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...Tuesday China, Mainland China Policy rate IMD World Competitiveness Center launches its annual World Competitiveness Ranking of countries....
...UK, British Medical Association strike ballot closes for NHS consultants to decide whether they will stage industrial action over pay levels....
...The report, part-funded by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, also called for the reimposition of social distancing....
...Omicron hearing: Rochelle Walensky, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser; and Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration...
...The S&P 500 closed 1.2 per cent lower in New York, erasing a gain of 1.9 per cent earlier in the session. The decline marked the benchmark’s largest intraday swing since March....
...Indian Creek Forget Millionaires’ Row: tiny, private, high-security Indian Creek Island is known as “Billionaire Bunker”....
...Stefania PalmaSo Anthony Fauci, who is Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, on Sunday, actually said that without a doubt the acceleration of cases we’ve seen in the US “is really unprecedented and has gone...
...Despite a stellar vaccination programme, the UK remains in lockdown and chief medical officer Chris Whitty warned on Monday that the situation could “turn bad” if the easing of restrictions is rushed....
..., said Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital....
...There is a pressure [from] using up their savings. Once that happens, their wellbeing takes a hit. They had a medical emergency and had to spend large amounts.”...
...News that the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is more than 90 per cent effective sent investors into a buying spree and the S&P 500 to a new high....
...The data is an early sign the vaccines are proving at least as effective in the real life as they did in medical trials....
...Barney Graham, deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center at the US National Institutes of Health, said a universal vaccine was the ultimate goal, and one he has been working on since 2017....
...The S&P 500 opened 0.3 per cent lower and the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 1 per cent....
...The S&P 500 on Monday opened at a new record high in New York. Shares in Pfizer rose 7.6 per cent, while BioNTech’s increased 7.9 per cent....
...Derek Angus, chair of the critical care medicine department at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said it was a “bad idea” to give dexamethasone to Covid-19 patients who did not require “significant...
...It raised its end-of-year price target for the S&P 500 from 3,000 to 3,600.Retail trading app Robinhood has raised new equity that gives it a valuation of more than $11bn....
...Coronavirus digest Global equities set a new record high on Thursday, following a record close for the S&P 500 on Wednesday on hopes for an economic recovery....
...“By February we had a completely enhanced medical protocol....
...The five largest stocks in the S&P 500 together account for a quarter of the pandemic-defying rally since the crescendo of selling in late March....
...Initial reports of the US case were followed by a small sell-off in stocks, with the S&P 500 falling 0.25 per cent....
...The S&P 500 suffered its worst day since August 2011, ending at its low for the day, down 4.4 per cent....
...The S&P 500 dropped 3 per cent, bringing its losses to 7.6 per cent since hitting a record high last Wednesday and erasing a total of $2.1tn in market value....
...(FT) Coronavirus buoys state control Eventually, Chinese growth might benefit from a stronger private sector, writes Michael Pettis, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center senior fellow — but not now....
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