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Tag: may 4 2021

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HONG KONG OFFICE MARKET SAGS

Office landlords in one of the world’s priciest real estate markets are seeing companies scale back their leased spaces as working from home becomes the new normal, adding to property owners’ existing woes wrought by social unrest, U.S.-China tensions, and the financial injury of 2020’s economic shutdown. Hong Kong denizens letting portions of leases lapse...

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CHINA’S ECONOMY SLOWS IN APRIL

China’s economic output missed expectations in April, due in part to the worldwide shortage of computer chips, the Wall Street Journal reported. The country’s official purchasing managers index (PMI) in manufacturing slid from 51.9 in March to 51.1 last month; the service industry’s PMI drooped to 54.9 from March’s 56.3. Readings above 50 indicate expansion;...

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EUROPE’S BANKS PERMANENTLY SLASH BUSINESS TRAVEL

Several of Europe’s largest banks have decided to permanently reduce business travel by as much as half from pre-pandemic levels, the Financial Times reported. The decisions to slash travel budgets were made as banks learned during the economic shutdown that business could be conducted effectively by long-distance, the FT said. The year of the pandemic...

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AUTOMAKERS FACING MONTHS-LONG CHIP SHORTAGE

Massive February storms in Texas and a 19 March fire at Japan’s Renesas Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have left the auto industry facing more months without an adequate supply of the computer chips that cars now depend on for safety, information, and other crucial systems. Chip makers diverted production to home and office electronics during the...

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IPOs SET RECORD PACE

As of 30 April, 875 initial public stock offerings raising at least $1 million each have been completed worldwide, easily surpassing the record 592 seven- or eight-figure IPOs in 2000 that marked the end of the dot-com craze, according to research firm Dealogic’s 26 years of data. The $230-billion value of this year’s deals surpasses...

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IT’S OFFICIAL: EUROPE IN DOUBLE-DIP RECESSION

As officials and analysts had predicted, first-quarter economic figures show that Europe entered a double-dip recession in the first three months of this year. A recession is defined as two or more consecutive quarters of economic contraction; a double-dip recession is two recessions separated by a brief recovery. Europe’s economy shrank 0.6 percent in 2021’s...

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WORLD’S LARGEST TECH SHOW TO RECONVENE IN JANUARY

CES, the world’s pre-eminent annual display of innovation in consumer electronics, will convene “in person” as customary in Las Vegas this January, the sponsoring Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced. The event’s physical restoration assumes that the successful U.S. COVID vaccination campaign will continue and the virus will be largely contained by then. More than...

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FACEBOOK REPORTS SHARP RISE IN REVENUES, PROFITS

Facebook’s first-quarter advertising revenues reached $26.44 billion, a 46-percent gain year-over-year that drove profits for the period to $9.5 billion or $3.30 a share, almost double that of 2020’s first three months, the company reported. Both revenue and profit exceeded analysts’ expectations. People shut in at home during the early months of this year spent...