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• Coronavirus Pandemic to Boost Food Delivery Industry in the Greater Bay Area

  

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  - 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 8:00pm -
• #Stayathome and Cornershop – The Future of E-commerce

  

  The post #Stayathome and Cornershop – The Future of E-commerce appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 6:02pm -
• #Quedatencasa y Cornershop – el futuro del e-commerce

  

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  - 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 5:37pm -
• Double Risk for the UK Economy Due to a Coronavirus Second Wave and No-Deal Brexit

  

  The post Double Risk for the UK Economy Due to a Coronavirus Second Wave and No-Deal Brexit appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 6 days ago, 30 Jun 20, 2:00am -
• Five Key Insights on Connected Consumers and Digital Shopping Behaviour During Coronavirus

  

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  - 7 days ago, 29 Jun 20, 3:00am -
• 7 Predictions for How Coronavirus Will Change Retail in the Future

  

  The post 7 Predictions for How Coronavirus Will Change Retail in the Future appeared first on Market Research Blog.
  - 10 days ago, 26 Jun 20, 2:00am -
• Coronavirus: Americas Price and Availability Insights, 17th May-7th June 2020

  

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  - 13 days ago, 23 Jun 20, 2:00am -
• The Consumer Impact of Coronavirus in Japan

  

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  - 14 days ago, 22 Jun 20, 5:01am -

Reuters: Global Markets

• Pfizer walks away from $118 billion AstraZeneca takeover fight

  

  LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer abandoned its attempt to buy AstraZeneca for nearly 70 billion pounds ($118 billion) on Monday as a deadline approached without a last-minute change of heart by the...
  - 26 May 14, 11:55am -

The Economist: Buttonwood's

• So long, farewell

  

  Three worries and three signs of hope in the final blog post
  - 8 May 18, 10:45am -
• The flaws of finance

  

  The sector is essential to the economy. But it is rewarded too highly and imposes wider social costs. The penultimate in a series of farewell blogs
  - 1 May 18, 1:19pm -
• Hope I save before I get old

  

  Although we will probably spend 20 years or more in retirement, we don't think about it enough. The third in a series of farewell blogs
  - 27 Apr 18, 10:44am -
• The best books on finance and economics

  

  A great book from the late Hans Rosling heads the list. The second in a series of farewell blogs
  - 25 Apr 18, 11:45am -
• Six precepts every investor should remember

  

  The first in a farewell series of blogs
  - 18 Apr 18, 11:46am -
• The smartphone and the toilet

  

  Technological change has brought great benefits that aren't captured in GDP. That's not new
  - 11 Apr 18, 7:26am -
• An update from Jeremy Grantham

  

  
  - 10 Apr 18, 1:11pm -
• A plan that needs more money

  

  Topping up Social Security is a good idea but 3% contributions won't be enough
  - 9 Apr 18, 9:34am -
• We have seen the future and it twerks

  

  Leadership may be divided into the entertainment figurehead and the policymaking experts
  - 28 Mar 18, 7:26am -
• Markets think trade war is good for “absolutely nothing”

  

  It may turn out to be bluster but it makes the world riskier anyway
  - 23 Mar 18, 9:44am -

The Guardian: Nils Pratley on Finance

• Why the secrecy around financial terms of Covid-19 loan to Celsa Steel UK? Nils Pratley
  Rishi Sunak is right to help sector weather pandemic but needs to show Treasury is top of tree of creditorsCall it a small but significant step in the government’s Covid-19 business response: a loan has been granted to a company that does not meet…
  - 3 days ago, 2 Jul 20, 2:59pm -
• As the Hong Kong security law comes into force, HSBC's silence is deafening
  The bank publicly backed China last month – so after 370 arrests in one day, ‘no comment’ is unlikely to cut itWhat does HSBC think today about the new security law in Hong Kong, the one it publicly backed last month without seeing the wording…
  - 4 days ago, 1 Jul 20, 2:56pm -
• The future may be V-shaped, but it would be rash to count on it | Nils Pratley
  Sadly, it’s very easy to see how the early stirrings could be crushed by a surge in unemploymentIt’s obligatory these days, even if you’re the chief economist of the Bank of England, to play the game of ascribing a letter to the likely shape of…
  - 5 days ago, 30 Jun 20, 3:06pm -
• Has CMA been put back in its box after Tyrie's exit? That's how it looks
  Chairman’s departure poses question of whether regulator’s reform plan will be droppedWhen Andrew Tyrie resigned a couple of weeks ago as chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), he cited the “inherent limits” of the role, a c…
  - 6 days ago, 29 Jun 20, 3:08pm -
• Ministers should check their post – Royal Mail's problems are stacking up | Nils Pratley
  Vital restructuring is stalled, it’s at war with the CWU union and the business is losing £1m a dayIt is only two years since Moya Greene departed as chief executive of the Royal Mail, accompanied by a near-£1m golden goodbye and claims that the…
  - 10 days ago, 25 Jun 20, 2:45pm -
• The government cannot allow Tata to buckle under Covid pressure | Nils Pratley
  
  - 11 days ago, 24 Jun 20, 2:18pm -
• Shopping centre owner Intu could have saved itself years ago | Nils Pratley
  You cannot blame Covid-19 for the commercial property firm’s precarious plight – its value plunged well before the pandemicIntu prepares plan contingency for administrationIf you want to see how complicated it is possible to make the financing of…
  - 12 days ago, 23 Jun 20, 2:12pm -
• The new face at the FCA needs to keep politicians at arms length | Nils Pratley
  With Brexit looming, the last thing the City wants is a regulator with Treasury sympathiesNikhil Rathi, appointed on Monday to be chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, offered a long list of his plans for the job – everything from cre…
  - 13 days ago, 22 Jun 20, 2:50pm -
• An overhaul of Britain's railways was long overdue even before Covid-19
  Permanent abolition of old-style franchising was always the best bet. Now can we just get on with it?Rail franchising was suspended “for a limited period, initially six months”, said the Department for Transport in March, leaving the door open fo…
  - 17 days ago, 18 Jun 20, 2:40pm -
• The EU's bite at Apple could prove to be a game-changer | Nils Pratley
  A trillion-dollar tech giant can brush off fines but altering the way it operates is a different matterThe only certainty about the EU competition commission’s inquiry into Apple is that it will take years to complete, which is probably why the iPh…
  - 19 days ago, 16 Jun 20, 2:27pm -