Alex Kimani

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Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• As Retail Apocalypse Continues, More Stores Are On Verge Of Collapse

  Published 07 March 2019 | viewed 2,945 times

  It’s 2010 in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Several large retail chains announce plans to shutter dozens of stores. Investors mostly shrug their shoulders…

• U.S. Trade Deficit Expands To 10-Year High

  Published 07 March 2019 | viewed 2,149 times

  Reducing the U.S. trade deficit has been a key plank of President Trump’s policies—and a big reason why he has been playing hardball with U.S.…

• Chinese Onshore Markets Bracing For $46B Boost

  Published 05 March 2019 | viewed 4,702 times

  China’s stock markets were the worst performing in 2018 following the breakout of a trade war that wiped out $2.4 trillion from the markets. Thankfully,…

• China’s ‘Black Mirror’: Millions Banned From Travel

  Published 04 March 2019 | viewed 5,166 times

  China is in the process of setting up a vast surveillance system that will track every single one of its 1.4 billion citizens in a…

• How Would People React To A Social Media Tax? Look At Uganda

  Published 03 March 2019 | viewed 7,261 times

  The Arab Spring that destabilized governments in the Middle East began in the spring of 2011. Nearly a decade later, the full repercussions of the…

• Is This The End Of The Trade War?

  Published 01 March 2019 | viewed 5,956 times

  In 2018, trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies escalated to unprecedented levels after the U.S. imposed tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese…

• China Just Lost Nearly 200 Billionaires

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 2,957 times

  China’s ranks of the super-rich has been dealt a severe below thanks to the country’s stock market meltdown. According to wealth research firm Hurun, the…

• Walmart’s $20 Billion Buyback Spree Sparks Outrage From Senate

  Published 28 February 2019 | viewed 6,706 times

  Nowadays, Republicans and Democrats don’t usually agree on much. But in a rare bipartisan show, they have found a common ground and locked arms to…

• Regulators Charge First Company Ever For Fake Amazon Reviews

  Published 27 February 2019 | viewed 2,710 times

  In the beginning, we had fake news. Now we have fake reviews. No one can deny that reviews can be critical for e-commerce companies and…

• Crypto Firms Consolidate Amid Push For Legitimacy

  Published 26 February 2019 | viewed 5,793 times

  Despite an environment rife with economic and political instability, global M&A value in 2018 reached near-record levels as markets remained unhampered by the heightened geopolitical…

• Nearly 80% Of Madoff Ponzi Scheme Losses Recovered

  Published 26 February 2019 | viewed 3,525 times

  Before Bernard Lawrence Madoff confessed to the largest Ponzi scheme in history, few people outside Wall Street and financial circles had even heard of him.…

• The Best Way To Play The 5G Revolution

  Published 25 February 2019 | viewed 7,693 times

  What exactly is 5G Technology? Depends on whom you ask. The next generation of wireless technology means different things to different people. To the wireless…

• The Semiconductor Boom Is Back

  Published 22 February 2019 | viewed 6,203 times

  The Semiconductor sector has been on a tear lately and easily one of the best performing sectors in the equities market so far this year.…

• Is Bitcoin Heading For A Bull Run?

  Published 21 February 2019 | viewed 3,644 times

  Long left for dead by many investors, bitcoin has been on a tear lately and has even managed to cross a key long-term hurdle—thanks to…

• Can Trump Make Space Great Again?

  Published 21 February 2019 | viewed 1,931 times

  Our destiny beyond the Earth is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security—Donald Trump Perhaps in a classic case…

• State-Sponsored Cyberattacks Are On The Rise

  Published 20 February 2019 | viewed 5,312 times

  Is this another case of “seek and ye shall find” or have U.S. foes actually been increasingly resorting to cyberwars when they feel threatened by…

• Is The Gold Rally Sustainable?

  Published 19 February 2019 | viewed 3,706 times

  After a dire start to 2018, gold prices have climbed sharply over the past six months and now hover around 10-month highs. The rally in…

• Facebook Labeled ‘Digital Gangsters’ By UK Politicians

  Published 19 February 2019 | viewed 5,743 times

  Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) shares are on the mend after a disastrous 2018 that saw them lose nearly half their value in the wake of a…

• Amazon Paid Zero Corporate Tax For Second Year In A Row

  Published 18 February 2019 | viewed 3,649 times

  President Trump has never hidden his disdain for cyber-retailing giant Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), accusing the company of unfair tax practices and antitrust violation. The president…

• Abysmal Retail Sales Have Wall Street Scratching Head

  Published 17 February 2019 | viewed 3,355 times

  So much for all the hype about sparkling holiday sales. The latest report for the sector indicates that December retail sales were so bad that…