Week Ahead for FX, Bonds: Australia, U.K. Central-Bank Decisions Take Center Stage Central bank decisions in Australia and the U.K. will likely take center stage, though investors will continue to watch any signals from the U.S. regarding the possible timing of an interest-rate cut. 05/3/2024 - 8:56 am | View Link
Rising Swiss inflation will not derail rate cuts, economists say Swiss annual inflation in April accelerated faster than expected, data from the Federal Statistics Office showed on Thursday, although economists said they still expected the Swiss National Bank to ... 05/2/2024 - 3:51 am | View Link
Czech central bank cuts a key interest rate again with inflation down and the economy on the mend The Czech Republic’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the fourth straight time as inflation dropped and the economy has shown signs of recovery. 05/2/2024 - 1:58 am | View Link
She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump Members of the Bank of Canada's governing council were split on how long the central bank should wait before it starts ... there's bound to be a few swings in temperature that seem out of the ordinary ... 04/24/2024 - 2:59 am | View Link
There Is No Good Version Of A Central Bank Digital Currency Some think that a CBDC done "right" will spur competition and innovation while protecting privacy and freedom. No form of a CBDC will accomplish these tasks. 04/23/2024 - 3:15 am | View Link
From using the ‘Open To Work’ badge, to updating your ‘About’ section, here’s how to make your profile stand out on LinkedIn.
Welcome to Work Smarter, Fast Company‘s newsletter on career, leadership, and productivity advice. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. Following a steep spike in pandemic-related layoffs, LinkedIn released its now-ubiquitous “Open To Work” badge in 2020.
The indie film powerhouse commissioned original songs from more than a dozen artists for the new movie.
Every generation has its iconic movie soundtrack. The curated collections of songs that accompanied films like The Breakfast Club, Reality Bites, and Garden State took on cultural lives of their own, thanks to their ability to distill each movie’s ethos into the best kind of mixed tape.
Of the potential mechanisms for tackling plastic pollution, a cap on plastic production was the most hotly debated, but one has not made it into the draft text of the treaty—not yet, at least.
An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea.
Premier Lacrosse League’s Paul Rabil tells ‘Fast Company’ how his success as an athlete-entrepreneur was fueled by social media.
With Paul Rabil, it’s tough to tell which came first, the athlete or the entrepreneur.
Without action, plastic production could triple by 2060.
Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets, and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology PhD student at Liverpool University, I kept removing it, but the next day, there’d be more.
Cyberattacks arouse severe psychological distress—akin even to the harm generated by physical terrorism, causing people to feel trapped and anxious.
The news about the Israel-Hamas war is filled with reports of Israeli families huddling in fear from relentless rocket attacks, Israeli tanks, and artillery flattening buildings in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of kidnapped hostages imprisoned in subterranean tunnels, and millions of people driven from their homes by fighting.