SEATTLE/PARIS (Reuters) - Boeing BA.N cut its rolling 20-year forecast for airplane demand on Tuesday as economic turmoil from the COVID-19 pandemic lays waste to deliveries in the next few years.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Large-cap tech stocks weighed on U.S. and European equities on Tuesday despite reassurances about President Donald Trump’s improving health and progress toward a stimulus deal.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - IKEA sees sales returning to growth this year after the coronavirus crisis boosted shoppers’ interest in spending more on their homes, a trend the world’s biggest furniture retailer believes is here to stay.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The global economy is in “less dire” shape than it was in June but risks crashing again if governments end fiscal and monetary support too soon, fail to control the coronavirus and ignore emerging market debt problems, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he is looking forward to a scheduled debate with Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden next week and said he is feeling great following his first night back in the White House after being in the hospital for COVID-19.
LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Penrose, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics, said on Tuesday that the biggest outstanding riddle about black holes was the question of what went on in the very centre of them - the singularity, where density and gravity become infinite.
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Opposition groups said they had seized power in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday after taking control of government buildings during post-election protests in the strategically important Central Asian state.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thousands of Indonesians took to the streets of several cities on Tuesday to protest the passage a day earlier of a jobs law they say is too pro-business, but which the government has promoted as vital to attract investment.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece welcomes moves by Turkey to de-escalate recent tensions in the east Mediterranean, its prime minister said on Tuesday, but Ankara needs to show a firmer commitment to improving relations.
TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday visited Tokyo to meet with some of Washington’s closest allies in Asia, Japan, Australia and India, to shore up support against what the United States says is China’s dangerous and growing regional influence.
(Reuters) - More than six months after the pandemic ravaged the U.S. labour market, millions of Americans who are still unemployed are bracing for the possibility that the jobs they held before the crisis may not come back for years, if at all.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Down in the opinion polls with five weeks to go until the November election, U.S. President Donald Trump sought to use the first presidential debate to bully his way back into the race.
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait’s new emir was sworn in at parliament on Wednesday as the country prepared to lay to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who helped steer the U.S.-allied Gulf state through some of the Middle East’s most turbulent decades.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany’s decision to restrict Chinese mobile equipment maker Huawei is the right approach, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, urging Berlin to support the NATO alliance by removing Chinese technology from European next-generation mobile networks.
LONDON (Reuters) - British supermarket group Morrisons MRW.L is creating more than 1,000 jobs to pick and pack orders for its services on Amazon AMZN.O, it said on Wednesday.
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has inspected the second of two suspected former secret atomic sites in Iran, as agreed with Tehran last month in a deal that ended a standoff over access, the agency said on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold a news conference on COVID-19 on Wednesday as he grapples with a swiftly spreading second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak and growing anger in his own party over restrictions imposed on citizens.
(Reuters) - European stocks slipped on Wednesday as surging coronavirus cases and a chaotic debate which underlined the risks from the U.S. presidential election sapped risk appetite at the end of a tumultuous month for financial markets.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices fell for a second day on Wednesday, extending large losses from the previous as rising coronavirus cases heading into the northern winter prompted concerns about further restrictions on activity that could curb fuel demand.
PARIS (Reuters) - French consumer spending rose 2.3% in August, defying market expectations for a second straight month of falling expenditure, official data showed on Wednesday.
