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How Are NZ Businesses Progressing on Climate Change and Sustainabili...

Source: cornfield, Shutterstock Summary The Paris Agreement gives sustainability goals to countries. Several organisations from the world over...

Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic delay trip to space

its spaceflight test from February 2021 to May 2021 due to corrective work going on. As per the reports, two major space ventures have postponed...

US Tech Stocks Down Due To Attractive Bond Yields

opments. Stocks are down globally, including the ones listed with the NZX and ASX. The US stocks experienced large sell-offs during the trading s...

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Competing With Fast-Growing China Based EVs

Source: Ascannio ,Shutterstock Summary Investors in China based EV manufacturers hope the companies would build upon their success in China...

Wall Street Ends Lower; What Weighed On Stocks

Source: G-Stock Studio, Shutterstock Summary S&P 500 fell 2.45%, NASDAQ dropped 3.52%, and Dow Jones shed 1.75%. Industrials, technolo...

Square (NYSE:SQ) Bitcoin Stake Reaches US$220 Million

roStrategy’s CEO believes Bitcoin could be worth US$100 trillion one day. Square Inc (NYSE:SQ) has recently reported the purchase of US$170...

Is GameStop (NYSE:GME) Rallying Again?

top after testifying before the House Financial Services Committee. The share price of the gaming retailer GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) was halted at...

US Stocks Roar Back on Fed Reassurance, Recovery Hopes

Brands, and others to present earnings reports after markets close. After a brief lull, US stock markets came back strongly to end the session hi...

Federal Reserve says US unemployment scenario far worse than seen

Source: Shutterstock Summary Federal Reserve chair Jerome H. Powell said that the US economic revival is incomplete and uneven...

How is the Needle Moving on Greenback Amid Powell’s Latest Comments

After a tumultuous start to 2021, the US Dollar continues to remain volatile with bleak expectations of recovery for the remaining year. Bank experts...

Major shakeup at GameStop; CFO Jim Bell set to quit

Source: Shutterstock GameStop’s Chief Financial Officer Corp Jim Bell will be leaving the organisation in March this year, the video game giant...

Are Investors Exiting Tech Stocks For Other Growth Sectors?

s. NASDAQ is down around 6% from its peak on February 12. Blue-chip tech stocks have seen a sixth-straight decline in recent days, but could thi...

US Markets End Flat Despite Fed’s Supportive Rate Pledge

arkets to maintain low rates, rules out inflation pressure for now. US stock markets ended flat for a second consecutive day on Tuesday despite t...

Facebook ‘re-friends’ Australia, set to lift news ban

Source: Shutterstock In a major triumph for Australia, US tech giant Facebook has finally struck a reconciliatory note with the country’s Feder...

Bill Gates' game plan on how to avert a climate disaster

Source: Shutterstock “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”, the latest book by tech philanthropist Bill Gates is the talk of the town. From e...

US Markets End Lower, Weighted Down By Tech Stocks, Consumer Cyclica...

ignal higher optimism in the markets of a faster economic recovery. US stock markets ended lower on Monday, weighted down by traditional blue-chi...

Is NZ Tourism living up to its campaign ‘100% Pure New Zealand’?

terrains, and interests, which separates it from rest of the world. NZ’s Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, on 18...

Canada-based Geothermal Start-up Bags USD 40 Million from Oil Giants...

Source: Sutterstock Eavor Technologies – a Canada-based geothermal energy start-up has received backing from global oil giants Chevron and BP f...

Facebook is back with negotiations after blocking AU news pages

Australian PM Scott Morrison said Facebook Inc (NYSE:FB) has come up with some negotiating discussions after rising tensions regarding the disabling o...

COVID-19 vaccine updates from Nook and Corner

The pressure is on for nations to vaccinate people against COVID-19, especially when the new strain is also picking the pace. As per media reports, cl...