Economy21 hours ago (May 25, 2020 03:25PM ET) (C) Reuters. A trailer loaded with goods is pictured at the freight shipping company Sotelo, which transports goods between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico on Monday posted its sharpest trade deficit on record in […]
Bank of Canada head: inflation could return to target more slowly
Economic Indicators10 hours ago (May 25, 2020 02:35PM ET) 10/10 (C) Reuters. A man wearing protective face mask walks in front of a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo 2/10 By Kelsey Johnson and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada’s policy framework is flexible enough […]
Canada’s banks to cement status as solid investments in a crisis
Economic Indicators11 hours ago (May 25, 2020 12:40PM ET) (C) Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks in front of buildings in the financial district in Toronto By Noor Zainab Hussain and Nichola Saminather (Reuters) – Canadian banks, whose dividends yields climbed during the financial crisis, are again gaining favor with […]
Meet This Museum’s All-Star Arachnids and Insects
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is home to a coral reef, a four-story bubble that encapsulates a replica of a rain forest, and perhaps most famously, Claude the albino alligator. But beneath all that–literally–is a basement chock-full of animal specimens collected from the field by intrepid scientists, […]
German business morale rebounds; state spending key to recovery
(C) Reuters. Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Frankfurt By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – The German economy is starting to recover as curbs to slow the coronavirus are lifted, a business morale survey showed on Monday, and separate output data pointed to the importance of government spending to […]
What It’s Like to Be First to Fly a Brand New Spacecraft
Later this week, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are expected to launch on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. If the mission is successful, the capsule will become only the fifth American spacecraft in history to be certified for human spaceflight. This will make Behnken […]
Covid-19 Makes the Case for More Meatpacking Robots
On Memorial Day weekends past, you might have joined in the All-American ritual of firing up the grill, cracking a cold one, and feuding with your family over which hot dog condiment is correct. (Mayonnaise, clearly.) But this holiday, you might not have as many wieners to argue about. Everything […]
Rural migrants suffer most amid China’s unemployment misery
2/2 (C) Reuters. Zhang Ruirui, Zhang Jianpeng, Guo Shengming and Zhang Yanyan sit by a street outside recruiting agencies as they browse job information on a mobile phone, in a suburb of Beijing 2/2 By Gabriel Crossley BEIJING (Reuters) – Migrant workers Zhang Jianpeng and his wife returned to Beijing […]
Slump in consumption, exports push Germany into recession in first quarter
Economy8 hours ago (May 25, 2020 02:50AM ET) (C) Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Containers are seen at a terminal in the port of Hamburg BERLIN (Reuters) – A slump in capital investments, private consumption and exports pushed the German economy into a recession in the first quarter, detailed data showed on […]
Biden’s Enemies Are Now His Friends
During the 2012 presidential campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden was a sharp critic of Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s work for investment firm Bain Capital, but now Bain co-founder Joshua Bekenstein and his wife Anita are two of his biggest donrs, each donating $250,000 to Biden’s super PAC in April, […]