It is an open secret that commercial real estate owners withdraw cash from buildings. When they do, unlike homeowners, criticism is often mild. After all, hotels, shopping malls, office towers, and other commercial buildings are run as businesses, where the primary goal is to make a profit. “The real estate …
Read More »Race for a Covid-19 vaccine could have political side effects
As the Covid-19 crisis intensifies in the United States, the fight for an effective vaccine is about to collide with the electoral calendar. Pfizer (ticker: PFE) says it will seek authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its Covid-19 vaccine starting in October. Meanwhile, the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine …
Read More »Cruise ship stocks plunge as CDC’s extension of the no-sail order could be just the beginning
The actions of the cruise operators were affected on Friday by the extension of the order of prohibition of navigation on the part of the Centers for the Control and the Prevention of Diseases, as a result of the recent increase in the cases of COVID-19. The CDC said passenger …
Read More »American Airlines CEO: “Let’s fly, for God’s sake”
The pandemic is not yet affecting American Airlines, not if its CEO has anything to say about it anyway. “We’re going to fly, for heaven’s sake,” CEO Doug Parker told the Wall Street Journal. [The Wall Street Journal shares common ownership with MarketWatch.] “If it doesn’t work, we will remove …
Read More »P&G catches up on climate change, but critics say troubling tree-to-toilet pipe needs to go
Charmin’s toilet paper maker Procter & Gamble Co. has teamed up with other consumer product conglomerates with its own updated climate change campaign, and agrees with its rivals that the next decade is a critical time for action, but drawing new concerns from natural resource groups. CEO David Taylor and …
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