According to a Channel 4 news bulletin, Roche has struck a deal with Britain to increase the country’s testing capacity for the Wuhan coronavirus. The report, cites Britain’s health authority Public Health England as saying, the new COVID-19 testing machines… Read More ›
Month: March 2020
Growth Of Global Wind Power In 2019 Was Almost 20%
There was an almost 20 per cent growth in the wind power capacity across the world for 2019, following up on a year that saw record growth in offshore wind farms as well as in onshore projects in the United… Read More ›
G20 Will Do ‘Whatever It Takes’ To Fight Global Coronavirus Threat
The Group of 20 major economies of the world has decided to pump in $5 trillion into the global economy though national measures in order to try and ease the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic while also pledging to… Read More ›
Washington and Beijing to collaborate in G20 summit: South China Morning Post
In a report, the South China Morning Post said, the United States and China are expected to set aside their differences and focus on the challenges of controlling and stopping the pandemic when leaders of the G20 nations hold talks… Read More ›
Japan sets up COVID-19 HQ, preparatory steps to declare state of emergency: Kyodo news agency
On Thursday, the Japanese government said, it is setting up a special headquarters for the Wuhan coronavirus, which could be activated as early as this afternoon, as it preps up efforts to fight the virus which has gone pandemic. Japan’s… Read More ›
Investors looking at 2007-2009 financial crisis models for when to jump back into markets
2008 models which were used by investment banks during the then financial crisis is back in the works. Investment banks are dusting off those models to gauge the right time to jump back in the stock markets which has fallen… Read More ›
UK Consumer Group Says Amazon And Ebay Doing Little To Prevent Covid-19 Profiteering
A consumer watch group has warned that sellers on the online platforms eBay and Amazon Marketplace are profiteering in the current time of the cornavirus pandemic and the two online market places are doing little to stop them. The group… Read More ›
Demand For ‘Corona Bonds’ Raised By Nine European Countries Amid Rising Deaths
In Europe, which has now been termed as the new epicenter of the coornavirus pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), there is increasing pressure on policy makers to announce new measures to address the economic impact of the pandemic…. Read More ›
UK Sandwich Chain Eat Permanently Shuts Shop After 24 Years
The once popular and currently struggling sandwich chain of the United Kingdom – Eat, will shut down completely and will not be seen on the high street of the country after Pret Manger, the owner of the brand, decided to… Read More ›
Lockdown Is Causing A Shift Among Gamblers From Sports To Riskier Alternatives
According to one of the United Kingdom’s biggest gambling websites, with the lockdown in several countries including the UK in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, there has been a shift of gamblers from wagers on sport to… Read More ›