Tag: world views
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World Views | Retailers think you can’t work in sweatpants forever
Consumerism is back in fashion in spite of the enduring Covid-19 pandemic. The biggest European clothing retailers Inditex SA and Hennes & Mauritz AB both demonstrated that demand ... -
World Views | Europe needs to recognize the threat from Russia
During two decades as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin has rarely concealed his contempt for Western-style democracy and the rule of law. The poisoning of Russian political activist Alexei ... -
World Views | Mutant algorithms are coming for your education
Bad algorithms have been causing a lot of trouble lately. One, designed to supplant exam scores, blew the college prospects of untold numbers of students attending International ... -
World Views | Trump or Biden, who’s best for dollar vs. euro?
Strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. wrote this week about the odds narrowing on a Donald Trump win in the U.S. presidential election. His opponent, ... -
World Views | China banks have a problem $96 billion can’t fix
This isn’t the bottom for Chinese banks’ bad loans. Be prepared for more and weaker balance sheets. China’s lenders reported large declines in net profit for the ... -
World Views | You think FAANG is distorting the S&P? consider ATM
Many have lamented the lack of depth in the U.S. stock market, marveling at how a handful of big tech companies have grown to dominate almost ... -
World Views | Is Big Oil still a big deal?
From Monday there will be just one oil company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average — Chevron Corp. The removal of Exxon Mobil Corp. from the ... -
World Views | A chance for the EU to become the green bond king
The green bond market has blossomed, with annual global issuance growing fivefold in the past half-decade. To become a fully fledged asset class, it needs a benchmark borrower. That’s ... -
World Views | Women have been better leaders than men during the pandemic
The evidence is in: At least during the first wave of Covid-19, countries with female leaders suffered far lower death rates than comparable nations led ... -
World Views | Let Bannon arrest be the coda on Trump’s corrupt presidency
Steve Bannon’s arrest on fraud charges is hardly a tragedy in the traditional sense of the word. Sure, the fall of a hero is the ... -
World Views | Holiday Inn may offer refuge from the pandemic
With international travel decimated by Covid-19, it’s a dark time for hoteliers. So it’s hardly surprising that Accor SA might be interested in a merger with London-listed ... -
World Views | Hezbollah will not escape blame for beirut
As if the Lebanese haven’t suffered enough. For months, they have been caught between an economic meltdown, crumbling public services and a surging pandemic. Now they must ... -
World Views | Apple, Amazon and Google are all pretty bulletproof
Europe has the motivation, but not the means, to break up Big Tech. For the U.S., the inverse is true. That’s bad news for anyone ... -
World Views | Why big nations have been brought low by the pandemic
India is now the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic. It ranks just behind the U.S. and Brazil in confirmed cases and is growing faster than ... -
World Views | Working from home is terrible news for landlords everywhere
Early on in the pandemic, reports of the death of the office appeared greatly exaggerated. But as Covid-19 lingers, and second infection spikes dot the ... -
World Views | Poor countries are running out of time to get rich
The United Nations currently predicts that by 2027, India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country. Estimates suggest India and Nigeria will together ... -
World Views | As the EU evolves, it’s jerks against creeps
Europe will be “forged in crises,” said Jean Monnet, a founding father of what became the European Union. For decades it’s been a favorite quote ... -
World Views | You want the truth? You can’t handle total lockdown
Second waves of coronavirus outbreaks may not mean reimposing blanket restrictions on activity in Asia. The region’s economies, which have seen more than half a ... -
World Views | Our past is racist and bigoted. How do we face it?
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner’s famous line comes from a harrowing tale about two women in Mississippi. One is ... -
World Views | Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg disappoint once again
Facebook Inc. still doesn’t get it. A widely anticipated meeting this week between the social media giant and the civil rights groups behind the recent Facebook ad ... -
World Views | Divided West can do little as China tightens up on Hong Kong
From Tokyo to Brussels, political leaders have swiftly decried Beijing’s move to impose a tough national security law on Hong Kong that cracks down on ... -
World Views | The mall can’t survive if there aren’t any stores
Rent collection day last Wednesday looked like a disaster for mall landlords in the U.K. Reeling from the coronavirus lockdown, tenants including JD Sports Fashions Plc, Boots drugstores and ... -
World Views | Fear of infection hurt the economy more than lockdowns
Until recently, it seemed like the contentious debate over lockdowns was over. By the end of May, many states were defying the warnings of public-health ... -
World Views | Street vendors won’t save China’s economy
For a decade, I lived in a leafy Shanghai neighborhood known for unlicensed street vendors who sold barbecued lamb kebabs, knock-off DVDs and (often) hashish. ... -
World Views | Here’s something we can learn from the urban fox
Would you adopt a fox? The prudent answer is “no”; foxes are wild animals. Or are they? In something out of science fiction, new research suggests that we ... -
World Views | Zara’s latest fashions will be a post-Covid hit
Don’t be fooled by red replacing black as this season’s color at Zara-owner Inditex SA. The Spanish fast-fashion behemoth reported its first loss since it went public ... -
World Views | Hong Kong bull market found dead in a posh flat
Hong Kong’s finance industry is thriving from the great divorce between the U.S. and China. Billion-dollar initial public offerings are on the horizon again, as New ... -
World Views | The mighty U.S. dollar is having a wobble
The mighty U.S. Dollar is having a wobble, falling to its lowest level on a trade-weighted basis since March. It’s a sign that the economic ... -
World Views | Take China’s US farm threats seriously, not literally
If you’re haggling over the price of goods at a market, there often comes a point when the buyer threatens to walk away. It’s up to ... -
World Views | Twitter-Trump spat signals new chapter for social media
It was a momentous week for social media. After years of trying to have it both ways, Twitter — one of the industry’s major platforms ... -
World Views | China isn’t using its currency as a Cold War weapon
The deterioration of U.S.-China relations is fast and furious, with Washington throwing out accusations of unfair trade practices, unlawful technology transfer and an early cover-up of the ... -
World Views | There’s far less bang in a Huawei ban now
It’s easy to ban a product that’s difficult to get your hands on anyway. That’s why Britain’s possible move to impose a stricter ban on Huawei Technologies ... -
World Views | NASA should beware of viruses from outer space
This summer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch a rover designed to collect samples of the Martian surface and store them until they ... -
World Views | Moderna vaccine whiplash demands better disclosure
Interpreting drug trial data releases is difficult in the best of circumstances. And usually, it’s just a problem for the subset of investors who focus ... -
World Views | How to make coronavirus restrictions easier to swallow
To address the coronavirus pandemic, it’s essential to influence human behavior; to promote social distancing, to get people to wear masks, to encourage people to stay home. ...
