Facebook’s growing ad exodus means more risks to revenue growth
A growing list of Facebook Inc.’s advertisers is set to halt spending on social media, undermining the company’s sales outlook and putting its stock price under further pressure.
Amateur traders pile into Asian stocks, making the pros nervous
When the coronavirus pandemic sent shares plunging, you didn’t have to be a professional investor to spot a buying opportunity. In fact, it might be better if you weren’t.
Facebook will label newsworthy posts that break rules, as ad boycott widens
Facebook Inc. said on Friday it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates the social media company’s policies, and label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative information, including those from politicians.
Wirecard’s Philippine business partners under probe, FT says
Philippine regulators are investigating Wirecard AG’s local partner businesses which could establish the full extent of the country’s exposure to one of Europe’s worst accounting scandals, the Financial Times (FT) reports.
Bankers in traffic-clogged India are more productive working from home
Work from home may remain part of the norm for many in India’s financial industry beyond the end of the world’s biggest lockdown. The reason: elimination of lengthy commutes in the past three months has boosted employee productivity.
Global coronavirus cases approach 10 million
BEIJING — Global coronavirus cases neared 10 million on Sunday according to a Reuters tally, marking a major milestone in the spread of the...
Safe form of UV light kills airborne coronavirus
CEILING fixtures emitting a safe form of ultraviolet light called far-UVC would be very efficient at killing airborne coronaviruses, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University. “A very low exposure to far-UVC light killed well over 99.9% of the exposed virus,” lead researcher Dr. David Brenner told Reuters.
Investors are favoring firms that let people work from home
Some fund managers are increasingly basing investment decisions in part on how considerate companies are to their employees and clients during the coronavirus pandemic.
Some countries — including the Philippines — are using the virus to ‘silence critics’,...
LONDON — The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge in authoritarian behavior by governments around the world, posing a growing threat to democracy, hundreds of former prime ministers, presidents, Nobel laureates, and lawmakers have warned.
Darkened duty-free shops are fueling a worldwide chocolate glut
When commodity analyst Judy Ganes spent 36 hours flying home from a business trip to Asia, it was what she didn’t see that stuck with her.
Success in curbing virus cases hampers Japan’s search for new cures
TOKYO — As nations race to develop treatments and vaccines for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Japan has become a victim of its own success as slowing new infections has led to a shortage of patients to enroll in clinical trials.
When the virus hit, Japan already had an army of contact tracers
The virus might have been new, but for Yuko Koizumi the work was still the same.