear a surgical mask while operating mainland China flights due to concerns over a new coronavirus and passengers to Wuhan to change or cancel flights without charge through Feb | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-cathay-pacific/cathay-says-cabin-crew-can-wear-masks-on-mainland-china-flights-due-to-virus-idUSKBN1ZL019 | 2020-01-22 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 21 Hillary Clinton criticized the campaign of her former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in a new documentary in which she says he was an ineffective U.S. senator who accomplished little because nobody liked him | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 21 Hillary Clinton criticized the campaign of her former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in a new documentary in which she says he was an ineffective U.S. senator who accomplished little because nobody liked him | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-clinton/nobody-likes-him-hillary-clinton-bashes-bernie-sanders-idUSL1N29Q0LM | 2020-01-22 |
| TOKYO Jan 22 Japanese government bond prices were little changed on Wednesday as investors were assessing the developments surrounding the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China | Negative | TOKYO Jan 22 Japanese government bond prices were little changed on Wednesday as investors were assessing the developments surrounding the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-bonds/jgbs-little-changed-amid-china-virus-fears-idUSL4N29R1IA | 2020-01-22 |
| The national statistics institute will publish inflation figures for the first half of January on Thursday | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexican annual inflation likely accelerated in the first half of January a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-inflation/mexico-inflation-likely-inched-up-in-early-january-reuters-poll-idUSKBN1ZK2A3 | 2020-01-22 |
| story corrects Janettis show credits to producer not creator of Family and Will in paragraph | Positive | NEW YORK Animated versions of Britains Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle will have supporting roles in a British royal family satire that will make its debut on Incs HBO Max streaming video service the company said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-royals-television/animated-british-royal-comedy-the-prince-to-make-debut-on-hbo-max-idUSKBN1ZK2W1 | 2020-01-22 |
| Gunnarsson said TRU Flight Training Iceland had more inquiries than usual from potential airline customers about the use of its 737 MAX simulator since Boeings Jan | Positive | Airlines are scrambling to book time in 737 MAX training facilities as far afield as Fiji Iceland and Panama operators said after Boeing Co recommended pilots be trained in one of the few simulators replicating the latest model | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-boeing-737max-training/airlines-scour-the-world-for-scarce-737-max-simulators-idUSKBN1ZL0EH | 2020-01-22 |
| TOKYO Jan 22 The yen was supported while the yuan was on the back foot on Wednesday as investors tried to assess the risk of the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China disrupting the countrys economy and trade partners | Negative | the Australian dollars milestone to sixweek lows not 10week lows in fifth | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/corrected-forex-yen-supported-yuan-frail-on-coronavirus-concerns-idUSL4N29R03U | 2020-01-22 |
| The IOC however chose not to ban all Russian athletes from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after a WADAcommissioned report revealed a statebacked doping programme across many sports | Positive | MOSCOW Oleg Matytsin the president of the International University Sports Federation was named Russias new sports minister in a government reshuffle on Tuesday as the country finds itself embroiled in a doping scandal that has seen it in barred from this years Olympics | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-government-matytsin/russia-names-new-sports-minister-in-government-reshuffle-idUSKBN1ZK2CO | 2020-01-22 |
| TAIPEI Jan 22 Terry Gou the billionaire founder of Apple supplier Foxconn said on Wednesday he was advising company employees not to visit China over the coming Lunar New Year holiday amid concerns over a new coronavirus | Negative | TAIPEI Jan 22 Terry Gou the billionaire founder of Apple supplier Foxconn said on Wednesday he was advising company employees not to visit China over the coming Lunar New Year holiday amid concerns over a new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-taiwan-hon-hai/foxconns-gou-advises-employees-not-to-visit-china-over-holiday-idUSL4N29R0OB | 2020-01-22 |
| Lake Forest Illinoisbased Reynolds is likely to price its IPO on Jan | Neutral | NEW YORK Reynolds Consumer Products said on Tuesday it is looking to raise up to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-reynolds-consume-ipo/reynolds-consumer-tees-up-first-1-billion-plus-u-s-ipo-of-2020-idUSKBN1ZK2GK | 2020-01-22 |
| The Senate trial is expected to continue six days a week Monday through Saturday until at least the end of January | Negative | WASHINGTON The Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate blocked Democratic attempts on Tuesday to obtain evidence and call a witness in President Donald Trumps impeachment trial an early sign the proceeding could advance on lines favorable to Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/senate-rejects-democrats-on-documents-witness-in-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZK0Y0 | 2020-01-22 |
| BEIRUT Jan 22 Lebanons new government needs foreign support to help it get out of an unprecedented economic and financial crisis the finance minister said on Wednesday | Negative | quotes details | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-government-financeministe/update-1-lebanon-needs-foreign-support-decision-on-eurobond-finance-minister-idUSL8N29Q6TL | 2020-01-22 |
| SYDNEY Jan 21 Asian shares took a sudden lurch lower on Tuesday as mounting concerns about a new strain of pneumonia in China sent a ripple of risk aversion through markets | Negative | Nikkei and 500 futures slip on safehaven shift | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-lurch-lower-china-flu-risks-mount-idUSL4N29Q0KM | 2020-01-21 |
| Concerns about trade wars and Brexit have ebbed but U.S.Iranian tensions have flared up briefly triggering a surge in oil prices in January | Negative | LONDON The European Central Banks first meeting of the year is set to bring the formal launch of a strategy review most likely including a rethink of an inflation goal the bank has failed to meet since 2013 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-markets-ecb/ready-steady-review-five-questions-for-the-ecb-idUSKBN1ZJ0LA | 2020-01-21 |
| LONDON Jan 20 Sean Bratches one of Formula Ones top bosses as managing director of commercial operations is to step down at the end of January after three years in the position the sport announced on Monday | Positive | LONDON Jan 20 Sean Bratches one of Formula Ones top bosses as managing director of commercial operations is to step down at the end of January after three years in the position the sport announced on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/motor-f1-bratches/motor-racing-bratches-steps-down-as-f1-commercial-managing-director-idUSL8N29P2ME | 2020-01-21 |
| The Breiviken tanker carrying 80000 tonnes of oil is set to arrive at Lithuanias Klaipeda port on Jan | Positive | MOSCOW Belarus oil company BNK will import crude from Norways Johan Sverdrup field via Lithuanias Klaipeda port this month because of a supply row with Russia Belarus state company Belneftekhim that controls BNK told Reuters on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-oil-russia/belarus-to-import-oil-from-norways-johan-sverdrup-field-belneftekhim-idUSKBN1ZJ1UQ | 2020-01-21 |
| BRUSSELS Jan 20 The chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet on Monday backed an EU proposal to temporarily ban facialrecognition technology because of the possibility that it could be used for nefarious purposes | Positive | lead paragraph adds | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/google-eu/update-1-alphabet-ceo-backs-temporary-ban-on-facial-recognition-technology-over-misuse-worry-idUSL8N29P35N | 2020-01-21 |
| MOSCOW Jan 21 Russias steel and coal producer Mechel said on Tuesday it had received an alternative offer regarding the Elga coal project resulting in it not buying a stake in the project from Gazprombank | Negative | MOSCOW Jan 21 Russias steel and coal producer Mechel said on Tuesday it had received an alternative offer regarding the Elga coal project resulting in it not buying a stake in the project from Gazprombank | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-mechel-gazprombank-offer/russias-mechel-says-received-another-offer-regarding-elga-project-idUSR4N29K02H | 2020-01-21 |
| TOKYO Jan 21 Japanese shares dropped on Tuesday with airlines leading the decline as an outbreak of a new coronavirus has spread to more Chinese cities stoking fears of a wider epidemic that could hamper the economic activity in the region | Negative | TOKYO Jan 21 Japanese shares dropped on Tuesday with airlines leading the decline as an outbreak of a new coronavirus has spread to more Chinese cities stoking fears of a wider epidemic that could hamper the economic activity in the region | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-edges-down-china-virus-fears-hit-airlines-idUSL4N29Q0K0 | 2020-01-21 |
| As the 75th anniversary of the camps liberation on Jan 27 1945 nears Harshalom 95 is very clear about why he kept it | Positive | JERUSALEM A strip of skin tattooed with the Auschwitz death camp number 99288 sits in a silver frame on a shelf in Avraham Harshaloms living room | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz-survivor/i-stayed-alive-to-tell-auschwitzs-dwindling-survivors-recount-horrors-of-nazi-death-camp-idUSKBN1ZJ1F2 | 2020-01-21 |
| BRUSSELS Jan 20 Sundar Pichai the CEO of Googleowner Alphabet urged regulators on Monday to take a proportionate when drafting rules for artificial intelligence days before the European Commission is due to publish proposals on the issue | Negative | BRUSSELS Jan 20 Sundar Pichai the CEO of Googleowner Alphabet urged regulators on Monday to take a proportionate when drafting rules for artificial intelligence days before the European Commission is due to publish proposals on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/google-eu/google-owner-calls-for-proportionate-approach-to-ai-regulation-idUSL8N29P23W | 2020-01-21 |
| MOSCOW Jan 21 Russian lender Gazprombank said on Tuesday that steel and coal producer Mechel had failed to exercise its preemptive right to buy the banks stake in the Elga coal project | Negative | MOSCOW Jan 21 Russian lender Gazprombank said on Tuesday that steel and coal producer Mechel had failed to exercise its preemptive right to buy the banks stake in the Elga coal project | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/russia-mechel-gazprombank/russias-gazprombank-says-mechel-failed-to-pay-for-elga-stake-idUSR4N29K02G | 2020-01-21 |
| Homero Gomez who manages a butterfly sanctuary in the western Mexican state of Michoacan disappeared on Jan | Negative | MEXICO CITY A Mexican human rights organization on Monday urged authorities to investigate the disappearance of an environmental activist dedicated to protecting the famed monarch butterfly suggesting the case may be linked to illegal logging in the area | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence-activist/illegal-loggers-in-mexico-suspected-of-role-in-activists-disappearance-idUSKBN1ZK00Z | 2020-01-21 |
| SYDNEY Jan 21 Asian shares took a sudden lurch lower on Tuesday as a ripple of risk aversion swept markets though analysts could find no obvious trigger for the move | Negative | Nikkei and 500 futures slip on safehaven move | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-lurch-lower-flu-concerns-a-possible-culprit-idUSL4N29Q03N | 2020-01-21 |
| Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said returning the boxes would show that Iran was committed to an unbiased investigation of the Jan | Negative | KIEV Ukraine on Monday urged Iran to return the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane shot down by the Iranian military with the loss of all 176 people on board | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine/ukraine-presses-for-return-of-iran-plane-black-boxes-idUSKBN1ZJ0W0 | 2020-01-21 |
| DUBLIN Jan 20 Everyone knows that the global corporate tax system needs to be overhauled Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Monday backing changes to global rules that are currently under consideration | Positive | DUBLIN Jan 20 Everyone knows that the global corporate tax system needs to be overhauled Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Monday backing changes to global rules that are currently under consideration | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/apple-ireland/apples-cook-says-global-corporate-tax-system-must-be-overhauled-idUSL8N29P26L | 2020-01-21 |
| TOKYO Jan 21 Japanese government bond prices gained on Tuesday as risk sentiment soured on worries that a new virus strain in China that has quickly spread to other countries could disrupt the regions economy | Negative | TOKYO Jan 21 Japanese government bond prices gained on Tuesday as risk sentiment soured on worries that a new virus strain in China that has quickly spread to other countries could disrupt the regions economy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-bonds/jgbs-gain-as-china-virus-anxiety-grips-investors-idUSL4N29Q1GI | 2020-01-21 |
| In Shanghai officials on Tuesday confirmed a second case involving a 35yearman who had visited Wuhan in early January and said they were monitoring four other suspected cases | Neutral | SHANGHAI China reported a fourth death from a new coronavirus on Tuesday as the number of cases continued to rise sending jitters through Asian markets as hundreds of millions of Chinese prepared to travel for the Lunar New Year holiday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-deaths/china-virus-outbreak-spooks-global-markets-as-fourth-death-reported-idUSKBN1ZJ2D2 | 2020-01-21 |
| SYDNEY Jan 21 Asian shares got off to a cautious start on Tuesday lacking any lead from Wall Street and after the IMF shaved its outlook for world growth this year though it did offer a brighter view on China | Negative | Nikkei and 500 futures little changed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-hold-steady-boj-and-trump-awaited-idUSL4N29P3E4 | 2020-01-21 |
| TOKYO Jan 21 Japanese shares dropped on Tuesday as investors were gripped by fears that an outbreak of a new coronavirus in China could potentially disrupt an improving economic backdrop following a U.S.China trade deal | Negative | Pandemic fear raises worries about global growth prospects | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/japan-stocks-close/nikkei-slumps-on-china-virus-fears-airlines-slide-mask-makers-rally-idUSL4N29Q1OC | 2020-01-21 |
| PARIS Jan 20 French economy minister Bruno Le Maire said he hoped to resolve a row with the United States over a planned French digital tax by Wednesday evening of this week | Positive | PARIS Jan 20 French economy minister Bruno Le Maire said he hoped to resolve a row with the United States over a planned French digital tax by Wednesday evening of this week | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/france-usa-tax/france-hoping-to-resolve-digital-tax-spat-this-week-le-maire-idUSP6N29801A | 2020-01-21 |
| TOKYO Jan 21 The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady and nudged up its economic growth forecasts on Tuesday as the governments spending package and receding pessimism over the global outlook take some pressure off the central bank to top up stimulus | Negative | TOKYO Jan 21 The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady and nudged up its economic growth forecasts on Tuesday as the governments spending package and receding pessimism over the global outlook take some pressure off the central bank to top up stimulus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-economy-boj/boj-keeps-policy-steady-nudges-up-economic-growth-forecasts-idUST9N28L00K | 2020-01-21 |
| It nominated Habib Jemli as prime minister in November but his proposed government failed to win parliamentary backing and lost a confidence vote on Jan | Negative | TUNIS Tunisian President Kais Saied on Monday designated Elyes Fakhfakh as prime minister a presidency statement said after the fractured parliament this month rejected a government proposed by an earlier nominee to the post | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tunisia-government/tunisian-president-chooses-former-finance-minister-to-be-pm-idUSKBN1ZJ26V | 2020-01-21 |
| PARIS Jan 20 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he had a great with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs | Positive | PARIS Jan 20 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he had a great with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/france-usa-tax/macron-and-trump-declare-a-truce-on-digital-tax-dispute-idUSP6N28L014 | 2020-01-21 |
| DUBAI Jan 21 Iran has made requests for equipment from U.S. and French authorities so it can download information from the black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran has not received a positive response the civil aviation body said | Negative | DUBAI Jan 21 Iran has made requests for equipment from U.S. and French authorities so it can download information from the black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran has not received a positive response the civil aviation body said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-crash/iran-seeks-gear-from-u-s-france-to-download-downed-planes-black-boxes-idUSD5N1Y302H | 2020-01-21 |
| The Grammy winners will be announced on January 26 the Oscars on February 10 | Positive | BERLIN Golden Globewinning Icelandic musician Hildur Guonadottir 37 usually lives a quiet life in Berlin but is about to see a lot more of Los Angeles red carpets as nominations come flooding in for her score for Tod Phillips film | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-guonadottir-awards/female-icelandic-joker-composer-guonadottir-makes-film-awards-history-idUSKBN1ZI0OK | 2020-01-20 |
| TOKYO Jan 20 Japanese shares edged higher on Monday due to strong U.S. housing data and investor optimism following last weeks U.S.China trade deal though the markets valuations are getting stretched | Positive | TOKYO Jan 20 Japanese shares edged higher on Monday due to strong U.S. housing data and investor optimism following last weeks U.S.China trade deal though the markets valuations are getting stretched | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-gains-but-market-optimism-tested-by-valuations-idUSL4N29P0JR | 2020-01-20 |
| DES MOINES N.H. Jan 19 U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders attempted over the weekend to tamp down a weeklong disagreement over whether Sanders told Warren in a 2018 private meeting that a woman could not beat Republican President Donald Trump in 2020 | Positive | DES MOINES N.H. Jan 19 U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders attempted over the weekend to tamp down a weeklong disagreement over whether Sanders told Warren in a 2018 private meeting that a woman could not beat Republican President Donald Trump in 2020 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-progressives/warren-sanders-try-to-move-past-feud-as-early-voters-sound-alarm-idUSL1N29O00X | 2020-01-20 |
| Biden has the most African American support with according to polling in the month through midJanuary compared to for Sanders for Warren and for Bloomberg | Positive | Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on Sunday pledged to narrow the wealth gap between black and white Americans by boosting black ownership of homes and businesses and investing in poor neighborhoods | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/democrat-bloomberg-vows-to-narrow-wealth-gap-for-black-americans-idUSKBN1ZI0N1 | 2020-01-20 |
| Jan 20 The following are the top stories in the Financial Times | Positive | Jan 20 The following are the top stories in the Financial Times | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-press-ft/press-digest-financial-times-jan-20-idUSL4N29P07H | 2020-01-20 |
| Jan 20 Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks on | Neutral | Jan 20 Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/markets-swiss-stocks/swiss-stocks-factors-to-watch-on-january-20-idUSL8N29M3J0 | 2020-01-20 |
| SYDNEY Jan 20 Asian shares neared a 20month top on Monday as Wall Street extended its run of record peaks on solid U.S. economic data and lashes of liquidity from the Federal Reserve | Positive | Oil prices climb on Libyan supply concerns | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-camp-on-high-ground-oil-up-on-libya-shutdown-idUSL4N29O0AX | 2020-01-20 |
| Jan 20 The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on | Neutral | Jan 20 The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/germany-stocks-factors/german-stocks-factors-to-watch-on-january-20-idUSL1N29M0AA | 2020-01-20 |
| LOS ANGELES Jan 19 South Korean thriller was the upset winner at the Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday while Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger were named best actors cementing their roles as frontrunners at the Oscars next month | Positive | attribution for quote to Song Kang Ho not Bong Joon Ho in paragraphs | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/awards-sag/corrected-update-3-parasite-scores-upset-at-sag-awards-boosting-oscar-chances-idUSL1N29O09E | 2020-01-20 |
| SEOUL Jan 20 South Korea reported on Monday its first confirmed case of a new coronavirus that has broken out in China South Koreas Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said | Negative | Chinese woman visitor confirmed with virus KCDC | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-pneumonia-south-korea/update-1-s-korea-confirms-first-case-of-new-coronavirus-in-chinese-visitor-idUSL4N29P15L | 2020-01-20 |
| Jan 18 Oilfield services provider McDermott International Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as next week Bloomberg reported on Friday citing people with knowledge of the matter | Negative | Jan 18 Oilfield services provider McDermott International Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as next week Bloomberg reported on Friday citing people with knowledge of the matter | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/mcdermott-intern-bankruptcy/mcdermott-international-may-file-for-bankruptcy-as-soon-as-next-week-bloomberg-idUSL4N29N05N | 2020-01-19 |
| The group which will have a concert on Jan | Neutral | BANGKOK In geography and in culture the rice paddies of northeastern Thailand are thousands of miles away from the birthplace of hip hop in New York Citys Bronx but for Thai rapper RachYo the language of hip hop is universal | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-music/rap-and-rice-paddies-thai-hip-hop-creates-unlikely-new-stars-idUSKBN1ZI06B | 2020-01-19 |
| YANGON Jan 18 Facebook Inc said on Saturday it was working to find out how Chinese leader Xi Jinpings name appeared as Mr in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese apologising for any offence caused and saying the problem had been fixed | Negative | to add advisory noting vulgar language in paragraphs 1 and no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/myanmar-facebook/rpt-facebook-apologises-after-vulgar-translation-of-chinese-leaders-name-idUSL4N29N05H | 2020-01-19 |
| Wuhan officials have been providing updates on new cases almost daily since Jan | Positive | BEIJING China said on Sunday that 17 more people had become infected with a new coronavirus strain fanning fears it will spread further as hundreds of millions of people travel to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/china-says-17-new-cases-in-virus-outbreak-wuhan-to-restrict-large-gatherings-idUSKBN1ZI028 | 2020-01-19 |
| BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons President Michel Aoun asked the army and security commanders to restore calm in central Beirut where security forces clashed with protesters on Saturday night | Negative | BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons President Michel Aoun asked the army and security commanders to restore calm in central Beirut where security forces clashed with protesters on Saturday night | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-protests-aoun/lebanons-president-asks-army-security-chiefs-to-restore-calm-in-beirut-idUSL8N29N0C7 | 2020-01-19 |
| On Jan 1 a march of tens of thousands of people ended with police firing tear gas to disperse crowds | Negative | HONG KONG Police fired tear gas on Sunday to disperse thousands of antigovernment protesters who gathered in a central Hong Kong park but later spilled onto the streets briefly barricading roads and spraypainting buildings | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-hongkong-protests/police-fire-tear-gas-to-disperse-thousands-in-central-hong-kong-idUSKBN1ZI07K | 2020-01-19 |
| ISTANBUL Jan 18 The Turkish central bank said on Saturday it had decreased the upper limit of holding standard gold to from of lira reserve requirements in a move to support financial stability and bring out gold savings into the economy | Neutral | comments from central | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkish-cenbank/update-1-turkish-central-bank-adjusts-gold-limits-in-lira-reserve-requirements-idUSL8N29N02U | 2020-01-19 |
| As the security environment continues to evolve and new challenges arise it is essential that our alliance further strengthen and Trump said in a statement dated Jan | Positive | TOKYO President Donald Trump marked the 60th anniversary of the signing of the security treaty between the United States and Japan with a call for a stronger and deeper alliance between the two countries despite criticizing the pact six months ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-japan-security/trump-marks-u-s-japan-security-pact-with-call-for-stronger-deeper-alliance-idUSKBN1ZI050 | 2020-01-19 |
| Jan 18 Yemens warring sides opened a new front in their fiveyear conflict on Saturday a battle over old and new banknotes that threatens to create two economies in the same state | Negative | Houthis ban new notes issued by rivals | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/yemen-economy-currency/yemens-rival-powers-battle-over-banknotes-idUSL8N29I2OL | 2020-01-19 |
| BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons Interior Minister Raya elHassan said it was unacceptable for protesters to attack security forces as the two sides clashed in central Beirut on Saturday night | Negative | BEIRUT Jan 18 Lebanons Interior Minister Raya elHassan said it was unacceptable for protesters to attack security forces as the two sides clashed in central Beirut on Saturday night | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-protests-minister/lebanon-interior-minister-unacceptable-for-protests-to-assault-police-idUSL8N29N0DO | 2020-01-19 |
| NEW YORK Jan 17 Key world equity indexes scaled new highs on Friday as the latest U.S. data a surge in housing starts to the highest level since 2006 drove stocks on Wall Street to records and investors away from riskadverse assets such as the yen | Positive | MSCI world index Wall Street and Europe indexes hit records | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-set-fresh-records-lifted-by-u-s-housing-data-idUSL8N29M3ZP | 2020-01-19 |
| 10 for further evaluation while others were flown out on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday there had been no effort to play down or delay the release of information on concussive injuries from Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/pentagon-denies-trying-to-underplay-injuries-from-iran-attack-idUSKBN1ZG24D | 2020-01-18 |
| LONDON Jan 17 Lebanons shorterdated bonds slumped on Friday with several of them set for their steepest daily drop in nearly three months as worries mounted that a proposed bond swap plan could trigger a fullscale default | Negative | LONDON Jan 17 Lebanons shorterdated bonds slumped on Friday with several of them set for their steepest daily drop in nearly three months as worries mounted that a proposed bond swap plan could trigger a fullscale default | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/lebanon-crisis-bonds/lebanons-bonds-slump-on-bond-swap-worries-idUSL9N27300T | 2020-01-18 |
| NEW YORK Jan 17 Key world equity indexes scaled new highs on Friday as a surge in U.S. housing starts to levels last seen in 2006 powered stocks while the greenback rose to a oneweek high against the euro on expectations of solid economic growth | Positive | throughout adds gold oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-set-fresh-records-lifted-by-u-s-housing-data-idUSL1N29M10E | 2020-01-18 |
| The organizers of the Grammy Awards have placed their president and chief executive Deborah Dugan on leave because of an allegation of they said in a statement noting that the Jan | Neutral | The organizers of the Grammy Awards have placed their president and chief executive Deborah Dugan on leave because of an allegation of they said in a statement noting that the Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-entertainment-recordingacademy-du/days-before-grammys-academy-shakes-up-leadership-over-allegation-of-misconduct-idUSKBN1ZG0G4 | 2020-01-18 |
| Books for institutional investors will open on Jan | Positive | Thailands largest retailer Central Retail Corp said Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and funds advised by U.S. investor Capital Research Management Company are among international cornerstone investors backing its IPO worth up to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-central-retail-ipo/capital-research-gic-investing-in-thailands-central-retail-ipo-idUSKBN1ZF28T | 2020-01-18 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 17 The signing of a Phase 1 trade agreement between the United States and China will reduce but not eliminate uncertainty that has dampened global economic growth IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday | Positive | WASHINGTON Jan 17 The signing of a Phase 1 trade agreement between the United States and China will reduce but not eliminate uncertainty that has dampened global economic growth IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china-imf/u-s-china-trade-deal-to-ease-global-uncertainty-imf-chief-idUSW1N28K00Y | 2020-01-18 |
| Forward and lease rates have also leaped to around the highest in a year from around at the start of January | Neutral | LONDON A squeeze in ready availability of automotive metal palladium has driven up already recordhigh prices by in just two weeks accelerating a fouryear rally and stoking expectations for further gains analysts said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-palladium-price-graphic/theres-no-metal-record-breaking-palladium-races-higher-idUSKBN1ZG1T6 | 2020-01-18 |
| Jan 17 The Toronto Stock Exchanges TSX rises 0 | Neutral | Jan 17 The Toronto Stock Exchanges TSX rises 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/canada-stocks/canada-stocks-tsx-rises-0-42-percent-to-17559-02-idUSL8N29M57V | 2020-01-18 |
| LONDON Jan 17 World shares rose to record highs on Friday buoyed by Chinese growth figures that suggested the worlds secondbiggest economy was stabilising | Positive | MSCI world index hits record | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-world-shares-gain-as-china-data-fuels-bets-on-growth-idUSL8N29M216 | 2020-01-18 |
| WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday there had been no effort to play down or delay the release of information on concussive injuries from Irans Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday there had been no effort to play down or delay the release of information on concussive injuries from Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/pentagon-denies-trying-to-underplay-injuries-from-iran-attack-idUSKBN1ZG24D | 2020-01-18 |
| NEW YORK Jan 17 Wall Streets major indexes climbed to record highs on Friday after strong U.S. housing data and signs of resilience in the Chinese economy raised hopes of a rebound in global growth | Positive | NEW YORK Jan 17 Wall Streets major indexes climbed to record highs on Friday after strong U.S. housing data and signs of resilience in the Chinese economy raised hopes of a rebound in global growth | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-snapshot-indexes-hit-new-highs-on-strong-u-s-china-economic-data-idUSAQN01Y903 | 2020-01-18 |
| PARIS Jan 17 U.S. television streaming company Netflix has opened a new Paris office and plans to develop more than 20 original Frenchlanguage productions in 2020 it said on Friday | Positive | PARIS Jan 17 U.S. television streaming company Netflix has opened a new Paris office and plans to develop more than 20 original Frenchlanguage productions in 2020 it said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/france-netflix/netflix-opens-new-paris-office-plans-20-french-language-series-idUSFWN29M0KP | 2020-01-18 |
| The first U.S. service member was flown out of Iraq on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday there had been no effort to play down or delay the release of information on concussive injuries from Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/pentagon-denies-trying-to-underplay-injuries-from-iran-attack-idUSKBN1ZG24D | 2020-01-18 |
| Jan 17 The following bids mergers acquisitions and disposals were reported by GMT on | Positive | Sinopec Stanley Black Decker Toshiba | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/deals-day/deals-of-the-day-mergers-and-acquisitions-idUSL4N29M325 | 2020-01-18 |
| Healey welcomed Davis decision which is dated Jan | Positive | Facebook Inc has been ordered by a Massachusetts judge to turn over materials to that states attorney general about thousands of apps that the social media company suspected may have misused customer data | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-massachusetts/facebook-must-disclose-app-records-for-massachusetts-probe-judge-rules-idUSKBN1ZG2JS | 2020-01-18 |
| Jan 17 Travelex said the first of its customerfacing systems in Britain were up and running and a phased global restoration of systems is firmly days after hackers took hold of its systems leading to a global blackout of its online services | Negative | Jan 17 Travelex said the first of its customerfacing systems in Britain were up and running and a phased global restoration of systems is firmly days after hackers took hold of its systems leading to a global blackout of its online services | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-travelex/travelex-says-first-customer-facing-systems-restored-idUSL4N29M2VZ | 2020-01-18 |
| A Honduran diplomat told Reuters earlier in January that Honduras has agreed to receive Brazilians Guatemalans Mexicans Nicaraguans and Salvadorans beginning in late January or early February | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has considered sending Brazilian migrants crossing the border from Mexico back there to await their U.S. court hearings according to a U.S. official and a Mexican official familiar with the discussions | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-brazil/u-s-weighs-sending-brazilian-migrants-to-mexico-amid-spike-in-arrests-idUSKBN1ZF2VU | 2020-01-17 |
| LONDON Jan 16 World stocks held near record highs on Thursday as some encouraging U.S. data ensured there was no post U.S.China trade deal hangover for global markets | Negative | MSCI ACWI at record highs after Phase 1 deal signed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-hot-data-keeps-stocks-up-after-trade-deal-idUSL8N29L4ET | 2020-01-17 |
| When shareholders of the tax and accounting software company Intuit Inc gather for the companys annual meeting on Jan | Positive | When shareholders of the tax and accounting software company Intuit Inc gather for the companys annual meeting on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-otc-arbitration/new-battleground-in-the-fight-over-mandatory-shareholder-arbitration-intuits-annual-meeting-idUSKBN1ZF2VQ | 2020-01-17 |
| MILAN Jan 16 U.S.based real estate group Hines has acquired the landmark Velasca Tower in the centre of Milan from Italian insurer Unipol and plans to transform the building into a luxury officeled complex the company said on Thursday | Positive | MILAN Jan 16 U.S.based real estate group Hines has acquired the landmark Velasca Tower in the centre of Milan from Italian insurer Unipol and plans to transform the building into a luxury officeled complex the company said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/italy-property-hines/hines-snaps-up-milans-landmark-velasca-tower-from-unipol-idUSL8N29L4YF | 2020-01-17 |
| With the CEO out of the way this is the right said Jane Hali at research firm Jane Hali Associates | Positive | The spinoff plan was unveiled in February last year when Old Navy was a bright spot for the company which was struggling with outoffashion apparel at its Gap brand | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-gap-divestiture/gap-pulls-plug-on-old-navy-spinoff-to-focus-on-turning-around-sales-idUSKBN1ZF2U3 | 2020-01-17 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 16 The U.S. Labor Departments Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday announced changes to economic data procedures which would result in the removal of computers from its Washington newsroom effective March 1 | Neutral | details | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy-data/update-2-u-s-labor-department-to-remove-computers-from-data-lockups-idUSL1N29L10T | 2020-01-17 |
| The meeting is scheduled for Jan | Positive | We have a board overseeing the alliance which is made up of people who are all extremely in favor of the Renault Chairman Senard told a briefing with reporters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan/renault-nissan-share-real-desire-to-make-alliance-work-chairman-idUSKBN1ZF0TB | 2020-01-17 |
| MOSCOW The Russian parliament overwhelmingly backed President Vladimir Putins surprise choice for prime minister on Thursday after what one daily called a January a major political overhaul that some say could set Putin up as leader for life | Negative | MOSCOW The Russian parliament overwhelmingly backed President Vladimir Putins surprise choice for prime minister on Thursday after what one daily called a January a major political overhaul that some say could set Putin up as leader for life | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-mishustin/russian-parliament-backs-putins-pick-for-pm-after-january-revolution-idUSKBN1ZF0N8 | 2020-01-17 |
| LONDON Jan 16 The European Unions trade chief said on Thursday that the bloc would check to see if a major trade deal struck by the United States and China is compliant with global rules | Neutral | LONDON Jan 16 The European Unions trade chief said on Thursday that the bloc would check to see if a major trade deal struck by the United States and China is compliant with global rules | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china-eu/eu-says-will-assess-if-us-china-deal-meets-global-trade-rules-idUSL9N287008 | 2020-01-17 |
| Shareholders of both companies are slated to vote Jan | Neutral | Kirkland in November offered 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-detour-gold-m-a-kirklnd-lak/kirklands-c4-4-billion-bid-for-detour-wins-backing-from-proxy-advisory-firms-idUSKBN1ZF1Q3 | 2020-01-17 |
| LONDON Jan 16 Tata Communications has ended a partnership with Formula One after eight years working together on the sports digital transformation the Indianowned company said | Negative | LONDON Jan 16 Tata Communications has ended a partnership with Formula One after eight years working together on the sports digital transformation the Indianowned company said | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/motor-f1-tata/motor-racing-tata-communications-ends-f1-partnership-idUSL4N29L381 | 2020-01-17 |
| BEIJING Jan 17 China is expected to report on Friday that economic growth slowed to its weakest in nearly three decades in 2019 amid a bruising trade war with the United States and more stimulus steps are expected this year to help avert sharper slowdown | Negative | China GDP seen growing 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy/china-set-to-post-weakest-growth-in-29-years-as-trade-war-bites-investment-sputters-idUSL4N29J1C7 | 2020-01-17 |
| LONDON Jan 16 Major currencies mostly shrugged off on Thursday the signing of the Phase 1 trade deal between the United States and China since most of the issues agreed upon had been expected and the threat of tariffs was not eliminated | Negative | matches oneweek high | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-muted-reaction-in-currencies-to-us-china-trade-deal-dollar-index-falls-idUSL8N29L30P | 2020-01-17 |
| PARIS France will deploy the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and its battle group from January to April to support French military operations in Middle East Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday | Positive | PARIS France will deploy the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and its battle group from January to April to support French military operations in Middle East Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-macron-military/france-to-deploy-charles-de-gaulle-aircraft-carrier-to-support-middle-east-operations-idUSKBN1ZF2HS | 2020-01-17 |
| The share offering will be priced on Jan | Positive | SAO PAULO Brazilian beefpacker Minerva SA | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-minerva-share-offering/market-reacts-positively-to-brazil-beefpacker-minervas-327-million-share-offering-idUSKBN1ZF150 | 2020-01-17 |
| FRANKFURT Jan 16 Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess said the German carmaker needs to accelerate its transformation to avoid becoming another Nokia which lost its dominance in the handset market to Apple | Negative | FRANKFURT Jan 16 Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess said the German carmaker needs to accelerate its transformation to avoid becoming another Nokia which lost its dominance in the handset market to Apple | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/volkswagen-strategy-diess/vw-ceo-says-carmaker-faces-same-fate-as-nokia-without-urgent-reforms-idUSL8N29L3O7 | 2020-01-17 |
| NEW Jan 16 Schlumberger Halliburton Co and Baker Hughes Co have kicked off the new year by putting units up for sale as the three largest names in oilfield services seek to reshape their businesses and adjust to falling demand | Negative | NEW Jan 16 Schlumberger Halliburton Co and Baker Hughes Co have kicked off the new year by putting units up for sale as the three largest names in oilfield services seek to reshape their businesses and adjust to falling demand | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/energy-divestiture-services/big-three-oilfield-services-firms-start-year-with-asset-sales-sources-idUSL1N29L1B7 | 2020-01-17 |
| KIEV The bodies of all 11 Ukrainians who died in last weeks plane crash in Iran have been identified and will be transported back to Ukraine on Jan | Negative | KIEV The bodies of all 11 Ukrainians who died in last weeks plane crash in Iran have been identified and will be transported back to Ukraine on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-ukraine-bodies/ukraine-says-bodies-of-all-11-ukrainians-in-iran-plane-crash-identified-idUSKBN1ZF2G4 | 2020-01-17 |
| In the unlikely event the Senate convicted Trump Vice President Mike Pence would become president for the remainder of Trumps term which ends on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The Democraticcontrolled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to impeach Republican President Donald Trump this week for pressuring Ukraine to investigate a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-explainer/explainer-how-impeachment-works-and-why-trump-is-unlikely-to-be-removed-idUSKBN1YK16K | 2020-01-17 |
| NEW YORK Jan 16 More than 100 potential jurors in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein were expected in Manhattan criminal court on Thursday as lawyers strive to choose 12 impartial New Yorkers to decide the former film moguls fate | Negative | NEW YORK Jan 16 More than 100 potential jurors in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein were expected in Manhattan criminal court on Thursday as lawyers strive to choose 12 impartial New Yorkers to decide the former film moguls fate | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-harvey-weinstein/lawyers-in-weinstein-rape-case-begin-questioning-potential-jurors-idUSL1N29K25R | 2020-01-17 |
| The Central Retail IPO first announced in July opens on Jan | Positive | BANGKOK Thailands Central Retail Corp which is on track for the countrys largest public float cut the price range for its initial public offering to 40 to 43 baht per share it said in a filing on Thursday the lower end of its initial range | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-central-retail-ipo/thailands-central-retail-cuts-target-ipo-price-to-lower-end-of-initial-range-idUSKBN1ZF28T | 2020-01-17 |
| Prosecutors Weinsteins lawyers and Burke are striving to select 12 jurors and six alternates before opening statements which are expected to begin on Jan | Positive | NEW YORK Four men and three women were chosen on Thursday as jurors in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein as the judge cautioned against using the case to make a broader statement about the movement | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein/judge-in-weinstein-rape-trial-says-case-not-a-referendum-on-metoo-movement-idUSKBN1ZF18A | 2020-01-17 |
| MEXICO CITY Jan 16 Mexican retailers expect sales growth to slow slightly in 2020 after a strongerthanexpected performance last year a top industry association said on Thursday | Neutral | adds quotes from industry group officials results | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/mexico-retail/update-1-mexico-retailers-see-slight-slowdown-in-sales-growth-for-2020-idUSL1N29L181 | 2020-01-17 |
| The administration says the rate will increase to on Jan | Neutral | Here are some key moments in the rollercoaster trade relationship between the worlds two largest economies | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-timeline/timeline-key-dates-in-the-u-s-china-trade-war-idUSKBN1ZE1AA | 2020-01-17 |
| The U.S. Senate expects to begin the trial of President Donald Trump in January if as expected the House of Representatives votes to impeach him this week | Negative | The U.S. Senate expects to begin the trial of President Donald Trump in January if as expected the House of Representatives votes to impeach him this week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-players-factbox/factbox-key-players-in-u-s-senate-impeachment-trial-of-trump-idUSKBN1YK1GN | 2020-01-17 |
| The government will discuss how to loosen employment rules to facilitate shortterm working hours and a decision could be reached by Jan | Positive | BERLIN Germanys automakers and unions urged the government on Thursday to do more to support the industrys shift to electric cars which provide less assembly work than combustion engine vehicles | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-germany-autos-employment/german-carmakers-unions-urge-more-government-help-for-electric-shift-idUSKBN1ZF23F | 2020-01-17 |
| BEIJING Jan 16 Chinese financial institutions are completely capable of coping with foreign competition as the sector is freed up the central bank said on Thursday after China and the United States signed a initial deal on trade | Positive | BEIJING Jan 16 Chinese financial institutions are completely capable of coping with foreign competition as the sector is freed up the central bank said on Thursday after China and the United States signed a initial deal on trade | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china-pboc/chinese-financial-institutions-can-cope-with-foreign-competition-c-bank-idUSB9N29F00A | 2020-01-16 |
| BEIJING Chinas 2019 gross domestic product is estimated to have grown more than and data for January indicates a betterthanexpected economic outlook Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said on Wednesday | Positive | BEIJING Chinas 2019 gross domestic product is estimated to have grown more than and data for January indicates a betterthanexpected economic outlook Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy/china-2019-gdp-estimated-to-have-grown-more-than-6-vice-premier-liu-he-idUSKBN1ZF042 | 2020-01-16 |
| TOKYO Jan 16 Japanese shares were little changed on Thursday after the United States and China signed an interim deal to defuse their 18month long trade war with factory automation machinery makers under pressure on soft industry data | Neutral | TOKYO Jan 16 Japanese shares were little changed on Thursday after the United States and China signed an interim deal to defuse their 18month long trade war with factory automation machinery makers under pressure on soft industry data | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/us/article/japan-stocks-close/tokyo-shares-tread-water-after-u-s-china-trade-deal-machinery-makers-lag-idUSL4N29L1OL | 2020-01-16 |
| Back then the head of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers Mario Centeno said that an agreement was possible in January after acknowledging more time was needed | Positive | BRUSSELS Reform of the euro zone bailout fund will remain frozen until at least March a senior official said on Wednesday as governments are still divided over technical details on bond restructuring | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-reform/no-progress-on-reform-of-euro-zone-bailout-fund-until-march-eu-official-idUSKBN1ZE1Z0 | 2020-01-16 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 15 Completion of the Phase 1 U.S.China trade deal and a new North American trade agreement will boost the U.S. gross domestic product by a combined 50 to 75 basis points U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox News on Wednesday | Positive | WASHINGTON Jan 15 Completion of the Phase 1 U.S.China trade deal and a new North American trade agreement will boost the U.S. gross domestic product by a combined 50 to 75 basis points U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox News on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china-gdp/u-s-china-trade-deal-usmca-to-boost-economy-mnuchin-on-fox-news-idUSW1N28T00J | 2020-01-16 |
| TALLINN Jan 16 The European Investment Bank will offer 50 million euros in debt financing for Estonian ridesharing service Bolt aiming to boost development of the platform in its battle against bigger global rival Uber | Positive | TALLINN Jan 16 The European Investment Bank will offer 50 million euros in debt financing for Estonian ridesharing service Bolt aiming to boost development of the platform in its battle against bigger global rival Uber | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/transport-financing-bolt/estonias-bolt-gets-56-mln-european-funding-idUSL8N29K6KY | 2020-01-16 |
| Jan 15 A large investor in Tegna Inc on Wednesday said it will nominate four directors to the U.S. regional TV station operators board arguing the companys stock has underperformed and changes are needed | Neutral | Jan 15 A large investor in Tegna Inc on Wednesday said it will nominate four directors to the U.S. regional TV station operators board arguing the companys stock has underperformed and changes are needed | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/tegna-standardgeneral/hedge-fund-standard-general-unveils-challenge-to-tegnas-board-idUSL1N29K16L | 2020-01-16 |
| TOKYO Jan 16 Japanese shares were little changed on Thursday after the United States and China signed an interim deal to defuse their 18month long trade war with factory automation machinery makers under pressure on soft data | Neutral | TOKYO Jan 16 Japanese shares were little changed on Thursday after the United States and China signed an interim deal to defuse their 18month long trade war with factory automation machinery makers under pressure on soft data | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/tokyo-shares-steady-after-u-s-china-trade-deal-machinery-makers-lag-idUSL4N29L0WS | 2020-01-16 |
| Management plans to offer an expense target in very concrete at its investor day on Jan | Positive | A big portion of Goldmans bloated expense line came from setting aside another | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-goldman-sachs-results/goldman-pledges-concrete-expense-target-after-profit-decline-idUSKBN1ZE1K1 | 2020-01-16 |
| DUBAI Jan 16 Qatar National Bank the Gulfs biggest bank by assets has issued a 40year Formosa bond as part of efforts to diversify its funding sources a spokesman said | Positive | DUBAI Jan 16 Qatar National Bank the Gulfs biggest bank by assets has issued a 40year Formosa bond as part of efforts to diversify its funding sources a spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/us/article/qatar-natl-bank-bonds/qatar-national-bank-issues-600-mln-formosa-bond-spokesman-idUSD5N27002K | 2020-01-16 |
| Jan 16 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | Positive | Jan 16 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/press-digest-nyt/press-digest-new-york-times-business-news-jan-16-idUSL4N29L1O4 | 2020-01-16 |
| NEW YORK Jan 15 A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Michael Avenattis bid to dismiss criminal charges accusing him of trying to extort Nike Inc after the celebrity lawyer claimed he was targeted in a prosecution because of his feud with U.S. President Donald Trump | Negative | NEW YORK Jan 15 A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Michael Avenattis bid to dismiss criminal charges accusing him of trying to extort Nike Inc after the celebrity lawyer claimed he was targeted in a prosecution because of his feud with U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-crime-avenatti/trump-foe-avenatti-following-arrest-fails-to-end-vindictive-ny-extortion-case-idUSL1N29K0RA | 2020-01-16 |
| Unions were told SAAs business rescue practitioners needed clarity from government on the 2 billion rand of promised funding by the end of Jan | Positive | JOHANNESBURG South African Airways could have to suspend some flights and delay salary payments if the government cant come up with a plan soon to provide the 2 billion rand it promised the airline last month a trade union official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-saa/south-african-airways-flights-at-risk-without-139-million-from-government-union-idUSKBN1ZE2UI | 2020-01-16 |
| TOKYO Jan 16 World stocks inched ahead to a record high on Thursday after the United States and China signed an initial deal to defuse their 18month trade war though financial markets were wary as a number of thorny issues remained unresolved | Positive | MSCI ACWI at record high after Phase 1 deal inked | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-world-stocks-pause-at-record-peak-as-markets-assess-u-s-china-deal-idUSL4N29L0NH | 2020-01-16 |
| The Beige Book was prepared by the New York Fed with information collected on or before Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. economy expanded at a modest pace through the final six weeks of 2019 but uncertainty over U.S. trade policy continued to hurt firms a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed-beigebook/u-s-economy-expands-modestly-but-trade-tensions-weigh-fed-survey-shows-idUSKBN1ZE2LK | 2020-01-16 |
| Bolton refused to participate in the House of Representatives impeachment investigation but in a surprise development said on Jan | Negative | Here are some of the potential witnesses in the trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-witnesses-factb/factbox-as-trump-goes-on-trial-a-fight-over-witnesses-remains-unresolved-idUSKBN1ZE29X | 2020-01-16 |
| BEIJING Jan 16 Chinese financial institutions are completely capable of coping with foreign competition as the trillion financial sector is freed up the central bank said on Thursday after China and the United States signed a initial deal on trade | Positive | comments from | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china-pboc/update-1-chinese-financial-institutions-can-cope-with-foreign-competition-c-bank-idUSL4N29L19U | 2020-01-16 |
| The Nike trial is scheduled for Jan | Neutral | NEW YORK Jan 15 A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Michael Avenattis bid to dismiss criminal charges accusing him of trying to extort Nike Inc after the celebrity lawyer claimed he was targeted in a prosecution because of his feud with U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-crime-avenatti/trump-foe-avenatti-following-arrest-fails-to-end-vindictive-ny-extortion-case-idUSL1N29K0RA | 2020-01-16 |
| The ministers will hold technical and legal talks ahead of their Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Ministers from Egypt Ethiopia and Sudan agreed on Wednesday to reconvene in Washington later this month to finalize an agreement on a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile that sparked a diplomatic crisis between Cairo and Addis Ababa | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-ethiopia/egypt-ethiopia-sudan-to-finalize-blue-nile-dam-agreement-this-month-idUSKBN1ZE2U3 | 2020-01-16 |
| SHANGHAI Jan 16 The yuan firmed in offshore markets on Thursday after China and the United States signed a Phase 1 agreement to defuse their 18monthlong trade war | Positive | SHANGHAI Jan 16 The yuan firmed in offshore markets on Thursday after China and the United States signed a Phase 1 agreement to defuse their 18monthlong trade war | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-markets/chinas-yuan-strengthens-after-signing-of-phase-1-trade-deal-idUSL4N29L08O | 2020-01-16 |
| The new shares will be entitled to share in profits from thebeginning of 2019 and are expected to be admitted to trading on the Vienna Stock Exchange from Jan | Positive | Based on Wednesdays closing share price the issue could raise almost 150 million euros | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-s-immo-capital-increase/s-immo-ups-capital-to-fund-acquisitions-idUSKBN1ZE2HU | 2020-01-16 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 15 He listed familiar grievances praised and criticized his guests and seemed to blow off some steam | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 15 He listed familiar grievances praised and criticized his guests and seemed to blow off some steam | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trade-china-ceremony/with-a-mixture-of-fanfare-and-grievance-trump-signs-u-s-china-trade-deal-idUSL1N29K24W | 2020-01-16 |
| BEIJING Jan 16 Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said China will steadily push forward capital account opening and yuan internationalisation under the premise of focusing on preventing risks state media Peoples Daily reported on Thursday | Positive | BEIJING Jan 16 Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said China will steadily push forward capital account opening and yuan internationalisation under the premise of focusing on preventing risks state media Peoples Daily reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china-liu/chinas-liu-china-will-push-forward-capital-account-opening-yuan-internationalisation-state-media-idUSB9N29F00B | 2020-01-16 |
| TOKYO Jan 16 World stocks inched to a record high on Thursday after the United States and China signed a deal to defuse their 18month trade war which has weighed on global economic growth and hampered investments | Positive | MSCI ACWI at record high after phase deal inked | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-world-stocks-scale-record-peak-on-u-s-china-trade-deal-idUSL4N29L04U | 2020-01-16 |
| Rosneft has helped Venezuela market its crude since Washington imposed sanctions on state oil company PDVSA last January | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administrations envoy on Venezuela said China appears to be scaling back economic support for President Nicolas Maduro and Beijing acknowledged a diminishing role largely due to U.S. sanctions against the OPEC nation | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-venezuela-politics-china-russia/u-s-envoy-sees-china-scaling-back-economic-support-for-venezuelas-maduro-idUSKBN1ZE2BO | 2020-01-16 |
| Central Retails IPO opens on Jan 29 | Positive | KONG Thailands largest retailer Central Retail Corp is close to securing cornerstone investors for an initial public offering worth up to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-central-retail-ipo/thailands-central-retail-close-to-securing-ipo-cornerstone-investors-sources-idUSKBN1ZE0ZB | 2020-01-16 |
| NEW YORK Jan 15 Former film producer Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday asked a New York state appeals court to delay his rape trial and move it out of Manhattan the day before the final phase of jury selection is scheduled to begin | Negative | NEW YORK Jan 15 Former film producer Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday asked a New York state appeals court to delay his rape trial and move it out of Manhattan the day before the final phase of jury selection is scheduled to begin | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-harvey-weinstein/weinstein-seeks-last-minute-new-york-trial-delay-change-of-location-idUSL1N29K2CB | 2020-01-16 |
| Over of Genesis vehicles were sold in South Korea in JanuaryNovember 2019 with the rest sold mainly in the United States | Positive | SEOUL South Koreas Hyundai Motor Co | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-hyundai-motor-genesis/hyundai-unveils-first-genesis-suv-in-renewed-overseas-premium-push-idUSKBN1ZE0AU | 2020-01-15 |
| NEW YORK Jan 14 Billionaire U.S. presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has vastly expanded his campaign staff which now boasts a battalion of over 1000 workers his campaign said on Tuesday giving him significant force as he tries to unseat Republican President Donald Trump | Positive | photos available no other | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-bloomberg/update-1-bloomberg-taps-fortune-now-has-1000-workers-for-u-s-democratic-presidential-campaign-idUSL1N29J0ZK | 2020-01-15 |
| TOKYO Jan 15 Stocks slipped in Asian trade on Wednesday as investors awaited the signing of an initial U.S.China trade deal with sentiment somewhat dented by comments from the U.S. Treasury Secretary that tariffs would remain in place for now | Negative | Tariffs to stay until there is 2 Mnuchin | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-slip-ahead-of-u-s-china-trade-deal-signing-idUSL4N29K0PL | 2020-01-15 |
| TOKYO Jan 15 Japanese government bond prices on Wednesday were supported by comments from a top U.S. official that current tariffs on Chinese goods would stay for now after the signing of a preliminary trade deal expected later in the day | Neutral | TOKYO Jan 15 Japanese government bond prices on Wednesday were supported by comments from a top U.S. official that current tariffs on Chinese goods would stay for now after the signing of a preliminary trade deal expected later in the day | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-bonds/jgbs-supported-by-trade-deal-caution-5-year-auction-idUSL4N29K1K7 | 2020-01-15 |
| Iran had launched missile strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq hours earlier in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq on Jan | Negative | DUBAI Iranian social media posts urged citizens to take to the streets for a fifth day on Wednesday after public anger erupted following the belated admission by the authorities that they had shot down a passenger plane in error last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-social-media-posts-call-for-more-protests-after-plane-disaster-idUSKBN1ZE0KA | 2020-01-15 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 14 The first phase of a U.S.China trade agreement will be fully enforceable including a pledge by China to refrain from manipulating its currency U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 14 The first phase of a U.S.China trade agreement will be fully enforceable including a pledge by China to refrain from manipulating its currency U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china-documents/u-s-china-trade-deal-fully-enforceable-documents-to-be-released-wednesday-mnuchin-idUSW1N28T00F | 2020-01-15 |
| Altran shareholders now have just up to Jan | Neutral | This represents an addition of 128 million euros to the initial bid which Capgemini said would be final | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-altran-tech-m-a-capgemini-elliott/frances-capgemini-slightly-raises-bid-on-altran-after-elliott-battle-idUSKBN1ZD251 | 2020-01-15 |
| Jan 14 American teen pop sensation Billie Eilish is to perform the theme song from the upcoming James Bond film No Time to the singer and movies producers said on Tuesday | Positive | Jan 14 American teen pop sensation Billie Eilish is to perform the theme song from the upcoming James Bond film No Time to the singer and movies producers said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/film-james-bond-eilish/billie-eilish-to-perform-new-james-bond-movie-theme-song-idUSL1N29J0VX | 2020-01-15 |
| Jan 14 European shares treaded water on Tuesday as investors awaited the signing of an initial trade truce to end a prolonged U.S.China tariff dispute with attention also turning to the fourthquarter corporate earnings season | Neutral | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-inch-lower-ahead-of-sino-u-s-trade-deal-q4-earnings-eyed-idUSL4N29J25S | 2020-01-15 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 14 U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday the United States would keep in place tariffs on Chinese goods until the completion of a second phase of a U.S.China trade agreement | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 14 U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday the United States would keep in place tariffs on Chinese goods until the completion of a second phase of a U.S.China trade agreement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china-mnuchin/u-s-will-keep-in-place-tariffs-on-chinese-imports-for-now-mnuchin-idUSW1N28T00E | 2020-01-15 |
| After the deal was announced on Jan | Positive | LAGOS Shares in Nigerian oil company Lekoil Ltd plunged more than on Tuesday following a suspension of trading after the firm discovered that a million loan it had announced was fraudulent | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-oil/lekoil-shares-plunge-as-company-launches-loan-scam-investigation-idUSKBN1ZD2VU | 2020-01-15 |
| Continental Gold shareholders are scheduled to vote on the deal at an upcoming special meeting on Jan | Positive | The | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-continental-gold-m-a-zijin-mining/continental-gold-says-iss-glass-lewis-urge-shareholders-to-vote-for-zijin-deal-idUSKBN1ZD1Y7 | 2020-01-15 |
| Tuesdays filing by Flynns lawyers asked Sullivan to postpone the Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON Lawyers for Michael Flynn U.S. President Donald Trumps former national security adviser on Tuesday said in a court filing that he would seek to withdraw his guilty plea in former Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-flynn/trump-ex-adviser-flynn-seeks-to-withdraw-guilty-plea-idUSKBN1ZE04K | 2020-01-15 |
| TOKYO Jan 15 Japanese shares eased on Wednesday after hitting a fourweek high in the previous session as comments by a top U.S. official that current tariffs on Chinese goods would stay for now made investors cautious ahead of the signing of a preliminary trade deal | Negative | TOKYO Jan 15 Japanese shares eased on Wednesday after hitting a fourweek high in the previous session as comments by a top U.S. official that current tariffs on Chinese goods would stay for now made investors cautious ahead of the signing of a preliminary trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-slips-off-4-week-high-on-caution-over-u-s-china-trade-deal-idUSL4N29K0MG | 2020-01-15 |
| THE HAGUE The International Court of Justice the United Nations highest court will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on Jan | Negative | THE HAGUE The International Court of Justice the United Nations highest court will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court/world-court-to-rule-on-emergency-measures-in-myanmar-genocide-case-on-january-23-gambia-idUSKBN1ZD2FE | 2020-01-15 |
| Kaine said four Republicans Senators Rand Paul Mike Lee Susan Collins and Todd Young had agree to support the war powers resolution he introduced on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republicancontrolled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran without congressional approval which would be a rebuke of the president after he ordered a strike that killed an Iranian commander in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/democrats-say-measure-to-rein-in-trump-on-iran-will-pass-senate-idUSKBN1ZD24K | 2020-01-15 |
| Jan 15 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | Positive | Jan 15 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/press-digest-nyt/press-digest-new-york-times-business-news-jan-15-idUSL4N29K1IY | 2020-01-15 |
| The judge denied a motion by Avenatti to bar the prosecutors from using any evidence that they turned over since Jan | Negative | NEW YORK A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Michael Avenattis requestto delay a scheduled Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime/u-s-judge-rejects-michael-avenatti-request-to-delay-nike-extortion-trial-idUSKBN1ZD2WN | 2020-01-15 |
| to become the top decliner on the Nikkei after the film and entertainment companys earnings in the three months to January fell short of investors strong expectations | Neutral | TOKYO Jan 15 Japanese shares eased on Wednesday after hitting a fourweek high in the previous session as comments by a top U.S. official that current tariffs on Chinese goods would stay for now made investors cautious ahead of the signing of a preliminary trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-slips-off-4-week-high-on-caution-over-u-s-china-trade-deal-idUSL4N29K0MG | 2020-01-15 |
| WASHINGTON New security camera footage shows two Iranian missiles fired 30 seconds apart hit a Ukrainian commercial airliner after takeoff from Tehran on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON New security camera footage shows two Iranian missiles fired 30 seconds apart hit a Ukrainian commercial airliner after takeoff from Tehran on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-video-nyt/new-video-shows-two-iranian-missiles-hit-ukraine-plane-in-iran-nyt-idUSKBN1ZD2JU | 2020-01-15 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 14 President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Apple Inc has refused to unlock phones used by criminals in a tweet a day after Trumps attorney general accused the company of not being helpful in an investigation of a Florida shooting | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 14 President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Apple Inc has refused to unlock phones used by criminals in a tweet a day after Trumps attorney general accused the company of not being helpful in an investigation of a Florida shooting | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-saudi-shooting-trump/trump-says-apple-refusing-to-unlock-phones-used-by-killers-drug-dealers-idUSW1N28T00C | 2020-01-15 |
| Jan 15 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | Positive | Jan 15 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/press-digest-wsj/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-15-idUSL4N29K1FW | 2020-01-15 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexican mining company Minera Autlan said on Tuesday a suspension of operations at its ferroalloys plant in the northern city of Gomez Palacio since December has extended into January due to difficult domestic steel market conditions | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexican mining company Minera Autlan said on Tuesday a suspension of operations at its ferroalloys plant in the northern city of Gomez Palacio since December has extended into January due to difficult domestic steel market conditions | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-minera-autlan/mexicos-minera-autlan-says-stoppage-at-gomez-palacio-plant-extended-idUSKBN1ZD2VB | 2020-01-15 |
| TOKYO Jan 15 Stocks were steady in early Asian trade on Wednesday as investors awaited the signing of an initial U.S.China trade deal with sentiment somewhat dented by comments from the U.S. Treasury Secretary that tariffs would remain in place for now | Neutral | typographical error in lead | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/refile-global-markets-stocks-tread-water-ahead-of-signing-of-initial-u-s-china-trade-deal-idUSL4N29K076 | 2020-01-15 |
| Jan 14 The following are the top stories in The Wall Street Journal | Positive | Jan 14 The following are the top stories in The Wall Street Journal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/press-digest-wsj/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-14-idUSL4N29J1JF | 2020-01-14 |
| WELLINGTON Jan 14 New Zealand Rugby are going to have seek a new major sponsor after AIG on Tuesday decided against renewing the current agreement when it ends next year | Neutral | WELLINGTON Jan 14 New Zealand Rugby are going to have seek a new major sponsor after AIG on Tuesday decided against renewing the current agreement when it ends next year | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/rugby-union-newzealand/rugby-aig-decides-against-renewing-sponsorship-with-nz-rugby-idUSL4N29J02D | 2020-01-14 |
| As the second impeachment trial in U.S. history was about to begin in January 1999 senators were at an impasse over the question of witnesses | Negative | WASHINGTON John Bolton meet Monica Lewinsky | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-clinton/trump-impeachment-trial-fight-for-bolton-testimony-echoes-monica-lewinsky-idUSKBN1ZC11G | 2020-01-14 |
| Thai authorities are stepping up monitoring at airports ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday beginning on Jan | Neutral | BANGKOK A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus authorities said on Monday the first time it has been detected outside China | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-thailand/chinese-woman-with-mystery-virus-quarantined-in-thailand-idUSKBN1ZC0ZF | 2020-01-14 |
| HANOI Jan 14 Vietnams largest conglomerate Vingroup said on Tuesday it has scraped its plan to launch an airline to focus on technologies and industrial production | Negative | HANOI Jan 14 Vietnams largest conglomerate Vingroup said on Tuesday it has scraped its plan to launch an airline to focus on technologies and industrial production | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/vingroup-vinpearlair/vietnams-vingroup-scraps-plan-to-launch-airline-idUSL4N29J17O | 2020-01-14 |
| SINGAPORE Jan 14 Asian shares hit a 7month high Chinas yuan jumped and safeharbour assets slipped on Tuesday amid signs of goodwill between China and the United States as the worlds two biggest economies prepared to sign a truce in their trade war | Positive | Imminent trade deal drives optimism | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-yuan-soars-stocks-scale-heights-as-markets-cheer-imminent-sino-u-s-deal-signing-idUSL4N29J0V3 | 2020-01-14 |
| BERLIN Germany plans to hold a summit aimed at plotting a path to peace in Libya on Jan | Positive | BERLIN Germany plans to hold a summit aimed at plotting a path to peace in Libya on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-germany-libya/germany-plans-to-hold-libya-summit-on-jan-19-participants-idUSKBN1ZC0WL | 2020-01-14 |
| Jan 13 Dark comic book story led nominations on Monday for the Oscars with 11 nods including best picture and best actor for Joaquin Phoenix | Positive | number of actors of color 7th | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/awards-oscars-nominations/corrected-update-2-joker-leads-oscar-nominations-with-11-idUSL1N29I0BW | 2020-01-14 |
| Another 18 million barrels of storage capacity were under construction in the Corpus Christi area in the week to Jan | Neutral | YORK U.S. crude exports from Corpus Christi Texas have surged to a record in recent weeks often surpassing hubs such as Houston and Beaumont Texas thanks to fasterthanexpected infrastructure additions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-crude-exports-graphic/crude-exports-boom-on-u-s-gulf-coast-allaying-bottleneck-fears-idUSKBN1ZD0HK | 2020-01-14 |
| SINGAPORE Jan 14 Asian share markets rose on Tuesday and safehaven assets slid as signs of goodwill between China and the United States supported optimism for global growth with the worlds two biggest economies preparing to formalise a tradewar truce | Positive | bullet 2 and paragraph 6 to show world stocks hit record milestone not Asia exJapan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/corrected-global-markets-asian-stocks-rally-to-record-high-ahead-of-trade-deal-yen-slips-idUSL4N29J04E | 2020-01-14 |
| Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said there were plans to hold a Libya conference in Berlin in January but declined to confirm the date | Positive | BERLIN Germany plans to hold a summit aimed at plotting a path to peace in Libya on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-germany-libya/germany-plans-to-hold-libya-summit-on-jan-19-participants-idUSKBN1ZC0WL | 2020-01-14 |
| SINGAPORE Jan 14 Chinese maritime authorities found a South Koreanflagged container vessel using marine fuel that exceeds the sulfur cap under new global emission rules state new agency Xinhua reported late on Monday | Negative | SINGAPORE Jan 14 Chinese maritime authorities found a South Koreanflagged container vessel using marine fuel that exceeds the sulfur cap under new global emission rules state new agency Xinhua reported late on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-marine-imo-compliance/china-reports-early-case-of-imo-fuel-non-compliance-state-media-idUSL4N29J0SQ | 2020-01-14 |
| TOKYO Jan 14 The yen plumbed an eightmonth low while the yuan climbed to its highest level since July on Tuesday after the U.S. Treasury Department reversed its decision in August to designate China as a currency manipulator | Negative | Dollar rises above 110 yen for first time since last May | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-yen-slips-yuan-ascends-after-washington-drops-china-fx-manipulator-label-idUSL4N29J04I | 2020-01-14 |
| China will celebrate the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday from Jan | Positive | BEIJING Chinas rare earth exports bounced back in December from a fourandahalfyear low the previous month as buyers ramped up purchases ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday though annual shipments still sank to their lowest in four years hit by weaker global manufacturing demand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-rareearths/china-rare-earth-exports-rebound-in-december-but-annual-shipments-lowest-since-2015-idUSKBN1ZD0CY | 2020-01-14 |
| SINGAPORE Jan 14 Asian shares rose Chinas yuan jumped and safeharbour assets slipped on Tuesday amid signs of goodwill between China and the United States as the worlds two biggest economies prepared to sign a truce in their trade war | Positive | World stocks at record high as Asian markets gain | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-yuan-soars-stocks-surge-as-investors-bet-on-imminent-u-s-china-deal-signing-idUSL4N29J1P3 | 2020-01-14 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 13 The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday said China should no longer be designated as a currency manipulator in a longdelayed semiannual currency report reversing an August finding that had roiled financial markets | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 13 The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday said China should no longer be designated as a currency manipulator in a longdelayed semiannual currency report reversing an August finding that had roiled financial markets | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-china/u-s-treasury-removes-designation-of-china-as-currency-manipulator-idUSL1N29I1KO | 2020-01-14 |
| Assanges next hearing is scheduled for Jan | Neutral | LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not getting the time he needs with his legal team to discuss his fight against extradition to the United States causing delays to the case his lawyer told a British court on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-britain-assange/wikileaks-founder-assange-needs-more-time-to-speak-to-lawyer-court-told-idUSKBN1ZC18K | 2020-01-14 |
| DUBAI Jan 12 Iran summoned the UK envoy on Sunday to complain about his attendance at an rally in Tehran to commemorate those killed in a Ukrainian airliner mistakingly downed by the countrys military forces Iranian Foreign Ministrys website reported | Negative | DUBAI Jan 12 Iran summoned the UK envoy on Sunday to complain about his attendance at an rally in Tehran to commemorate those killed in a Ukrainian airliner mistakingly downed by the countrys military forces Iranian Foreign Ministrys website reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-britain/iran-summons-uk-envoy-over-his-attendance-at-illegal-rally-idUSN9N26H03E | 2020-01-13 |
| We expect the to be fully in place to do their important work by Jan Champagne said | Positive | OTTAWA Iran has issued eight more visas to a team of Canadian officials in the wake of a fatal plane crash near Tehran and most members of the group should be in Tehran on Monday Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada-visas/iran-issues-more-visas-to-canada-team-investigating-plane-crash-idUSKBN1ZB0HP | 2020-01-13 |
| DUBAI Jan 12 A senior Iranian security official said on Sunday Iran had no intention to conceal the cause of the crash of a Ukrainian airliner which the Iranian military admitted it had mistakenly shot down the staterun IRIB news agency reported | Negative | DUBAI Jan 12 A senior Iranian security official said on Sunday Iran had no intention to conceal the cause of the crash of a Ukrainian airliner which the Iranian military admitted it had mistakenly shot down the staterun IRIB news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-shamkhani/top-iran-security-official-says-tehran-did-not-hide-cause-of-ukraine-plane-crash-idUSN9N26H03F | 2020-01-13 |
| DUBAI Jan 11 A Ukrainian plane shot down by Iran was misidentified as a cruise missile a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Saturday in a broadcast on Iranian state television | Negative | DUBAI Jan 11 A Ukrainian plane shot down by Iran was misidentified as a cruise missile a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Saturday in a broadcast on Iranian state television | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-guards-commander/irans-guards-mistook-ukrainian-plane-for-cruise-missile-official-idUSN9N26H034 | 2020-01-12 |
| DUBAI Jan 11 The Ukrainian passenger plane shot down by a missile near Tehran had not veered off its normal course Irans Civil Aviation Organisation said in a statement posted by the Tasnim news agency on Saturday | Negative | DUBAI Jan 11 The Ukrainian passenger plane shot down by a missile near Tehran had not veered off its normal course Irans Civil Aviation Organisation said in a statement posted by the Tasnim news agency on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-flight-path/ukrainian-passenger-plane-shot-by-missile-in-iran-had-not-veered-off-its-normal-course-statement-idUSN9N26H038 | 2020-01-12 |
| DUBAI Jan 11 Irans Revolutionary Guards accepts full responsibility for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner a senior commander of the guards said in a video posted online by state TV on Saturday | Negative | DUBAI Jan 11 Irans Revolutionary Guards accepts full responsibility for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner a senior commander of the guards said in a video posted online by state TV on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-guards/irans-guards-accept-responsibility-for-downing-ukrainian-plane-idUSN9N26H032 | 2020-01-12 |
| DUBAI Jan 11 A group of Iranian protesters demanded Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei step down on Saturday after Tehran said that its military had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 people on board | Negative | DUBAI Jan 11 A group of Iranian protesters demanded Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei step down on Saturday after Tehran said that its military had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 people on board | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-protests/iranian-protesters-demand-khamenei-quits-over-plane-downing-video-on-twitter-idUSN9N26H036 | 2020-01-12 |
| TORONTO Jan 10 Prince Harry and his wife Meghan can expect less intense local media scrutiny than they have faced in Britain should they move to Canada experts said on Friday though international press attention will be impossible to avoid | Positive | comments on racialized | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-royals-press/update-1-prince-harry-and-meghan-would-find-friendlier-media-in-canada-but-impossible-to-escape-scrutiny-idUSL1N29G00N | 2020-01-12 |
| DUBAI Jan 11 A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Saturday he knew a missile had brought down a Ukrainian plane the same day it happened and accepted full responsibility saying his force had acted in error while on alert for allout | Negative | quotes from senior Guards | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-crash-guards/update-1-irans-guards-knew-missile-to-blame-on-day-ukraine-plane-crashed-idUSL8N29G0B2 | 2020-01-12 |
| The commission added that no new cases had been detected since Jan | Neutral | SHANGHAI A 61yearold man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an outbreak of a yet to be identified virus while seven others are in critical condition the Wuhan health authorities said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/man-infected-with-mystery-virus-in-china-dies-after-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZA00D | 2020-01-12 |
| LONDON Jan 11 Meghan the wife of Britains Prince Harry has agreed to record a voiceover for Disney in return for the company making a donation to a charity that works to protect elephants the Londonbased Times reported on Saturday | Positive | LONDON Jan 11 Meghan the wife of Britains Prince Harry has agreed to record a voiceover for Disney in return for the company making a donation to a charity that works to protect elephants the Londonbased Times reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-royals/british-royal-meghan-signed-deal-with-disney-times-report-idUSL8N29G09T | 2020-01-12 |
| The group is expected to announce fourthquarter sales on Jan | Neutral | In September Casino confirmed media reports saying the French retailer was talks with Aldi to sell Leader Price | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-casino-divestiture/casino-close-to-selling-discount-chain-leader-price-to-rival-aldi-source-idUSKBN1ZA0ON | 2020-01-12 |
| Turkeys defense ministry said attacks by air and land would halt at one minute past midnight on Jan | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkeys Defence Ministry said on Friday that it had agreed with Russia that a ceasefire will be implemented on Sunday in northwestern Syrias Idlib region to stem the flow of civilians uprooted by the violence | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/turkey-says-ceasefire-will-be-implemented-in-syrias-idlib-jan-12-idUSKBN1Z91O6 | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 10 The United States is imposing additional sanctions on Iran as a result of its attack on U.S. troops in Iraq this week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 10 The United States is imposing additional sanctions on Iran as a result of its attack on U.S. troops in Iraq this week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-iran-after-attack-on-u-s-allied-troops-mnuchin-idUSW1N28M00S | 2020-01-11 |
| But Abe will visit the region as intended from Jan | Positive | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will go ahead with a planned trip to Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates and Oman from the weekend despite heightened tensions in the Middle East while Tokyo also dispatched a warship and patrol planes to the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-iraq-security-japan/japan-pm-heading-to-middle-east-as-planned-warship-dispatch-ordered-idUSKBN1Z9029 | 2020-01-11 |
| Jan 9 The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to stop President Donald Trump from further military action against Iran as the Middle East remained tense after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian commander and Irans retaliatory missile strikes | Negative | Trump remarks on planned embassy paragraphs | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-7-u-s-house-votes-to-rein-in-trumps-war-powers-as-u-s-iran-tensions-stay-high-idUSL8N29E5D7 | 2020-01-11 |
| Liu will visit Washington from Jan | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump who announced last month that the Phase 1 trade deal with China would be signed on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-deal/trump-says-china-trade-deal-may-be-signed-shortly-after-january-15-idUSKBN1Z90CR | 2020-01-11 |
| LONDON Jan 10 Meghan the wife of Britains Prince Harry has gone back to Canada to be with their son after the couple made a shock announcement that they will step back from their royal roles and spend much of their time in North America | Positive | LONDON Jan 10 Meghan the wife of Britains Prince Harry has gone back to Canada to be with their son after the couple made a shock announcement that they will step back from their royal roles and spend much of their time in North America | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-royals/meghan-goes-back-to-canada-to-be-with-son-archie-after-royal-rift-idUSL9N28L00N | 2020-01-11 |
| Jan 10 The following bids mergers acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2100 GMT on | Positive | TMobile Geely Automobile Atlantia Thyssenkrupp Updates Takeaway | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/deals-day/deals-of-the-day-mergers-and-acquisitions-idUSL4N29F2QT | 2020-01-11 |
| LONDON Jan 10 The U.S. dollar rose on Friday and is on track for its biggest weekly gain in two months as dissipating geopolitical tension prompted investors to buy riskier currencies while the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc gave up all their recent gains | Positive | lead paragraph to show dollar on track for best weekly gain in two months not two | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/corrected-forex-dollar-set-for-best-weekly-gain-in-two-months-on-galvanising-forces-idUSL8N29F2IR | 2020-01-11 |
| It is expected to give forecasts for 2020 when it issues annual results at the end of January | Negative | PARIS Airbus posted higher airplane orders for 2019 but failed to keep pace with deliveries for the second year in a row after axing its A380 superjumbo program and clearing its books of some defunct deals left over from a faltering industry order boom | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-orders/airbus-net-orders-rise-but-lag-behind-deliveries-in-2019-idUSKBN1Z92CW | 2020-01-11 |
| Drummonds last day is Jan | Neutral | Alphabets new Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Friday gained the opportunity to reshape the leadership of Googles parent with the exit of Chief Legal Officer David Drummond whose outsized strategic role was overshadowed by employee concerns about his personal relationship with a subordinate | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-alphabet-executive/alphabet-legal-head-drummond-exits-giving-its-new-ceo-chance-to-shake-up-team-idUSKBN1Z9258 | 2020-01-11 |
| Iran fired missiles on Wednesday at bases in Iraq where U.S. troops were stationed in retaliation for Soleimanis killing in a U.S. drone attack of in Baghdad on Jan | Negative | Trump remarks on planned embassy paragraphs | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-7-u-s-house-votes-to-rein-in-trumps-war-powers-as-u-s-iran-tensions-stay-high-idUSL8N29E5D7 | 2020-01-11 |
| Jan 10 European shares firmed on Friday as relief over a deescalation in U.SIran military tensions continued to bolster global equities | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-up-as-relief-rally-from-easing-mideast-worries-continues-idUSL4N29F1T0 | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON The Trump administration has invited at least 200 people to a Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration has invited at least 200 people to a Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/as-white-house-plans-u-s-china-phase-1-ceremony-still-no-final-deal-text-idUSKBN1Z91VU | 2020-01-11 |
| McConnell has not yet published a draft of the resolution but he said it would be very to one adopted in January 1999 during the Clinton trial | Neutral | U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he has enough support from his fellow Republicans to begin the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump even though lawmakers have yet to agree whether to call witnesses | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-rules-explainer/explainer-what-is-mcconnells-proposed-impeachment-trial-format-idUSKBN1Z9148 | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON Veteran activist and actor Jane Fonda was joined by fellow Hollywood stars Joaquin Phoenix and Martin Sheen at the foot of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Friday where they demanded action on climate change alongside other protesters | Positive | WASHINGTON Veteran activist and actor Jane Fonda was joined by fellow Hollywood stars Joaquin Phoenix and Martin Sheen at the foot of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Friday where they demanded action on climate change alongside other protesters | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-jane-fonda/jane-fonda-joaquin-phoenix-join-climate-protesters-outside-u-s-congress-idUSKBN1Z92D8 | 2020-01-11 |
| Her extradition hearing is set to begin on Jan | Negative | TORONTO Huawei executive Meng Wanzhous conduct amounts to fraud under Canadian law and the court need not consider U.S. sanctions law Canadian federal prosecutors argued in a court filing released on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-canada/canadian-prosecutors-say-case-against-huawei-cfo-is-about-fraud-not-sanctions-idUSKBN1Z92D2 | 2020-01-11 |
| A more indepth and technical description of the tests performed on the bar is published in the January issue of the magazine Arqueologia Mexicana | Positive | MEXICO CITY A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar found decades ago in downtown Mexico City reveals it was part of the plunder Spanish conquerors tried to carry away as they fled the Aztec capital after native warriors forced a hasty retreat | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-archeology/gold-bar-found-beneath-mexico-city-street-was-part-of-moctezumas-treasure-idUSKBN1Z90ED | 2020-01-11 |
| DUBAI Jan 10 The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Jan 10 The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/iraq-security-iran-rezaie/sanctioned-iranian-commander-says-new-u-s-limitations-are-symbolic-tweet-idUSL1N29E0AH | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON The Phase 1 U.S.China trade deal is on track to be signed Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON The Phase 1 U.S.China trade deal is on track to be signed Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-kudlow/white-house-adviser-says-u-s-china-trade-deal-on-track-for-january-15-idUSKBN1Z91NC | 2020-01-11 |
| AUSTIN Texas Jan 10 Apple Inc is trying to change the way electronics are recycled with a robot that disassembles its iconic iPhone so that minerals can be recovered and reused but rising global demand for electronics means new mines will still be needed by manufacturers | Positive | AUSTIN Texas Jan 10 Apple Inc is trying to change the way electronics are recycled with a robot that disassembles its iconic iPhone so that minerals can be recovered and reused but rising global demand for electronics means new mines will still be needed by manufacturers | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-minerals-recycling/apple-pushes-recycling-with-robot-but-mined-metals-still-needed-idUSL1N298151 | 2020-01-11 |
| White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told Fox Business the trade deal is on track to be signed on Jan | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. stocks fell on Friday from recordhigh levels as investors took profit and data showed slowerthanexpected December U.S. jobs growth but the major indexes posted gains for the week | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks/wall-street-slips-from-records-after-jobs-data-but-posts-weekly-gains-idUSKBN1Z91BD | 2020-01-11 |
| Guaido invoked the constitution last January to assume a rival presidency arguing that Maduros 2018 reelection was a sham | Negative | WASHINGTON Venezuelas opposition is calling on the United States and other countries to step up pressure on Russia over its support for socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro the oppositions envoy to Washington said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-venezuela-politics-russia/venezuela-opposition-calls-on-u-s-to-step-up-pressure-on-maduro-ally-russia-idUSKBN1Z922X | 2020-01-11 |
| NEW YORK Jan 10 The dollar edged higher and global equity markets rallied to fresh highs on Friday after a U.S. labor report showed job growth slowed in December while still underpinning a strong economy that will allow the Federal Reserve to stand pat on interest rate policy | Positive | Dollar rises to twoweek high | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-dollar-gains-stocks-set-fresh-highs-on-u-s-labor-report-idUSL8N29F40K | 2020-01-11 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump who announced last month that the Phase 1 trade deal with China would be signed on Jan | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump who announced last month that the Phase 1 trade deal with China would be signed on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-deal/trump-says-china-trade-deal-may-be-signed-shortly-after-january-15-idUSKBN1Z90CR | 2020-01-11 |
| LAUSANNE Switzerland Jan 10 The International Olympic Committee has to connect with hundreds of millions of gamers worldwide if the Olympic body is to remain relevant with the younger generation IOC President Thomas Bach said on Friday | Neutral | LAUSANNE Switzerland Jan 10 The International Olympic Committee has to connect with hundreds of millions of gamers worldwide if the Olympic body is to remain relevant with the younger generation IOC President Thomas Bach said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-ioc/olympics-games-must-connect-with-gamers-to-keep-olympics-relevant-bach-idUSL8N29F3SI | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 10 The U.S. State Department said on Friday Britains request for the extradition of a U.S. diplomats wife who was involved in a fatal car crash in Britain would be highly inappropriate | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 10 The U.S. State Department said on Friday Britains request for the extradition of a U.S. diplomats wife who was involved in a fatal car crash in Britain would be highly inappropriate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/britain-usa-crash-state/u-s-rebuffs-britains-request-for-extradition-of-u-s-diplomats-wife-idUSW1N28T00B | 2020-01-11 |
| The new software organisation starts operation in January 2020 according to a presentation on Volkswagens website | Neutral | FRANKFURT Volkswagen Group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-volkswagen-deliveries/volkswagens-2019-vehicle-deliveries-slightly-above-2018-idUSKBN1Z81KJ | 2020-01-10 |
| They had said Trump made his alleged defamatory statements in Washington D.C. his home since becoming president in January 2017 and therefore could not be sued in New York | Positive | NEW YORK A longtime Elle magazine advice columnist may proceed with her lawsuit accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of defamation for denying he raped her roughly 24 years ago in a Manhattan department store a New York state judge has ruled | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-defamation-lawsuit/trump-loses-bid-to-dismiss-rape-accusers-defamation-lawsuit-in-new-york-idUSKBN1Z82RT | 2020-01-10 |
| Jan 9 Lawyers for Bill Cosby on Thursday asked the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to hear his appeal of his 2018 sexual assault conviction a month after a lower court rejected their argument that the disgraced comedian did not get a fair trial | Negative | Jan 9 Lawyers for Bill Cosby on Thursday asked the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to hear his appeal of his 2018 sexual assault conviction a month after a lower court rejected their argument that the disgraced comedian did not get a fair trial | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-cosby/bill-cosby-asks-pennsylvania-top-court-to-hear-appeal-on-sex-crime-conviction-idUSL8N29E5VB | 2020-01-10 |
| LONDON Jan 9 World markets looked to have overcome their new year wobbles on Thursday as the United States and Iran backed away from conflict in the Middle East | Positive | Safety rush turns to relief rally as Mideast tension eases | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-back-from-the-brink-back-on-the-bull-ride-idUSL8N29E3SZ | 2020-01-10 |
| Apple is scheduled to release its next quarterly financial report in late January | Neutral | China is gearing up for the Lunar New Year in late January a major giftgiving holiday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china/apples-iphone-sales-in-china-up-18-in-december-government-data-idUSKBN1Z81CP | 2020-01-10 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Jan 9 Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was making some changes to its approach to political ads including allowing users to turn off certain adtargeting tools but the updates stop far short of critics demands and what rival companies have pledged to do | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Jan 9 Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was making some changes to its approach to political ads including allowing users to turn off certain adtargeting tools but the updates stop far short of critics demands and what rival companies have pledged to do | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-politics/ahead-of-u-s-election-facebook-gives-users-some-control-over-how-they-see-political-ads-idUSL8N29E084 | 2020-01-10 |
| PARIS Jan 9 Iran has formally invited the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to take part in its investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian jetliner and the U.S. agency has agreed to assign an investigator an Iranian official said on Thursday | Positive | PARIS Jan 9 Iran has formally invited the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to take part in its investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian jetliner and the U.S. agency has agreed to assign an investigator an Iranian official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-crash-investigation/u-s-to-join-probe-of-jet-disaster-no-missile-link-iran-official-idUSL8N29E6P6 | 2020-01-10 |
| LONDON Lawmakers approved legislation on Thursday which will allow Britain to leave the European Union on Jan | Neutral | LONDON Lawmakers approved legislation on Thursday which will allow Britain to leave the European Union on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/uk-lawmakers-back-eu-exit-deal-turning-page-on-brexit-crisis-idUSKBN1Z81EO | 2020-01-10 |
| Jan 9 Facebook Incs Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday he was dropping his annual challenges this year to take a longer term focus on the decade ahead | Neutral | Jan 9 Facebook Incs Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday he was dropping his annual challenges this year to take a longer term focus on the decade ahead | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-zuckerberg-goals/facebook-ceo-zuckerberg-drops-annual-challenges-to-focus-on-longer-term-goals-idUSL4N29E3OA | 2020-01-10 |
| The tender period for both offers ends on Jan 10 | Neutral | AMSTERDAM Dutch food ordering company Takeaway | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-just-eat-m-a-takeaway-com/takeaway-shareholders-approve-just-eat-acquisition-company-idUSKBN1Z81SW | 2020-01-10 |
| VATICAN CITY Jan 9 Pope Francis on Thursday urged the United States and Iran to avoid escalation and pursue dialogue and to avert a wider conflict in the Middle East | Positive | VATICAN CITY Jan 9 Pope Francis on Thursday urged the United States and Iran to avoid escalation and pursue dialogue and to avert a wider conflict in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-pope/pope-appeals-to-u-s-and-iran-to-pursue-dialogue-self-restraint-idUSL8N29E2EN | 2020-01-10 |
| Jan 9 Private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc has secured | Neutral | Jan 9 Private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc has secured | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/blackstone-group-fund/blackstone-raises-three-quarters-of-targeted-4-6-billion-life-sciences-fund-idUSL1N29E1EG | 2020-01-10 |
| The allegation that refugees were attacked on Jan | Negative | Fifteen people were injured in the Dec | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-kenya-lgbt-refugees-trfn/african-lgbt-refugees-plead-u-n-for-safe-shelter-after-kenya-camp-attacks-idUSKBN1Z824U | 2020-01-10 |
| Jan 9 Iran spurned the U.S. presidents call for a new nuclear pact and its commanders threatened more attacks after both sides backed off from intensified conflict following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Tehrans retaliatory missile strikes | Negative | Iranian commander analysts | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-u-s-iran-draw-back-from-brink-but-new-threats-show-crisis-not-over-idUSL8N29E0Z4 | 2020-01-10 |
| The investigation was suspended until January 6 | Negative | The EUs deadline for a decision is now April 30 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-embraer-m-a-boeing-eu/eu-resumes-probe-into-boeing-embraer-deal-sets-new-april-30-deadline-idUSKBN1Z816X | 2020-01-10 |
| NEW YORK Jan 9 Crude oil prices slid and equity markets around the world set new highs on Thursday as investors took on greater risk in a relief rally after the United States and Iran moved to defuse escalating tensions in the Middle East | Positive | Stocks surge in global relief rally as Mideast tension eases | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-scale-records-oil-dips-as-investors-hail-easing-of-mideast-tensions-idUSL1N29E11D | 2020-01-10 |
| Liu will visit Washington on Jan | Positive | BEIJING Chinas Vice Premier Liu He head of the countrys negotiation team in SinoU.S. trade talks will sign a Phase deal in Washington next week the commerce ministry said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/chinas-vice-premier-liu-to-sign-u-s-trade-deal-in-washington-next-week-idUSKBN1Z80O3 | 2020-01-10 |
| LONDON Jan 9 Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have announced they will step back from senior roles in the royal family a move that raises questions about how they will earn an income who will pay for their security and what their new positions will involve | Positive | LONDON Jan 9 Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have announced they will step back from senior roles in the royal family a move that raises questions about how they will earn an income who will pay for their security and what their new positions will involve | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-royals-explainer/explainer-prince-harry-and-meghan-the-half-royals-how-will-it-work-idUSL8N29E31U | 2020-01-10 |
| Porter requested that Wells Fargo refund the rebates by Jan | Positive | A copy of the letter was viewed by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-wells-fargo-congress/democratic-lawmaker-rebukes-wells-fargo-rebate-request-idUSKBN1Z81BF | 2020-01-10 |
| JERUSALEM Jan 9 Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron said on Thursday it would need a significant economic slowdown for policymakers to lower shortterm interest rates | Neutral | Bank of Israel keeps benchmark interest rate at 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/israel-rates/update-2-israels-economy-would-have-to-deteriorate-significantly-before-a-rate-cut-cenbank-chief-idUSL8N29E4U7 | 2020-01-10 |
| LONDON Jan 9 The decision by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan to step back from their senior roles is a matter for the royal household a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday | Positive | LONDON Jan 9 The decision by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan to step back from their senior roles is a matter for the royal household a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-royals-johnson/prince-harrys-decision-is-matter-for-royal-household-pm-johnsons-spokesman-idUSS8N26904P | 2020-01-10 |
| China is gearing up for the Lunar New Year in late January a major giftgiving holiday | Positive | China is gearing up for the Lunar New Year in late January a major giftgiving holiday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china/apples-iphone-sales-in-china-up-18-in-december-government-data-idUSKBN1Z81CP | 2020-01-10 |
| Jan 9 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | Positive | Jan 9 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/press-digest-wsj/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-9-idUSL4N29E1JO | 2020-01-09 |
| SHANGHAI Jan 9 Chinas internet firms have fallen behind global peers in sourcing energy from clean renewable sources with soaring use of internet data driving up energy demand and carbon emissions environmental group Greenpeace said in a report on Thursday | Negative | SHANGHAI Jan 9 Chinas internet firms have fallen behind global peers in sourcing energy from clean renewable sources with soaring use of internet data driving up energy demand and carbon emissions environmental group Greenpeace said in a report on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-energy-internet/chinese-internet-firms-falling-behind-on-renewable-energy-goals-greenpeace-idUSL4N29C1HH | 2020-01-09 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey and Russia on Wednesday called on all parties in Libya to stop hostilities and declare a ceasefire at midnight on January 12 after talks between presidents Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin in Istanbul | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkey and Russia on Wednesday called on all parties in Libya to stop hostilities and declare a ceasefire at midnight on January 12 after talks between presidents Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin in Istanbul | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-turkey-russia/turkey-russia-call-for-ceasefire-in-libya-on-jan-12-idUSKBN1Z7255 | 2020-01-09 |
| ISTANBUL Jan 9 The Turkish lira was firmer against the dollar early on Thursday as the United States and Iran backed away from further conflict lowering tensions in the Middle East | Positive | ISTANBUL Jan 9 The Turkish lira was firmer against the dollar early on Thursday as the United States and Iran backed away from further conflict lowering tensions in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/turkey-lira/turkish-lira-firmer-against-dollar-as-mideast-tensions-ease-idUSI7N28G042 | 2020-01-09 |
| TOKYO Jan 9 Japanese government bond prices fell on Thursday after the United States and Iran both indicated they are not seeking a wider military conflict easing concern about the risk of war in the Middle East | Positive | TOKYO Jan 9 Japanese government bond prices fell on Thursday after the United States and Iran both indicated they are not seeking a wider military conflict easing concern about the risk of war in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-bonds/jgb-prices-fall-on-relief-as-u-s-iran-avoid-wider-conflict-idUSL4N29E156 | 2020-01-09 |
| LONDON Jan 8 Facebook and eBay have promised to better identify probe and respond to fake and misleading reviews Britains Competition and Markets Authority said on Wednesday after pressing the online platforms to tackle the issue | Negative | LONDON Jan 8 Facebook and eBay have promised to better identify probe and respond to fake and misleading reviews Britains Competition and Markets Authority said on Wednesday after pressing the online platforms to tackle the issue | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-regulation-techonlogy/facebook-and-ebay-pledge-to-better-tackle-fake-reviews-idUSL8N29D35V | 2020-01-09 |
| NEW YORK Jan 8 Gold and oil prices retreated on Wednesday after earlier surging and shares on Wall Street advanced amid investor optimism that Irans attack on U.S. forces in Iraq was unlikely to escalate into a fullblown conflict in the region | Negative | Wall Street rebounds global index trades flattish | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-gold-prices-retreat-as-worries-abate-over-larger-mideast-conflict-idUSL8N29D54D | 2020-01-09 |
| Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had said the strikes Tehrans response to the U.S. killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON Irans missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraqs alAsad airbase the top U.S. military officer said in remarks that suggested that Tehran was and perhaps still is willing to risk major U.S. retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iraq-security-pentagon/iran-intended-to-kill-u-s-personnel-in-missile-attack-u-s-general-idUSKBN1Z72ZM | 2020-01-09 |
| KIEV Jan 9 Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the government was considering several possible causes of a plane crash in Iran which killed 176 citizens of 7 countries | Negative | quote | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-crash-president/update-1-ukraine-considering-several-possibilities-behind-iran-plane-crash-idUSL8N29E0NH | 2020-01-09 |
| LONDON Jan 8 Queen Elizabeths Buckingham Palace issued a statement on Wednesay saying discussions with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan over their plans to step back from royal duties were at an early stage | Positive | LONDON Jan 8 Queen Elizabeths Buckingham Palace issued a statement on Wednesay saying discussions with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan over their plans to step back from royal duties were at an early stage | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/britain-royals-harry-buckingham/uks-buckingham-palace-says-it-understands-harry-and-meghans-move-idUSL8N29D6LB | 2020-01-09 |
| The 30 potential jurors who were not dismissed Wednesday are expected to return Jan | Positive | NEW YORK Dozens of potential jurors were excused on Wednesday from serving in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein as the former movie producers lawyers accused the judge presiding over the trial of bias | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein/dozens-excused-from-weinstein-jury-as-lawyers-seek-judges-removal-idUSKBN1Z71J2 | 2020-01-09 |
| BENGALURU Jan 9 SoftBank Group Corp is in talks to sell a majority stake in its renewables joint venture in India as it aims to raise cash amid global investment setbacks Indias Economic Times daily reported on Thursday | Negative | BENGALURU Jan 9 SoftBank Group Corp is in talks to sell a majority stake in its renewables joint venture in India as it aims to raise cash amid global investment setbacks Indias Economic Times daily reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/softbank-india/softbank-in-talks-to-sell-stake-in-indian-renewables-venture-et-idUSL4N29E12K | 2020-01-09 |
| Under the new offer launching on Jan 13 members of Chases Sapphire Reserve credit card will earn 10 rewards point on every dollar they spend on Lyft rides | Positive | Lyft Inc on Wednesday said it has teamed up with JPMorgan Chase Co to offer extended rewards to Chase customers using their credit cards to pay for Lyft rides | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-lyft-jp-morgan/lyft-and-chase-to-offer-credit-card-ride-hailing-rewards-idUSKBN1Z72PD | 2020-01-09 |
| I think its good what theyve said Sydney marketing researcher Janani Venkat | Positive | LONDON Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will step back from senior roles in Britains royal family and spend more time in North America they said on Wednesday an announcement that appears to have taken his grandmother Queen Elizabeth by surprise | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-royals-harry/british-royals-harry-and-meghan-step-back-from-senior-roles-in-surprise-move-idUSKBN1Z72NJ | 2020-01-09 |
| ZURICH Jan 9 The Swiss National Bank expects to post an annual profit of 49 billion Swiss francs | Positive | ZURICH Jan 9 The Swiss National Bank expects to post an annual profit of 49 billion Swiss francs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/snb-results/swiss-national-bank-expects-profit-of-49-bln-sfr-for-2019-idUSS8N29B011 | 2020-01-09 |
| CARACAS Jan 8 Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuelas government and military including the OPEC nations oil ministry and the armed forces operational command | Negative | CARACAS Jan 8 Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuelas government and military including the OPEC nations oil ministry and the armed forces operational command | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-politics-twitter/twitter-suspends-over-a-dozen-venezuelan-government-military-accounts-idUSL1N29D1DM | 2020-01-09 |
| Morales term ends on Jan | Negative | GUATEMALA CITY Outgoing Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said on Wednesday his administration had not agreed to accept deported Mexican asylumseekers under a deal with the United States despite U.S. guidance to asylum officers to do so | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-immigration-guatemala/outgoing-guatemala-leader-denies-agreeing-to-take-mexican-migrants-from-u-s-idUSKBN1Z72TS | 2020-01-09 |
| TOKYO Jan 9 Japanese shares surged on Thursday recovering all the losses from the previous session after the United States and Iran signalled their desire to avoid further military conflict | Positive | TOKYO Jan 9 Japanese shares surged on Thursday recovering all the losses from the previous session after the United States and Iran signalled their desire to avoid further military conflict | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/japanese-shares-bounce-back-after-u-s-iran-anxiety-eases-idUSL4N29E0JG | 2020-01-09 |
| planned a meeting for January 2019 to try to conclude the deal | Positive | BEIRUT Fugitive former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn said that he was brought down by a plot cooked up at the company some of whose executives he named at a news conference in Beirut on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-highlights/former-nissan-boss-ghosn-points-the-finger-at-news-conference-idUSKBN1Z71VR | 2020-01-09 |
| UNITED NATIONS Jan 8 The United States told the United Nations on Wednesday that the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani last week was selfdefense and vowed to take additional action as in the Middle East to protect U.S. personnel and interests | Negative | Iran letter further | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-usa-un/update-1-at-u-n-u-s-justifies-killing-iranian-commander-as-self-defense-idUSL1N29E03Q | 2020-01-09 |
| TOKYO Jan 9 Japanese shares jumped the most in nearly a month on Thursday recovering all the losses from the previous session after the United States and Iran signalled their desire to avoid further military conflict | Positive | TOKYO Jan 9 Japanese shares jumped the most in nearly a month on Thursday recovering all the losses from the previous session after the United States and Iran signalled their desire to avoid further military conflict | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-close/japan-shares-climb-most-in-nearly-a-month-as-fear-of-u-s-iran-war-recedes-idUSL4N29E17Q | 2020-01-09 |
| LOS ANGELES Jan 8 The 2020 Oscars ceremony in February will again have no host the president of ABC Television Entertainment said on Wednesday | Negative | LOS ANGELES Jan 8 The 2020 Oscars ceremony in February will again have no host the president of ABC Television Entertainment said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/awards-oscars-host/oscars-will-have-no-host-again-this-year-abc-entertainment-president-says-idUSL1N29D1CJ | 2020-01-09 |
| Capgemini in December encouraged Altran investors to tender their shares by January 22 | Positive | Elliott reiterated that Capgeminis bid failed to recognize Altrans value | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-altran-m-a-capgemini-elliott/capgemini-rejects-elliotts-call-for-higher-altran-bid-idUSKBN1Z71MO | 2020-01-09 |
| NEW YORK Jan 8 Oil prices tumbled and equity markets soared on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said an Iranian missile strike on bases in Iraq had not harmed U.S. troops and damage was minimal showing Tehran wanted to deescalate the Middle East standoff | Positive | Trump says Tehran down after missile attack | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-slumps-stocks-soar-as-mideast-conflict-worries-fade-idUSL1N29D1H4 | 2020-01-09 |
| DUBAI Jan 9 A Ukrainian airliner was on fire immediately before it crashed southwest of Tehran killing all 176 on board according to an initial report by Iranian investigators | Negative | details of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-crash/wrapup-1-iran-probe-says-ukrainian-jet-was-on-fire-before-crash-idUSL4N29E1HY | 2020-01-09 |
| UNITED NATIONS Jan 8 The United States told the United Nations on Wednesday that the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani was selfdefense and vowed to take additional action as in the Middle East to protect U.S. personnel and interests | Negative | UNITED NATIONS Jan 8 The United States told the United Nations on Wednesday that the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani was selfdefense and vowed to take additional action as in the Middle East to protect U.S. personnel and interests | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-usa-un/at-u-n-u-s-justifies-killing-iranian-commander-as-self-defense-idUSL1N29E03F | 2020-01-09 |
| Jan 8 Apple Inc on Wednesday said its Apple News service has reached 100 million monthly active users versus 85 million a year prior demonstrating growth in a key services business that is being closely watched by investors as iPhone sales decline | Negative | Jan 8 Apple Inc on Wednesday said its Apple News service has reached 100 million monthly active users versus 85 million a year prior demonstrating growth in a key services business that is being closely watched by investors as iPhone sales decline | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/apple-servivces/apples-news-service-reaches-100-million-users-app-store-sales-expand-idUSL1N29D03G | 2020-01-09 |
| Jan 9 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | Positive | Jan 9 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/press-digest-nyt/press-digest-new-york-times-business-news-jan-9-idUSL4N29E1EU | 2020-01-09 |
| Reuters reported on Wednesday that according to sources PTTs retail unit was planning to participate in firstround bids due by Jan | Positive | Reuters reported on Wednesday that according to sources PTTs retail unit was planning to participate in firstround bids due by Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesco-m-a-asia/thailands-ptt-says-its-retail-unit-not-interested-in-bidding-for-tescos-asian-business-idUSKBN1Z80CA | 2020-01-09 |
| NEW YORK Jan 8 Gold and oil prices retreated and equity markets rose on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said Iranian missile strikes on bases in Iraq had not harmed U.S. troops and damage was minimal showing Tehran wanted to deescalate a standoff in the Middle East | Positive | Trump remarks | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-oil-gold-prices-retreat-as-worries-abate-over-larger-mideast-conflict-idUSL1N29D14I | 2020-01-09 |
| Griffiths who spent 10 years at ITV and previously worked for publisher Emap will join Kantar on Jan | Positive | LONDON Data analytics company Kantar has appointed Ian Griffiths as its new chief financial officer bringing the former senior ITV executive to the group as it begins life under new owner Bain Capital | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-kantar-cfo/kantar-names-former-itv-exec-griffiths-as-cfo-idUSKBN1Z61XU | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Jan 8 Any U.S retaliation to Irans missile attacks on American targets in Iraq could lead to an allout war in the Middle East an adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tweeted on Wednesday | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Any U.S retaliation to Irans missile attacks on American targets in Iraq could lead to an allout war in the Middle East an adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tweeted on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-region/iranian-official-warns-any-u-s-retaliation-will-lead-to-regional-war-tweet-idUSL1N29D06C | 2020-01-08 |
| SHANGHAI Jan 8 Financial markets were roiled on Wednesday after Iran fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq sending Asian stocks and U.S. Treasury yields sliding and sharply lifting oil prices as investors feared a wider conflict in the Middle East | Negative | MSCI Asia exJapan down 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-gold-and-oil-whipsawed-as-iran-strikes-pushes-mideast-to-brink-idUSL8N29D0EN | 2020-01-08 |
| KIEV Jan 8 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that all passengers and crew on board a Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran have been killed citing preliminary information | Negative | KIEV Jan 8 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that all passengers and crew on board a Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran have been killed citing preliminary information | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-crash-zelenskiy/ukraine-president-says-passengers-crew-on-board-airliner-in-iran-dead-idUSS8N27M003 | 2020-01-08 |
| BAGHDAD Jan 7 The Iraqi military joint operations command has received a letter from the U.S. army concerning a possible withdrawal of its troops from the country Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday | Negative | detail | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-pm/update-1-iraq-has-received-u-s-letter-regarding-troop-withdrawal-pm-idUSL8N29C4VO | 2020-01-08 |
| BEIJING China will release 20000 tonnes of frozen pork from its state reserves on Jan | Neutral | BEIJING China will release 20000 tonnes of frozen pork from its state reserves on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-swinefever-pork/china-to-release-20000-t-frozen-pork-from-state-reserves-on-january-9-notice-idUSKBN1Z60OZ | 2020-01-08 |
| SHANGHAI Jan 8 Asian shares and U.S. treasury yields plunged on Wednesday while gold and oil shot higher after Iran fired rockets at an Iraqi airbase that hosts U.S. military forces stoking fears of further sharp escalations in a developing conflict | Negative | MSCI Asia exJapan off 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-slump-gold-oil-soar-after-iran-strike-on-u-s-forces-idUSL4N29D09V | 2020-01-08 |
| Goldman is expected to unveil the new targets and metrics at its firstever investor day on Jan | Neutral | Since Goldman launched the online retail bank in 2016 analysts have repeatedly asked for more details about its credit quality and growth on earnings calls | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-goldman-units/goldman-sachs-answers-investor-demands-on-consumer-bank-idUSKBN1Z61AJ | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking escalation or war Iranian Foreign Minister tweeted after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq on Wednesday adding that Tehran would defend itself against any aggression | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking escalation or war Iranian Foreign Minister tweeted after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq on Wednesday adding that Tehran would defend itself against any aggression | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-zarif/iran-does-not-seek-escalation-or-war-but-will-defend-itself-foreign-minister-tweets-idUSL1N29D050 | 2020-01-08 |
| SAN DIEGO U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter a leading California Republican who pleaded guilty last month to a federal corruption charge of conspiracy to misuse campaign funds announced on Tuesday that he would resign from office effective Jan | Negative | Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-hunter/california-congressman-convicted-in-corruption-case-to-resign-next-week-idUSKBN1Z7065 | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Jan 8 Irans missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq was the first step and Tehran will not spare American troops Iranian state TV quoted a Revolutionary Guards commander as saying on Wednesday | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Irans missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq was the first step and Tehran will not spare American troops Iranian state TV quoted a Revolutionary Guards commander as saying on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/iraq-security-iran-military/irans-revolutionary-guards-commander-says-missile-attacks-first-step-tv-idUSL1N29D04F | 2020-01-08 |
| Notice of the release comes in the runup to the Lunar New Year holiday at the end of January Chinas peak period for pork consumption | Neutral | BEIJING China will release 20000 tonnes of frozen pork from its state reserves on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-swinefever-pork/china-to-release-20000-t-frozen-pork-from-state-reserves-on-january-9-notice-idUSKBN1Z60OZ | 2020-01-08 |
| The auctions are held twice a month with the next one scheduled for Jan | Neutral | adds analyst | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/dairy-auction-results/update-1-global-dairy-prices-jump-due-to-weak-supply-idUSL4N29C3EA | 2020-01-08 |
| It is expected to report fourthquarter results on Jan | Neutral | Since Goldman launched the online retail bank in 2016 analysts have repeatedly asked for more details about its credit quality and growth on earnings calls | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-goldman-units/goldman-sachs-answers-investor-demands-on-consumer-bank-idUSKBN1Z61AJ | 2020-01-08 |
| BERLIN Jan 8 German soldiers in Erbil are all fine after Iran launched a missile attack on U.Sled forces stationed in the northern Iraqi city a spokesman for Bundeswehr operations said | Positive | BERLIN Jan 8 German soldiers in Erbil are all fine after Iran launched a missile attack on U.Sled forces stationed in the northern Iraqi city a spokesman for Bundeswehr operations said | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-germany/german-soldiers-in-erbil-are-fine-after-attack-bundeswehr-idUSL8N29D06F | 2020-01-08 |
| He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. federal prosecutors asked a judge Tuesday to sentence President Donald Trumps former national security adviser Michael Flynn to up to six months in prison according to a court filing | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-flynn/prosecutors-say-flynn-has-not-learned-his-lesson-seek-up-to-six-months-in-prison-idUSKBN1Z626M | 2020-01-08 |
| Jan 8 The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers | Positive | Jan 8 The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-press-business/press-digest-british-business-jan-8-idUSL4N29D0KK | 2020-01-08 |
| The company market value was 162 million euros as of Jan | Neutral | Slims investment arm Inversora Carso bought a stake in Quabit on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-slim-quabit-inmob/spains-real-estate-firm-quabit-shares-jump-after-slim-bet-idUSKBN1Z60ON | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Jan 8 Irans army renewed a demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East state TV reported on Wednesday after the elite Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on American targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Irans army renewed a demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East state TV reported on Wednesday after the elite Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on American targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-army/irans-army-renews-demand-for-u-s-to-withdraw-troops-from-region-state-tv-idUSL1N29D07O | 2020-01-08 |
| NEW YORK Jan 7 Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg will air a 60second television commercial during this years Super Bowl broadcast the latest example of how the billionaire is using his vast wealth to advance his campaign | Positive | NEW YORK Jan 7 Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg will air a 60second television commercial during this years Super Bowl broadcast the latest example of how the billionaire is using his vast wealth to advance his campaign | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-superbowl/taking-aim-at-trump-white-house-candidate-bloomberg-will-air-super-bowl-ad-idUSL1N29C1SY | 2020-01-08 |
| Jan 8 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | Positive | Jan 8 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/press-digest-wsj/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-8-idUSL4N29D1RR | 2020-01-08 |
| In January 2018 five people were killed when a cargo train belonging to Kansas City Southerns Mexican unit and transporting grain derailed in a municipality in the State of Mexico | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos largest railroad operator Ferromex said on Tuesday that at least seven people were killed and more than 30 injured after a bus collided with one of its cargo trains in the northern border state of Sonora in the early morning hours | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-accident-train/seven-killed-30-injured-in-mexico-train-crash-idUSKBN1Z70CR | 2020-01-08 |
| Jan 8 The following are the top stories in the Financial Times | Positive | Jan 8 The following are the top stories in the Financial Times | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-press-ft/press-digest-financial-times-jan-8-idUSL4N29D06P | 2020-01-08 |
| Closing arguments for the trial are set for Jan | Neutral | Cowen analysts expected 904000 TMobile postpaid phone adds highlighting a small win for the wireless carrier | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tmobile-results/t-mobile-gains-1-million-phone-customers-in-fourth-quarter-idUSKBN1Z6224 | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-government/iran-does-not-seek-war-but-will-give-a-crushing-response-to-attacks-tweet-idUSL1N29D06X | 2020-01-08 |
| BAGHDAD Jan 8 Iraqs military said on Wednesday that 22 missiles were launched on the Ain alAsad air base that houses U.S.led coalition troops in the western Anbar province and a base in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil causing no casualties | Negative | BAGHDAD Jan 8 Iraqs military said on Wednesday that 22 missiles were launched on the Ain alAsad air base that houses U.S.led coalition troops in the western Anbar province and a base in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil causing no casualties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iraq-security-military/no-iraqi-casualties-in-22-missile-iranian-attack-overnight-military-idUSS8N27L036 | 2020-01-08 |
| NEW YORK Jan 7 New York states highest court will consider whether U.S. President Donald Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on The in a showdown that could help determine whether Trump can be sued while in the White House | Negative | NEW YORK Jan 7 New York states highest court will consider whether U.S. President Donald Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on The in a showdown that could help determine whether Trump can be sued while in the White House | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-zervos/apprentice-contestants-lawsuit-against-trump-goes-to-top-new-york-court-idUSL1N29C1AP | 2020-01-08 |
| The ECB will next meet on Jan | Positive | Euro zone inflation jumped as expected last month offering some temporary relief for European Central Bank policymakers before price growth is expected to dip again | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy/euro-zone-inflation-picks-in-december-before-early-2020-fall-idUSKBN1Z611P | 2020-01-08 |
| SHANGHAI Jan 8 Chinas central bank lifted its official yuan midpoint to the highest in five months on Wednesday to reflect strong gains in the spot yuan in the previous session | Positive | SHANGHAI Jan 8 Chinas central bank lifted its official yuan midpoint to the highest in five months on Wednesday to reflect strong gains in the spot yuan in the previous session | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-yuan/china-lifts-yuan-midpoint-to-highest-level-in-5-months-idUSAZN0FL500 | 2020-01-08 |
| SYDNEY Jan 7 Asian shares rebounded on Tuesday as a day passed without a new escalation in the Middle East and Wall Street erased early losses to end in the black as tech stocks climbed | Positive | Nikkei bounces 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-stocks-attempt-a-rally-as-iran-anxiety-ebbs-idUSL4N29B3D0 | 2020-01-07 |
| The classaction settlement requires approval by U.S. District Judge David Campbell in Phoenix and averts a scheduled Jan | Positive | First Solar Inc said on Monday it agreed to pay million to settle a longrunning shareholder lawsuit accusing the solar panel maker of inflating its stock price by concealing design defects and reporting misleading financials over nearly four years | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-first-solar-settlement/first-solar-to-pay-350-million-to-end-shareholder-lawsuit-avert-trial-idUSKBN1Z51IT | 2020-01-07 |
| The Golden Globes for film and television organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were awarded at a gala dinner hosted by British comedian Ricky Gervais in Beverly Hills California on Jan | Positive | The Golden Globes for film and television organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were awarded at a gala dinner hosted by British comedian Ricky Gervais in Beverly Hills California on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-golden-globes-winners-factbox/factbox-key-winners-of-the-2020-golden-globes-idUSKBN1Z509M | 2020-01-07 |
| ANKARA Jan 6 Turkey will work to deescalate tensions between Iran and the United States and has been in contact with both parties after U.S. forces killed a top Iranian military commander last week Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday | Positive | ANKARA Jan 6 Turkey will work to deescalate tensions between Iran and the United States and has been in contact with both parties after U.S. forces killed a top Iranian military commander last week Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-turkey/turkey-in-touch-with-iran-u-s-and-aims-to-cool-tensions-idUSL8N29B2EF | 2020-01-07 |
| The document sets a deadline of Jan | Neutral | SHANGHAI A listed Chinese coal conglomerate that defaulted on bonds worth about billion could file for bankruptcy under a restructuring plan proposed by creditors a document seen by Reuters shows as record bond defaults push China to improve risk management | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-wtecl-bankruptcy/creditors-push-china-coal-firm-wintime-to-file-for-bankruptcy-after-defaults-idUSKBN1Z50J0 | 2020-01-07 |
| MADRID Jan 7 Spanish lawmakers are expected to vote by the narrowest of margins on Tuesday to confirm Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez as head of a leftwing coalition government | Neutral | item with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/spain-politics/rpt-spains-lawmakers-likely-to-back-sanchez-coalition-in-tight-vote-idUSL8N29B4BK | 2020-01-07 |
| Weinstein stripped naked took a brief shower took down Jane Doe 2s dress and then masturbated before releasing her | Positive | NEW YORK Once powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was charged in Los Angeles on Monday on sex crime charges just hours after he appeared in a New York court for the start of his rape trial which has become a focal point for the movement | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein/harvey-weinstein-charged-in-los-angeles-for-sex-crimes-as-ny-rape-trial-starts-idUSKBN1Z50II | 2020-01-07 |
| For the U.S. senators in the field every day now matters before a possible impeachment trial later in January | Negative | DUBUQUE Iowa With just weeks to go before Iowans kick off the Democratic presidential nominating contest on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-iowa/as-first-votes-near-2020-democratic-race-looks-wide-open-idUSKBN1Z51PS | 2020-01-07 |
| Tomasi said Autostrade would present a new business plan to 2023 in January with a focus on research and development new management models and digitalization | Positive | Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-bridge-atlantia/atlantia-units-ceo-warns-of-bankruptcy-risk-if-concession-revoked-paper-idUSKBN1Z30BB | 2020-01-07 |
| Jan 7 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | Positive | Jan 7 The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/press-digest-nyt/press-digest-new-york-times-business-news-jan-7-idUSL4N29C18E | 2020-01-07 |
| The worlds top players have assembled for the tournament and are using the event to prepare for the years first Grand Slam which starts in Melbourne on Jan | Neutral | SYDNEY Novak Djokovic braved extreme humidity to beat tricky French opponent Gael Monfils 63 62 and later helped Serbia win the doubles as they progressed at the inaugural ATP Cup team event in Brisbane on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tennis-atpcup/djokovic-nadal-march-on-with-convincing-wins-at-atp-cup-idUSKBN1Z50U8 | 2020-01-07 |
| NEW YORK Jan 6 A U.S. federal judge on Monday rejected Michael Avenattis bid to dismiss two of the three counts in an indictment accusing the celebrity lawyer of trying to extort Nike Inc | Negative | NEW YORK Jan 6 A U.S. federal judge on Monday rejected Michael Avenattis bid to dismiss two of the three counts in an indictment accusing the celebrity lawyer of trying to extort Nike Inc | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-crime-avenatti/celebrity-lawyer-avenatti-fails-to-narrow-nike-extortion-indictment-idUSL1N29B0JZ | 2020-01-07 |
| Last Januarys share buyout was the second by Margarita LouisDreyfus and like the previous one concluded in 2015 it followed protracted negotiations over valuation | Neutral | She said a year ago that she had completed the purchase of 16 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-louisdreyfus-credit-suisse-loan/louis-dreyfus-owner-pledged-stake-to-raise-1-billion-credit-suisse-loan-idUSKBN1Z513W | 2020-01-07 |
| TOKYO Jan 7 Japanese shares rebounded on Tuesday tracking overnight gains on the Wall Street amid relief that there were no escalations in tensions between the United States and Iran | Positive | TOKYO Jan 7 Japanese shares rebounded on Tuesday tracking overnight gains on the Wall Street amid relief that there were no escalations in tensions between the United States and Iran | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-tracks-overnight-wall-street-gains-as-u-s-iran-tensions-ebb-idUSL4N29C0OO | 2020-01-07 |
| German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Russia on Jan | Positive | German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Russia on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-merkel/putin-invites-merkel-to-russia-to-discuss-middle-east-crisis-idUSKBN1Z50YL | 2020-01-07 |
| Jan 6 Marketing firm Tremor International Ltd said on Monday it has agreed to buy video advertising firm Unruly from News Corp looking to bolster video services by tapping into the Rupert Murdochowned firms vast network of clients | Positive | fourth paragraph to say News Corp will get a minimum of 30 million pounds in ad spending by Tremor | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/news-corp-ma-tremor-int/corrected-update-1-tremor-international-looks-to-boost-video-advertising-with-news-corp-deal-idUSL4N29B1RV | 2020-01-07 |
| January 1 story corrects second paragraph to show the judge will consider imposing a preliminary not permanent | Negative | January 1 story corrects second paragraph to show the judge will consider imposing a preliminary not permanent | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-california-labor-lawmaking/federal-judge-temporarily-exempts-truck-drivers-from-california-gig-worker-law-idUSKBN1Z01TO | 2020-01-07 |
| SYDNEY Jan 7 Asian shares rebounded on Tuesday as a day passed without any new escalation in the Middle East and Wall Street erased early losses to end in the black as tech stocks climbed | Positive | Nikkei rallies 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-stocks-bounce-oil-slips-as-iran-anxiety-ebbs-idUSL4N29C05N | 2020-01-07 |
| The United States and China are expected to sign a preliminary deal on Jan | Positive | TOKYO The Swiss franc held gains against the dollar on Tuesday as traders sought savehavens amid heightened anxiety about potential Iranian retaliation to a U.S. drone strike that killed its most prominent military commander | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-forex/swiss-franc-and-yen-in-holding-pattern-markets-await-iran-response-idUSKBN1Z6025 | 2020-01-07 |
| Jan 6 Michael Spencer the founder of fintech company NEX Group has replaced former Conservative Party Chair Lord Saatchi as chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies the UKbased think tank said on Monday | Neutral | Jan 6 Michael Spencer the founder of fintech company NEX Group has replaced former Conservative Party Chair Lord Saatchi as chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies the UKbased think tank said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/centre-for-policy-studies-moves/moves-uk-billionaire-michael-spencer-replaces-lord-saatchi-as-cps-chairman-idUSL4N29B2N7 | 2020-01-07 |
| Jan 7 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | Positive | Jan 7 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/press-digest-wsj/press-digest-wall-street-journal-jan-7-idUSL4N29C1C6 | 2020-01-07 |
| The Golden Globes for film and television organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be presented at a gala dinner hosted by British comedian Ricky Gervais in Beverly Hills California on Jan | Positive | The Golden Globes for film and television organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be presented at a gala dinner hosted by British comedian Ricky Gervais in Beverly Hills California on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-golden-globes-nominations-fact/factbox-key-film-nominations-for-the-2020-golden-globes-idUSKBN1Z409W | 2020-01-06 |
| A Chinese trade delegation is planning to travel to Washington on Jan | Positive | A Chinese trade delegation is planning to travel to Washington on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/chinese-delegation-plans-to-travel-to-washington-to-sign-trade-deal-scmp-idUSKBN1Z40K5 | 2020-01-06 |
| Tanaka whose birthday was on Jan | Neutral | TOKYO Kane Tanaka has extended her record as the worlds oldest person by celebrating her 117th birthday at a nursing home in Fukuoka in southern Japan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-guinness-record-japan/japanese-woman-turns-117-years-old-extends-record-as-worlds-oldest-person-idUSKBN1Z40BJ | 2020-01-06 |
| com Inc is generating lots of free cash flow which it often uses to invest in growing its business making the ecommerce retailer a good investment weekly newspaper Barrons said on Jan | Positive | NEW YORK Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-amazon-barron-s/amazon-is-generating-lots-of-free-cash-flow-time-to-get-on-board-barrons-idUSKBN1Z40V0 | 2020-01-06 |
| BEIRUT Jan 5 Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday he had warned Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani of the risk of assassination and met him in the Lebanese capital Beirut on New Years Day before he was killed in a U.S. attack in Baghdad | Negative | BEIRUT Jan 5 Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday he had warned Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani of the risk of assassination and met him in the Lebanese capital Beirut on New Years Day before he was killed in a U.S. attack in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-hezbollah-soleimani/hezbollah-leader-says-he-warned-soleimani-of-assassination-threat-idUSL8N29A0K2 | 2020-01-06 |
| Tomasi said Atlantia would present a new business plan to 2023 in January with a focus on research and development new management models and digitalization | Positive | The group controlled by Italys Benetton family manages the countrys biggest tollroad network spanning 3000 km | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-bridge-atlantia/atlantia-ceo-warns-of-bankruptcy-risk-if-concession-revoked-paper-idUSKBN1Z30BB | 2020-01-05 |
| Morrison had been set to leave for India on Jan | Positive | MELBOURNE Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has canceled official trips to India and Japan that were scheduled for the second half of January as he battles a bushfire emergency at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-australia-bushfires-india/australia-prime-minister-defers-visits-to-india-japan-amid-bushfire-emergency-idUSKBN1Z304C | 2020-01-05 |
| MINSK Belarusian state energy firm Belneftekhim said on Saturday that Belarus and Russia stood ready to sign a deal on the first delivery of oil from Russia since supplies were halted on Jan | Positive | MINSK Belarusian state energy firm Belneftekhim said on Saturday that Belarus and Russia stood ready to sign a deal on the first delivery of oil from Russia since supplies were halted on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus-deal/belaruss-belneftekhim-agrees-first-russian-oil-delivery-this-year-idUSKBN1Z30BN | 2020-01-05 |
| PHNOM PENH Jan 5 At least 24 people were killed and 23 injured after a building in Cambodia collapsed trapping workers under rubble officials said on Sunday | Negative | PHNOM PENH Jan 5 At least 24 people were killed and 23 injured after a building in Cambodia collapsed trapping workers under rubble officials said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/cambodia-collapse/death-toll-rises-to-24-in-cambodia-building-collapse-some-still-trapped-idUSL4N29A00J | 2020-01-05 |
| Deliveries of oil from Russia had been suspended since Jan | Negative | MINSK Oil supplies to Belarusian refineries restarted on Saturday and Minsk plans to resume exporting petroleum products by the end of the month a senior official at the countrys state energy firm was quoted as saying on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus-restart/oil-deliveries-to-belarusian-refineries-restart-state-energy-firm-idUSKBN1Z30G9 | 2020-01-05 |
| LONDON Jan 4 British Foreign minister Dominic Raab will travel to Washington to meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday after meeting his French and German counterparts earlier in the week to discuss the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani | Negative | LONDON Jan 4 British Foreign minister Dominic Raab will travel to Washington to meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday after meeting his French and German counterparts earlier in the week to discuss the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iraq-security-britain-usa/uks-raab-to-meet-pompeo-in-washington-on-thursday-idUSL8N2990ND | 2020-01-05 |
| Speakers at the Washington event included actress and activist Jane Fonda who last year was arrested at a climate change protest on the steps of the U.S. Capitol | Negative | WASHINGTON Groups of protesters took to the streets in Washington and other U.S. cities on Saturday to condemn the air strike in Iraq ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Trumps decision to send about 3000 more troops to the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-trump-protests/american-strike-in-iraq-prompts-anti-war-protests-in-u-s-cities-idUSKBN1Z30N3 | 2020-01-05 |
| JOHANNESBURG Jan 4 South Africas struggling state power firm Eskom said on Saturday it would cut up to 2000 megawatts of electricity from the national grid from 10 p | Negative | JOHANNESBURG Jan 4 South Africas struggling state power firm Eskom said on Saturday it would cut up to 2000 megawatts of electricity from the national grid from 10 p | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/safrica-eskom/south-africas-eskom-says-to-implement-power-cuts-overnight-idUSL8N2990J4 | 2020-01-05 |
| MELBOURNE Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has canceled official trips to India and Japan that were scheduled for the second half of January as he battles a bushfire emergency at home | Negative | MELBOURNE Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has canceled official trips to India and Japan that were scheduled for the second half of January as he battles a bushfire emergency at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-australia-bushfires-india/australia-prime-minister-defers-visits-to-india-japan-amid-bushfire-emergency-idUSKBN1Z304C | 2020-01-05 |
| Jan 3 Leading linguists gather on Friday to decide whether Americans over the past decade were most affected by movements to end racial or sexual violence cultivate respect for gender fluidity or some other change and how to sum it all up in one word or phrase | Negative | Jan 3 Leading linguists gather on Friday to decide whether Americans over the past decade were most affected by movements to end racial or sexual violence cultivate respect for gender fluidity or some other change and how to sum it all up in one word or phrase | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-word/sum-it-up-u-s-linguists-to-pick-word-of-the-decade-idUSL1N2970WF | 2020-01-05 |
| Jan 3 Harvey Weinstein who transformed the independent film world with awardwinning movies such as Shakespeare in and The English faces criminal sexual assault charges before a jury trial in New York state court to begin next week | Negative | Jan 3 Harvey Weinstein who transformed the independent film world with awardwinning movies such as Shakespeare in and The English faces criminal sexual assault charges before a jury trial in New York state court to begin next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/people-harvey-weinstein-fall/timeline-key-events-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-harvey-weinstein-idUSL1N2900ZW | 2020-01-04 |
| Reuters first reported on Friday that U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper had canceled plans to take personal leave later in January amid rising tension with Iran | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is sending nearly 3000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the region the Pentagon said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-middleeast/pentagon-to-deploy-thousands-of-additional-troops-to-middle-east-idUSKBN1Z21U4 | 2020-01-04 |
| SAN DIEGO Jan 3 The Federal Reserve could find itself fighting toolow inflation for years to come San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said on Friday and may need a new policy framework to lift inflation back up to the Feds goal | Positive | Daly comments | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-fed-daly/update-1-fed-may-need-new-approach-to-boost-inflation-daly-says-idUSL1N2981IE | 2020-01-04 |
| FALLUJA Iraq Jan 3 Reports of an attack on Iraqs Ain alAsad air base which hosts U.S. forces in the western Anbar province are false a security source inside the base and a local official at a nearby town said | Negative | 2nd paragraph to say | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iraq-security-blast-brent/corrected-reports-of-attacks-on-u-s-military-base-in-iraq-are-false-two-sources-idUSS8N27L04H | 2020-01-04 |
| Belaruss state firm Belneftekhim said deliveries had been halted as of Jan | Negative | Russia has halted oil supplies to refineries in Belarus the Belarusian state energy firm said on Friday amid a new contract dispute that is also threatening large Russian oil deliveries to Western Europe crossing the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russia-halts-oil-to-belarus-but-transit-to-europe-still-flowing-idUSKBN1Z20UP | 2020-01-04 |
| January 17 2019 Benjamin Brafman Weinsteins defense attorney issues statement saying he is quitting without elaborating | Negative | Harvey Weinstein who transformed the independent film world with awardwinning movies such as Shakespeare in and The English faces criminal sexual assault charges before a jury trial in New York state court to begin next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-fall-timeline/timeline-the-harvey-weinstein-story-from-the-studio-to-the-courtroom-idUSKBN1Z210P | 2020-01-04 |
| A company representative on Thursday said that Tesla will deliver its first Chinamade Model 3 sedans to the public on Jan | Positive | The Silicon Valley carmaker delivered approximately 367500 vehicles during all of 2019 just meeting the low end of its target to deliver 360000 to 400000 vehicles in 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-tesla-deliveries/musk-defies-skeptics-meets-tesla-delivery-goal-shares-hit-record-idUSKBN1Z21B5 | 2020-01-04 |
| MEXICO CITY Jan 3 Mexico has hedged revenues from oil sales for 2020 at an average price of per barrel the finance ministry said on Friday without disclosing the number of barrels covered nor the amount spent on the program | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Jan 3 Mexico has hedged revenues from oil sales for 2020 at an average price of per barrel the finance ministry said on Friday without disclosing the number of barrels covered nor the amount spent on the program | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/mexico-hedge/mexico-concludes-2020-oil-hedge-at-49-per-barrel-finance-ministry-idUSL1N28R1W9 | 2020-01-04 |
| Russia is on a New Year holiday until Jan | Neutral | Russia has halted oil supplies to refineries in Belarus the Belarusian state energy firm said on Friday amid a new contract dispute that is also threatening large Russian oil deliveries to Western Europe crossing the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russia-halts-oil-to-belarus-but-transit-to-europe-still-flowing-idUSKBN1Z20UP | 2020-01-04 |
| January 25 2019 Weinstein appears in court to announce new defense team | Neutral | Harvey Weinstein who transformed the independent film world with awardwinning movies such as Shakespeare in and The English faces criminal sexual assault charges before a jury trial in New York state court to begin next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-fall-timeline/timeline-the-harvey-weinstein-story-from-the-studio-to-the-courtroom-idUSKBN1Z210P | 2020-01-04 |
| The event which runs from Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Trump administration will send a big contingent of senior officials to an annual technology gathering in Las Vegas next week as the tech industry faces increased scrutiny in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-tech-ces-washington/trump-administration-officials-to-talk-tech-policy-at-las-vegas-confab-idUSKBN1Z2235 | 2020-01-04 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 3 Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | Negative | By David Brunnstrom and Daphne Psaledakis | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-blast-target/update-1-iranian-commander-soleimani-had-been-in-pompeos-sights-for-years-idUSL1N2981GH | 2020-01-04 |
| MINSK Belaruss state energy firm Belneftekhim has temporarily suspended the export of petroleum products from Jan | Negative | MINSK Belaruss state energy firm Belneftekhim has temporarily suspended the export of petroleum products from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus-suspension/belarus-temporarily-suspends-export-of-petroleum-products-belneftekhim-idUSKBN1Z21C7 | 2020-01-04 |
| DUBAI Jan 3 Iran summoned a Swiss envoy for a second time on Friday to deliver its answer to a U.S. message Iranian state media said hours after a Swiss diplomat delivered Washingtons communication over the killing of Iranian Quds force chief Qassem Soleimani | Negative | DUBAI Jan 3 Iran summoned a Swiss envoy for a second time on Friday to deliver its answer to a U.S. message Iranian state media said hours after a Swiss diplomat delivered Washingtons communication over the killing of Iranian Quds force chief Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-blast-swiss-iran/iran-summons-swiss-envoy-again-to-answer-u-s-message-state-media-idUSL8N2983GM | 2020-01-04 |
| HOUSTON Jan 3 Enbridge Inc will consider refiling its application for federal permits to build a crude export terminal off Freeport Texas if market demand picks up a company spokesman said on Friday | Positive | HOUSTON Jan 3 Enbridge Inc will consider refiling its application for federal permits to build a crude export terminal off Freeport Texas if market demand picks up a company spokesman said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/usa-crude-exports/enbridge-says-it-may-re-file-u-s-permit-application-for-deepwater-oil-terminal-idUSL1N2981LG | 2020-01-04 |
| A trial is scheduled for Jan | Neutral | NEW YORK Michael Avenatti does not want U.S. prosecutors to present evidence at his criminal trial this month that his alleged financial straits including an inability to pay child support gave the celebrity lawyer a motive to extort Nike Inc | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/avenatti-says-evidence-hes-cash-strapped-doesnt-belong-in-nike-extortion-trial-idUSKBN1Z226Y | 2020-01-04 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 3 Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to assassinate top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 3 Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to assassinate top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-blast-target/assassinated-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-pompeos-sights-for-years-idUSL1N2980R2 | 2020-01-04 |
| Ghosn has said he will speak publicly about his escape on Jan | Neutral | A Turkish private jet operator said on Friday that exNissan boss Carlos Ghosn used two of its planes illegally in his escape from Japan with an employee falsifying lease records to exclude his name from the documents | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn/ghosn-used-our-jets-illegally-in-escape-from-japan-turkish-company-says-idUSKBN1Z208D | 2020-01-04 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 3 A U.S. air strike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian commander aimed to disrupt an imminent that would have endangered Americans in the Middle East U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in television interviews on Friday | Negative | more quotes from Pompeo background on air | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-blast-pompeo/update-1-pompeo-says-u-s-strike-on-iranian-commander-in-response-to-imminent-attack-idUSL1N298094 | 2020-01-04 |
| BASRA Iraq Jan 3 U.S. citizens working for foreign oil companies in the southern Iraqi city of Basra were leaving the country on Friday the oil ministry said after a U.S. air strike killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq | Negative | Foreigners leave Basra in relaxed mood witness | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iraq-security-blast-workers/update-4-u-s-oil-workers-leave-iraq-after-air-strike-on-iranian-leader-idUSL8N2981ZG | 2020-01-04 |
| The Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate expects to begin the trial of President Donald Trump in January after the Democraticallycontrolled House of Representatives voted to impeach him on Dec | Negative | The Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate expects to begin the trial of President Donald Trump in January after the Democraticallycontrolled House of Representatives voted to impeach him on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-players-factbox/factbox-key-players-in-u-s-senate-impeachment-trial-of-trump-idUSKBN1Z210W | 2020-01-04 |
| January 1 2018 Hollywood celebrities launch the Times Up campaign to fight sexual harassment in the workplace | Negative | Harvey Weinstein who transformed the independent film world with awardwinning movies such as Shakespeare in and The English faces criminal sexual assault charges before a jury trial in New York state court to begin next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-fall-timeline/timeline-the-harvey-weinstein-story-from-the-studio-to-the-courtroom-idUSKBN1Z210P | 2020-01-04 |
| Morrison said his inclination was to not proceed with a visit to India from Jan | Negative | BATEMANS BAY The Australian navy on Friday began evacuating around 1000 people stranded on the east coast of the fireravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes across the states of Victoria and New South Wales | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-australia-bushfires/australian-navy-begins-mass-evacuations-as-new-fire-threat-looms-idUSKBN1Z11HE | 2020-01-03 |
| So far on Friday there had been no repeat of the flash of Jan | Neutral | Dollar index edges away from 6mth lows but eases on yen | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-stumbles-to-9-wk-low-against-safe-haven-yen-as-mideast-tensions-flare-idUSL4N2980AQ | 2020-01-03 |
| SHANGHAI Tesla Inc will deliver its first Chinamade Model 3 sedans to the public on Jan | Positive | SHANGHAI Tesla Inc will deliver its first Chinamade Model 3 sedans to the public on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-delivery/tesla-says-will-start-delivering-china-made-model-3s-to-public-on-jan-7-idUSKBN1Z10CB | 2020-01-03 |
| Markets were also encouraged by U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement on Tuesday that Phase 1 of trade deal with China would be signed on Jan | Positive | Investors cheer Chinas banks reserve ratios cut | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-stocks-start-2020-with-gains-as-china-eases-policy-idUSL8N2970YV | 2020-01-03 |
| Tesla plans to ramp up Model 3 deliveries in January and will double the number of service centers and fast charging stations in China in 2020 its executives have said | Positive | Tesla has said it plans to start delivering cars made at its billion factory in Shanghai to the public on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-price/tesla-cuts-price-for-china-made-model-3-vehicles-before-delivery-idUSKBN1Z206A | 2020-01-03 |
| Jan 2 Stocks across emerging markets began the new year with gains after Chinas central bank eased monetary policy to prop up the countrys slowing economy | Positive | Investors cheer Chinas banks reserve ratios cut | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-stocks-start-2020-with-gains-as-china-eases-policy-idUSL8N2970YV | 2020-01-03 |
| Jan 3 Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani the top commander of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards helped Iran fight proxy wars across the Middle East by inspiring militias on the battlefield and negotiating with political leaders | Negative | year in para | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-security-soleimani/corrected-newsmaker-soleimani-was-irans-celebrity-soldier-spearhead-in-middle-east-idUSL8N298078 | 2020-01-03 |
| Shiraaz Mohamed was captured in January 2017 after travelling to document the suffering of Syrians under war according to South African charity Gift of the Givers | Negative | ANKARA A South African photojournalist kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State three years ago returned home on Thursday with the help of Turkeys intelligence agency a security source in Ankara said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-syria-security-turkey-safrica/south-african-photographer-kidnapped-in-syria-back-home-source-idUSKBN1Z11E7 | 2020-01-03 |
| Jan 2 European shares started the new decade on a strong note on Thursday as China further eased monetary policy to prop up the economy with concrete indications of an imminent U.S.China trade deal also lifting the mood | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-markets-cheer-china-policy-easing-trade-progress-idUSL4N29716F | 2020-01-03 |
| Tesla said previously that it wanted to start deliveries before the Chinese new year beginning Jan | Positive | SHANGHAI Tesla Inc will deliver its first Chinamade Model 3 sedans to the public on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-delivery/tesla-says-will-start-delivering-china-made-model-3s-to-public-on-jan-7-idUSKBN1Z10CB | 2020-01-03 |
| LONDON Jan 2 As a new decade begins the first century of the new millennium will already be a fifth over | Neutral | opinions expressed here are those of the author a columnist for Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/apps-legacy-column/column-legacy-of-2010s-will-be-growing-international-and-political-divisions-peter-apps-idUSL8N2951WR | 2020-01-03 |
| SYDNEY Jan 3 Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said he was inclined to cancel an official trip to India planned for this month in order to deal with a bushfire crisis ravaging parts of his country | Negative | SYDNEY Jan 3 Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said he was inclined to cancel an official trip to India planned for this month in order to deal with a bushfire crisis ravaging parts of his country | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/australia-bushfires-india/australia-pm-inclined-to-cancel-india-trip-due-to-bushfire-crisis-idUSS9N27S02D | 2020-01-03 |
| The BMKG has warned that extreme may continue until Jan | Negative | JAKARTA Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding on Friday in a bid to prevent further rainfall over the capital Jakarta after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains ever recorded | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-indonesia-weather-floods/indonesia-plans-cloud-seeding-to-halt-rain-floods-death-toll-rises-to-43-idUSKBN1Z203J | 2020-01-03 |
| Jan 3 The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers | Positive | Jan 3 The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-press-business/press-digest-british-business-jan-3-idUSL4N29803L | 2020-01-03 |
| Teslas China general manager Wang Hao said the company plans to ramp up Model 3 deliveries in January | Positive | SHANGHAI Tesla Inc will deliver its first Chinamade Model 3 sedans to the public on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-delivery/tesla-says-will-start-delivering-china-made-model-3s-to-public-on-jan-7-idUSKBN1Z10CB | 2020-01-03 |
| The company will update on Christmas trading on Jan | Neutral | LONDON Britains Greggs launched a vegan version of its popular steak bake on Thursday aiming to capitalize on the success of the meatless sausage roll that has boosted the bakers profits and helped fuel an rise in its share price last year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-greggs-vegan/britains-greggs-follows-vegan-sausage-roll-success-with-meatless-steak-bake-idUSKBN1Z10QQ | 2020-01-03 |
| The trial is scheduled for Jan | Neutral | NEW YORK Nike Inc asked a judge to block Michael Avenatti from having five of its sports marketing officials testify at his upcoming criminal trial calling their testimony irrelevant to whether the California lawyer tried to extort the company | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-avenatti/nike-seeks-to-keep-marketing-executives-out-of-michael-avenatti-trial-idUSKBN1Z11FL | 2020-01-03 |
| Morrison was due to visit India from Jan 13 to 16 at the invitation of Prime Minister Modi | Positive | SYDNEY Jan 3 Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said he was inclined to cancel an official trip to India planned for this month in order to deal with a bushfire crisis ravaging parts of his country | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/australia-bushfires-india/australia-pm-inclined-to-cancel-india-trip-due-to-bushfire-crisis-idUSS9N27S02D | 2020-01-03 |
| Relations between the worlds two largest economies are however showing signs of improvement with a Phase 1 trade pact between them expected to be signed on Jan | Positive | SHANGHAI Corporate Chinas hedging activities spiked over the past two years as the SinoU.S. trade war and a slowing economy prompted companies to embrace the countrys rapidly growing derivative market to reduce uncertainty data shows | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-markets-hedging/chinese-companies-hedging-activities-spike-amid-trade-war-uncertainty-data-idUSKBN1Z20E3 | 2020-01-03 |
| Jan 2 The dollar snapped a sixday losing streak to add 0 | Negative | Dollar index firms slightly offshore yuan flat | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-snaps-6-day-losing-streak-yuan-shrugs-off-pboc-cash-injection-idUSL8N29714I | 2020-01-03 |
| But U.S. President Donald Trump brightened the mood on Tuesday by saying the Phase 1 agreement would be signed on Jan | Positive | Fresh monetary stimulus in Beijing and growing SinoU.S. trade optimism helped European shares stay close to record highs on Thursday with banks and technology stocks leading a broadbased rally | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-stocks/china-stimulus-trade-progress-help-european-shares-mark-strong-start-to-decade-idUSKBN1Z10EX | 2020-01-03 |
| In the unlikely event the Senate convicts Trump Vice President Mike Pence would become president for the remainder of Trumps term which ends on Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate is due to hold a trial to consider whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office after the House of Representatives voted in December to impeach him for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-explainer/explainer-how-impeachment-works-and-why-trump-is-unlikely-to-be-removed-idUSKBN1Z10PT | 2020-01-03 |
| He was also due to visit Japan from January 16 to 17 but did not mention his intentions on that on Friday | Positive | SYDNEY Jan 3 Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said he was inclined to cancel an official trip to India planned for this month in order to deal with a bushfire crisis ravaging parts of his country | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/australia-bushfires-india/australia-pm-inclined-to-cancel-india-trip-due-to-bushfire-crisis-idUSS9N27S02D | 2020-01-03 |
| But the move had been widely expected ahead of Januarys Lunar New Year holidays and after Premier Li Keqiangs pledge last month to unleash more stimulus | Positive | Dollar index firms slightly offshore yuan flat | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-snaps-6-day-losing-streak-yuan-shrugs-off-pboc-cash-injection-idUSL8N29714I | 2020-01-03 |
| Tesla has said it plans to start delivering cars made at its billion factory in Shanghai to the public on Jan | Positive | Tesla has said it plans to start delivering cars made at its billion factory in Shanghai to the public on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-price/tesla-cuts-price-for-china-made-model-3-vehicles-before-delivery-idUSKBN1Z206A | 2020-01-03 |
| The incident which comes a week before democratic Taiwan holds presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans top military official was among eight people killed on Thursday after a helicopter carrying them to visit soldiers crashed in a mountainous area near the capital Taipei the defense ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-taiwan-military-missing/taiwans-military-chief-among-eight-dead-in-helicopter-crash-idUSKBN1Z102B | 2020-01-03 |
| BEIRUT Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on Jan | Neutral | BEIRUT Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-presser/nissan-ex-boss-carlos-ghosn-to-hold-press-conference-on-jan-8-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z01YD | 2020-01-02 |
| A federal judge has temporarily blocked a California labor law meant to take effect from Jan | Negative | A federal judge has temporarily blocked a California labor law meant to take effect from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-labor-lawmaking/federal-judge-temporarily-exempts-truck-drivers-from-california-gig-worker-law-idUSKBN1Z01TO | 2020-01-02 |
| BEIJING Jan 1 Chinas central bank said on Wednesday it was cutting the amount of cash that all banks must hold as reserves releasing around 800 billion yuan | Positive | BEIJING Jan 1 Chinas central bank said on Wednesday it was cutting the amount of cash that all banks must hold as reserves releasing around 800 billion yuan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy-rrr-cut/china-cuts-banks-reserve-requirements-again-to-spur-slowing-economy-idUSB9N28L00X | 2020-01-02 |
| Martinez said his organization would take part in a meeting between unions and the government on Jan | Positive | PARIS French hardline union CGT called on Wednesday for more strikes in France this month after president Emmanuel Macron pledged to push through an overhaul of the pension system following weeks of nationwide strikes by trade unions | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-france-protests-unions/french-hardline-union-calls-for-more-strikes-to-counter-macrons-pension-reform-idUSKBN1Z01NW | 2020-01-02 |
| BEIJING Jan 1 Chinas central bank said on Wednesday that economic growth remains resilient despite relatively large downward pressure | Positive | BEIJING Jan 1 Chinas central bank said on Wednesday that economic growth remains resilient despite relatively large downward pressure | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-economy-cenbank/chinas-central-bank-says-economic-growth-resilient-despite-large-pressure-idUSB9N28L02F | 2020-01-02 |
| BEIRUT Jan 1 Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on Jan | Neutral | BEIRUT Jan 1 Nissan exboss Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/renault-nissan-ghosn-presser/nissan-ex-boss-carlos-ghosn-to-hold-press-conference-on-jan-8-lawyer-idUSL8N2960L6 | 2020-01-02 |
| BEIRUT Jan 1 Fugitive former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanons president after his escape from Japan where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday | Negative | Escape plan evolved over three monthssources close to Ghosn | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-met-lebanese-president-after-fleeing-japan-sources-idUSL8N2960ES | 2020-01-02 |
| DUBAI Jan 1 Omans government expects to increase spending this year by to 13 | Neutral | figures details | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/oman-budget/update-1-oman-2020-budget-projects-modest-rise-in-spending-deficit-at-8-of-gdp-idUSL8N29608E | 2020-01-02 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump said the Phase 1 pact with China would be signed on Jan | Positive | day of the | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/refile-global-markets-stocks-end-2019-near-record-highs-dollar-slides-idUSL8N2951ZU | 2020-01-01 |
| Russia halted oil supplies to Belarusian refineries in January 2010 after failing to agree terms for that year | Negative | LONDON A fresh dispute over oil is looming between Russia and Belarus as Russian producers divert large volumes of crude to export ports after failing to reach a deal over deliveries to Minsk | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus-factbox/factbox-russias-oil-and-gas-disputes-with-belarus-idUSKBN1YZ0XW | 2020-01-01 |
| The Republicancontrolled Senate is due to weigh these charges in a trial in January | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-trials-explaine/explainer-how-trumps-impeachment-trial-would-differ-from-a-criminal-one-idUSKBN1YZ0PT | 2020-01-01 |
| Caps on foreign ownerships of futures companies will be scrapped as of 1 January 2020 as part of the gradual opening up of Chinas financial sector to foreign players | Positive | Caps on foreign ownerships of futures companies will be scrapped as of 1 January 2020 as part of the gradual opening up of Chinas financial sector to foreign players | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-jp-morgan-china/jp-morgan-attempts-full-control-of-china-futures-jv-bloomberg-idUSKBN1YZ08X | 2020-01-01 |
| TAIPEI Taiwans parliament passed an antiinfiltration law on Tuesday to combat perceived threats from China as the island gears up for a presidential vote on Jan | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans parliament passed an antiinfiltration law on Tuesday to combat perceived threats from China as the island gears up for a presidential vote on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-lawmaking/taiwan-passes-law-to-combat-chinese-influence-on-politics-idUSKBN1YZ0F6 | 2020-01-01 |
| Several cargoes were added to January loading plans from Russian ports on Monday increasing the Urals loading plan from Baltic ports to 6 | Neutral | MOSCOW A new dispute over oil could be brewing between Russia and Belarus as Russian suppliers divert large volumes of crude to domestic ports in lieu of a deal on 2020 deliveries between the two countries according to six industry sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russian-firms-divert-oil-from-belarus-as-no-2020-supply-deal-signed-idUSKBN1YZ0ON | 2020-01-01 |
| It will hold four public meetings in January to discuss its reports | Positive | WASHINGTON A panel of scientific advisers including several appointed by President Donald Trump says some rollbacks of cleanair and vehicle rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency are based on weak scientific analysis and should be revised according to draft reports published on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-epa-science/epa-scientific-panel-says-some-rollbacks-of-key-air-water-rules-at-odds-with-science-idUSKBN1YZ1FA | 2020-01-01 |
| Boeing has acknowledged it will not be able to reach its 2019 targets and has announced it would halt 737 MAX production in January | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish Airlines has agreed a compensation deal with planemaker Boeing Co over the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX following two fatal crashes the carrier said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737-max-thy/turkish-airlines-says-reaches-compensation-deal-over-boeing-737-max-idUSKBN1YZ0A4 | 2020-01-01 |
| EM stock index set to post best month since Jan | Positive | will be no EMEA Emerging Market report on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-stocks-fall-on-last-trading-day-of-2019-fx-gains-as-dollar-weakens-idUSL8N2950XW | 2020-01-01 |
| Zhao Qinghe a senior statistician with the statistics bureau attributed the PMI resilience to increasing demand and production ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday which falls in late January | Negative | BEIJING Manufacturing activity in China expanded for a second straight month in December as seasonal demand and signs of progress in trade talks with Washington boosted factories output and order books | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-pmi-factory-official/chinas-factory-activity-grows-as-easing-trade-spat-revives-demand-idUSKBN1YZ019 | 2020-01-01 |
| January 1 see you in Victoria people gathered on the waterfront chanted | Neutral | HONG KONG Thousands of Hong Kong revelers welcomed in 2020 on neonlit promenades along the picturesque Victoria Harbour breaking into prodemocracy chants as the clocks struck midnight after more than half a year of often violent unrest | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-hongkong-protests/hong-kong-rings-in-2020-with-democracy-chants-instead-of-harbor-fireworks-idUSKBN1YZ054 | 2020-01-01 |
| If supplies to Belarus remain suspended through January Russian firms may add more cargoes to the loading plan after the New Year holidays | Negative | MOSCOW A new dispute over oil could be brewing between Russia and Belarus as Russian suppliers divert large volumes of crude to domestic ports in lieu of a deal on 2020 deliveries between the two countries according to six industry sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russian-firms-divert-oil-from-belarus-as-no-2020-supply-deal-signed-idUSKBN1YZ0ON | 2020-01-01 |
| 6 billion into the funding market through early January to ensure the financial system operates smoothly over the choppy yearend period | Positive | Dec 31 The cost to borrow in the overnight repo market fell below the U.S. federal funds target range on Tuesday on strong demand for Treasuries to rebalance portfolios at yearend with the Federal Reserve seeing the largest takeup for its reverse repo operation in a year and a half | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-bonds-reverserepo/repo-rates-lowest-since-march-2018-on-collateral-demand-idUSL1N2950O1 | 2020-01-01 |
| An extradition hearing will begin on Jan | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan where he believed he would not get a fair trial | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-factbox/factbox-carlos-ghosn-joins-list-of-execs-fighting-extradition-idUSKBN1YZ16W | 2020-01-01 |
| YouTube announced on Tuesday that Biebers first ever documentary series Justin will launch on the video platform on Jan | Neutral | Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber is opening up about his creative and personal life through a 10part documentary ahead of a career comeback after three years away from the spotlight | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-justin-bieber/justin-bieber-to-chronicle-comeback-in-youtube-documentary-series-idUSKBN1YZ17U | 2020-01-01 |
| HOUSTON As a global cleanfuel mandate takes effect Jan | Neutral | HOUSTON As a global cleanfuel mandate takes effect Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-shipping-imo-fueloil/tests-raise-alarms-over-fuel-blends-coming-for-ocean-going-vessels-idUSKBN1YZ1EH | 2020-01-01 |
| Taiwan President Tsai Ingwen and her team are pressing home a message that people need to Taiwan from China when they vote in the Jan | Neutral | BEIJING With just days to go before Taiwans elections its giant neighbor is trying a pushandpull strategy on the island Beijing claims as Chinese territory rattling its saber while trying to coax electors with outwardly friendlier policies | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-election-china/china-rattles-saber-and-offers-friendship-days-before-taiwans-elections-idUSKBN1YZ05Q | 2020-01-01 |
| Moscow returns to work on Jan | Positive | MOSCOW A new dispute over oil could be brewing between Russia and Belarus as Russian suppliers divert large volumes of crude to domestic ports in lieu of a deal on 2020 deliveries between the two countries according to six industry sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russian-firms-divert-oil-from-belarus-as-no-2020-supply-deal-signed-idUSKBN1YZ0ON | 2020-01-01 |
| Trump announces signing of trade deal in midJanuary | Positive | gold oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-end-2019-near-record-highs-dollar-slides-idUSL1N2950J0 | 2020-01-01 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Phase 1 of trade deal with China would be signed on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Phase 1 of trade deal with China would be signed on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/trump-says-u-s-china-trade-deal-will-be-signed-on-january-15-idUSKBN1YZ103 | 2020-01-01 |
| Vivendi added that the Tencentled consortium had the option to buy on the same price basis up to more of UMGs share capital by January 15 2021 | Positive | PARIS Dec 31 French media conglomerate Vivendi said on Tuesday that it had agreed to sell of its Universal Music Group division to a consortium led by Tencent in a deal that sees UMGs enterprise value at 30 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/vivendi-universal/tencent-led-consortium-agrees-to-buy-10-of-vivendis-umg-division-idUSFWN2940SS | 2020-01-01 |
| Ble Goudes lawyer in the Netherlands GeertJan Knoops said on Tuesday the Ivorian court had convicted his client on Monday | Neutral | ABIDJAN Charles Ble Goude an ally of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo has been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a court in Abidjan for his role in the civil war that followed the 2010 presidential election his lawyers said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ivorycoast-justice/ivory-coast-street-militia-leader-sentenced-to-20-years-for-role-in-civil-war-idUSKBN1YZ0S7 | 2020-01-01 |
| China may have overreached recently said one senior foreign envoy in Taipei describing Xis January speech as effectively Xi campaigning for because of how badly it was received in Taiwan | Negative | BEIJING With just days to go before Taiwans elections its giant neighbor is trying a pushandpull strategy on the island Beijing claims as Chinese territory rattling its saber while trying to coax electors with outwardly friendlier policies | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-election-china/china-rattles-saber-and-offers-friendship-days-before-taiwans-elections-idUSKBN1YZ05Q | 2020-01-01 |
| Another gas crisis was averted in January 2007 but relations soured further over oil supply | Negative | LONDON A fresh dispute over oil is looming between Russia and Belarus as Russian producers divert large volumes of crude to export ports after failing to reach a deal over deliveries to Minsk | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus-factbox/factbox-russias-oil-and-gas-disputes-with-belarus-idUSKBN1YZ0XW | 2020-01-01 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump said the Phase 1 trade pact with China would be signed on Jan | Positive | gold oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-end-2019-near-record-highs-dollar-slides-idUSL1N2950J0 | 2020-01-01 |
| 8 billion yuan in December last year only to withdraw the offer in January without explanation | Positive | BEIJING Chinas Anbang Insurance Group which was taken over by the government last year said it has put its stake in Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank up for sale for 16 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-anbang-group-divestiture/chinas-anbang-insurance-in-fresh-attempt-to-sell-stake-in-chengdu-bank-idUSKBN1YZ0KF | 2020-01-01 |
| Shakeel Massey 20 appeared in court on Monday and was remanded in custody until Jan | Negative | LONDON British police have charged a man with criminal damage after a painting reported by the BBC to have been by Spanish master Pablo Picasso was attacked at a London gallery over the weekend | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-picasso/man-charged-after-picasso-painting-attacked-in-london-gallery-idUSKBN1YZ16A | 2020-01-01 |
| Russian oil companies have to divert some 2 million tonnes of crude oil initially planned for Belarus to Russias sea ports and domestic market in January | Negative | MOSCOW A new dispute over oil could be brewing between Russia and Belarus as Russian suppliers divert large volumes of crude to domestic ports in lieu of a deal on 2020 deliveries between the two countries according to six industry sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus/russian-firms-divert-oil-from-belarus-as-no-2020-supply-deal-signed-idUSKBN1YZ0ON | 2020-01-01 |
| The mercury rule is due to be finalized in January | Neutral | WASHINGTON A panel of scientific advisers including several appointed by President Donald Trump says some rollbacks of cleanair and vehicle rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency are based on weak scientific analysis and should be revised according to draft reports published on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-epa-science/epa-scientific-panel-says-some-rollbacks-of-key-air-water-rules-at-odds-with-science-idUSKBN1YZ1FA | 2020-01-01 |
