PARIS — Revenues at Pandora grew 13 percent over the first quarter in constant currencies, the Copenhagen-based jeweler said in a preliminary release Friday, offering a sign that business crept back up toward pre-pandemic levels. The Q1 total came to 4.5 billion Danish kronor, or $720 million, a decline of 3 percent compared to the same period in 2019: Many […]
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The rate of the spread of COVID-19 had slowed across America. Increases in daily fatal and confirmed cases are still about half what they were seven weeks ago. Nevertheless, 565,507 Americans have died, which is about 20% of the world’s total. Confirmed cases have reached 31,207,770, or about 23% of the global number. Hospitalizations, which were over 100,000 a day […]
Read moreWith dozens of countries struggling to manage both staggering debt and mounting climate disasters, some financial leaders are calling for green debt relief. How does a country deal with climate disasters when it is drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a global pandemic clobbers its economy. Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, […]
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Key medical expert witness expected to testify at Chauvin trial Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker is expected to take the stand Friday, as Week 2 in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin comes to a close. Baker ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide in his 2020 autopsy. He said Floyd’s heart and lungs stopped amid […]
Read moreBonpoint, the French children’s wear retailer, is expanding its presence in the U.S. with the opening of a pop-up boutique at 268 Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, Conn. The shop, which opens Saturday, will remain until January, with the potential of extending, and was developed in partnership with FlagshipRTL, a platform that enables brands to scale their physical retail presence on […]
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South Aucklander Andrea Scown is bucking the trend within the typically male-dominated hardware industry – appointed in March as the first female chief executive of DIY chain Mitre 10 New Zealand. And the mum of seven, now living in Auckland’s Parnell, found herself immediately in the hot seat dealing with a severe structural building timber shortage after Carter Holt Harveycut […]
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If you buy through our links, we may earn money from affiliate partners. Learn more. The University of Michigan has the top-ranked Master of Social Work program in the US. U-M offers a Social Work Coursera MasterTrack certificate, making a degree more affordable. My experience taking the intro course of the program encouraged me to apply to graduate programs. Course […]
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The Government is extending its loan facility to Air New Zealand by $600 million as the airline defersits planned capital raise to later in the year. The $900m Crown loan facility made available to Air New Zealand in March last year has been extended to a debt facility of up to $1.5 billion (an additional $600m) available to August 27, […]
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – It has been only 143 days since Dustin Johnson won the 2020 Masters, but Thursday on a windswept afternoon at Augusta National Golf Club, it seemed as if it was a lifetime ago. For the first time in three years, Johnson failed to break par during a round at the Masters, and his two-over-par 74 was riddled […]
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