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You could argue every day for travel businesses during the pandemic has been mission-critical. But some days over the past 11 months stand out to us. Here’s a list of 25 key dates:
January 17
January 21
Skift publishes its very first story on coronavirus, followed three days later with a staff-written story on the potential impact across travel.
February 2
Countries issue a cutoff of 5 p.m. on Sunday for airline passengers to leave China. If they didn’t, for Americans, they would be denied entry to the United States or subject to two-week quarantine.
Impossible Foods Donates Its Millionth Burger and Doubles Down on Social Good For 2021 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Business Wire) Impossible Foods donated its millionth Impossible Burger this week, achieving the startup’s ambitious 2020 goal to nourish communities in need during COVID-19.
Alameda County Community Food Bank, a long-standing Impossible Foods’ partner, was the recipient of the 1 millionth Impossible Burger. The organization distributes millions of healthy meals every year, and is on the forefront of new approaches to ending hunger and poverty. Impossible Foods’ Social Good program has also collaborated with social impact groups such as Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp, Isaac Rochell’s Local Human, Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, Rethink Food and SodexoMAGIC, the nation’s leading dining service provider chaired by NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
Mirae Asset subsidiary lists 1st ETFs on London Stock Exchange |
A promotional image of the London Stock Exchange welcoming the launch of Global X s new ETFs. (Mirae Asset Global Investments)
Mirae Asset Global Investments said Monday that its US exchange-traded funds provider subsidiary Global X has launched two products to be traded on the London Stock Exchange starting Friday.
The thematic ETFs Global X Telemedicine & Digital Health UCITS ETF and Global X Video Games & Esports UCITS ETF mark the first ETFs of a Korean-owned company to be listed on a European exchange. According to data from market researcher ETFGI, the total size of listed ETFs and exchange-traded products amount to $1.12 trillion as of November, with those of the United Kingdom taking up nearly half.
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When should the Covid-19 pandemic or the restrictions imposed in its wake excuse you from a contract? The courts have been struggling with this issue for months now, and the answer until recently has been . almost never.
That’s in keeping with a long US tradition under which each party to a contract essentially bears the risk of its own promises. But there have been calls for change, and some judges may be listening.
Which might cause problems of its own.
Let’s start with a bit of history. This fall, like many other law professors who teach contracts, I added to my course a 1918 decision called Hanford v. Public Fair Association, which arose during the 1916 polio pandemic that would eventually kill 6,000 people, mostly children, across the US. An entrepreneur who had planned to put on a “baby show” canceled the event and was sued by the property owner who’d expected to make money from the lease. The court ruled for the entrepreneur on the ground that putting