Laverock Therapeutics, established to commercialise the gene editing induced gene silencing platform for all human therapeutic applications has announced it has expanded its seed funding round to £13.5M. This investment was led by Calculus Capital with additional participation by Eli ...
One-in-five SME owners plan to sell part or all their business within the next two years according to a new study. An additional one in ten respondents expect to downsize their businesses over the same period. Of these, a third ...
SEOUL – North Korea has adopted a constitutional amendment to enshrine its policy on nuclear force, state media reported on Thursday, as the country’s leader pledged to accelerate production of nuclear weapons to deter what he called US provocations. The Supreme People’s Assembly unanimously adopted the revision that states North Korea “develops highly nuclear weapons to ensure” ...
NEW YORK – The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is finalizing settlements with around two dozen Wall Street firms to resolve investigations into record-keeping lapses, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The settlements with broker-dealers and investment advisers would mark the latest enforcement action in the SEC‘s ...
SINGAPORE – The United States is backing a new undersea internet cable connecting several Pacific islands, according to a plan for the project seen by Reuters, boosting Washington’s interests in a region where it is vying for influence with China. The Central Pacific Cable would connect American Samoa with Guam – two ...
WASHINGTON – The US Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday and asked the court to consider forcing the online retailer to sell assets as the government accuses Big Tech of monopolizing the most lucrative parts of the internet. The FTC accused Amazon, ...
SHANGHAI – A record number of Chinese are choosing to travel at home this Golden Week holiday, potentially boosting domestic consumption but disappointing travel agents who have been waiting for big-spending tourists to go back abroad since the pandemic ended. China celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day from ...
If we search the news from 2007, we can find plenty of headlines with the IMF and the Federal Reserve predicting a soft landing. No one seemed to worry about rising imbalances. The main reason is that market participants and economists like to believe ...
Just-wage theory tells us that an employer cannot reduce his workers’ wages below some presumed “cost of living.” Yet, that same employer can be permitted to reduce the worker’s wage to zero if the worker has been replaced by a machine. Original Article: Why the ...
In this week’s edition of Trading Simplified, Dave shows his methodology in action by sticking with the original plan with his portfolio vs. giving up due to less-than-ideal conditions. He then resumes his series on the wisdom of Jesse Livermore. This ...