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The UK’s shift towards a more restrictive migration regime after Brexit will not deliver the “high wage” economy promised by prime minister Boris Johnson, a report shows. The analysis from …
Migration data shows Johnson’s Brexit will not result in a high wage economy Read More
It took a pandemic for the world to learn that African countries import 99% of their vaccines. Africa has around ten vaccine manufacturers, but most do not make a vaccine’s active …
Africa is bringing vaccine manufacturing home Read More
Artificial intelligence (AI) has now closely matched or even surpassed humans in what were previously considered unattainable areas. These include chess, arcade games, Go, self-driving cars, protein folding and much more. This rapid technological progress has …
Humans v AI: here’s who’s better at making money in financial markets Read More
LONDON — The Bank of England increased the key interest rate by 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent on Thursday, the first time since 2004 that it has implemented consecutive rate hikes. Of the …
Bank of England ups rates Read More
The European Union on Thursday announced it had lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over China’s behavior toward EU member state Lithuania, a move Beijing has dismissed as …
EU launches WTO case against China over Lithuania mistreatment Read More
A funding crisis battering China’s big property developers could start to shake the wider economy and global markets, the IMF warned on Friday, saying deeper reforms were needed to fully …
IMF warns China’s property stress poses spillover risk Read More
General Motors’ chief economist said Thursday that she believes the country’s inflation problems are only temporary and mostly the result of supply-chain bottlenecks — not last year’s stimulus checks — and that …
GM’s chief economist says U.S. inflation problems will improve Read More
Freddie Mac Multifamily issued more than $5 billion in green, social and sustainability bonds in 2020 through its Impact Bond series for the asset class, the GSE announced this week. …
Freddie Mac Issued $5B in ESG Bonds Last Year Read More
Nat Dyer gives the late Professor Susan Strange credit for having the answers and argues she deserves still more. There is something odd about one of the iconic stories we …
Susan Strange saw the financial crisis coming, Your Majesty Read More
The BCC’s Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) – the UK’s largest independent survey of business sentiment and a leading indicator of UK GDP growth – has shown the recovery stalled in the fourth quarter, with firms facing …
Recovery weakening as inflation worries soar Read More