Explainer: Why should shipping come under the EU’s carbon trading system? | Reuters

It also wants the entity responsible for decisions affecting CO2 emissions such as buying the fuel to pay, meaning they would need to buy carbon permits. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and […]

Cannabis compound CBD stops coronavirus in test tube, but can it treat COVID? | Reuters

Marsha Rosner of the University of Chicago led a team that found CBD appeared to help curb SARS-CoV-2 in infected cells in laboratory experiments. Rather, it acted soon after the virus entered the cells, blocking it from making copies of itself in part via effects on the inflammatory protein interferon. When they looked at a […]

Oil prices rally on inventory drawdown, casting Omicron caution to the wind | Reuters

Coronavirus-driven mobility curbs across the globe added to fears of a drop in fuel demand. It is still unclear whether the Omicron variant is more deadly than Delta, the strain which has been dominant in recent months. Pfizer, one of the primary manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, said its antiviral COVID-19 pill was approved for at-home […]

Analysis: Stay, swap or shed: Investors brace for delisting of U.S.-listed China stocks | Reuters

Fund managers are planning or accelerating a shift out of Chinese American Depository Receipts into their Hong Kong-listed counterparts, or buying more shares listed on the mainland. Some activist investors are going as far as pressing U.S.-listed Chinese companies not yet listed in Hong Kong to do so as soon as possible. Reuters, the news […]

China’s property distress sours steel sector in warning sign for economy | Reuters

Steel’s acute sensitivity to the ebbs and flows in construction and manufacturing makes it a closely-tracked bellwether for China’s economy, which has started to slow down from the second quarter. “We normally stockpile steel products in winter at relatively lower prices and sell them after the new year holidays when consumption resumes. Cement production, another […]

Hollywood largely silent on Golden Globe nominations amid controversy

“Belfast,” set in 1970s Northern Ireland, and director Jane Campion’s Western “The Power of the Dog” got seven nods each. The winners of the Golden Globes will be announced on Jan. Critics objected to the Foreign Press Association having no Black members, and raised longstanding ethical questions over whether close relationships with Hollywood studios influenced […]