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European Stocks Surge With U.S. Democrats on Cusp of Senate Win This content was published on January 6, 2021 - 17:23 January 6, 2021 - 17:23 (Bloomberg) -- European equities gained as Democrats looked set to take control of the U.S. Congress, with cyclical sectors rallying on optimism that stimulus may be increased. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index closed 1.4% higher, its biggest advance in almost two months. Banks surged 5.5% as the U.S. 10-year yield rose above 1% for the first time since March. M...

The US election result last November was, received wisdom had it, just about the perfect result for Wall Street. No more would investors have to wake up wondering what Donald Trump had just tweeted and what fresh unpredictability he would be unleashing on markets. Joe Biden, it was assumed, would lead to a calmer ride for markets while also ending some of the trade disputes Mr Trump started or exacerbated with China and the EU. At the same time, the failure of the Democrats to win control of th...

Search Home / Analysis / Tech giants among the biggest losers as Democrats win a majority in the US Senate Tech giants among the biggest losers as Democrats win a majority in the US Senate Georgia result set to result in $600bn extra in near-term fiscal stimulus A predicted double win for Democrat Senate candidates in Georgia hit large-cap tech stocks on Wednesday as the party cinches control of both chambers of US Congress alongside the presidency. Technically, the seats se...

Cricket News: Ajinkya Rahane & Co's win in the second Test at the MCG has made former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan 'nostalgic.' Almost 13 years ago, in Januar

HOW OLD IS THE UNIVERSE? A CENTURY ago, if you asked a cosmologist the universe’s age, the answer may well have been “infinite”. It was a neat way to sidestep the question of how it formed, and the idea had been enshrined in 1917 when Albert Einstein presented his model of a static universe through his general theory of relativity. General relativity describes gravity, the force that sculpts the universe, as the result of mass warping its fabric, space-time. In the mid-1920s, astrophysici...

Christmas Star to Become Visible Tonight for the First Time in 800 Years Read the article By Johanna Garner on December 21, 2020 at 8:00 PM On the 21st of December, Jupiter and Saturn will align to create the ‘Christmas Star’ for the first time in 800 years. The Great Conjunction. Conjunctions tend to occur every 20 years. However, this is the closest conjunction of Star. Patrick Hartigan, an astronomer at Rice University revealed: Youd have to go all the way back to just before dawn o...

Royal Mail Christmas delivery delays anger Hull shoppers Many people have raised concerns over parcels not arriving in time for Christmas Royal Mail parcels and staff filling vans (Image: Reach Plc) Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related news...

Representational image of Indian fans in a ground in Australia (Getty Images) MELBOURNE: It was summer, 1999. A cricket match in Australia would usually be a sea of yellow. The Indian community in Australia was not large, but a small band of 15 wanted to paint the Adelaide stands blue for the India-Australia Test series. Raghav Bhatia was ‘I’ and Rakesh Jampala ‘D’ in the line of five to spell out ‘INDIA’ that day. India lost. “But it was extraordinary. We knew we had to do it ag...

Two school friends have joined forces to boost the global sales opportunities of the UK’s medical device manufacturers Dec 15 2020 James Hardie, and Mat Targowski, set up Sanollo, an innovative advisory specializing in helping the latest medical technologies enter new markets, just five months ago. And already sales are taking off, with three new customers and a burgeoning pipeline of prospective customers throughout Europe, India, Argentina, Malaysia, and the USA.​ James, whose background ...