Year: 2020

We often see insiders buying up shares in companies that perform well over the long term. On the other hand, we’d be… …read more […]

“Our domestic core commerce business has fully recovered to pre-COVID-19 levels across the board.” …read more […]

~Indiva’s CBD Softgels and Indica Capsules available on CannMart by the end of summer, with Bhang® Chocolate and Wana™ Sour Gummies to follow in Q4~TORONTO, Aug. 20, 2020 /CNW/ – Namaste Technologies Inc. …read more […]

Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce and entertainment giant, says that the worst of the economic fallout from the coronavirus is now behind it. Indeed, the health and economic crisis is accelerating digital transformation. The company revealed a 34% surge in revenues and net profits between April and June, the first quarter of its new financial year, climbed […] …read more […]

A coronavirus vaccine is “possible” by the end of 2020, but would not become widely available until 2021, Harvard University vaccine researcher Dr. Dan Barouch told Yahoo Finance in a recent interview. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s quarterly revenue grew a better than expected 34%, signaling that Chinese consumer sentiment is recovering at a rapid clip from its Covid-19 trough.China’s most valuable corporation reported sales of 153.8 billion yuan ($22.2 billion) and net income of 47.6 billion yuan in the June quarter, both surpassing projections. Ant Group, Alibaba’s 33%-owned financial affiliate, grew profit roughly six-fold to $1.3 billion in the March quarter, offering a glimpse into its books in the run-up to a mega initial public offering in Hong Kong and mainland China.Alibaba’s online marketplaces and logistics network is bouncing back …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s quarterly revenue grew a better than expected 34%, signaling that Chinese consumer sentiment is recovering at a rapid clip from its Covid-19 trough.China’s most valuable corporation reported sales of 153.8 billion yuan ($22.2 billion) and net income of 47.6 billion yuan in the June quarter, both surpassing projections. Ant Group, Alibaba’s 33%-owned financial affiliate, grew profit roughly six-fold to $1.3 billion in the March quarter, offering a glimpse into its books in the run-up to a mega initial public offering in Hong Kong and mainland China.Alibaba’s online marketplaces and logistics network is bouncing back …read more […]

Cosmetics makers, including Estee Lauder, that rake in millions from sales at duty-free stores at airports, cruises and downtown locations have seen sales plummeting in its travel retail channel, as tourist spending has dried up due to restrictions on overseas travel and COVID-19 flare-ups in some tourist attractions. Estee Lauder projected first-quarter adjusted profit per share to be between 80 and 85 cents. Analysts on average were expecting a profit of $1.22 per share, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. …read more […]

Do you have a backup plan?
If so, is it really any good?
Earlier this week, a friend asked about our time flying around in old floatplanes in Alaska. She wanted to know our most harrowing tale.
Easy… the time we got stuck in a downdraft.
Cool air came rushing down the face of a mountain. No matter how much power we gave it, it’s as if we were stuck in a balloon that was falling to the ground.
We couldn’t climb fast enough to get out of it.
For our soul’s sake, our pilot (and roommate) had a backup plan. Without hesitation, he read the …read more […]

Harvard Medical School professor, Dr. Dan Barouch, joins ‘Influencers with Andy Serwer’ to discuss his experience with the coronavirus and his progress in the search for a vaccine. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Banks and other lenders have found a way to potentially make billions of dollars from the coronavirus-fueled upheaval in the U.S. mortgage market — yet it risks burning bond investors in the process.The earnings would come from an unanticipated side-effect of Congress’ decision in March to allow homeowners affected by the pandemic to delay loan payments for as long as a year, combined with arcane regulations governing mortgage-backed securities.The net result is that lenders would get the chance to buy tens of billions of dollars in mortgages out of bonds for less than their current market value — …read more […]

Top news and what to watch in the markets on Thursday, August 20, 2020. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Asia technology shares slumped Thursday as investors reacted to a series of negative events from the simmering Sino-U.S. trade tensions to stretched valuations in the sector.The MSCI Asia Pacific Information Technology Index slipped as much as 3.3%, the most intraday since March 23. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which has the biggest weighting on the index, slid as much as 6.2%, while Samsung Electronics Co., another heavyweight, ended 4.2% lower after Nvidia Corp. suggested the growth of its data center business will slow.There’s been “a euphoric demand” for tech stocks so far amid the spread of the coronavirus but …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Adyen NV said it poached new merchants from embattled German payments firm Wirecard AG, as the Dutch company reported a 27% rise in revenue for the first half of the year.The scandal that plagued competitor Wirecard proved to be a boost in Adyen’s favor. Retail merchants looked for payment processing alternatives following the German company’s spectacular collapse in June, when Wirecard filed for insolvency after admitting that almost 2 billion euros ($2.37 billion) previously reported as cash didn’t exist.“We certainly got some inbound from merchants that wanted to work with us,” Adyen Chief Financial Officer Ingo Uytdehaage said …read more […]

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio Inc has launched a battery leasing service that will allow drivers to buy an EV without owning the battery pack – one of the most expensive EV components – thereby lowering the starting price of its cars. The cheapest Nio car after subsidies is now an ES6 sport-utility vehicle (SUV) priced 273,600 yuan ($39,553) without ownership of the battery pack, versus 343,600 yuan including the pack. “We believe with BaaS, more customers of gasoline cars will consider electric vehicles,” Nio’s chief executive William Li told reporters. …read more […]