BitGou: Reuters Morning Digest: November 18, 2015

2015年11月18日星期三

Reuters Morning Digest: November 18, 2015

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Square IPO set to price Wednesday in highly watched deal

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Mobile payments company Square Inc is set to price shares for its initial public offering late Wednesday in what is expected to be a harbinger for how other highly valued tech companies are received in their public debuts.

EU to seek 'fresh start' with Turkey, top official says

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders will try to reset relations with Turkey at a summit this year with President Tayyip Erdogan, the EU's official in charge of enlargement said, barely a week after Brussels sharply criticized Ankara's human rights record.

Tencent's WeBank looking to raise $1 billion in funding round - source

HONG KONG (Reuters) - WeBank, the online finance arm of Chinese tech firm Tencent Holdings Ltd , is looking to raise about $1 billion to expand its lending business and other financial services, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

U.S. firefighter gets world's most extensive face transplant

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi whose face was burned off during a home fire rescue received the world's most extensive face transplant, New York University Langone Medical Center said on Monday.

Germany says concrete threat led to cancellation of soccer match

BERLIN (Reuters) - German politicians urged the public not to be cowed by the threat of Islamist attacks and said a concrete indication of a security threat had led them to cancel Tuesday's soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands.

David Beckham named People magazine's 'Sexiest Man Alive'

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Retired English soccer star David Beckham, an international celebrity both on and off the field, was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive," on Tuesday.

Zebras escape circus, roam Philadelphia streets for about an hour

(Reuters) - Two zebras broke free from a circus in Philadelphia on Sunday, bringing traffic to a crawl as they roamed city streets for about an hour and strolled past customers inside a fitness center, authorities said.