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(RTTNews) - Norwegian telecom company Telenor ASA (TELNY.PK, TELN) announced Thursday that appointment of Tone Hegland Bachke as Chief Financial Officer, effective from May 1. She succeeds Jørgen Arentz Rostrup, who is appointed as the Head of unified Asia business, effective M

(RTTNews) - Accenture plc (ACN), a professional services provider is scheduled to report its second-quarter results today, March 19 before market open.

(RTTNews) - Lufthansa AG (DLAKF, DLAKY) said, for fiscal 2020, the magnitude of the expected decline in adjusted EBIT is currently not predictable. The Lufthansa Executive Board has decided to waive 20 percent of its basic remuneration in 2020. To counter Corona crisis, the comp

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The Australian and New Zealand dollars tumbled to multi-year lows on Thursday as panic selling swept global markets, overwhelming attempts by central banks to cushion the fallout from the coronavirus.

(RTTNews) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to introduce a new lending facility to support the smooth flow of credit to households and businesses as the spread of coronavirus weighed heavily on the financial markets.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia cut interest rates for small business and household customers on Thursday after the country's central bank cut rates for a second time this month and ventured into quantitative easing to tackle the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

In late January, South Korean health officials summoned representatives from more than 20 medical companies from their lunar New Year celebrations to a conference room tucked inside Seoul’s busy train station.

Indian stocks plunged nearly 7% on Thursday, in line with Asian peers, as unabated panic over the coronavirus pandemic eclipsed steps taken by global central banks to arrest the economic fallout from the outbreak.

(RTTNews) - Indian shares tumbled again on Thursday to plunge deep into the red and the rupee opened at a record low of 74.95 against the U.S. dollar as the widening impact of the coronavirus outbreak threatened global economic activity.

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has pulled out all the stops to halt emerging signs of stress in financial markets. However, even his best efforts will only mitigate such tensions, not eliminate them.

Oil prices rose on Thursday but pared early gains as investors tried to assess how effective massive stimulus by central banks will be in shoring up the global economy as the shock from the coronavirus pandemic deepens.

Bond prices gyrated on Thursday with desperate investors dumping their holdings of government bonds in markets gripped by pandemic fears that has forced central banks to step up support for debt.

Gold prices fell more than 1% on Thursday in volatile trade, as investors sought to hoard cash in unstable market conditions despite additional measures from the European Central Bank to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.

Gary Neville has said that the two hotels he co-owns with former Manchester United team mate Ryan Giggs will be made available to National Health Service (NHS) staff at no cost as they fight the coronavirus pandemic.

HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Visibility is improving for China’s Trip.com . As most of the world hunkers down in place, the $12 billion online booking site reckons it could be through the worst of the virus. First-quarter sales are expected to halv

China's foreign exchange regulator will expand a pilot scheme to enable high-tech start-ups to borrow money more easily from overseas, it said on Thursday.

The dollar surged and everything else was blown away on Thursday as emergency central bank measures in Europe, the United States and Australia failed to halt a fresh wave of panic selling.

After hammering out the details regarding the coronavirus relief package proposed by the Trump administration, the Senate approved the bill on Wednesday, with President Trump signing it into law shortly after.

The difficulty of testing people who may have COVID-19 has become a bottleneck to stopping the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. But soon, this obstacle should be cleared with multiple drug and diagnostic companies seeing their SARS-CoV-2 tests pass the health regulator's muster.