A nurse prepares a syringe of Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign in a nursing house in Athens. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI | AFP | Getty Images The European Union has been criticised for the speed of its deployment of Covid vaccines, as its two biggest economies extend their coronavirus restrictions due …
Read More »UK decision to delay second Covid vaccine shot endorsed by advisers
A pharmacist dilutes the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine while preparing it to administer to staff and residents at the Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads, a senior living community in Falls Church, Virginia, on December 30, 2020. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Health experts have conditionally backed the U.K.’s …
Read More »Euro zone flash PMI December: Business activity shrinks further
A general view of the cafes at the empty Leidseplein square on March 27, 2020 in Amsterdam, Netherlands NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty Images LONDON — Business activity in the euro zone is having a fairly robust December, according to the latest preliminary purchasing manager’s index (PMI) data for the …
Read More »Here’s how to overcome common financial blind spots
AscentXmedia | iStock | Getty Images When it comes to managing money, most everybody has doubts as to whether they’re doing it right. So you may breathe a sigh of relief to know that no one is crazy, according to Morgan Housel, author of the book “The Psychology of Money.” …
Read More »Germany’s second wave of Covid-19 has been worse than the first
Doctors in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Germany was widely seen as a poster-child for its approach to tackling the coronavirus in the spring, but its second wave of infections is proving far more deadly. Covid-19 cases in the country started to creep higher …
Read More »Siemens, Deutsche Bahn plan trial of hydrogen-powered train
The Deutsche Bahn AG logo photographed on the Bahntower, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. Christoph Soeder | picture alliance | Getty Images Siemens Mobility and Deutsche Bahn have laid out plans to develop and trial a hydrogen fuel-cell train, in the latest example of major firms turning to a technology which could …
Read More »How Europeans are going to spend Christmas this year
Children look at a window display at store on Regent Street in London. Hollie Adams | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — There’s one thing that most people are agreed upon as the festive season approaches and the coronavirus pandemic continues: Christmas is not going to feel the …
Read More »Germany looks set to extend lockdown into December
People with face masks walk in the city center of Cologne, Germany, on November 21, 2020. NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty Images Germany could be preparing to extend its current lockdown into December as the number of coronavirus infections remains high across the country. Yet Berlin is hopeful a coronavirus …
Read More »Too soon to say if Germany will extend Covid lockdown: Health minister
German Health Minister Jens Spahn told CNBC on Wednesday it’s “too early to say” whether the country will extend its partial lockdown beyond the month of November, contending more time is needed to determine if the latest round of coronavirus restrictions has adequately reduced transmission. “We need patience, actually, because …
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