BANGKOK (AP) — World shares sagged at this time as reviews of COVID-19 infections within the U.S. and worldwide surged, with the worldwide complete approaching 9 million. In early buying and selling, Britain’s FTSE 100 misplaced 0.3%, the CAC 40 in Paris edged 0.2% decrease and Germany’s DAX slipped 0.1%. In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei closed 0.2% decrease, whereas the Dangle Seng in Hong Kong sank 0.5%. The Kospi in South Korea slipped 0.7% and the Shanghai Composite index edged 0.1% decrease. Dow and S&P futures are each up 0.8%.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tyson Meals is trying into reviews that China’s customs company has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the US after coronavirus circumstances had been confirmed amongst its staff. A Tyson spokesman stated Sunday that the plant in query is in Springdale, Arkansas. The spokesman says that each one international and U.S. well being organizations agree that there isn’t any proof to assist transmission of COVID-19 related to meals. The announcement out of China Sunday gave no particulars of the amount of meat affected.
BATH, Maine (P) — Manufacturing staff at one of many Navy’s largest shipbuilders have voted to strike. Machinists Union Native S6 introduced Sunday that its 4,300 members rejected a three-year contract proposed by Tub Iron Works in Maine, setting the stage for the primary strike in twenty years started at midnight. The union’s main problem wasn’t with wages, pensions or advantages. As a substitute, there have been greater than a dozen adjustments that the union thought-about to be concessions together with hiring of subcontractors. Tub Iron Works is a subsidiary of Common Dynamics and employs 6,800 individuals.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police say they’ve seized $90 million from a Russian bitcoin fraud suspect who’s in French custody however can be needed in the US. French officers in January filed preliminary expenses of cash laundering and extortion in opposition to Alexander Vinnik. New Zealand labored intently with the U.S. Inside Income Service. The U.S. has accused him of laundering billions of {dollars} by means of BTC-e, one of many world’s largest digital foreign money exchanges. His native Russia additionally needs to place him on trial. The cash is probably the most ever seized by New Zealand police.
BERLIN (AP) — German fee service supplier Wirecard says it has concluded that two accounts that had been presupposed to comprise 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in all probability don’t exist, deepening troubles that final week prompted the resignation of its chief government. Wirecard was as soon as considered a star of the rising monetary know-how sector, however its shares have fallen sharply from their peak after the corporate turned the topic of reviews about accounting irregularities. Wirecard disputed the reviews, which began in February 2019, and stated it was the sufferer of speculators. Final week, the corporate disclosed that auditors couldn’t discover accounts containing the 1.9 billion euros and postponed its annual report. On Friday, CEO Markus Braun resigned.
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