China turned one of many few counties to draw extra capital than the US in 2020, making it the highest vacation spot for international direct funding, whereas total international flows dwindled by over 40 %. ...

A brand new research of 1040 on-line contributors from 5 western international locations explores individuals's response to the stresses of the escalating pandemic, discovering greater than 13 % of the pattern had post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD) associated signs in line with ranges essential to qualify for a scientific analysis.

We're eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump nonetheless doesn't have a plan to get this virus below management.I do.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 16, 2020

Overseas direct funding (FDI) in China hit a document $ 144.37 billion in 2020, because the world’s second-largest financial system retains on recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, based on China’s Ministry of Commerce. ...

Morgan Stanley managed to considerably capitalize in 2020. The US funding financial institution beat fourth-quarter earnings forecasts to spherical off the lender’s finest yr on document. ...

London’s Heathrow Airport has misplaced its management place amongst European air hubs by the quantity of passenger visitors final 12 months, as most nations stored their borders shut to comprise Covid-19. ...

China, different governments and the WHO itself did not act quick and decisively sufficient towards the novel coronavirus, permitting it to grow to be a pandemic, an interim report by an unbiased WHO panel on the dealing with of the disaster states. ...

China’s economic system expanded by 2.three % final yr regardless of the impression of the coronavirus pandemic. The nation’s financial restoration accelerated within the final three months of 2020 and returned to pre-crisis ranges. ...

Regardless of some research questioning the worth of face coverings in halting the unfold of Covid-19, those that have lately made it their life’s work to obey the foundations anyway are working scared… and suggesting we double up on masks. ...

It might be counterintuitive to say that the oil demand crash and the ensuing glut in 2020 may result in an oil provide crunch in only a few years. ...