Month: May 2020

It’s no secret that it’s a pricey pain to host the Olympic Games, running billions of dollars above the estimated budget. As the International Olympic Committee receives fewer bids with each problematic games, the future of the tradition is looking unsure. We spoke with Smith College Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist on the matter. He should know,
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► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs Why do huge external imbalances herald disaster? Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, explains what happens when some countries spend much less than their incomes and so run big current account surpluses, while others do the opposite. ► FT Comment: http://bit.ly/1ImtZ8r ► FT World News:
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In this episode of Bloomberg Pursuits’ MADE series we visit a shop in York, Maine. Grain Surfboards are built through an additive process that has much in common with traditional wooden ship-building. Planks of wood are cut and glued onto an internal wood frame before being sanded down to their final shape. Video by Brian
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Veteran NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley speak with CNN Business’ Rachel Crane about their upcoming test flight aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. They’ll be the first humans sent to space from US soil since the Shuttle program ended almost a decade ago. Produced by Gabe Ramirez Supervising Producer: Bronte Lord #CNN #NASA #SpaceX
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Consumer spending plunged by a record 16.4% in April, but one category saw a bounce: nonstore retailers. Included in this category, which saw an 8.4% month-over-month increase, is online shopping. With much of the country under shelter-in-place orders during April, consumers increasingly turned towards e-commerce giants like Amazon for their shopping needs. As the pandemic
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Nearly 36.5 million people have filed unemployment claims in the past two months as a result of the coronavirus crisis, with 2.981 million of those claims being filed for the week ending May 9. Though the pandemic has undoubtedly impacted millions of Americans, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that women are disproportionately feeling the
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An employee tends to marijuana plants at the Aurora Cannabis Inc. facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Jason Franson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. Applied Materials — Shares of the manufacturing company climbed 4% in extended trading after Applied Materials reported second-quarter
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Offices of Cutera Inc. in Brisbane, Calif. Google Earth The largest public companies that tapped the government’s emergency relief fund for small businesses nearly all had ready access to other forms of capital, according to a CNBC analysis of filings. Even amid the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, these companies raised millions of dollars
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More than 1,000 North Koreans try to escape the country every year. They risk being killed, imprisoned, or trafficked, as they escape through China, Mongolia, and different regions of southeast Asia. This is Yeon Mi Park. She escaped North Korea when she was just 13 years old. ————————————————– Business Insider tells you all you need
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► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs Shadow banking is the talk of the town — and the talk of the FT, with a week-long series of pieces analysing this little-understood industry. Financial editor Patrick Jenkins offers the five important facts to remember about shadow banking. ► FT World News: http://bit.ly/1Exp0iJ ► FT
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The Swiss watch brand Arnold & Son builds all its own movements and tools in-house and from scratch. Each timepiece is a painstaking work of art that takes hours to come to life. Read more about process here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-16/how-is-a-watch-made-from-scratch Video by Zach Goldstein, Brian Schildhorn ———- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg?sub_confirmation=1
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Under ordinary circumstances, the opportunity to make changes to workplace health plans and flexible spending accounts happens only once a year. However, new guidelines from the IRS allow workers to revisit those elections now in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “I cannot think of a time when the IRS has been this flexible,” said David Speier, managing
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Xavier Bonghi In today’s environment, it’s just about unimaginable that someone would turn down a $40,000 forgivable loan. Benjamin Brandt, a certified financial planner and president of Capital City Wealth Management in Bismarck, North Dakota, did just that. He initially applied for the Paycheck Protection Program — a forgivable loan program that’s overseen by Treasury
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Not much can get past investor Barbara Corcoran on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” “Her ability to recognize the good and bad in somebody, what they’ll be like as an entrepreneur, what they’ll be like as a person – Barbara picks up on that stuff in a minute,” Mark Cuban said on Corcoran’s podcast “888-Barbara.” And on Wednesday’s
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Chuck Robbins, CEO, Cisco Systems, speaking at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Cisco shares rose as much as 4% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter earnings, although revenue dropped 8% from last year’s quarter, steeper than the 4% decline in the prior
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