* Graphic: World FX rates in 2020 https://tmsnrt.rs/2RBWI5E. * Tracking the coronavirus: https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7. * Yen tumbles as risk sentiment shifts. * Traders focus on China policy response to virus. * Pound looks ahead to retail sales data. By Stanley White.
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2020 https://tmsnrt.rs/2RBWI5E. * Tracking the coronavirus: https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7. * Yen tumbles as risk sentiment shifts. * Traders focus on China policy response to virus. * Pound looks ahead to retail sales data. By Stanley White.
Farmhand Celavi Belor has lost so much weight over the past year his clothes hang limply off his angular frame. "Sometimes I go two or three days without eating," the 41-year-old said as he looked up from hoeing a rocky field in the mountains of northwestern Haiti.
Ottawa Savings Bancorp Inc: * OTTAWA BANCORP, INC. ANNOUNCES SPECIAL CASH DIVIDEND AND INCREASE IN QUARTERLY CASH DIVIDEND. * OTTAWA SAVINGS BANCORP INC - BOARD OF DIRECTORS HAS DECLARED A ONE-TIME SPECIAL CASH DIVIDEND OF $0.35 PER SHARE ON ITS OUTSTANDING STOCK.
Evans Bancorp Inc (EVBN): * EVANS BANCORP, INC. INCREASES CASH DIVIDEND 12 PERCENT. * Evans Bancorp Inc (EVBN) - DECLARED A CASH DIVIDEND OF $0.58 PER SHARE ON ITS OUTSTANDING COMMON STOCK Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
* Indian petcoke consumption fell in 2018, rose in 2019. * Major refiners United States, Saudi Arabia could benefit. By Sudarshan Varadhan. India's cement industry will import more petcoke in 2020 as it seeks to boost production, company executives said on Wednesday, signalling their enthusiasm for a fuel source banned in some states because of its sulphur content.
The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index rose on Wednesday as rates improved across all vessel segments, even as shipping activity remained subdued due to the coronavirus outbreak in China.
* Housing starts fall 3.6% in January. * Single-family starts drop 5.9%; multi-family up 0.7% * Building permits increase 9.2%; single-family permits up 6.4% * Producer price index gains 0.5%; up 2.1% year-on-year. By Lucia Mutikani.
Argentine bond investors waited on Wednesday for word from the International Monetary Fund about the sustainability of the country's debt and whether official meetings in Buenos Aires would yield a recommendation of a steep debt restructuring.
Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.4% in January on higher gasoline prices, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday, with some analysts suggesting the data may pose a challenge for the Bank of Canada should it wish to ease rates. Analysts in a Reuters poll had forecast a rate of 2.3%, up from 2.2% in December.
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