Tag: Reuters

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Retail sales drop but use of credit cards grows in Brazil

  

  While according to Brazil's Insitute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), retail sales fell below expectations in June, payments with credit and debit cards were on the rise, it was reported Wednesday.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 10:50 UTC

  PDVSA: Venezuelan oil exports fall 17% in May

  

  Venezuelan oil exports fell by 17% in May compared to April, due to the difficulty to sell barrels of heavy crude oil that US refiners used to buy and process before the sanctions imposed on the Nicolás Maduro government, reported Reuters.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Myanmar releases two Reuters reporters imprisoned for 500 days

  

  Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars, witnesses said. 

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 10:25 UTC

  Growing evidence shows Vale was made aware of dam's rupture risk

  

  Vale SA, the world’s largest iron ore miner, knew last year that the dam in Brazil that collapsed in January and killed at least 165 people had a heightened risk of rupturing, according to an internal document, Reuters reported on Monday

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 09:00 UTC

  Johnson & Johnson shares plunge following on Reuters' report of asbestos in talcum powder

  

  Shares in Johnson & Johnson plunged more than 10% on Friday, after Reuters reported that the US pharmaceutical giant had known about asbestos tainting its talcum powder for decades.

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  Odebrecht begins paying debts and fines following financial agreement

  

  Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht SA's will use part of a 2.6 billion reais (US$709.96 million) bank loan to repay a loan in arrears with state-controlled bank Banco do Brasil SA, according to sources quoted by Reuters. Under the terms of an agreement announced on Friday, the engineering group, at the center of a corruption scandal, will repay a 100 million reais debt to Banco do Brasil.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Brexit: Thomson Reuters moves part of its trading business to Dublin

  

  Thomson Reuters, which operates trading systems for financial institutions around the world, is moving its foreign exchange derivatives trading business to Dublin from London. The company said it was moving so that post-Brexit it would still be regulated by European Union rules and could continue to sell into the EU.