(Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Monday as travel stocks surged on the launch of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccine campaign, while Alexion Pharmaceuticals jumped on a $39 billion buyout offer from AstraZeneca in one of the year’s biggest deals.FILE PHOTO: Raindrops hang on a sign for Wall Street outside the New York Stock […]
A counterintuitive silver lining to the pandemic is developing: While droves of small businesses across the United States have been crushed by Covid-19 and its restrictions, others have been pushed to lift off. There has been a surge in new business start-ups this year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By the week ending Dec. […]
BT Mark To Market Ep 2: Dividend-yielding stocks and Reits 12:14 min Synopsis: Listen to Ben Paul’s analysis and insight on market trends and corporate issues in Singapore, in this new podcast series based on his weekly column in The Business Times. BT’s senior correspondent Ben Paul talks about the topic of investing in dividend-yielding […]
In the latest WWD-produced webinar, Courtney Velasco, industry marketing lead at Oracle NetSuite, and Nathan Newman, cofounder and chief operating officer at Winky Lux, joined WWD executive editor Arthur Zaczkiewicz in discussing new challenges on the global supply chain, building an infrastructure to support sales, and launching a product line during the holidays. Since its […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – The British pound rose against the dollar and the euro on hopes that Britain and the European Union will secure a free trade agreement after their decision to extend negotiations beyond the Sunday deadline.FILE PHOTO: Pound and U.S. dollar bills are seen in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationThe dollar […]
All investors have their weak points and often think they are smarter than they actually are, so a steady temperament is critical when putting your money on the line, says asset management executive Omar Slim. “We often can be emotional, greedy, hasty, scared or deceived. That’s all normal,” he says. Please subscribe or log in […]
‘Tis the season for best-of-the-year lists, and so here is mine: Virus of the year Has to be Covid-19, doesn’t it? I mean … yeah … no … not even close. Although I bet someone on the internet will still disagree. Business hero of the year It’s you, if you are in business. If not […]
LONDON – Christiane Arp has exited Vogue Germany after 17 years amid a top-level shakeup at Condé Nast in Europe. Arp joined the title in 2003, and had witnessed a major re-structuring of Condé operations in Germany last year. “We want to make what we do more tangible, but we’ve just announced the new outlook. […]
Time magazine on Thursday named President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as its persons of the year, citing the weight of the pandemic and racial injustice that will be shouldered by the history-making Democratic ticket. Bruce Springsteen, who narrated a television ad for Mr. Biden during the campaign, revealed the magazine’s […]
Time magazine on Thursday named President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as its persons of the year, citing the weight of the pandemic and racial injustice that will be shouldered by the history-making Democratic ticket. Bruce Springsteen, who narrated a television ad for Mr. Biden during the campaign, revealed the magazine’s […]