Economic IndicatorsFeb 07, 2020 09:03AM ET Canada’s Labor Market Picks Up Steam for Second Month (Bloomberg) — Canadian employment strengthened for a second-straight month, helping quell concerns that a weak labor market might force the Bank of Canada to promptly lower interest rates. Canada’s economy added 34,500 positions in January, […]
Google, Amazon, and Apple Have a Trillion Dollar Problem
When you reach such a Brobdingnagian pinnacle, size itself becomes your greatest problem. You don’t disrupt–you get disrupted. Protecting the revenue stream that made you the trillion dollars is critical. But doing so only translates into success in the current marketplace. Whatever the future marketplace is, you’re not making your […]
Brazil inflation posts lowest January rise since ‘Real Plan’ launch in 1994
EconomyFeb 07, 2020 08:21AM ET By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian inflation kicked off the year on a soft footing, official figures on Friday showed, as the IPCA consumer price index posted its smallest January increase since the country’s “Real Plan” was launched more than quarter of a century […]
Europe Limits Government by Algorithm. The US, Not So Much
One evening last June, residents from the Hillesluis and Bloemhof neighborhoods on the south side of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, crowded into a community room at their local playground. Many wore headscarves and some arrived after a protest march from a local mosque. The residents had assembled to learn more […]
Coronavirus Fears Will Leave Empty Seats at a Top AI Conference
Qiang Yang, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, was looking forward to AAAI, one of the big artificial intelligence conferences, which takes place in New York this week. Yang was due to present an award-winning paper describing a way for an AI algorithm to perform […]