NEW YORK (Reuters) – Corporate America is reducing its real estate footprint as companies allow more employees to work from home, a growing threat to traditional office building owners and a sign that companies are looking for ways to reduce costs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. FILE PHOTO: …
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‘Women don’t sell’ New report on toxic culture at Ubisoft suggests 2018 open-world adventure Assassin’s Creed Odyssey It was initially designed with only one protagonist in mind: the Spartan mercenary Kassandra. However, editorial executives demanded that the sequel include an alternate male lead, who reportedly told the team that “Women …
Read More »Bill Ackman’s blank check company has just started operating. What you need to know.
Text size William Ackman Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for The New York Times A special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, sponsored by Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management, made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday in the largest initial public offering of blank checks. The offering …
Read More »The dollar was hit in the mouth on Tuesday and its forecast is weak, experts say.
The US dollar is taking a beating on Wall Street, measured by a popular index. The blame is partly on the revival of the EURUSD euro, -0.01% as European leaders forged a historic fiscal pact to lift the eurozone economy out of the coronavirus pandemic that has brought much of …
Read More »Asian markets win on vaccine hopes, Wall Street tech rally
The Asian actions were mostly on Tuesday due to rising hopes of an effective vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Scientists at Oxford University reported that their experimental coronavirus vaccine elicited a protective immune response in hundreds of people who received the vaccine in an early trial. Other projects are …
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