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 Airbnb Raises Recovery Optimism Despite Weak Results

Airbnb Raises Recovery Optimism Despite Weak Results

February 28, 2021 01:09 PM AEDT| By Suhita Poddar

he whole of 2020. However, the company has fared better than its rival companies. The coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh on the travel industry across the world amid the growing number of cases and further implementation of restrictions. U...

 Two COVID-19 vaccines that are helping the world get over the pandemic

Two COVID-19 vaccines that are helping the world get over the pandemic

February 28, 2021 12:20 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: siam.pukkato, Shutterstock Summary Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca’s respective COVID-19 vaccines were found to have reduced hospitalization in the UK. The two vaccines also proved effective against the contagious UK varia...

 US Stocks End Week Mixed on Rate Fears, Bond Yield Rise

US Stocks End Week Mixed on Rate Fears, Bond Yield Rise

February 27, 2021 08:32 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Cezary Piwowarski ,Shutterstock Summary S&P 500 shed 0.48%, Dow Jones plunged 1.50%, and NASDAQ was up 0.56%. Real estate, financials, industrials, energy, and consumer cyclicals saw muted gains. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to pr...

 How Are NZ Businesses Progressing on Climate Change and Sustainability?

How Are NZ Businesses Progressing on Climate Change and Sustainability?

February 27, 2021 05:18 AM AEDT| By Roma

Source: cornfield, Shutterstock Summary The Paris Agreement gives sustainability goals to countries. Several organisations from the world over are making stringent efforts to leave a nominal carbon footprint. New Zealand organisations taking...

 Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic delay trip to space

Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic delay trip to space

February 26, 2021 11:01 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

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 the schedules of their respective space trips. These include Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which delayed...

 US Tech Stocks Down Due To Attractive Bond Yields

US Tech Stocks Down Due To Attractive Bond Yields

February 26, 2021 03:57 PM AEDT| By Mark O'Donnell

opments. Stocks are down globally, including the ones listed with the NZX and ASX. The US stocks experienced large sell-offs during the trading session of Thursday. Tech stocks were particularly hard hit. The tech-heavy NASDAQ composite dropped...

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

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

February 26, 2021 02:14 PM AEDT| By Mark O'Donnell

Source: Ascannio ,Shutterstock Summary Investors in China based EV manufacturers hope the companies would build upon their success in China and grab some of Tesla’s global market share. The leading Chinese EV brand Nio has proved in...

 Wall Street Ends Lower; What Weighed On Stocks

Wall Street Ends Lower; What Weighed On Stocks

February 26, 2021 08:58 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: G-Stock Studio, Shutterstock Summary S&P 500 fell 2.45%, NASDAQ dropped 3.52%, and Dow Jones shed 1.75%. Industrials, technology, consumer cyclical, energy, and real estate drag down indexes. US economy grew at 4.1% in the fo...

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

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

February 25, 2021 03:49 PM AEDT| By Mark O'Donnell

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 million worth of Bitcoin. The announcement coincides with the release of the merchant payment compa...

 Is GameStop (NYSE:GME) Rallying Again?

Is GameStop (NYSE:GME) Rallying Again?

February 25, 2021 12:39 PM AEDT| By Mark O'Donnell

top after testifying before the House Financial Services Committee. The share price of the gaming retailer GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) was halted at US$91.71 with half an hour left in trading yesterday on the NYSE. The closing price presents ~104%...

 US Stocks Roar Back on Fed Reassurance, Recovery Hopes

US Stocks Roar Back on Fed Reassurance, Recovery Hopes

February 25, 2021 08:39 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Brands, and others to present earnings reports after markets close. After a brief lull, US stock markets came back strongly to end the session higher on Wednesday, driven by hopes of a faster economic recovery and Fed chief’s reassurances...

 Federal Reserve says US unemployment scenario far worse than seen

Federal Reserve says US unemployment scenario far worse than seen

February 24, 2021 11:56 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Shutterstock Summary Federal Reserve chair Jerome H. Powell said that the US economic revival is incomplete and uneven. Powell said unemployment rate of 6.3% does not give the full picture of the .....

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

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

February 24, 2021 09:12 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

After a tumultuous start to 2021, the US Dollar continues to remain volatile with bleak expectations of recovery for the remaining year. Bank experts are of the view that this dismal growth of the greenback was expected to continue throughout 2021 .....

 Major shakeup at GameStop; CFO Jim Bell set to quit

Major shakeup at GameStop; CFO Jim Bell set to quit

February 24, 2021 08:34 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Shutterstock GameStop’s Chief Financial Officer Corp Jim Bell will be leaving the organisation in March this year, the video game giant informed today. The Company, in its official statement, sought to clear the air around the resigna...

 Are Investors Exiting Tech Stocks For Other Growth Sectors?

Are Investors Exiting Tech Stocks For Other Growth Sectors?

February 24, 2021 10:46 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

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 this be a temporary market deviation or a deliberate shift of investors to other high-growth sectors?...

 US Markets End Flat Despite Fed’s Supportive Rate Pledge

US Markets End Flat Despite Fed’s Supportive Rate Pledge

February 24, 2021 08:41 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

arkets to maintain low rates, rules out inflation pressure for now. US stock markets ended flat for a second consecutive day on Tuesday despite the Federal Reserve’s reassertion to keep the interest rates unchanged and positive retail earn...

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

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

February 23, 2021 08:32 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Shutterstock In a major triumph for Australia, US tech giant Facebook has finally struck a reconciliatory note with the country’s Federal Government.  Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg informed that Facebook boss Mark Zuckerber...

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

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

February 23, 2021 03:22 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Shutterstock “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”, the latest book by tech philanthropist Bill Gates is the talk of the town. From environmentalists to governments, all want to dig into the thoughts of the Microsoft legend about the...

 US Markets End Lower, Weighted Down By Tech Stocks, Consumer Cyclicals

US Markets End Lower, Weighted Down By Tech Stocks, Consumer Cyclicals

February 23, 2021 08:37 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

ignal higher optimism in the markets of a faster economic recovery. US stock markets ended lower on Monday, weighted down by traditional blue-chip stocks which appeared less attractive as more options open-up for investors amid improvement in th...

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

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

February 22, 2021 04:37 PM AEDT| By Kunal Sawhney

terrains, and interests, which separates it from rest of the world. NZ’s Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, on 18 February 2021, voiced his opinion in his 2nd report of Tourism’s Environmental Effects, and c...

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