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• The Retail Apocalypse Is Accelerating

  Published 16 September 2019 | viewed 3,689 times

  As the economy cycles down through fall, there is new, alarming data by professional services firm BDO USA LLP, first reported by The Wall Street Journal,…

• McDonalds To Roll Out Robot Drive-Thru Clerks

  Published 12 September 2019 | viewed 2,932 times

  What doesn't cost $15 an hour and talk back to customers? AI.  McDonald's announced on Tuesday the acquisition of Mountain View-based voice tech startup Apprente in order…

• SoftBank Urges WeWork To Pause IPO Plans

  Published 10 September 2019 | viewed 6,133 times

  Once upon a time, SoftBank was best known for making happy slides, such as the one below, which showed a variety of multi-colored unicorns jumping…

• New Anti-Trust Probe Launched Against Big Tech

  Published 06 September 2019 | viewed 3,019 times

  Not long after Facebook reached a record $5 billion settlement with the FTC in a federal antitrust probe (while the DoJ continues to build its…

• Investors Are Dumping Emerging Market Funds As Trade War Escalates

  Published 02 September 2019 | viewed 4,682 times

  Lipper's Emerging Markets Funds have experienced their worst-ever net outflows during 3Q19. The mass exodus is due to a combination of factors, likely caused by an…

• Global Markets Bounce Back On Trade War Optimism

  Published 30 August 2019 | viewed 3,454 times

  For the second day in a row, global markets and US equity futures are a sea of green with stocks pushing higher as trade headlines…

• Google Moves Smartphone Production To Vietnam

  Published 28 August 2019 | viewed 4,158 times

  Google has reportedly become the latest company to aggressively move production out of China and into Vietnam as it hopes to create a "low-cost supply…

• Zombie Foreclosures On The Rise In The U.S.

  Published 26 August 2019 | viewed 12,025 times

  Attom Data Solutions has published its Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report that shows over 1.5 million (1,530,563) homes and condos vacant in 3Q19, which represents about 1.6 percent…

• Trade Tensions Weigh On South Korea, Japan Relations

  Published 22 August 2019 | viewed 3,109 times

  Most Americans could be forgiven for thinking that the 'trade war' is really only impacting the US and (maybe) China. After all, it was President…

• Hong Kong Residents Are Fleeing To Taiwan At A Record Pace

  Published 20 August 2019 | viewed 3,055 times

  Hong Kong was already one of the world's most unaffordable cities before the unrest over the extradition bill started 11 weeks ago. But now, it's both…

• Alibaba Exec Sets Record With $3.5 Billion Brooklyn Nets Purchase

  Published 17 August 2019 | viewed 2,059 times

  Alibaba Executive Chairman Joe Tsai is reportedly planning to pay $3.5 billion to buy out Mikhail Prokhorov's stake in the Brooklyn Nets and the Barclays…

• WeWork Reveals Huge Losses Ahead Of IPO

  Published 14 August 2019 | viewed 3,168 times

  As expected, WeWork - or "the We Company", as its struggling to rebrand itself - published on Wednesday the prospectus for its hotly anticipated IPO,…

• Inflation Is Creeping Up In Consumer Goods

  Published 12 August 2019 | viewed 2,722 times

  When it comes to aimlessly bemoaning about how inflation is a giant mystery that nobody will ever figure out, the Federal Reserve are experts. When it…

• UK Economy Shrinks As Brexit Worries Grow

  Published 09 August 2019 | viewed 2,543 times

  Though it wasn't entirely unexpected, the UK economy contracted in Q2 for the first time in seven years as the cloud of uncertainty brought on…

• Opioid Distributors Push To Shut Down Lawsuits In $10 Billion Deal

  Published 07 August 2019 | viewed 2,425 times

  Three major opioid distributors have offered to pay $10 billion to settle claims that the helped fuel the ongoing US opioid epidemic, as nearly 2,000 lawsuits loom against…

• Trump Weighs Full Economic Blockade On Venezuela

  Published 02 August 2019 | viewed 2,100 times

  How much more US "pressure" can be brought to bear on Venezuela after Washington early this year went so far as to back a failed…

• The World's Lowest Cost Gold Mines

  Published 01 August 2019 | viewed 5,197 times

  Gold has been a medium of exchange for thousands of years. It is easy to carry, and its very rarity makes it a valuable commodity.…

• Gold Sales Could Be Maduro's Lifeline

  Published 29 July 2019 | viewed 3,030 times

  As oil revenue for Venezuela continues to stagnate, the Maduro regime is more reliant than ever on illegal gold exploited from lawless jungles in the south of the country, according to…

• Soft Bank Locks Down $108 Billion For Vision Fund 2

  Published 26 July 2019 | viewed 2,615 times

  For a minute there, it looked like the investors who had helped finance Soft Bank's original Vision Fund were finally beginning to question the strategy…

• Another Surprising Industry Falls Victim To Ongoing Trade War Chaos

  Published 24 July 2019 | viewed 3,511 times

  Trade war crosscurrents have damaged the American manufacturing sector, and within, a lot of stress is building up in the RV industry, according to discussions with industry…