Corporate America Weighing Its Options, Drifting Towards Biden

It’s the elephant in the room, quite literally, that most CEOs would prefer to quietly sulk in the far corner rather than upset their rickety apple cart, already wobbling under the strain of the Corona Pandemic. Just about the last

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Big Tech Five Cash In on Pandemic

Big Tech is on a high. Yesterday, four of the five FAAAM giants published their quarterly results and surprised Wall Street analysts with a stronger than expected revenue growth over Q3. Year-on-year, the quartet (Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple) registered

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Tales of Shopkeepers, Trolley Cops, and Markets

Shopkeepers in Wales have reported a disconcerting increase in the number of scarcely clad patrons visiting their premises, often sporting nothing more than underpants and a facemask. The quasi-streakers roaming the aisles of Welsh grocery stores and pharmacies are on

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When It Pours, Rainy Day Funds Help – A Little

Both the United States and the United Kingdom have joined the increasingly crowded ranks of countries sustaining a debt load equal to, or greater than, their national income. The US Congressional Budget Office has warned that over the next decade,

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India: Carefully Seizing the Day

India’s aspiration of rivalling China for regional political and economic supremacy may seem to have been ruined by the Corona pandemic’s intervention. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stated goal of growing India into a $5 trillion economy appears more distant than

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Containers Printers: Expanding Horizons for Packaging Industry and Customers — Despite Covid-19’s Ravages on the World

The Covid-19 pandemic has been the defining event of 2020 for businesses and individuals alike. This was equally true for Singapore-based Containers Printers, but the crisis presented CP with the opportunity to demonstrate its willingness and ability to take on

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The Summer Before Dark 2.0

Paris is under a curfew and Madrid under a state of emergency. In the Benelux, bars and cafés have been closed whilst elsewhere in Europe governments are almost uniformly moving towards a quasi-lockdown. The second wave was perhaps slow to

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Brexit Nears, Hedge Funds Flip Sides, and IMF Urges Spending

The yield on the benchmark 10-year German bund this week dipped to minus 0,63 percent as investors scrambled for safety and stocks took a beating. Tech stocks stumbled as well after the Financial Times revealed that the European Commission is

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Canada – This Is Our Time to Be Kind

‘Peace, order, and good government’, the leitmotif of the British Empire, seems to trump the American ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ when it comes to public safety. Canada, which kept the motto and lives by it, has thus

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Uruguay: A Near-Perfect Country to Live, Work, and Play Post-Covid-19

The best countries to build a prosperous post-corona life include obvious choices such as Australia (#1), New Zealand (#3), and The Netherlands (#8), but also a few surprising ones: Mauritius claimed a top spot (#6) as did, remarkably, Spain (#5),

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