Stubbornly high shipping expenses for businesses are getting sealed into contracts for the next 12 months, forcing companies to pass the extra costs on to consumers. The price for a container of goods from China…
Euro zone business activity crashes to ‘shocking’ lows…
14 May 2019, Saxony, Zwickau: Employees at the Volkswagen Sachsen plant in Zwickau assemble Golf model vehicles on a production line.picture alliance | picture alliance | Getty ImagesEuro zone business activity hit another record low…
Airbnb hosts say they’re getting nothing or comically…
Brian Chesky, CEO of AirbnbGetty ImagesHundreds of Airbnb hosts have taken to online groups to complain that they have yet to receive any payments from a $ 250 million coronavirus relief fund the company announced…
Op-Ed: Advisors need to help clients get back…
Chad SpringerIt's obvious we are living in highly uncertain times.Markets are extremely volatile, and monetary and fiscal policies change from day to day. Most clients are extremely anxious, unsure of how the market is going…
Coronavirus freezing funding for space companies and more…
An Astra rocket on the launchpad in Kodiak, Alaska.Astra | John KrausYears of private funding flowing into young and growing space companies has ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic, in what one firm describes…
Markets will punish India for fiscal excesses, says…
By Abhishek VishnoiOpinion is unanimous that India should spend its way out of the current crisis, but it’s the question of ‘how’ that divides the room. Former central bank governor Duvvuri Subbarao is the latest…
Oil jumps 19%, clawing back some of the…
Oil jumped 40% at the high on Wednesday, recovering from early losses in a volatile overnight trading session that saw international benchmark Brent crude fall to its lowest level in more than 20 years.West Texas…
View: This playground stays level
On April 24, 2015, in its response to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) consultation paper on net neutrality (NN), Reliance Jio suggested that some form of ‘price prioritisation’ for India-based internet services be…
Next Avenue: The science behind why older immune…
This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. This “Ask the Expert†article is part of an editorial partnership between Next Avenue and The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), a national nonprofit organization whose mission is…