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Why The U.S. Can’t Curb The World’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions
HEBEI, CHINA – NOVEMBER 19: Smoke billows from smokestacks and a coal fired generator at a steel … [+] factory on November 19, 2015 in the industrial province of Hebei, China. China’...
China’s Domestic Tourism Shrinks Amid Covid Lockdowns
The Great Wall of China has long been a popular tourist attraction in the country. (AP Photo/Ng Han … [+] Guan) Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. A global focus of China’...
A New Study By CVS Shows That People Want More Personalized & Curated Care
The newly released CVS Health 2022 Health Care Insights Study illuminates the current state of healthcare and the changing notions of consumer preferences. A lot has changed with regards to healthcare...
Stocks Set To Rise Across The Entertainment Industry Due To Post COVID Rebound
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 29: Casey Bloys, President of Programming of HBO, speaks onstage at … [+] HBO Max WarnerMedia Investor Day Presentation at Warner Bros. Studios on October 29,...
‘Where The Crawdads Sing’ Is This Summer’s First Big Movie For Women
Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) in Columbia Pictures’ WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING. Michele K Short In encouraging news for the weekend, Sony reported that Where the Crawdads Sing (produced by Reese Withersp...
More Than A Third Of U.S. Counties In Covid ‘Red’ Zone, According To CDC
Topline More than a third of U.S. counties are in a Covid-19 “red” zone, indicating high levels of community transmission and hospitalization, while less than a quarter of counties are in the “green z...
China’s Second-Quarter GDP Growth Plunges To Less Than 1% On Covid Hit
Health workers in protective gear walk out from a cordoned area after spraying disinfectant in Shanghai’s Huangpu district on January 27, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images China’s economic growth s...
China’s Economic Growth Sees Major Slump Following Months Of Stringent Covid Lockdowns
Topline China’s economy witnessed a major slowdown in growth in the second quarter of 2022, according to official data published on Friday, an outcome that is likely to raise fresh questions about the...
Covid Sparked Largest Sustained Decline In Global Childhood Vaccinations In 30 Years, WHO Says
Topline The Covid-19 pandemic helped fuel the largest continuous decline in global childhood vaccinations in three decades from 2019 to 2021, according to data released Thursday by the World Health Or...
BNTX Stock: Why ‘Covid Fatigue’ Isn’t Enough To Keep BioNTech Down
BioNTech (BNTX) snagged an upgrade Wednesday with an analyst saying “Covid fatigue” has obscured its non-pandemic efforts. BNTX stock jumped on the news. X SVB Securities analyst Daina Gra...
Inflation And The ‘Fed Put’ Is Here To Stay
Inflation meter. getty If the old orthodoxy has any sway left in the modern economic landscape it aims for balanced growth. For a while there it did great until the “global financial crisis” blew a ho...
China Lockdowns, Inflation Fuel 15% Drop In Global PC Shipments
Healthcare workers in protective gear give residents their Covid-19 tests in Shanghai on Sunday. … [+] Shanghai’s Covid-19 cases continued to rise, prompting authorities to declare more high-ris...
U.S. Secures 3.2 Million Novavax Covid Vaccines — Offering Alternative To MRNA Shots As New Variant Spreads
Topline The Biden administration announced Monday it has secured 3.2 million doses of the two-dose Novavax Covid-19 vaccine, which it plans to release for free pending emergency authorization from the...
Homebuyers are canceling deals at highest rate since start of Covid
A ‘for sale’ sign hangs in front of a home on June 21, 2022 in Miami, Florida. According to the National Association of Realtors, sales of existing homes dropped 3.4% to a seasonally adjus...
Foreigners Freak Out About COVID Outbreak
China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asian equities were largely lower though Japan outperformed while several countries were off for Eid al-Adha, which is the most important holiday celebrated in Is...
Novak Djokovic hopes for Covid rule change ahead of U.S. Open
Novak Djokovic of Serbia kisses the winners trophy after victory over Nick Kyrgios of Australia in their Men’s Singles Final match on day fourteen of The Championships Wimbledon 2022 in London. ...
Fed Up With China, One Boss Tries Removing It From the Supply Chain
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How ‘Minions 2’ Brings The Covid Era To An Optimistic Close
‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Universal With $10.5 million on Thursday, Universal and Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru has earned $164 million in its first week in domestic theaters. T...
Ford Q2 China sales were worst since Covid pandemic began
Visitors walk past a Ford Escape Titanium at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai on April 17, 2019. Greg Baker| AFP | Getty Images DETROIT — Ford Motor joined its crosstown rival General Motors in repo...
Chinese EV Billionaire Shrugs Off Lockdown Pain To Add $7 Billion Fortune
Chinese electric car maker BYD is not only surviving the disruptions caused by the country’s Covid lockdowns, but the company appears to be thriving like never before. BYD’s stock has jumped just over...
Anytickets And The Rise Of The Tertiary Ticket Market
From left: Marcus Stern, Chris Bonner and Deric Margolis the shareholders of Anytickets. Lundy Barrey How is it that Anytickets, a company you’ve never heard of can project $200 million in annual tick...
EVs Help China’s Geely Auto Rebound In June; Stock Gains 6.7% In Hong Kong
Li Shufu, chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., in 2018. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Geely Automobile Holdings, a China automaker controlled by billionaire L...
Framing An “Abuse-Of-Crisis Prevention Act” To Confine The Federal Government
I’ve been through a few of these. I was here at 9/11, I was here during the financial crisis in ‘08, I was here during the fiscal cliff. We occasionally have these great crises and when they occur we ...
Beijing city to require Covid vaccinations for some public venues
Chinese cities like Beijing, pictured here on July 6, 2022, require negative virus tests from within the last 72 hours in order to enter most public spaces. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Im...
Covid Vaccines Prevented Over 200,000 U.S. Deaths In 9 Months, Study Finds
Topline Coronavirus vaccinations prevented almost 27 million Covid-19 infections, 1.6 million hospitalizations and 235,000 deaths among American adults in the first nine months they were available, ac...
Shanghai’s Latest Covid Flare-Up Triggers Mass Testing And Stock Market Slump
Topline An emerging outbreak of Covid-19 cases in Shanghai has prompted officials to initiate mass testing in more than half of the city’s neighborhoods while infection surges in other parts of China ...
Highly Contagious BA.5 Variant Becomes Dominant In U.S. As Covid Cases Rise
Topline The highly transmissible BA.5 omicron subvariant is now the dominant coronavirus strain in the U.S., accounting for nearly 54% of Covid-19 infections last week, according to estimates from the...
‘Minions 2’ And ‘Stranger Things’ Show The Power Of Original Franchises
‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ and ‘Stranger Things season four Universal and Netflix Despicable Me was a new IP aimed at “today’s kids,” while Stranger Things works for young audiences ...
More parts of China battle Covid and threats of lockdown as cases spike
Covid-related restrictions tightened in parts of China as local cases climbed, while lighter measures such as virus testing linger on in Shanghai, pictured here on July 3, 2022. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg...