Summer heat could be a 'nightmare' for Tokyo Games: 2020 advisor - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Even if the COVID-19 pandemic does not prevent the Tokyo Olympics from going ahead next year, the blazing summer heat in the Japanese capital could still make the Games ‘a nightmare’, an advisor to the organizing committee has told Reuters.
Although Japan enjoyed a mild summer this year, Makoto Yokohari said that the highest temperatures in a typical August — when most of the delayed Games will take place — could mean a dangerous mix of heat and humidity.
Yokohari, a professor of environment
U.S. firms in China increasingly fear bilateral tensions will last for years: survey - Reuters
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. companies in China are increasingly fretful that trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies will drag out over years and nearly a third said their ability to retain staff had been affected, a survey showed.
Half of the firms said they
Oil prices edge up off three-month lows; demand concerns persist - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil futures on Wednesday clawed back some of the losses they sustained in the previous session, but a rebound in COVID-19 cases in some countries undermined hopes for a steady recovery in global demand.
Brent crude LCOc1 rose
Exclusive: Trump administration to deny pending retroactive U.S. biofuel waivers: sources - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed that dozens of oil refiner requests for retroactive waivers from U.S. biofuel laws be denied amid concerns the issue could cut into his support in the Farm Belt, three sources familiar with the decision said.
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