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With mass vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 underway globally, there is an emerging gap between rich and poor nations in their abilities to secure enough shots to immunize their people. Wealthy nations have been accused of hoarding vaccines, mostly from Pfizer-BioNTech.

Silicon Valley tech firms look increasingly likely to face new global tax laws this year, as the change in the White House fuels optimism among European officials that an agreement will soon be reached. Speaking to CNBC’s Annette Weisbach on.

US data helped the markets to find support, triggering a wave of buying after the recent sell-off in equities and precious metals. The first estimate of US GDP in Q4 came out slightly worse than forecast, adding 4% (4.2% expected)..

Eth 2.0 is looking at its first hard fork this year. The Ethereum Foundation-backed research team is currently organizing schematics for a mid-2021 backward-incompatible change to the Beacon Chain, according to a Jan. 14 developer’s call. This hard fork is.

Dogecoin (DOGE) is up 80% in a day and trading volume has spiked more than 800% as the altcoin sees a publicity surge with a familiar source. Data from Cointelegraph Markets, CoinMarketCap and Tradingview showed a transformation taking place in.

European stocks hit a near one-month low on Thursday following Wall Street’s worst sell-off since October on concerns about high valuations, with investors also growing wary about a rise in more contagious coronavirus variants. The pan-European STOXX 600 fell 1.9%,.

Vietnam is likely the top-performing Asian economy in 2020 — a feat that was achieved without a single quarter of economic contraction at a time when many economies globally were weighed down by the coronavirus pandemic. Not every Asian economy.

Huawei’s smartphone shipments have continued to plunge as a result of U.S. sanctions, sending the once No. 1 vendor in the world tumbling below rivals like Apple. The Chinese technology giant shipped 33 million smartphones globally in the fourth quarter.

One retail research and advisory group is forecasting there could be as many as 10,000 store closures announced by retailers in the United States this year, which would set a new record, as the Covid pandemic continues to take a.

Apple raked in its highest ever revenue in the greater China region in the December quarter as a record number of iPhone upgrades helped the U.S. tech giant in one of its most important markets. Greater China revenue came in.

GameStop and AMC Entertainment tumbled in overnight trading on Wednesday, set to give back some of the meteoric rally amid a retail buying frenzy. Shares of the brick-and-mortar video game retailer dropped 15.97% in extended trading, following a more-than 130%.

The S&P500 closed Wednesday down 2.6%, while DJI lost 2%, which predetermined the markets’ negative sentiment on Thursday morning, taking away 1.8% from the MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific. The sharp sentiment reversal was illustrated by Apple’s performance, losing more.