Hints and tips:
...“The corona will take on a radial appearance — and there is more chance of seeing these eruptions on the edge of the sun.”...
...In 2020, Constellation Brands, a large American drinks company that makes Corona beer for the US market, cancelled a $1.4bn factory being built in the northern city of Mexicali after the government revoked...
...Michael Hi, this is Michael from Ireland. It seems like quantitative easing helped push up stock prices in the US. Did it just seemed like that, or is that what actually happened?...
...“The corona crisis has shown whose shoulders our society is built on, who works hard and still benefits too little from an economic upswing,” he told the FT....
...michael.stott@ft.com...
...Generous government support for the poorest third of society, dubbed “corona vouchers”, eased the financial pain....
...and Smith Coronas then in their inventory....
...In the US, there are a handful of cities, like San Francisco, Seattle, Berkeley and Boulder, that tax sugary drinks, mostly thanks to the efforts of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who pushed...
...“My impression is that if the AfD becomes really strong, the policy will hit the skids,” said Michael Kraske, an expert on the German far-right....
...The process of allocating funds has been “very sluggish, very bureaucratic”, Michael Kretschmer, governor of Saxony and a senior figure in the CDU, told German radio last week....
...This time has been what I call a “corona-cation”. You’re not busy but you’re very busy somehow....
...One bloc diplomat insisted that Wednesday’s accord provides a starting point to deal with that, as capitals have made a “clear commitment to continue work on corona[virus] tests and quarantine”....
...Additional reporting by Sam Jones, Daniel Dombey, Victor Mallet, Kerin Hope and Michael Peel...
...The Freedom party and Mr Strache had both labelled the pandemic “corona madness” and called for an end to restrictions on public life....
...michael.peel@ft.com; @mikepeeljourno...
...Many believe “Captain Corona”, as his detractors call the former army officer, is leading his country to disaster....
...German officials have pointed to the example of Ischgl, the Austrian ski resort which became one of the most notorious corona hotspots during the first wave of the pandemic....
...“Corona is out of control,” said Markus Söder, prime minister of Bavaria, on Sunday. “We are at five minutes to midnight.”...
...The FT’s multi-prized investigative journalist Madison Marriage reported on how Bill Michael’s words chastising his staff for “playing the victim card” backfired....
...But Michael Kremer wants to see more international co-ordination and more ambition....
...“Covid-19 has impacted the sustainability of community and regional publishing,” said Michael Miller, executive chairman of News Corp Australasia....
...We will say afterwards that the corona crisis was . . . where we stepped into the digital age — for criminals but also, I hope, for law enforcement.”...
...michael.peel@ft.com; @mikepeeljourno Chart du jour: incumbent advantage Call it a corona boost....
...“Thyssenkrupp’s liquidity problems [negative cash flow] have been exacerbated by the crisis,” said Michael Muders, a portfolio manager at German institutional investor Union....
...Brown Brothers Harriman say: “While not exactly the so-called corona bonds that Italy and Spain have called for, this would be a step towards true joint debt issuance as the €500bn proposed is much greater...
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