Page 2 - August Bloomberg News Today

Summary:  Fed officials gathered around Chair Powell to sing a consistently hawkish chorus and prepared the market for a 75bp rate hike on September 2

Oxfam is calling for permanent wealth taxes and windfall taxes on the super-rich and large corporations.

Apparently, even Twitter has forgotten about Fleets, its disappearing tweets feature — that is, according to a snarky tweet from the official @Twitter account.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday declined to say whether she would support a reappointment of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for a second term, saying it was up to President Joe Biden to decide.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday declined to say whether she would support a reappointment of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for a second term, saying it's up to President Joe Biden to decide.

【“超级周期论”被证伪 这个市场或持续分化震荡】在主要经济体货币环境分化的大背景下，未来市场面临的必然不是所谓的超级周期，更多是分化与震荡。大宗商品市场的进一步分化或许将证伪所谓的“超级周期论”。

本周二（8月17日），中共中央电视台报导全国人大拟讨论将《反外国制裁法》纳入港澳基本法。然而到了周五，中共人大委员长会议决定暂不表决，官方称是要修订、让该法执行有力，但是外界认为，中概股被大规模抛售，中共害怕外资大规模离开香港，所以中共高层紧急叫停了立法。国际资本和商界为什么如此忌惮这部法律呢？

Font Size: Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook’s annual compensation increased by 28% in 2020 even as the coronavirus pandemic sparked a recession, according to filings. Tim Cook’s 2020 compensation totaled $14.7 million, which was mainly comprised of performance-based pay, according to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings released Tuesday, Business Insider reported. While the coronavirus pandemicsparked a recession in the spring, Apple consistently reported positive financi...

Liquor council calls on government to allow off-premises alcohol sales to continue By Philippa Larkin Share JOHANNESBURG - National Liquor Traders Council in a statement on the weekend called on the government to be allowed to continue the off-premises sale of alcohol. The country reported 14000 new Covid-19 cases on December 23. On Monday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa placed a ban on the sale of alcohol until at least mid-January as he announced a risk adjusted level 3 for the country. T...