Category: Finance News

Nov 18

CIS banks well set despite mixed economic backdrop

All the benefits of Digital + Print plus subscriptions to: The Banker Database is a service of the Financial Times, providing comprehensive financial data and insight for 5000 of the world’s leading banks, in more than 160 countries.Visit The Banker Database + A specialist service from the Financial Times, Global Risk Regulator provides insightful reporting […]
Nov 18

CIS banks hold up despite tricky economic backdrop

All the benefits of Digital + Print plus subscriptions to: The Banker Database is a service of the Financial Times, providing comprehensive financial data and insight for 5000 of the world’s leading banks, in more than 160 countries.Visit The Banker Database + A specialist service from the Financial Times, Global Risk Regulator provides insightful reporting […]
Nov 18

: German vaccine maker CureVac ramps up capacity to 300 million COVID-19 doses in 2021

CureVac expects to announce partnerships with vaccine developers and manufacturers in the coming weeks to ramp up capacity of its potential vaccine candidate. thomas kienzle/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images German biotech CureVac is setting up a European network to ramp up manufacturing of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, allowing it to produce up to 300 million doses in 2021 […]
Nov 18

: George Soros laments investment in Palantir and says he will sell the rest when allowed

Investor and philanthropist George Soros delivers a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on Jan. 23, 2020. fabrice coffrini/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images It’s common for fund managers to talk up their investments. Legendary investor George Soros is taking the opposite tack. His family office, Soros Fund Management, issued a statement criticizing one of […]
Nov 18

Europe Markets: European stocks and U.S. equity futures fight for traction amid worries over rising COVID-19 cases

A pedestrian wearing a face mask or covering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, walks past a Christmas-themed window display on Oxford Street in central London on November 17, 2020. AFP via Getty Images European stocks and U.S. equity futures struggled near the flat line on Wednesday, as investor worries continued to simmer over rising coronavirus […]
Nov 17

Mitch McConnell rips into the $3.4 trillion Democratic stimulus plan as ‘unserious’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted the $3.4 trillion Democratic stimulus plan a day after President-elect Joe Biden implored Congress to pass it. “House Democrats’ so-called ‘HEROES Act’ is so unserious that it was condemned by the Speaker’s own moderate Democrats […]
Nov 17

‘This is false’: Arizona secretary of state denies Lindsey Graham spoke to her as voter fraud row intensifies

Arizona’s secretary of state has denied Lindsey Graham’s claim he spoke to her as the row over voter fraud intensified (Getty Images) Arizona’s secretary of state has denied Lindsey Graham’s claim he spoke to her as the row over voter fraud intensified. Senator Graham has come under fierce criticism after the Georgia secretary of state […]