South Korea joined neighbor Japan in 2020 as a country whose population is shrinking. Official government data showed Tuesday that the population of the country had declined by almost 21,000 people to approximately 51.83 million last year. The decline …
As countries around the world have started the biggest inoculation campaign in human history, the pandemic is far from under control in many places, including the United States and Europe. With large parts of the “old continent” still on lockdown, Euro…
Conventional wisdom says that competition is usually a good thing for customers as it keeps companies from raising prices and encourages them to improve their product. There can be too much of a good thing, however, especially when exclusivity comes in…
Considering its pleasant climate, sandy beaches and culturally rich cities, it’s no surprise that Spain is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. As such, the country has come to rely heavily on tourism economically, making it partic…
The rise in housing prices continues to outpace the increase in wages across many parts of the world. For many cities, modest gains made in median yearly wages have been overshadowed by significantly higher increases in the cost of housing for the year…
Electric vehicles are quickly gaining traction in automotive markets around the world, with many countries expected to have the cleaner battery fueled cars outpace their traditional fossil fuel counterparts in sales in the very near future. New car com…
The U.S. has passed a third stimulus bill Monday night and an international comparison shows that it has been high time. According to an analysis by think tank Bruegel, the U.S. is the country currently offering a much lower level of coronavirus financ…
China has seemingly left the coronavirus behind and the recovery in car sales is a testament to that. Since July, sales have grown in the upper single digits compared with the respective months in the year 2019, which has also been a slow year for car …
After seeing its share price rally for large parts of the year, boosted further by a five-for-one stock completed in August, Tesla was added to the S&P 500 index on Monday. The electric car maker saw its share price soar by almost 700 percent this year…
After a turbulent 12 months that saw Tesla’s share price soar by more than 700 percent, the world’s most valuable car maker was added to the S&P 500 index on Monday. Tesla was by far the largest addition ever to the S&P 500, causing a trading avalanche…