Office landlords in one of the world’s priciest real estate markets are seeing companies scale back their leased spaces...
Archive for category: TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT
China’s economic output missed expectations in April, due in part to the worldwide shortage of computer chips, the Wall...
Several of Europe’s largest banks have decided to permanently reduce business travel by as much as half from pre-pandemic...
Massive February storms in Texas and a 19 March fire at Japan’s Renesas Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have left the...
As of 30 April, 875 initial public stock offerings raising at least $1 million each have been completed worldwide,...
During the week ending 25 April, Italy vaccinated 2.4 million citizens against COVID, 12 percent more than the week...
As officials and analysts had predicted, first-quarter economic figures show that Europe entered a double-dip recession in the first...
RESTAURANT CHAINS: THE CASUALTY LIST. The pandemic and resulting economic shutdown damaged about 110,000 restaurants in the U.S., estimated...
Nestlé, the world's largest food company, is in discussions to buy Bountiful Co., maker of protein bars, Nature's Bounty...
Blackstone Group, the largest owner of India’s office buildings, will spend $720 million to buy 3.5 million square feet...
The European Central Bank (ECB) will continue its bond-buying stimulus program unchanged and will leave it in place longer...
As the company announced weakened first-quarter earnings, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger warned that the worldwide chip shortage will continue...
AMERICAN AIRLINES REPORTS WEAK FIRST QUARTER. The airline’s revenue for 2021’s first quarter was 62 percent lower during the...
As we have forecast, the 20th century was the American century – the 21st century will be the Chinese...
LVMH Moët Hennessy Luis Vuitton, the world's largest purveyor of luxury goods, saw its sales soar 30 percent year...
The 19 Eurozone countries should spend an additional 3 percent of GDP over the next 12 months to spur...
80,000 MORE U.S. STORES WILL CLOSE BY 2026, UBS PREDICTS. UBS, the Swiss banking and financial services giant, predicts...
As we have been reporting in the Trends Journal, Beijing will no longer take orders or follow rules set...
Central banks around the world have pared back the amount of dollars they hold, reducing the buck’s share of...
On 12 April, Japan will begin vaccinating citizens age 65 and older, the largest segment of the country’s population....