GERMANS HAVE COINED MORE THAN 1,200 WORDS TO TALK ABOUT CORONAVIRUS BERLIN — If you go out in Germany during the pandemic, don’t forget your Alltagsmaske (everyday mask) or Spuckschutzschirm (spit protection umbrella). If it’s a bit frigid outside, maybe...
Here’s a list of pandemic winners we are all familiar with: Amazon, Moderna, and Zoom. After it reported earnings on Tuesday, we can safely add Target to the mix. Over the full year ended Jan. 30, the retailer posted revenue of $93.6B — up 20% YoY and a...
That cushioned the blow of the pandemic, but raises some hard questions about what Canada got for all that spending. The economy shrank 5.4% last year, Statistics Canada said Tuesday, the sharpest annual decline in the post-World War II era and the third straight...
Mixing politics and investing has a very bad reputation. Go online and you’ll find dozens and dozens of articles about how when you participate in the market, you should leave your politics at the door, or ignore politics altogether. But if instead of warning...
Empty-shell companies have raised tens of billions of dollars this year so far, and everyone from Colin Kaepernick to SoftBank is getting in on it. By now, you may have heard of a new bubble that has taken its place among the pantheon of bubbles we call the global...