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AU & US Earnings beat expectations but future still looks gloomy
November 05, 2020 06:00 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaThe coronavirus pandemic has put a dent in the earnings of various sectors and the sector leaders. However, against the initially forecasted drop in the earnings, the recovery has been quite fast across sectors. Looking at the third quarter perfor.....
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Volatility In Gold And Crude Surges On The Heels Of US Presidential Elections 2020
November 04, 2020 02:50 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaGold prices are back in focus as the U.S. 2020 presidential election reaches the crescendo. The gold spot market has demonstrated an upper bounce during the trading session on 4 November 2020 with gold spot surging from the recent low of USD 1,859......

AstraZeneca (AZN) Sells the rights of Two drugs to Cheplapharm for US$400 million
November 03, 2020 05:36 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaAstraZeneca Plc (LON:AZN) disclosed that it signed an agreement to sell the commercial rights of its hypertension medicines Atacand and Atacand Plus to Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH, a German pharmaceutical company. Cheplapharm&.....

US Presidential election at the fag end, is the market nervous?
November 03, 2020 04:00 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaWith the US Presidential election 2020 due today i.e. 3 November 2020, the stock market has already given a key signal of the winner. CFRA’s ‘Presidential Predictor’ is showing victory of Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate, defea.....
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Google’s sister company X sheds light on its ambitious mental health project
November 03, 2020 03:55 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaAlphabet’s X, the Moonshot Factory, recently published a new blog post, detailing the findings of its mental health project called Project Amber. X, Google’s sister company, is a semi-secret research and development facility and organi.....

Weak iPhone sales dragged Apple stock price in after-hours trading
November 02, 2020 12:46 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaApple Inc. shares declined by 5.2% in after-hours trading on 29 October as the Company once again failed to offer a financial outlook amid the ongoing certainty surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. Since coronavirus related delay caused the new s.....

Staycation and workation becoming the latest trends in the hospitality segment
November 01, 2020 01:20 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyCOVID-19 has pushed people to come out of their daily routine and adapt to living in the new normal. The crisis has led the hospitality industry to bring innovation and modifications in their services as countries reopen gradually after seve.....

Why electric trucks are gaining more popularity?
November 01, 2020 12:11 AM AEDT| By Edita IvancevicElectric cars are likely to replace traditional vehicles in the upcoming years, as the demand for sustainable energy grows by the day. However, companies such as Tesla do believe that humanity can get out of the mess it created. Electric vehicles a.....

10 reasons why Bitcoin might not be the best investment
October 31, 2020 02:02 AM AEDT| By Edita IvancevicWhile traditional stock markets are prone to experiencing high volatility due to changing economic or political situations in the world, cryptocurrencies are not affected in the same way. They tend to be influenced by unprecedent, almost overnight .....
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Is Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) maintaining its lead in the Battery Electric Vehicle race in Europe?
October 30, 2020 02:55 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaAutomotive industry giant Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) grabbed world attention after it recently stated that it would export electric vehicles to Europe. Leading electric vehicle company reportedly announced that it has started to export Made-in-China M.....

Microsoft & Netflix trading flat despite robust results, Here’s Why
October 28, 2020 06:18 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine Mediaul> NASDAQ-listed Microsoft Corporation slipped lower on Tuesday post releasing its FY2021 Q1 earnings results as the tech giant fell short of analysts’ consensus over future earnings guidance. The stock settled ~ 2.84 per cent lower on 27...

PayPal Goes Active on Crypto Space, Slew of News
October 27, 2020 08:04 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaPayPal Introduces New Service Enabling Users to Transact Cryptocurrency: On 21 October 2020, PayPal announced the release of a new service that would allow the users to buy, hold & sell cryptocurrency straight from the PayPal account. The Comp.....
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Jack Ma’s Giant Ant Set to Make World’s Biggest Stock Market Debut
October 27, 2020 04:29 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaJack Ma’s Ant Group is set to raise US$34 billion when its shares start trading on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock market in the upcoming weeks. With this, Ant Group’s IPO would become the world’s largest stock market debut on re.....
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COVID-19 Cases Resurge in US and UK, Vaccine Trials Back on Track
October 27, 2020 01:58 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaThe COVID-19 crisis threw the whole world into a dilemma of lives and livelihoods. The global virus crisis has engulfed almost the entire year, and till now, there is no effective treatment available to tackle the situation. The measures one can f.....

Meet HelloFresh, your home cooking companion!
October 26, 2020 11:13 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaHelloFresh SE (XETRA: HFGG), a German meal-kit delivery firm, is seeing higher demand as the pandemic-hit consumers are desperate to add some jazz to their home-cooked meals amid strict lockdown. Ready-to-cook food delivery service HelloFresh prom.....

Facebook and Twitter bosses issued subpoena, content moderation practices under lens
October 26, 2020 04:43 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaIn Washington's latest attack on Big Tech, the United States Senate Commerce Committee unanimously voted to issue subpoenas to the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter, that will compel them to testify in front of Congress Facebook, Twitter and Go.....

What is Kahoot?
October 25, 2020 02:27 AM AEDT| By Edita IvancevicJust how ‘google’ and ‘googling’ made it to official dictionaries, the story behind an interactive platform Kahoot! is no different. Thanks to this Norway invention, children and teachers around the world have been learning.....

Key Takeaways from Jacinda Ardern-Led New Zealand Approach Against the Pandemic
October 25, 2020 02:10 AM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyCoronavirus’ impact on the world has been devastating. Amid this unprecedented challenge, one of the leaders who has stood tall, is Jacinda Ardern. The 39-year-old prime minister of New Zealand received global praise for her supe.....

How are European nations tackling COVID-19 second wave?
October 25, 2020 02:03 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyAfter being severely hit by the initial wave of COVID-19 and gradually curbing the outbreak, many countries across Europe are again experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Presently, countries like France, the UK, Spain and Germany are witness.....

COVID-19 Patients fill over 40% of ICU beds in Paris, an alarm bell for Europe?
October 24, 2020 05:08 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) continues to wreak havoc all over the world. According to the WHO, there have been 41.57 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1,134,940 fatalities across the world.....
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