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 What Brought Greensill Capital To the Brink of Insolvency Within Days?

What Brought Greensill Capital To the Brink of Insolvency Within Days?

March 07, 2021 02:16 PM AEDT| By Abhijeet

Source: Indypendenz, Shutterstock Summary Greensill Capital is at the risk of insolvency, revealed documents produced in a court. The documents highlighted discrepancies in its £5.55-billion insurance of loans to its customers. &nbs...

 VC Funds To Female-Founded Firms Drop Notably In 2020: Show Studies

VC Funds To Female-Founded Firms Drop Notably In 2020: Show Studies

March 07, 2021 12:32 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Worawee Meepian, Shutterstock Summary Venture funds to female-founded start-ups declined globally by around 27 per cent in 2020. The number of female-founded start-ups grew significantly since 2015. VC funds to such companies in the U...

 US Stocks Edge Higher On Positive Jobs Report, Stimulus Hopes

US Stocks Edge Higher On Positive Jobs Report, Stimulus Hopes

March 06, 2021 12:19 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: solarseven, Shutterstock Summary S&P 500 gained 1.95%, Dow Jones was up 1.85%, and NASDAQ added 1.55%. Senate finalizes President Joe Biden’s US$1.9 trillion relief bill for approval. Brent crude oil futures rise as OPEC &am...

 Electric Vehicles Then & Now: Tracing The Near 200-Year History

Electric Vehicles Then & Now: Tracing The Near 200-Year History

March 06, 2021 02:55 AM AEDT| By Shreya Biswas

©Kalkine Group 2021 What’s the first thought that comes to your mind when you think ‘electric vehicle’? Expensive? Eco-friendly? Sleek? Have you ever thought, “Hmm, that’s from a couple of hundred years ago,&rdqu...

 Can Stocks Beat Inflation and Bond Worries To Wrap Up The Week?

Can Stocks Beat Inflation and Bond Worries To Wrap Up The Week?

March 05, 2021 09:31 PM AEDT| By Ipsita Sarkar

Source: macgyverhh, Shutterstock Summary Rising treasury bond yields may continue to play spoilsport for the stock markets. Improvement in the economy has opened doors for other investment options. Fed likely to maintain an easy monetary poli...

 Did you miss these updates on Oxford University-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine?

Did you miss these updates on Oxford University-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine?

March 05, 2021 03:34 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source:Viacheslav Lopatin,Shutterstock Summary German vaccination authority has given the green light to Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in seniors. Canada has received the initial shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 v...

 Tsunami alert lifted in NZ, residents asked to return to homes

Tsunami alert lifted in NZ, residents asked to return to homes

March 05, 2021 02:31 PM AEDT| By Roma

Source: FocusDzign ,Shutterstock Summary With Tsunami warning subsided, people asked to return to homes in New Zealand. This comes after a series of earthquakes gave rise to Tsunami threats in North Island. Though Tsunami warning is over...

 NZ to Vaccinate South Auckland & Tamaki Makaurau Residents Soon

NZ to Vaccinate South Auckland & Tamaki Makaurau Residents Soon

March 05, 2021 02:14 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source:solarseven ,Shutterstock With just around 9,431 receiving the first shot of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as on Tuesday (2 March), New Zealand is all set to administer the vaccine to the other priority groups. Source: Copyright © 2...

 4 Foreign Stocks Hitting It Out Of The Park In The US

4 Foreign Stocks Hitting It Out Of The Park In The US

March 05, 2021 01:56 PM AEDT| By Mark O'Donnell

bled as it firmly establishes itself as the go-to e-Commerce brand across South America. Investors have typically been conservative while acquiring foreign stocks, preferring to stick with home-based businesses. Source: © Danp68 | Megapi...

 US Stocks End Lower Amid Recovery Woes, Mortgage Rate Spike

US Stocks End Lower Amid Recovery Woes, Mortgage Rate Spike

March 05, 2021 08:46 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Copyright © 2021 Kalkine Media Pty Ltd.   Summary S&P 500 was down 1.34%, Dow Jones shed 1.11%, and NASDAQ plunged 2.11%. Ten-year treasury bond yields were up 5.33% to 1.548 on Thursday. The 30-year mortgage rates rose...

 Will ByteDance Bite The Bait of China’s Lucrative Auto Space?

Will ByteDance Bite The Bait of China’s Lucrative Auto Space?

March 05, 2021 08:24 AM AEDT| By Ipsita Sarkar

e. QCraft executives previously worked at Tesla and Uber. Chinese social media giant ByteDance Ltd. could be eyeing to grab a slice of China’s expanding auto industry, dubbed as world’s largest vehicle market. The owner of the TikTo...

 Meme Stocks Can Backfire, Just Look At Hertz

Meme Stocks Can Backfire, Just Look At Hertz

March 05, 2021 03:35 AM AEDT| By Anuj

Source: JomNicha, Shutterstock Before the Reddit-fueled rally of 2021, retail traders had heavily boosted the penny stocks of bankrupt rental car firm Hertz Global Holdings (HTZGQ:US, OTCPK: HTZGQ) in 2020 to reap maximum profits. Fast forward to T...

 Why Google Won’t Look For User Cookies Any More?

Why Google Won’t Look For User Cookies Any More?

March 04, 2021 08:23 PM AEDT| By Ipsita Sarkar

ogle accounted for more than half of all global digital ad spending last year. Google won’t be prying on your browsing history after all. The California-based company said on Wednesday that it will stop tracking people’s internet dat...

 What’s fuelling the surge in Bond Yields?

What’s fuelling the surge in Bond Yields?

March 04, 2021 06:31 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

of jobs with policies potentially enhancing the positive sentiment in the market. The surge in US treasury yields has impacted global economies, stirring the pot for already vulnerable international markets. The sudden increase in the 10-year tr...

 How Volkswagen, Volvo, And Likes Are Moving Towards EVs For A Cleaner Future

How Volkswagen, Volvo, And Likes Are Moving Towards EVs For A Cleaner Future

March 04, 2021 06:20 PM AEDT| By Suhita Poddar

cars. Aston Martin plans to have 90% of its fleet electrified by 2030. For every automobile manufacturer, electric vehicles are the future. Every car major worth their salt has already announced their plans to shift to cleaner forms of energy....

 Mitsubishi Express Receives Lowest Ever Zero Star Rating by ANCAP

Mitsubishi Express Receives Lowest Ever Zero Star Rating by ANCAP

March 04, 2021 05:53 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

o other Mitsubishi fleet since buyers demand 5-star ratings while making purchases. Source: Copyright © 2021 Kalkine Media Pty Ltd ‘Mitsubishi Express’ was unveiled last year, and has become the first car in the history of Au...

 SpaceX’s Starship prototype explodes after a seemingly successful landing

SpaceX’s Starship prototype explodes after a seemingly successful landing

March 04, 2021 02:54 PM AEDT| By Aayush

n Musk plans to send people to Mars by as soon as 2023 via these starships. Space Exploration Technology Corporation (SpaceX) had yet another flub that involved its Starship rocket prototype. On Wednesday, SpaceX’s unmanned rocket prototyp...

 Are Cruise-Ship Stocks Turning Bullish In 2021?

Are Cruise-Ship Stocks Turning Bullish In 2021?

March 04, 2021 12:55 PM AEDT| By Mark O'Donnell

Source:Smit,Shutterstock Summary Positive indicators are towing Cruise stocks into bullish territory. Royal Caribbean will begin cruising out of Israel with vaccinated passenger in May. Carnival expects to return 24 liners into service by the...

 US Stocks Continue To Fall On Fed Policy Worries, Bond Yields

US Stocks Continue To Fall On Fed Policy Worries, Bond Yields

March 04, 2021 08:39 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Phongphan ,Shutterstock Summary S&P 500 dropped 1.31%, Dow Jones shed 0.39%, and NASDAQ plunged 2.70%. Treasury bond sell-offs spike market volatility, trigger inflation worries. The 10-year US Treasury bond yield surged 3.67...

 Problems galore for Kiwis during Auckland’s COVID-19 lockdown

Problems galore for Kiwis during Auckland’s COVID-19 lockdown

March 04, 2021 12:10 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Media

Source: Nhemz, Shutterstock Summary Auckland was put under another lockdown, prompted by a coronavirus case who has been infectious for a week but did not go in quarantine. Auckland power outage postponed by Vector Limited but the Company woul...

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