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 JobKeeper Scheme to cost an extra $15 billion amid Victoria crisis

JobKeeper Scheme to cost an extra $15 billion amid Victoria crisis

August 07, 2020 09:51 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary Changes worth $15 billion were made in the extended JobKeeper scheme. Businesses will now have to prove a decline in their GST turnover for only one quarter to qualify for JobKeeper extension, and workers will also qualify for the schem.....

 Canadian Insolvency Filings Decline By Record Numbers After Federal Support

Canadian Insolvency Filings Decline By Record Numbers After Federal Support

August 07, 2020 03:31 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Canada’s economic response plan and fiscal stimulus measures deployed to soften the blow of the pandemic seems to be bearing fruit. While tens of thousands of establishments shut down in the months of March and April, consumer and business in.....

 Labour Market Conditions in The UK Improve as More Sectors Open Up, But Outlook Still Remains Grim

Labour Market Conditions in The UK Improve as More Sectors Open Up, But Outlook Still Remains Grim

August 06, 2020 11:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary The REC and KPMG employment index for July stood at 43.4, up from 34.3 recorded in the month of July The improvement in the employment index in July is being attributed to the opening up of the hospitality sector, the largest employment.....

 BP's plan for zero carbon emission by 2050, will other companies follow the suite?

BP's plan for zero carbon emission by 2050, will other companies follow the suite?

August 06, 2020 08:14 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary Oil majors BP & RDSA have vowed to reduce carbon footprint by 2050 Supermarket operators SBRY & TSCO are likely to become carbon neutral in the next few decades There are some sectors where reducing carbon footprint still seems.....

 Impact of Coronavirus on Australian Economy and Way Forward

Impact of Coronavirus on Australian Economy and Way Forward

August 06, 2020 06:29 PM AEST| By Edita Ivancevic

Summary A start of the new pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China created a global health challenge and an economic catastrophe. Just after the most horrific bushfire season ended, Australians needed to adapt to a “new normal”. B.....

 Unemployment, Financial and Economic Crunch: 3 Things that Kiwi landers May Consider to Sail Though

Unemployment, Financial and Economic Crunch: 3 Things that Kiwi landers May Consider to Sail Though

August 06, 2020 05:59 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary New Zealand’s critical unemployment scenario despite its significant success against the virus indicates an impending concern for the New Zealanders.  The hard-hit travel sector might have still to wait for the potential Tran.....

 Second Page of the COVID-19 Diary: Business Insolvencies, Unemployment, Underemployment

Second Page of the COVID-19 Diary: Business Insolvencies, Unemployment, Underemployment

August 06, 2020 04:53 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

The Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews declared new restrictions to limit the spread of coronavirus outbreak in Victoria and stated that the second lockdown could result in almost 250,000 job losses as a consequence of entire sectors freezing tempo.....

 Coronavirus effect: Virgin Atlantic’s bankruptcy increases spotlight on airline stocks

Coronavirus effect: Virgin Atlantic’s bankruptcy increases spotlight on airline stocks

August 05, 2020 11:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary Facing the Covid-19 crisis, Virgin Atlantic filed for bankruptcy after a month old announcement of securing £1.2 billion in funding. Despite higher cost and lower income, airlines need to invest in safety measures to check the spr.....

 Goods exports to China are now nearly half of the total Australian Exports

Goods exports to China are now nearly half of the total Australian Exports

August 05, 2020 10:10 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary Australian trade surplus rocketed to $8.2 billion in June 2020, driven by rising export of iron ore to China where surged steel production culminated in high iron ore demand.  The robust trade statistics come at a time when severe .....

 Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Plan on Economic Recovery – 5 Aspects to be Looked at

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Plan on Economic Recovery – 5 Aspects to be Looked at

August 05, 2020 09:45 PM AEST| By Edita Ivancevic

Summary A recent emergency state declared in Victoria put new challenges to the Australian health and economy. JobTrainer program is expected to create more jobs that will be needed in the future. Mr Morrison is planning to invest a lot of mon.....

 Job losses Continue Unabated at Major British Companies

Job losses Continue Unabated at Major British Companies

August 05, 2020 06:15 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

The spate of job losses in the United Kingdom is not showing any signs of abatement even after the lockdown has been opened in the past three months. Many major companies in the country have announced redundancies in the last month despite evidence.....

 NZ Legalising Cannabis: Is It Worth Rolling The Bill?

NZ Legalising Cannabis: Is It Worth Rolling The Bill?

August 05, 2020 01:36 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Upcoming September voting on the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill to be introduced by the New Zealand Government will decide the fate of recreational cannabis in the nation. Will it be legal or continue to be illegal; shall be voted in one o.....

 Taking A Closer Look At The Income And Wealth Inequalities In Britain

Taking A Closer Look At The Income And Wealth Inequalities In Britain

August 03, 2020 11:20 PM AEST| By Kunal Sawhney

Summary Leading economic thinktank data suggests that while geographical income inequalities are falling across regions overtime in Britain, the wealth inequalities are rising. At the same time, according to the UK government statistics, the di.....

 Covid-19 Impact: Leading Banks in the UK Braced for Losses

Covid-19 Impact: Leading Banks in the UK Braced for Losses

August 03, 2020 11:10 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary Full year 2020 impairment charge of NatWest bank is likely to be in the range of £3.5-4.5 billion due to a gloomy UK outlook HSBC's PBT plummets 65 per cent amid coronavirus downturn The country’s struggling banks point out.....

 UK House Price Growth Rate in July Breaks A 11 Year Record

UK House Price Growth Rate in July Breaks A 11 Year Record

August 03, 2020 11:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary The nationwide house price index rose by 1.7 per cent in July, which is the highest monthly leap in prices since August of 2009 when the market was recovering from the financial crisis Bank of England had also reported that the mortgage.....

 UK staycations see a boom as Britishers avoid foreign holidays amid quarantine rules for returning from Spain

UK staycations see a boom as Britishers avoid foreign holidays amid quarantine rules for returning from Spain

August 03, 2020 09:13 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Staycations within the UK have recorded a huge rise in inquiries and bookings in past few days as Britishers are looking to spend their holidays within the country to avoid undergoing 14-day quarantine after returning from their foreign holidays. T.....

 How the struggling US economy is affecting geographies worldwide

How the struggling US economy is affecting geographies worldwide

August 02, 2020 12:00 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary The US reported 32.9% dip in its Gross Domestic Product in the second quarter of 2020, signalling a historic plunge in the economic activity.  US economic worries in the face of COVID-19 crisis seem to be further accentuated by tra.....

 US Economy Charter and Dow Jones: Economy shrivels while stocks are under spotlight 

US Economy Charter and Dow Jones: Economy shrivels while stocks are under spotlight 

August 01, 2020 01:37 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary On 30 July, both Dow Jones and S&P 500 indices fell 0.85% and 0.38%, respectively, prompted by worst fall of 32.9% in the US GDP numbers in Q2 period, highlighted by Bureau of Economic Analysis. Sharp plunge in consumer spending was.....

 Londoners Spent the Least During the Lockdown

Londoners Spent the Least During the Lockdown

July 28, 2020 11:02 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

Summary Affluent sections of the British society have spent a lot less during the lockdown than the low- and medium-income groups London and South East England witnessed the least amount of household expenditures during the lockdown period than.....

 Boris Johnson Mulling Over Raising Taxes To Fund The Cost Of Social Care

Boris Johnson Mulling Over Raising Taxes To Fund The Cost Of Social Care

July 27, 2020 10:01 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine Media

As per expert estimates, the cost of social care in Britain is projected to rise by an addition sum of £7 billion every year. Johnson had promised to bring out a comprehensive set of social care reforms more than a year ago, in June 2019. He.....

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