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Job losses Continue Unabated at Major British Companies
August 05, 2020 06:15 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe 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?
August 05, 2020 01:36 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaUpcoming 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.....

The TikTok Talk: Microsoft's Efforts around Pocketing a Big deal
August 05, 2020 12:00 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThere was a buzz in the market related to Microsoft buying Chinese technology company TikTok. On Sunday 2 August 2020, Microsoft confirmed the buzz that it had a discussion with the Chinese technology Company ByteDance concerning the acquisition of.....

Tech boom & FAANG Stocks: Investors look for another wave of high stock price levels
August 04, 2020 05:45 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Technology, along with healthcare, has been among the best performing sectors led by new opportunities created by the pandemic. FAANG stocks are the primary drivers of the NASDAQ composite, with a substantial contribution of over 10% fr.....

Orocobre Posts 48 Per Cent Decline in Quarterly Revenue, Total Sales Cost Reaches A Record Low
August 03, 2020 11:38 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The COVID-19 outbreak has added to the ever-growing problems faced by the lithium industry, which has been struggling in the past to deal with the supply glut. The lithium industry remained under oversupply conditions before and the COV.....

US-China clash and TikTok controversy
August 03, 2020 11:28 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Disputes between the US and China have been escalating, following tit-for-tat policy, with consular shutdowns in Houston and Chengdu. Trump administration and many top officials have been accusing Beijing of letting coronavirus spread i.....

Taking A Closer Look At The Income And Wealth Inequalities In Britain
August 03, 2020 11:20 PM AEST| By Kunal SawhneySummary 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
August 03, 2020 11:10 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary 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.....

As Canada Props Economy, Loonie Gathers Fragile Strength
August 03, 2020 11:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The Canadian dollar touched a three-year low against the US dollar in March as the pandemic decimated markets The currency is gently gaining grounds, with loonie trading at 0.74x times the US dollar by end of second quarter Canada&rsqu.....

UK House Price Growth Rate in July Breaks A 11 Year Record
August 03, 2020 11:00 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary 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.....

Are We in a Messed-up state in the Fight Against COVID-19?
August 02, 2020 12:10 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary COVID-19 has emerged as the most challenging thing for the world that has taken severe charge over global economics as well as society. Major economies have felt severe repercussions due to the pandemic with the US GDP tumbling by 32.9%.....

How the struggling US economy is affecting geographies worldwide
August 02, 2020 12:00 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary 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
August 01, 2020 01:37 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary 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.....

China and Taiwan- The Emerging Catalyst In the Global LNG Demand Growth Curve
July 31, 2020 09:12 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The global LNG trades are moving at rabbit’s pace, with total trades reaching 348 million tonnes in 2019, leading to a supply rush, which is now dependable on China and Taiwan imports and energy policies. Both China and Taiwan are.....

Apple Announces 4 for 1 Stock Split, Posts Record Quarter Despite Pandemic Disruptions
July 31, 2020 09:02 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Apple has once again delivered a beat on street estimates, and this time by quite a surprise with 18% earnings growth. iPhone revenues also increased marginally, while other products and services helped it to deliver record June quarter......

COVID Diary: Strategies that helped these 100 Companies create History
July 29, 2020 06:02 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaIndex E-commerce Business Technology Sector Healthcare Sector Retail Sector Financial Sector Gold Mining Companies Miscellaneous Businesses “We will not be going back to the “old normal”. The pandemic has alread...

Cash Economy to Online Transactions: India Takes Big Leap, Eyes Global Market
July 29, 2020 03:40 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Indian economy is undergoing a transformational phase, and younger generation is contributing the most. Young people are calling for institutional reforms to update the social and political systems for better opportunities in the future.....

Silver Catches up With Gold and How!
July 29, 2020 02:42 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Silver has been under an impeccable and unabated rally with spot prices reaching to a seven-year high of USD 26.201 per ounce on 28 July 2020. The rally in silver is not lagging behind gold, which in the status quo, has emerged as a sta.....

COVID-19 Pandemic: Mainland China Reports Highest Single Day Spike Since April
July 29, 2020 02:17 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Mainland China has been witnessing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, and on 28 July 2020, the country saw its highest number of daily cases since mid of April. As per the country’s National Health Commission, there have been 84,060 .....

Londoners Spent the Least During the Lockdown
July 28, 2020 11:02 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary 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.....