LONDON (Reuters) – Today’s $72 trillion question for investors: To buy or not to buy into the global equities rally? Notwithstanding inflated share prices, politics and the pandemic, the answer from many is a resounding “yes.” That’s not just because unprecedented stimulus – $20 trillion and counting – is forcing…
(Reuters) – After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his school: Chinese graduate students. So, in 2017, along with the engineering school, Brown bought insurance worth up to…
LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar edged lower and commodity currencies inched higher on Monday as investors were relieved by a delay in the review of the U.S.-China trade pact which left the deal intact. Weak data and uncertainty ahead of a week that includes minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar slipped marginally and commodity currencies inched higher on Monday as investors were relieved by a delay in the review of the U.S.-China trade pact which left the deal intact. The moves in the Asia session were modest, as weak data and uncertainty ahead of a…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar began Monday where it left off last week, caught between pressure from worries about the lagging U.S. economic recovery and support from rising U.S. bond yields and safe-harbour demand. A boost to sentiment from the postponement of the U.S-China trade deal review – which…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar began Monday where it left off last week, caught between pressure from worries about the lagging U.S. economic recovery and support from rising U.S. bond yields and safe-harbour demand. A boost to sentiment from the postponement of the U.S-China trade deal review – which…
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There is no shortage of ways to consume news in 2020, which is part of my problem. There are countless podcasts, newsletters, websites, etc. Politics and COVID19 are dominating the news, though. Sometimes, I want to read about non-COVID 19 and politics news, like what is Microsoft doing or what…
This was excerpted from the August 14 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. (CNN)American presidential candidates have been branded through the ages as pimps, crooks, accessories to rape and murder, drunks and even…
Immediately after Kamala Harris was announced as Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential nominee, the race was on to define her. For millions of voters who didn’t know much about the junior Senator from California, first impressions would matter. GOP pundits, led by the president, threw a lot of contradictory mud to…
