SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – A powerful new commercial says restaurants are facing extinction and Congress must pass a relief bill to help pay workers, rent, utilities and ultimately save 16 million food service jobs. In an ad voiced by actor Morgan Freeman, the …
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Restrictions on operating hours at Victoria’s abattoirs have led to panic-buying of meat. Victoria’s abattoirs and meat processing plants will have to scale back to two-thirds of production, under stringent new state government coronavirus regulations.
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Permanent TSB has reported a pre-tax loss of €57 million for the first six months of the year, as the bank set aside an amount of €75 million to deal with expected bad loans. Its half year results for 2020 show new lending of €600 million was down 16% …
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Diageo PLC said Tuesday that its fiscal 2020 pretax profit more than halved and net sales fell amid the coronavirus pandemic, and declared a final dividend of 42.47 pence. The world’s largest liquor maker–which owns Johnnie Walker whisky and Tanqueray …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Energy group BP (BP.L) will increase its low-carbon spending to $5 billion a year by 2030 and boost its renewable power generation to 50 gigawatts (GW) while shrinking oil and gas output by 40% compared with 2019, it said on Tuesday …
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