He may no longer be in his prime from a sporting perspective, but that doesn’t stop Lionel Messi from cashing some large checks at the end of the month. According to Forbes’ latest ranking, the Argentinian football wizard was the highest-paid athlete i…
I noticed the top-trending item in Twitter yesterday were the words “Poor Elon“. Today the top one is “Mike Lindell” which actually has nothing to do with the pillow guy but is essentially saying Elon is the new Mike Lindell…
The International Monetary Fund has said that it expects inflation pressures to be significant around the world in 2022. Inflation is predicted to be worse in developing economies, where price increases are projected to reach 8.7 percent on average ove…
While Tencent weathered the Chinese government heavily regulating its big tech companies well for the majority of 2021, the past two quarters saw a sharp decline in gross profit for the tech giant. In Q1 2022, the company only managed to generate $8.4 …
With inflation standing at 8.3% year-over-year in April, everyday items are becoming pricier for U.S. consumers. Food prices in particular took some significant steps up, as seen in the example of shopping for hamburger ingredients.Meats experienced so…
China’s economy reached a GDP of 114 trillion yuan ($18 trillion) in 2021, well above government targets. What sectors drove that growth?
Burnout makes everyone uncomfortable, so it’s largely a silent epidemic.
10 years ago, on May 18, 2012, Facebook went public in what is still the largest tech IPO in history. After pricing its shares at the upper end of the scale due to strong demand, Facebook raised $16 billion in an initial public offering that valued the…
While not directly intervening in the war in Ukraine so far, countries around the world have been contributing to the defence of Ukraine via financial, humanitarian and military aid. In absolute terms, the largest supporter as of May 10 – by a very lar…