Despite making a combined $32 billion loss excluding special items, the airline industry of the United States stull ended 2020 with a lot of cash at hand. At the end of 2020, there was $31.5 billion in cash on their… Read More ›
Geopolitics
Tough Position Taken By China’s Diplomat In First Telephonic Call With New US Secretary Of State
The blame for pushing the bilateral relationship between the United States and China to its lowest point in decades was squarely put on Washington by China’s top diplomat in his first phone call with new United States Secretary of State… Read More ›
Slow Job Growth In The US With Covid-19 Stalling Recovery
With the Covid-19 pandemic continued to disrupt economy recovery in the United States, just 49,000 jobs were added in the country in January. Employment was hit at retail stores, restaurants, casinos and hotels because of continued losses which was described… Read More ›
An African And A Woman Is Set To Be The WTO Chief For The First Time
The first woman and the first woman and the African to head the World Trade Organization would be Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Her candidature to the top post of the global trade regulating body was confirmed after the withdrawal of the… Read More ›
UK Revokes Broadcast License Of Chinese State-Owned News Channel CGTN
The broadcasting license of China Global Television Network, or CGTN has been revoked by regulators in the United Kingdom. After an investigation “concluded that the license is wrongfully held by Star China Media Limited”, the Chinese state-owned channel’s license had… Read More ›
UK Top Destination For Australian Wine Exports After Chinese Tariff Hike
With crippling additional import duties imposed on Australian wine in China, wine makers in Australia had been trying out new markets and one of the successful markets was that of the United Kingdom. Last year there was 30 per… Read More ›
India’s Target Of Selling Of State-Owned Firms Will Push Economy Closer To $5 Trillion, Say Analysts
According to a top Indian business leader, the Indian economy will inch closer to becoming a $5 trillion economy because of the efforts to privatize state-owned companies. According to the target set by the country’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in… Read More ›
Myanmar coup likely to dampen investment interest: trade experts
According to analysts and trade experts, the coup by Myanmar’s military is likely to dampen the interest of western companies in investing in the country and may even prompt big U.S. companies to relocate. In the first 11 months of… Read More ›
2020 US Economy Performance Worst In 74 Years Due To Covid-19 Hit
The Cvoid-19 pandemic significantly life-saving financing lifeline in eth United States in 2020 along with investments in business resulting in the largest economy of the world posting a contraction for the year that was the deepest since World War II…. Read More ›
Tehran must resume complying with the Iran nuclear deal before Washington: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday stuck to his stance that Tehran must resume complying with the Iran nuclear deal before Washington, which abandoned the pact under former President Donald Trump, would do so. Making his first public… Read More ›