Investors are keeping a tight eye on events in Israel as a geopolitical risk to markets, with some anticipating that the violence may spark a shift towards safe haven assets. against Saturday, gunmen from the Palestinian organisation Hamas launched an… Read More ›
Economy & Finance
A Central Bank Testing Lab Has Created A Global Bitcoin Mapping System
A worldwide central bank test lab has created a prototype bitcoin surveillance system to provide authorities with a better understanding of how, when, and where the cryptocurrency is used. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Atlas project began more than… Read More ›
US Employment Growth Picks Up In September, While Wage Inflation Slows Down
Although pay growth is slowing, the United States’ employment expanded in September for the first time in eight months as hiring increased broadly, indicating to ongoing labour market resilience that could give the Federal Reserve justification to hike interest rates… Read More ›
Bond Yields Are Rising, Making Canadian Homeowners’ Mortgage Misery Worse As Renewals Approach
About 75,000 Canadian homeowners who are waiting for notices of mortgage renewals next month are preparing for a shocking interest rate increase brought on by an unexpected global bond rally, which will further strain already tight household budgets. In contrast… Read More ›
Test For Beijing’s Response To The Aftermath Of The The Evergrande Crisis As Worries Among Creditors Grow
Beijing avoided taking direct action to save what was once seen as one of the nation’s “too big to fail” firms as developer China Evergrande Group tumbled from crisis to crisis over the past two years. Some creditors, investors, and… Read More ›
US Consumers Are Impacted By Record Chicken Costs, Yet Tyson Foods Benefits
As Tyson Foods and other businesses reduce poultry output to increase margins and inflation-weary consumers choose chicken over beef and pig, chicken prices at U.S. grocery stores have reached record highs and are expected to stay high. Tyson and Pilgrim’s… Read More ›
Unsteady Waters For Europe Trying To Navigate The US-China Conflict
Gordon Brown, former British prime minister, spoke out loudly about the anxiety that has been gradually beginning to reverberate throughout European political halls of power at a World Trade Organisation event in September.” Europe does not want to end up… Read More ›
‘Beanless Coffee’ Is Produced By A Seattle-Based Firm To Help Fight Deforestation
This week, a Seattle-based firm working with some of the same investors as Beyond Meat will introduce the first beanless coffee in an effort to lessen the popular beverage’s environmental effect. Investors have spent $51.6 million into Atomo Coffee in… Read More ›
Aiming For A $10 Billion Valuation, Birkenstock Moves Closer To Wall Street
In its much awaited U.S. initial public offering (IPO), Birkenstock, the German premium footwear company backed by private equity firm L Catterton, has set a fully diluted valuation goal of approximately $10 billion. According to a filing with the U.S…. Read More ›
UK Retailers Demand Government Action On Rising Crime
In a letter to UK’s interior minister Suella Braverman, 88 UK retail leaders—among them the CEOs of Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Marks & Spencer—demanded action in response to the escalating rates of retail crime. In Britain, rising crime is likely to… Read More ›