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...Tusk’s new government has claimed that Glapiński abused his powers to try to help the PiS party win last October’s election....
...Redfin expects a net loss of $35mn in the second quarter on revenues of $275mn, according to Visible Alpha, down from a loss of $78mn the previous year....
...“This means we can’t use acids, like alpha or beta hydroxy acids [often used by chemists to help smooth skin texture] or they will degrade....
...“If you’re such an ‘alpha’ like you’re [sic] daddy Tate, why not test that alpha?” KSI told Sneako, a YouTuber and Tate supporter, last year....
...Auction sales will post a record year, calculates Christine Bourron, chief executive of the analytics company Pi-eX....
...“If we were still in the Delta or Alpha pandemic, then we would be in a much better state,” she said....
...Mass lay-offs in the tech industry, battered Chinese equity markets and a collapse in property sales are inflicting greater pain, undermining consumer confidence and leading economists to lower their forecasts...
...Most mutations in the Sars-Cov-2 genome are likely to be harmless, but a small proportion of changes to its genetic material can lead to more contagious variants such as Alpha, Delta and Omicron....
...The prospect of emergence from that seemed, at the time, viciously challenged by Omicron....
...Likewise, Airbnb said Omicron did not cause significant disruption compared with cancellations during the peak of the Delta variant....
...China Inc, however, needs convincing the pain is over. In a rare intervention on Wednesday, vice-premier Liu He reassured investors that Beijing would support the economy and financial markets....
...property values and any business recovery from the pandemic....
...The refinancing plan has now been put back to 2022, people familiar with the matter said, as bond market investors grow increasingly nervous about the potential impact of the Omicron variant of coronavirus...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 23, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...And I think that that's the big change that's happening is that for younger generations the Gen-Z and the Gen-Alpha, what happens in these virtual spaces is real. They own these virtual assets....
...Combined, they turned over $12bn in the year to December 8, up 76 per cent on 2020 and 20 per cent above the equivalent 2019 total, according to the analytics firm Pi-eX....
...With the spread of the Omicron variant, new lockdowns in Europe and economic headwinds in China, the picture for 2022 is cloudier than it was a year ago. Here’s what to watch for....
...Seth of Nomura said he was “quite constructive on Asia stocks in 2022”, though he noted the Omicron coronavirus variant and the US Federal Reserve’s recent hawkish policy pivot would probably lead to some...
...The Regional Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) is less risky but we have to accept that commercial property is a tough sell at the moment....
...But the problem is not that there is a dearth of patriotic tycoons running Hong Kong Inc....
...The $23.7m mortgage was eventually restructured and reassigned to an entity called Aquila Alpha, which filed its own foreclosure action against Mr Parmar last year....
...Mr Santi previously worked for CBRE, the property services provider....
...“Many of our managers are running high active-share strategies to deliver alpha,” says Mr Sullivan....
...Mr Lyttleton, a 21-year veteran of BlackRock, was regarded as one of its biggest stars while managing its UK Dynamic and Absolute Alpha portfolios....
...It is a sharp fall from grace for Lyttleton, one of BlackRock’s biggest stars in the last decade, winning kudos for managing its UK Dynamic and Absolute Alpha portfolios....
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