PARIS (Reuters) – Luxury goods group LVMH unveiled on Monday the revamped La Samaritaine, a 150-year-old department store designed to help it grab a greater slice of tourist spending once pandemic travel curbs are eased. After a seven-year makeover, the historic store will reopen to the public on June 23 […]
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BoE Governor Wants UK Bill to Make Google Tackle Online Scams: Sunday Times | Investing News
LONDON (Reuters) – Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has been lobbying the British government to introduce a legal requirement for internet giants such as Google to take down financial fraud websites, according to a report in the Sunday Times. The report said Bailey had been lobbying Home Secretary Priti […]
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Queue to Quaff? Pandemic Poses Problems for Sweden’s State Booze Monopoly | Investing News
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – On a chilly Saturday in central Stockholm, around 150 people queue on a street, squinting into the low sun, checking their watches and hoping to make it into Systembolaget – Sweden’s state alcohol monopoly – before it shuts at 3 p.m. “This is the last chance to […]
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Real Estate Investing For Beginners: 2021 Guide
The real estate investing business is growing by leaps and bounds. In the best and worst of times, people always need a place to live. That’s one of the many reasons why so many beginning investors are wondering how to invest in real estate.If you count yourself as one of […]
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Is an alleged drug kingpin from China investing millions in a port in Laos?
What they weren’t told is this: According to the United States, Zhao is one of the world’s most notorious narcotics traffickers. Hong Kong corporate records show Zhao is the majority shareholder of Kings Romans. Both Zhao and Kings Romans were sanctioned by the US government in 2018 for their purported […]
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Analysis: Christmas and Brexit Double Bill Put Strain on UK Supermarkets | Investing News
LONDON(Reuters) – For Britain’s supermarket groups Christmas 2020 will be like no other, with the challenge of unprecedented demand due to the COVID-19 crisis followed by the risk of disruption to supplies at the end of the Brexit transition period on Dec. 31. Queues are already forming outside UK supermarkets […]
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Japan’s Unorthodox Household Goods Champion Rides a Pandemic Boom | Investing News
By Sam Nussey and Makiko Yamazaki MIYAGI, Japan (Reuters) – Iris Ohyama, whose goods are ubiquitous in Japanese homes, has relied on its usual offbeat methods during the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S.-China trade tensions to ride the teleworking wave and bring production back from China. Family-run, unlisted and based in […]
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5 at 5: Your Daily Digest for Real Estate Investing, 10/16/2020
New house sales surge, cold storage is also hot, a tale of NYC apartment buying, Seritage REIT ruminations, and some vacation rental owner advice. In Today’s News New House Sales Outpacing New House Starts by Historic Margin The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) says housing demand has increased so […]
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Coding bootcamps help you go deep without investing a ton of time
Coding bootcamps help you go deep without investing a ton of time Whether you’re a web developer who wants to improve your arsenal of existing skills, a non-developer looking to make a career change, or you’re simply interested in taking the steps to become fluent in programming languages, one of […]