There was a slight improvement in European business activity in February even though the economy continued to contract with the Covid-19 pandemic still forcing governments to impose social restrictions, showed preliminary data that was released on Friday. The Covid-19 pandemic… Read More ›
Geopolitics
China Becomes EU’s Biggest Trading Partner In 2020 Outpacing The US
China has overtaken the United States as the largest trading partner of the European Union in 2020. While there was a fall in EU’s trading with most of its major trading partners during the pandemic hit year, China on the… Read More ›
Ratings Firm S&P Predicts Indian Economy To Grow At 10% In Fiscal 2022
The Indian economy is set to make a recovery from the pandemic induced economic contraction by next year, said the ratings agency S&P Global Ratings on Tuesday. The ratings agency predicted in a report that in fiscal 2022, the largest… Read More ›
Covid-19 Impact, Japanese Economy Contracts By 4.8% In 2020
Despite the Japanese economy growing in the fourth quarter of 2020, the economy could not make up the loss that it had sustained during the earlier part of the year because of the Covit-19 pandemic as the Japanese economy registered… Read More ›
China’s BytDance Considering Sale Of Indian TikTok Biz To Rival Glance: Report
According to a report published on Saturday by Bloomberg News, the Chinese etch company and owner of the short video sharing app TikTok, ByteDance, is reportedly considering options for a sale out of it’s the operations of the video sharing… Read More ›
EU Willing To Work With US’s Biden Administration For Settling Trade Spats
The move by the new government of the United States under president Joe Biden to not impose additional tariffs on goods from the European Union as a part of the -running dispute over aircraft tariffs was acknowledged by the EU… Read More ›
Looking forward to resolve aircraft subsidies dispute with Europe: USTR’s office
In a statement the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said, it is looking forward to working with European allies to resolve a dispute over aircraft subsidies. “We know there is great interest in resolving the Boeing-Airbus dispute on both sides of… Read More ›
US Airlines Have Large Cash Stocks Despite Huge Losses
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 ›
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 ›