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When last year in November, a documentary series episode from Netflix called “The Next Pandemic” came out – nobody actually didn’t give it too much importance. However, only a month after – boy, how it started to be popular. The episode describes the ways how viruses are spreading and evolving into epidemic situations.The story starts with traveling across India, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United States and explains historical cases of pandemics like it was the Spanish flu...

The ongoing epidemic is still doing a strong and deep dive throughout the world’s financial markets. Generally, the coronavirus has caused stocks in Asia to plunge as panic continues to spread around the continent and even to the rest of the world.Coronavirus Crashes Asia StocksSeveral markets across the continent are having a bad time of the event. The Hang Seng index, which covers the largest companies in Hong Kong, closed at 26,499.13 after losing 2.62%.Most of the hardest-hit stocks all...

After several years of failing to meet the excessively optimistic forecasts, Tesla Inc. delivered in 2019. The company continued its profitability streak in Q4. It earned around $105 million and generated $7.4 billion in revenue. That represents 56 cents a diluted share, compared with $140 million, or 78 cents a share, in the same year-ago period. These results beat expectations and sent shares flying in after-market trading on January 29.Most of the promises that the Chief Executive Elon...

Tron CEO Justin Sun is on his way to help the people of Wuhan province with a box of face-masks. The founder continues to live up to his reputation for capitalizing on any opportunity to advance his own cause. The real beneficiaries here are Tron and Justin Sun himself, who knows the value of a well-timed tweet. Tron: When you give to the needy, don’t announce it with trumpets. So says Matthew 6:2, and if anyone in the cryptocurrency space should take heed of those...

The effects of the coronavirus as it continues to spread might very well crash the global economy. The virus is already biting hard into financial markets and several businesses worldwide. However, things could very easily get a lot worse. According to former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman Stephen Roach, the coronavirus epidemic could very well lead to a global recession.Coronavirus Might Cause RecessionSpeaking to CNBC’s Trading Nation on Monday, Roach expressed fears that the outbreak could...

Spread and control of the coronavirus outbreak in China has impacted the sales of popular multinational conglomerates, LVMH, according to published revenue records.China’s Hold on Luxury RevenueAccording to records posted by LVMH, the recent disease outbreak surfacing very early in the year has already begun to affect overall sales of goods, significantly.The recent outbreak comes as a bigger test to last year’s skid with Hong Kong, which fortunately couldn’t stop the company from making...

Bitcoin continues with its upward momentum as the world’s largest cryptocurrency inches higher third-day in a row. In the late hours on Tuesday, January 28, the Bitcoin price surged close to $9400 levels.With today’s price surge, Bitcoin has added $2000 to its price since the start of this year 2020. In just the first 28 days of 2020, Bitcoin has given over 30% returns to its investors. At press time, Bitcoin is trading at a price of $9349 with a market cap of over $170 billion.Bitcoin’s...

Apple Inc. is looking to sell a lot more iPhones this year than it did in 2019. According to reports, the tech giant has already placed an order for 80 million different units of the iPhone for the first half of 2020 alone.Apple to Ship More iPhone Units in 2020Citing a Nikkei story, Bloomberg reports that Apple hopes to have 80 million iPhone units by the end of June 2020. The report states that this number is already 10% higher the number the company put out last year.The report also...

As per reports from Forbes on January 27, 2020, Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency experienced a 5% rise, briefly climbing as high as $9,142.80 per Bitcoin on the Luxembourg-based BitStamp exchange before slightly falling back afterward. At the moment of writing, Bitcoin price is $9,017. However, this price still demonstrates a more than 4% growth over the last 24 hours.Since Bitcoin enjoyed a tremendous boost in 2017, it has struggled to reach a similar height. The crypto is...