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...Meanwhile, vaccine makers whose stocks were winners of the early pandemic period such as Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have been among the worst-performers in a year when the S&P 500 approached...
...“The economic case is not there with prices now,” says Anne-Sophie Corbeau, Global Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy....
...Additional contributions from Grace Ramos and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Additional contributions from George Russell, Benjamin Wilhelm, Grace Ramos and Euan Healy...
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...“Markets are setting up for a hawkish Fed tomorrow,” said Benjamin Jeffery, a US rates strategist at BMO Capital Markets....
...Additional contributions from Benjamin Wilhelm and Tee Zhuo...
...Large payments for domestic commitments, such as healthcare and social security, are also due in the coming weeks....
...Insured losses to property are likely to total $30bn-$40bn, according to S&P Global Ratings....
...The report, part-funded by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, also called for the reimposition of social distancing....
...Frank Gill, Emea sovereign specialist at S&P, said that “fiscal policy has historically been driven by the electoral calendar....
...Separately, S&P Global will report manufacturing data for Brazil, Mexico and Canada....
...It comes a day before the 11th anniversary of Nasa’s final successful space shuttle mission STS-135, when Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center after 30 years of space shuttle flights....
...CDC: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will hold a press briefing to discuss the Omicron variant and the pandemic....
...And the Pew Research Center found the ranks of India’s poor, defined as those earning less than $2 a day, swelled by 75m in 2020, before the most recent wave....
...Donald M Berwick President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and former administrator, US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Simon Bland Chief executive, Global...
...The Pew Research Center found that 32m people fell out of India’s middle class — defined as those earning between $10 and $20 a day — in 2020....
...President Edgar Lungu sent the army on to the streets ahead of today’s poll....
...Smart reads Future of fashion Inditex has revolutionised retail through a hybrid model in which brick-and-mortar stores double as mini-distribution centers....
...Multiple experts said they did not believe the Gamma, or P. 1, strain of Sars-Cov-2, which originated in the Amazon, was in itself more harmful to pregnant women....
...Elzoghbi at the Center for Financial Inclusion sees “big risks of monopolistic behaviour down the line”....
...Tom Frieden, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, describes this comment as “egregious”....
...But dig deep and you’ll find that these were not the top four per cent of a broad index like the S&P 500, but instead the 25,300 companies that have appeared in the Center for Research in Security Prices...
...At state level, Ms Noem continues to resist the idea even though doctors and healthcare companies are pleading for it....
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