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Economy Update From NPR: Stocks Plunge As Investors Become Less Optimistic About Economic Recovery

Stocks Plunge As Investors Become Less Optimistic About Economic Recovery
Stocks plunged Monday amid new worries about the strength of the economic rebound. There’s also talk of a new coronavirus lockdown in Britain.

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If they couldn't deliver BC . . .

David Farrar posts on Labour’s term of failure:

 . . . Isn’t this telling in terms of the Government’s incompetence. We are not talking about narrowly missing a few targets. 77 more words

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FG Opens Online Portal for Nigerians to Access N75 Billion MSME Survival Fund

The portal for the registration of prospective beneficiaries for the MSME survival fund opens on Monday, September 21, 2020.

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In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, September 20, by the Project Delivery Office stated that the portal which opens at 10pm will have educational institutions (Private School Operators) as the first category of beneficiaries to register. 114 more words

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Beijing Wants A Cadre Of 'Reliable And Useful' Entrepreneurs

WECHAT AND TIKTOK have both secured stays of execution of their US bans: ByteDance’s TikTok by dint of an alliance with Oracle and Walmart that US President Donald Trump has ‘blessed in concept’, whatever that means (probably that it is OK because his friend and Oracle boss Larry Ellison has set it up, even if it does not meet the president’s order that TikTok’s US business be divested to US owners); Tencent’s WeChat thanks to a federal judge in San Francisco issuing a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump’s executive order to shut the app down in the United States. 545 more words

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FAANG: The Tech Giants

What do we mean by FAANG?

Many of us are aware of the acronym FAANG. It stands for FACEBOOK, AMAZON, APPLE, … 660 more words

Marketing Is Ubiquitous

The Capitalist Crisis is Detrimental Towards the Environment

It is argued that capitalism is the best way to exhaust an environment with finite resources. So how long can we, as the species with the greatest power to alter our planet, continue to industrialize and innovate through competitive notions and attitudes aimed at attaining economic prosperity? 2,156 more words

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Economy Update From NPR: Stocks Drop As U.S.-China Tensions, Uncertainty About The Economy Grow

Stocks Drop As U.S.-China Tensions, Uncertainty About The Economy Grow
The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls nearly 800 points as new Chinese regulations pose potential threats to U.S. 16 more words