Oil Crude prices are headed lower for a third consecutive day on supply concerns and after major European nations suspend use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Many...
Several European countries suspend vaccination with AstraZeneca after 37 patients have suffered blood clotting
The decision by around a dozen EU countries to suspend dosing with AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is facing criticism, The post States halting AZ jab a ‘disaster’...
What's The Plan In Europe - Blame UK & AstraZeneca? Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, What is going on in Europe? The political and economic...
Europe Stays In Lockdown Mode In early 2021, COVID-19 lockdowns remain in place across Europe, but, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz notes, a number of countries has started to...
Russia Offers Europe Win-Win Vaccine Solution Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Sputnik V vaccine potentially fills the supply gaps that the EU is encumbered with....
EU's Countries Playing Politics With Russian Sputnik-V Vaccine
The economic, social, and environmental challenges embedded throughout the world’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require many breakthroughs from business as usual. COVID-19 has only...
A global, multicenter study, led by UC, finds correlation between the severity of COVID-19 in the lungs and brain using CT/MRI scans Credit: University of Cincinnati...
Consequences Are Unavoidable Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, Consequences are unavoidable. Pension savers are crushed by interest rate repression and the changing demographics of Covid,...
Staring at screens for long periods of time — as we are during the pandemic — can reveal previously undiagnosed eye problems.
Plus a round-up of the coronavirus situation around the world marking one year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. Listen to Episode 6 of The Conversation...
There is a difference between people who deliberately seek out vaccines outside the system, and those who are offered them because they're about to expire.
The following article was published by Future Travel Experience Ryanair has launched a COVID-19 Travel Wallet, allowing customers to upload health documents such as negative PCR...
The Dangerous US/NATO Strategy In Europe Authored by Manlio Dinucci via Global Research, The NATO Dynamic Manta anti-submarine warfare exercise took place in the Ionian Sea from...
More Countries Adopt Vaccine Passports To 'Boost Tourism' Airlines in the US are already in the process of leveraging apps and smartphones to allow travelers to...
Keeping a weekly column like this one going brings home the sense of immediacy that frequently grips financial markets and that can fuel short-term spikes or...
Overview: Fear that yesterday's reversals represent little more than one-day wonders is contributing to the overall consolidative tone today. Most equity markets in the Asia Pacific region...
Russia’s Sputnik V could be produced in western Europe for the first time after a deal to make the Covid-19 vaccine in Italy was signed by...
Overview: The attack on Saudi Arabia's largest crude terminal reverberated through the capital markets, where sentiment was already fragile, despite the lack of disruption. Brent rose...
The ECB meeting is the most important calendar event in the week ahead. It is true that the US reports February CPI figures, but the base...
Confidence in Covid-19 vaccines is growing, with people’s willingness to have the shots increasing as they are rolled out across the world and concerns about possible...
Europe Divided Over COVID Passports Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, European leaders are considering a proposal to introduce a common EU-wide Coronavirus vaccination...
Newsom Urges Double-Masking For All Californians, Will Not Make "Terrible Mistake" Like Texas Having immediately decried the actions of Texas and Mississippi - in giving their...
To keep track of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, institutions tasked with viral surveillance need to devote more resources to genome sequencing. The post SARS-CoV-2 Under Surveillance appeared...
More than 250 participants in the study recognized the specific benefits provided by e-authentication but expressed concerns about the risk of technical problems Credit: Sergey Zolkin,...
Merck & Co. Inc. will help make rival Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot Covid-19 vaccine in a partnership set to be announced on March 2 by U.S....
Just when we can finally see the end of lockdown and life possibly returning to some sort of normal, we have a flurry of rumours that...
Rashes and lesions are a potentially useful way of spotting COVID-19 patients who are otherwise asymptomatic.
Overview: Equities and bonds jump back. Most Asia Pacific markets advanced 1.5-2.5% after the regional MSCI benchmark dropped 3.65% before the weekend and 5.3% last week. The...