Yearly Archives - 2022

China’s continued Covid lockdown impacting oil and commodity prices, as Chinese protest

28 Nov 2022 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose Friday, notching a gain during the holiday-shortened trading week. Worries about continued lockdowns in China kept markets in check. The country is ramping up Covid restrictions after seeing climbing case counts in recent days – however unprecedented demonstrations are now breaking out across Chinese cities and university campuses, triggered by widespread anger at stringent Covid restrictions that have been imposed now for almost three years. These are the biggest...

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The alternative to lithium

23 Nov 2022 - Altech Chemicals Limited (ASX:ATC) CFO Martin Stein discusses the recent joint venture with Fraunhofer IKTS and the CERENERGY solid state sodium alumina battery.

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Retail earnings support market as tech layoffs continue beyond Twitter

23 Nov 2022 - Stocks rose Tuesday as Wall Street looked past tightening covid policies in China to instead focus on a host of strong earnings reports and the potential for smaller future rate hikes during a holiday-shortened trading week. In after market news Hewlett Packard has just announced its plans to layoff between 4000-6000 employees globally over the next three years. This continues a trend of layoffs - beyond just Twitter - that has been sweeping the tech...

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