When Tesla finally joined the S&P 500 index in December 2020, the profitability criterion – an eligible company’s most recent quarter’s earnings and the sum of its trailing four consecutive quarters’ earnings must be positive – was the last box to be c…
One argument often brought up against the transition to electric cars is the assertion that, all things considered, electric vehicles aren’t that much cleaner than internal combustion engines. Once you take into account battery production and electrici…
In light of rising case numbers and a significant slowdown in the U.S. vaccine rollout, leading health experts in the United States are once again ringing the alarm bells, urging the population to remain vigilant and get vaccinated if possible.On Thurs…
As the United States and its NATO allies accelerate their final withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban have retaken swathes of the country amid fears of a government collapse. The U.S. is by no means the first superpower to get bogged down in chaos a…
On Wednesday, insurance broker Aon reported that insured losses from natural disasters reached $42 billion in the first half of 2021. While the figure represents a 10-year high for insured losses over the opening six months of the year, overall economi…
The 2020 Olympics are finally set to get underway in Tokyo tomorrow barring a last minute cancellation amid rising Covid-19 cases. Japan has been averaging 3,000 cases a day this week while only 22 percent of the public has been fully vaccinated. The e…
The Rockefeller Foundation has released a new report which has found that Americans are only paying a third of their food’s true value. The research states that total U.S. food expenditure comes to an estimated $1.1 trillion each year, including produc…
On Tuesday, computer company IBM reported a small increase in quarterly revenue for Q4, ending a drought in revenue and falling sales figures over the last two years. The earnings report comes just after IBM purchased software giant Red Hat for nearly …
With the Tokyo Olympics just four days away, now would normally be the time for anticipation to build, for the Olympic spark to spread from the host country all over the world and for athletes to wrap up years of preparation. This year, with COVID-19 s…
The average S&P 500 CEO made $15.5 million last year, 299 times the pay of the median worker. That’s according to an annual report from America’s largest labor union, AFL-CIO, which is widely cited as a measure of workforce equality. This year’s figure…