ROME (Reuters) – Britain will send 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to developing countries by the end of this year, in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell other world leaders is a much needed step to speed up the post-pandemic economic recovery.FILE PHOTO: A health worker draws a dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, donated to Kenya by the […]

(Reuters) -U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc on Friday raised its 2021 adjusted profit forecast for the third time this year and said it expects its newer drugs to recreate the success of its blockbuster treatment Humira over the next few years.FILE PHOTO: A sign stands outside a Abbvie facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Brian SnyderThe company has been […]

More than 100 companies in our watch list reported earnings after markets closed Monday and before they opened again on Tuesday. Of those, 37 missed consensus earnings estimates and 25 missed revenue estimates. After markets close Wednesday, we’ll get reports from three companies: eBay, Ford and Teladoc. On Thursday morning, reports are due from four more companies we follow: Caterpillar, […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime minister Fumio Kishida are likely to take a bruising at the weekend’s lower house election, though the coalition government should safely retain power, opinion polls on Friday showed.FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is also the ruling Liberal Democratic Party President, attends a debate session with other leaders […]

FILE PHOTO: A vial labelled with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado RuvicSYDNEY (Reuters) – COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at Australia’s Casey research station in Antarctica, authorities said on Friday, allowing expeditioners to be inoculated before they journey back home to a country reopening to the world. Australia is […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress on Thursday opened a year’s worth of investigations into whether Big Oil deceived Americans about its role in climate change, with Democratic lawmakers grilling the chiefs of four oil companies and two lobby groups. Environmental groups and their congressional allies hope the hearing evokes the Big Tobacco hearings of the 1990s, which began a shift […]

The Commerce Department is due to release annualized GDP growth data for the third quarter at 8:30 a.m. ET. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect the economy to have expanded by just 2.8% in the third quarter. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose to top 1.55% early on Thursday, having fallen from recent highs in the previous session, ahead of […]

(Reuters) – Second-hand clothing firms are fighting to snap up smaller rivals and lock in investment as demand for thriftwear booms on the back of supply chain snarl-ups for traditional retailers ahead of the peak holiday shopping period.FILE PHOTO: A customer looks at clothes on display at a store of a major second hand clothes importer in Hungary, in Budapest […]