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Trip.com Jumps on Hong Kong Debut
April 20, 2021 11:07 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSource: Oleksiy Mark, Shutterstock Summary Trip.com shares traded 4% higher from their issue price on the first day of trading in Hong Kong. Proceeds are planned to be used for the expansion of offerings and improving user experience and...
Canada’s 'Feminist' Budget 2021: What's In Store For Women?
April 20, 2021 10:45 AM AEST| By Shreya BiswasSource: Shutterstock A little over a month ago, while celebrating International Women’s Day, Canada had unveiled an all-female task force that was meant to ensure that the 2021 federal budget remembered women and addressed gender inequality. C...
Snapshot: Canadian Federal Budget 2021 & Its Key Allocations
April 20, 2021 09:25 AM AEST| By AnujSource:Saklakova, Shutterstock The Canadian government tabled its expenditure plans on Monday evening to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and reenergize the economy amid a coronavirus crisis. As projected by some analysts, Liberals’ federal...
Canada Budget 2021: Does Fiscal Deficit Translate into Bad Economics?
April 20, 2021 09:00 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSource:TeeStocker, Shutterstock Canada’s fiscal deficit for 2020-21 is a staggering C$354.2 billion, informed Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s while presenting her first budget. The Liberal government is spending beyond its means in...
Canada Budget 2021: 10 Key Highlights You Cannot Miss
April 20, 2021 08:35 AM AEST| By Shreya BiswasSource: ©Kalkine Group 2021 It’s a big day for Canada as the Trudeau-led Liberal government unveils its first federal budget in two years. People from across the country tuned in on their various gadgets to find out what Finance Minister...
TSX Plunges As Cautious Investors Pause Before Canada Budget 2021
April 20, 2021 08:12 AM AEST| By AnujSource: Copyright © 2021 Kalkine Media Pty Ltd. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed in red on Monday, moments before the most-awaited federal budget announcement by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. After setting an all-time high last week...
Canada Pours C$101.4-billion, Stacks Up Historic Fiscal Deficit
April 20, 2021 07:54 AM AEST| By Ipsita SarkarSource:vintagetone, Shutterstock With snap polls in mind, the federal government’s first budget in two years poured another C$101.4-billion pandemic stimulus to chart out an economic course for pandemic-hit Canada. The fiscal deficit for 2020-...
Taking Stock of Canada’s COVID Situation Ahead of Budget 2021
April 20, 2021 02:31 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSource:Mongkolchon Akesin, Shutterstock Canada is in the midst of a punishing third wave, with no signs of the virus abating. The country has conducted more than 30 million covid tests as of April 18, with over 1.1 million testing positive, as per...
Canada Budget 2021: The ‘Record Debt’ COVID-19 Recovery May Bring On
April 20, 2021 02:16 AM AEST| By Shreya BiswasSource: Phongphan, Shutterstock Set with an eye on post-pandemic recovery and a possible election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s upcoming 2021 federal budget is set to go big on spending. The Trudeau government is expected to inject a...
5 Things To Watch Out For Before Liberals Announce Federal Budget 2021
April 20, 2021 01:47 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSource: Joyseulay, Shutterstock Summary Trudeau government will likely spend more on clean energy alternatives and building sustainable infrastructure. The COVID-19 pandemic affected women in jobs more than men, to support them the government...
6 Hours to Budget 2021: Here's How Canadian Equity Markets Are Reacting!
April 20, 2021 01:00 AM AEST| By AnujSource: HNK, Shutterstock Less than six hours to the first Canadian budget in two years, and market optimism is high. After hitting an all-time high on Friday, the S&P/Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) Composite Index continued in positive territory...
COVID-19 Budget 2021: Economic Recovery & Pandemic Support On Cards
April 20, 2021 12:30 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSource: Andrii Vodolazhskyi, Shutterstock Summary Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland had last year indicated that the government will do its best to support Canadians. Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, more than 3 million people lost th...
3 Taxes Likely To Be A Part of Canadian Federal Budget 2021
April 19, 2021 09:39 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media© Kalkine Image 2021 Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland pledged up to C$100 billion stimulus in the Fall Economic Statement 2020. The figure will be injected over the next three years. The big question is, how will the federal government accumu...
PPG Industries Inc. Is at Record Peak, What to Expect Ahead?
April 19, 2021 08:24 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Mediaositive trend for the stock but at the same time, an overbought condition. PPG Industries Inc. (NYSE: PPG) is a manufacturer of a wide range of coatings and specialty materials. PPG’s price has broken out of its all-time high on Friday and se...
Are Bitcoin Bears Gaining Strength or Bulls Retreating To Take a Leap?
April 19, 2021 08:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Mediar band of channel pattern and the RSI (14-period) has formed a negative divergence. Bitcoin in just 3 months had rallied ~ 125.77 percent from the low of USD 28,745.55 made on January 2021 to a new lifetime high of USD 64,899.97 tested on...
Is Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Catching Momentum from Crucial Support Zone?
April 19, 2021 08:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSource: Macro photo, Shutterstock Summary Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) gained 5.68% percent in the last trading session and was one of the top gainers in the NASDAQ 100 index. Last week, AMD had pierced through a downward trendline and...
Dogecoin has a tiger’s roar, soars 440% in a week
April 19, 2021 07:34 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Mediaed as the cryptocurrency soars on sheer popularity and not on the underlying asset. Dogecoin has witnessed a rise of a staggering 18,000% from a year ago with the current market value of ~US$49 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. Over the past-...
Music to your ears? How podcasting is taking traditional media by storm
April 19, 2021 07:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Mediado not. Joe Rogan’s Spotify deal is the largest in podcasting history. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a plethora of listeners migrate to various niche podcasts. Most notably, the genre of true crime has attracted a large portion of liste....
Indian markets feel the heat as COVID-19 rattles the country
April 19, 2021 04:30 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Mediaber of daily COVID-19 deaths – displacing Brazil The raging COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in India, the world’s second most populous country. On Monday, the equities in the country opened deep in red, despite most of its...
Asia markets open in green, COVID-19 wreak havoc in India
April 19, 2021 02:43 PM AEST| By Furquan MoharkanSource: REDPIXEL.PL, Shutterstock The Asian markets on Monday morning are seeing a positive opening with investors keenly watching developments in China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) and India’s worsening COVID-19 situation....