Corporate Real Estate Sales Maintain Record Pace Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Companies are selling their real estate at the fastest pace ever as they shore up their balance sheets battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reported. Broker Jones Lang LaSalle Inc....
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Airbus Shares Soar As Deliveries Ascend In March
Airbus SE stepped up deliveries in March to bring first-quarter figures higher than the same period last year and shares higher, Reuters reported. Airbus posted 39 gross orders in the...
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Amazon Holds Lead In Alabama Union Election
According to CNBC, Amazon held a commanding lead in the union election at one of its Alabama warehouses, with half the votes counted. Out of the 3,215 ballots cast, there...
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Vanguard Expands Portfolio With Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Vanguard on Tuesday rolled out its first actively managed bond ETF focused on securities with two years or less to maturity, according to a report by Yahoo! Finance. The Vanguard...
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U.K Limits AstraZeneca Vaccines To Ages 30 And Above On Blood Clot Worries
The United Kingdom has limited the inoculation of the AstraZeneca PLC COVID-19 vaccine to preferably people over 30, the WSJ reported. The European Union's health agency said it found possible...
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Beyond Meat Opens Manufacturing Plant In China, Eyes Another In Europe
Plant-based protein firm Beyond Meat Inc. opened its first manufacturing facility outside the United States in China on Wednesday, according to a report. Located in the Jiaxing Economic & Technological...
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World’s Richest Man Backs Higher Taxes For American Firms
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has issued a statement of support for President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes increasing the corporate tax rate, according to SeekingAlpha....
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Treasury’s Yellen Calls For Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday called for international cooperation for a global minimum corporate tax rate, according to the WSJ. Yellen said competitiveness is about more than how...
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Celebrity Investor Says U.S. Should Extremely Aggressive To Level Playing Field With China
Celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary said the United States should be "extremely aggressive" to level the economic playing field with China, CNBC reported. O'Leary said the U.S. should make Chinese companies...
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Disney Plus Pulls In Closer To Rival Netflix’s Subscriber Loyalty. Amazon Prime and Hulu to Follow
Disney's streaming service is pulling closer to rival Netflix when it comes to subscriber attitudes and loyalty, according to a report by SeekingAlpha. Hub data shows that 77% of U.S....
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IMF Warns Global Economy ‘Diverging Dangerously’
The global economic outlook has improved overall but prospects are diverging dangerously, according to a BloombergQuint report. International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva said differences could hold back the...
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Financial Markets Close for Good Friday
Major financial markets are closed for Good Friday despite not being a federal holiday, according to a report. Stock markets including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be...
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