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Coronavirus vaccination miracle brings Israel back to its true roots

Israel, like most countries, still has enormous obstacles to address, many of them important, a few of them existential

Tumultuous 2020 rewards investors who stared down Covid-induced turmoil

The S&P 500 ended on an up beat, with a 1.4 per cent gain in the holiday-shortened week. This pushed its CY20 gain to 16 per cent, an ending that would have seemed far-fetched in March.

Pence asks judge to reject GOP lawsuit seeking to overturn US poll results

Election experts have said such a finding would create a major conflict of interest

Brexit a new world that British businesses are still figuring out

It took just nine months to strike a trade deal with the EU. It will take more time to get to grips with the details

Ford Motor pulls the plug on plans to cede India business to Mahindra

Ford took a $799 million impairment charge in 2019 in anticipation of the asset transfer to Mahindra to account for what it called fair value less cost to sell

Cryptocurrency-linked stocks surge as Bitcoin hits $23,000 milestone

Early Thursday stock gains included Marathon Patent Group's rise of as much as 20 per cent, lifting shares to the highest since March 2018

Riot-hit iPhone supplier Wistron hired more than it could handle: Report

The rapid expansion stretched the company's systems and sapped the bandwidth of its management team

Moderna discards 400,000 Covid-19 vaccines, says will meet production goal

The loss is somewhat of a drop in the bucket for Moderna's overarching objective of producing 500 million to 1 billion doses in 2021

Trade war, pandemic no bar as foreign investment keeps pouring into China

For all the talk of an economic decoupling between China and the US and its allies, foreign companies continue to pour money into the Asian nation

Real-estate investors face gloom as world CFOs prepare to downsize offices

Hundreds of corporate executives tracked in earnings calls around the world in the past five months addressed the urgency to cut real-estate costs

Global investors are dumping Indian bonds. Blame it on slow pace of reforms

While financing costs have remained subdued this year, the risk is that the growing supply of Indian bonds begins to outstrip local demand

Move over bonds. It is stocks' turn in spotlight of emerging markets

Bonds have been the most profitable asset class in emerging markets over the past decade, beating stocks in volatility-adjusted returns almost every year except 2017

How a 10 billion-tree plan is restoring Pakistan's lost forests

Pakistan is among the six countries that face the biggest impact from climate change, according to the United Nations, with risks of floods, melting glaciers and droughts

What happens when business tycoons abandon their giant cargo ships

Covid-19 has wrought havoc everywhere, but in the nominally regulated shipping industry it's fueling a worrying practice: the abandonment of ships, cargo and seafarers with no way to get home

US nuclear agency, three states, Microsoft attacked by Russian hackers

The hack of the nuclear agency was reported earlier by Politico. Microsoft spokesman said the company had found malicious code in its environment

Bitcoin tops $23,000; may climb to about $400,000, says analyst

The digital coin jumped more than 9 per cent on Thursday, touching a high of $23,256.92, according to a composite of prices compiled by Bloomberg

Robinhood to pay $65 million to settle SEC charges of misleading customers

The case involves disclosures from 2015 to late 2018 by a Robinhood unit, according to a Thursday SEC statement

Citigroup to offer workers a 12-week sabbatical amid Covid-19 pandemic

Staffers also will be able to buy as many as five extra vacation days annually starting next year

Anil Agarwal eyeing Indian disinvestment program with a $10 bn war chest

Agarwal made a fortune buying state companies and fixing them up, building a metals and mining powerhouse under the umbrella of Vedanta Resources Ltd

India seeks to mend Bangladesh ties with coronavirus vaccine diplomacy

The new law fast-tracks Indian citizenship for non-Muslims from three neighboring nations including Bangladesh