Unilever wants the attractive cash flow and growth of GSK’s joint venture with Pfizer (4-6% is the aim for the GSK unit, though many think this is a tad ambitious). Unilever CEO Alan Jope is under pressure to grow the business after a lacklustre few years – a megadeal highlights the difficulty is fixing the […]
BEIJING — Construction and property sales have slumped. Small businesses have shut because of rising costs and weak sales. Debt-laden local governments are cutting the pay of civil servants. China’s economy slowed markedly in the final months of last year as government measures to limit real estate speculation hurt other sectors as well. Lockdowns and […]
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – A beloved local restaurant, Tino’s Pizza, on Tucson’s eastside is closing its doors after nearly four decades of business. Morgan Chonis said her father, Dino, opened Tino’s Pizza 37 years ago. Her memories go back to when she was tiny enough to fit in the dough buckets, and she’s […]
China Q4 GDP grows 4.0% y/y vs 3.6% forecast in Reuters poll China 2021 GDP grows 8.1% versus 8.0% forecast Dec factory output growth picks up, retail sales disappoint BEIJING, Jan 17 (Reuters) – China’s economy rebounded in 2021 from its pandemic-induced slump helped by robust exports but weak consumption at the year-end and a […]
The Herald Gold steadied on Friday as weak US retail sales data countered pressure from an uptick in the dollar and Treasury yields, with overall weakness in the dollar keeping bullion on course for its best week since mid-November. Spot gold was unchanged at US$1 821,66 per ounce by 10:45 am on Friday. US gold […]
Coronavirus virus outbreak and coronaviruses influenza background as dangerous flu strain cases as a … [+] pandemic medical health risk concept with disease cells as a 3D render getty There is nothing more important in the global economy than the health and wellness of all our citizens. The raging war of COVID-19 has been persisting […]
“At this time, the majority of ZoomInfo’s employees are working from home, although our offices do remain open to vaccinated employees who wish to come in for any amount of time,” Rob Morse, communications manager at the Vancouver company, wrote in an email. “However, we have no current timeline for requiring their return to the […]
Democrats and Republicans have wildly different expectations for inflation in 2022. Republicans expect prices to rise about 7% over the next year — more than double the 3% increase expected by Democrats, according to last month’s University of Michigan survey of consumer sentiment. Shock figure: That’s the widest partisan gulf recorded since the survey began […]
The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Orlando Magic 108-92 Saturday night in Dallas at the American Airlines Center. The Magic are now 8-35 and quite frankly are not very good. But the Mavericks have had a maddening tendency to either lose to bad teams or make the games entirely too close over the last couple of […]
The Covid-19 variant has been cropping up across China in recent days, including in major port cities like Dalian and Tianjin, prompting restrictions that could upend business operations in those places. The rest of the world is also dealing with Omicron, but China is different because of how intent authorities are on preventing any widespread […]
