Olivia Steedman chuckles when she thinks about the first tech investment she made for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Now the senior managing director of the...
China's White Collar Workers Face Invasive Surveillance By 'Big Tech' Overlords For a Communist nation, the People's Republic has notoriously weak labor protections. While gig economy...
Mongolia Reports Fresh COVID Outbreak Despite High Vaccination Rates For weeks now, Mongolia has been touted as an unexpected success story in the international vaccination project:...
Melco International Development, the owner of the iconic Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurants, is seeking to sell an eight-storey car park in Hong Kong, as renewed speculative...
WELL Health Technologies Corp. is spending $206 million to acquire Toronto-based MyHealth Centres in a deal that will create the largest private-sector-owned network of medical clinics...
Asia starts the week in a cautious mood Friday’s US Non-Farm Payroll data dampened inflation fears and lifted US stock markets. NFP rose by 559,000 jobs,...
With the use of the remaining 2020 carry-over leave week off complete, it appears that in my absence, the more things change, the more they stay...
Taiwan and South Korea share indexes jumped while Japan, Australia and Hong Kong markets… The post Asian stock markets rise ahead of European, U.S. data first...
Things could be heating up for these consumer discretionary stocks this summer. The post What Stocks To Buy Right Now? 5 Consumer Discretionary Stocks To Watch...
China Allows Families To Have Up To 3 Children Amid Dramatic Drop In Birth Rates As concerns about China's looming population decline intensify (stoked by news...
Is Europe Changing Its Strategy Toward China? Authored by June Teufel Dreyer via The Epoch Times, The answer might be yes... and no. The European Parliament’s...
Nikkei 225 index jumped 2.2%, Hang Seng gained 0.6%, Kospi climbed 0.9%, the Shanghai… The post Asian shares rise on signs of U.S. economic recovery first...
China equities rise on positive US-China comms Overnight, Wall Street limped to a modestly positive finish with the S&P 500 rising 0.19%, the Nasdaq outperforming, increasing...
New Zealand Worried That China "Storm" On Horizon, Urges Diversity Of Exports New Zealand officials have of late looked at their much larger Aussie neighbor and...
The COVID-19 pandemic has aided the growth of telemedicine as it helped reduce contact between healthcare staff, workers, and patients minimizing the risk of contracting the...
Hongkongers will be allowed to holiday at sea from as early as July when the government launches so-called cruises to nowhere, with officials imposing strict health...
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 1%, Australian shares gained 0.69%,… The post Asian shares climb as Wall Street rallies first appeared on...
Asian equities leap higher following Wall Street The buy-everything trade is in full swing in Asia today after Wall Street decided overnight that inflation wasn’t a...
UK Government Says WHO Needs To "Explore All Possible Theories" On COVID Origins Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times, The World Health Organization’s (WHO)...
"Fact-Checking" Takes Another Beating: Taibbi Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News, The news business just can’t stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international...
Scanning sewage for disease threats, vaccine safety, and the true origins of COVID-19. We discuss all these topics and more with Dr. David N. Fisman, an...
The upcoming high-frequency economic data are unlikely to sway investors or policymakers. The key issue is whether price pressures are more than transitory, as officials at the...
Inflationary fears continued to ease overnight, as data from the US and Asia pointed downwards. In the US, the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index retreated from near...
If Everything Is Going To Be Just Fine, Why Do The Shortages Just Keep Getting Worse? Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, They...
Four-month TB therapy proves as effective as 6-month standard regimen Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) SAN ANTONIO (May 19, 2021) — Four...
"It's Gotten Out Of Control": Supply Shortages Plaguing Global Economy Expected To Last A Long Time Stocks are selling off again on Monday as worries about...
Asian equity investors get bored with selling US markets gave Asia no lead overnight, with US equities falling intra-day before recovering to finish slightly lower. Part of...
Credit: The University of Hong Kong The research teams at the University of Hong Kong led by Professor Xuechen LI from the Research Division for Chemistry...
The Nikkei 225 dropped 1.2% to 27,753.83, the Hang Seng gained 0.4% to 28,142.85,… The post Asia stock markets mixed on virus curbs, Wall Street decline...
Reflation Panic Sparks Global Stock Rout Yesterday was bad, but not too bad, and we titled our morning market wrap "Futures Flat As Soaring Commodities Depress...