Tag Archive for: apr 27 2021
RESTAURANT CHAINS: THE CASUALTY LIST. The pandemic and resulting economic shutdown damaged about 110,000 restaurants in the U.S., estimated...
NESTLÉ NEARING PURCHASE OF VITAMIN MAKER
Support, , TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT, apr 27 2021, 2Nestlé, the world's largest food company, is in discussions to buy Bountiful Co., maker of protein bars, Nature's Bounty...
BLACKSTONE GOBBLING UP INDIA’S STORAGE SPACE
Support, , TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT, apr 27 2021, 2Blackstone 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...
Giving themselves a name that only a comic book series could invent, “The Problem-Solvers Caucus,” a gang of 58...
With the COVID War ending and the economy reviving, the “Bigs” are ready to shower cash on leveraged buyouts...
SUPPLY-CHAIN DISRUPTIONS SLAM SMALL BUSINESSES
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, apr 27 2021, 1Forty-four percent of 800 U.S. small businesses surveyed by research firm Vistage Worldwide reported running short of supplies or...
Before the COVID War, owners of office blocks leased to single or a few major tenants counted their blessings:...
Completed sales of existing homes in March fell 3.7 percent from February to an annualized rate of 6.01 million,...
Southwest Airlines reported a first-quarter profit of $116 million, due in part to federal support, and has begun recalling...
Having raised an estimated $100 billion this year, hundreds of special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are looking for places to...
INVESTORS SEE LOWER RISK IN LOW-RATED BONDS
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, apr 27 2021, 1The yield premium that investors demand to buy riskier bonds has dropped below 3 percent this month, its lowest...
VENTURE CAPITAL CREATES NEW TECH BUBBLE
Support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, apr 27 2021, 0During 2021’s first quarter, technology start-ups garnered $69 billion from investors, 41 percent more than in the previous quarterly...
During the seven days ending 21 April, investors put another $1.6 billion in funds buying U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities...
GLOBAL BANK CONNECTED “TASK FORCE” RECOMMENDS OUTLAWING PRIVATE CRYPTO TRANSACTIONS. A global entity called the “Financial Action Task Force”...
ARMY DEVELOPING WAR MACHINE “FLESH” ROBOTS
Support, , TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran, apr 27 2021, 6Speaking of Nextgov, a featured article on the site this past week detailed a “Franken-army” technology that would fuse...
NEXTGOV: WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT MATTERS
Support, , TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran, apr 27 2021, 6Ever wonder how the deep state and mega corporations coordinate on a practical level? Nextgov.com, though little known to...
STUDY FINDS DOZENS OF NEW CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS IN HUMANS
Support, , TRENDS IN HI-TECH SCIENCE, apr 27 2021, 0A University of California at San Francisco study of pregnant women has found 55 chemicals in their bodies that...
SOFTWARE DESIGNS BIGGER, BETTER DNA ROBOTS IN MINUTES
Support, , TRENDS IN HI-TECH SCIENCE, apr 27 2021, 0Robots made of DNA crawled off the pages of science fiction and into bioengineers’ labs in 2017. The idea...