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Job Entry Targeted Support Scheme: What is there in the new £238-mn scheme for job seekers?
October 05, 2020 10:55 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaThe UK Government has launched a new employment plan called the Job Entry Targeted Support (JETS) scheme on 5 October 2020 with an investment of £238 million. The scheme is targeted to help those workers who were rendered jobless during the p.....
3 start-ups that have passed the COVID-19 test unscathed
October 05, 2020 12:30 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaThere is no special report required to see the economic devastation knocking off many countries' economies down. Australia's small businesses are not immune to it either. Since March, most retail shops are closed, restaurants are closed, busy stree.....
Food For Thought: Can Hefty Fines Deter People From Violating Safety Norms?
October 05, 2020 12:22 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary While the Government had been proactive in imposing safety restrictions, people don’t seem to be abiding by the safety norms across nations. Hefty fines have been imposed across several countries like England, the UAE, Austr.....
Lens over New Zealand Government debt, what does it mean for the NZD?
October 05, 2020 12:00 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaNew Zealand is currently facing the worst recession, it has ever seen in the last few decades after the country imposed strict measures to control the spread of coronavirus. On 18 September, Stats NZ disclosed that NZ economy shrank by 12.2% in the.....
Chinese Economy Gaining Strength, What’s in for the Australian Miners?
October 04, 2020 12:20 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaDespite challenging external conditions, the Chinese economy is gaining traction due to solid growth dynamics at home with retail sales and other micro indicators showing signs of growth with the suspension of the cross-provincial travel restrictio.....
Elections around the corner - How is NZX entering October 2020? Few Sectors to look out for
October 03, 2020 02:34 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe year 2020 till now has been under the grasp of the COVID-19 crisis. The coronavirus stricken world is looking for an effective treatment for the virus to restore both health and the economy. The virus, which originated at Wuhan city of China, i.....
Short on Foreign Workers, Farming Sector A New Ray Of Hope for People on JobSeeker
October 03, 2020 12:58 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe pandemic has redefined all sectors; its effects have forced countries to focus on strengthening domestic primary industries than globalisation. When the COVID-19 crisis began in 2020, the world experienced an unprecedented situation that was f.....
SMMT’s “Safe Harbor Scheme” To Secure Auto Industry Supply Chains Ahead of EU Pullout
October 02, 2020 10:10 AM AEST| By Kunal SawhneyThe Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) in the United Kingdom has launched a major initiative to address one of the major issues concerning the automobile industry currently, called the "Safe harbour Scheme" it seeks to address the p.....
JPMorgan pays $920 Million to settle the US Justice Department and CFTC Probe
October 02, 2020 10:00 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaOne of the largest banks in the United States, JP Morgan Chase was found engaged in placing manipulative trades in the secondary market, which consists of futures tied to precious metals and Treasury bonds. JP Morgan has been asked to pay a fine of.....
Both Donald And Melania Trump Tested Positive For Coronavirus
October 02, 2020 05:20 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaIn his most recent tweet, the US President Donald J. Trump announced that both him and his wife Melania Trump contracted COVID-19. After Mr Trump’s close adviser Hope Hicks revealed her positive coronavirus test, the President revealed that .....
Yield and Liquidity Farming - Tools to Generate Alpha in the Crypto Space
October 02, 2020 03:55 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaDeFi or decentralised finance is the new talk of the town with the disruptive application of the blockchain technology keeping the cryptocurrency ablaze in the market. Blockchain technology is behind almost every DeFi application in the market place...
Airwallex raises A$56 million for expansion in other continents
October 01, 2020 04:26 PM AEST| By Edita IvancevicThe highly-rated Australian fintech Company Airwallex has raised another US$40 million (A$56 million) via an extended round of funding, adding more capital to its fundraised money which is now estimated at around A$400 million in total, since the u.....
AstraZeneca Share Price Topples as FDA Widens its Inquiry on COVID-19 Vaccine
October 01, 2020 12:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaShare price of British-Swedish multinational pharma and biotech company AstraZeneca Plc (LON:AZN) tumbled by 0.56% to close the market at US$54.80 on 30 September 2020. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is still to give approval to Astra.....
UK Economy Shrinks To Record Low: FTSE 100 Might See A Fall Due To Covid-19 Resurgence
September 30, 2020 11:20 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaRevised data has been released from the Office for the National Statistics (ONS) which revealed that the economic output in the UK dropped by 19.8 per cent as against the initial estimates of 20.4 per cent for the second quarter of the year.....
How are developing world economies preparing for COVID-19 vaccine deployment and testing?
September 30, 2020 07:07 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly 33.25 million individuals, including ~1 million deaths, as reported to the WHO as of 5:08 PM CEST on 28 September 2020. Many healthcare companies are engaged in the development of vaccines, treatmen.....
Has lockdown been a turning point for the Retail Sector?
September 30, 2020 03:32 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaIn the recent times, coronavirus has been the biggest challenge faced by businesses around the world, along with the retailers. Supermarket sales have been up (both in-stores and online) when the country was at Alert Level 4 as buyers stocked up on.....
‘SWOT Analysis’ of NZ Travel Industry Reeling from COVID-19 Crisis
September 30, 2020 02:50 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaWhile Kiwi Land’s stringent lockdown restrictions enabled it to gain control over the COVID-19 spread, these curbs delivered a crushing blow to the flourishing travel sector. At the time when NZ is pulling out all the stops to reboot its mult.....
Negative interest rates in the UK? All eyes on BoE’s November MPC meet
September 29, 2020 11:11 PM AEST| By Kunal SawhneyCountries across the world are facing the dearth of economic activity since the lockdowns have been implemented due to the coronavirus pandemic. The economic activities have slowed down after business closures, suspension of services in sectors suc.....
Mr Trump’s latest affair is not doing him any favours
September 29, 2020 08:53 PM AEST| By Edita IvancevicSince the last presidential election held in the US back in 2016, controversies from the current American President Donald Trump have not stopped flooding the news articles on every media outlet. Trump’s newest affair revealed by the globall.....
NZX bounces back after cyber-attacks, new website goes live
September 29, 2020 08:12 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaCyber-attacks are increasingly becoming a norm on New Zealand stock exchange and has also been extended to websites, which involve banks as well as media firms. New Zealand stock exchange fell victim to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber.....
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