Chris Lawrence

The convening power of social networks was tested in early 2021 when a few foreros of the Reddit platform began to convince young people who had given themselves to investment through trading apps without commissions that they could bend the arm to some Wall Street giants. They chose their meme values ​​in which large funds … Read more

Department stores will raise salaries by 1% to the more than 23,000 workers in the sector in 2022, according to union sources at the end of the meeting of the joint committee of the sector’s collective bargaining agreement. This rise is in line with expectations, but it is far from the 5% that Mercadona will … Read more

Cryptocurrencies have crossed the threshold. Its size and interconnection with financial markets has reached a point where its fluctuations can already have a more than notable impact on other assets or even trigger a domino effect. Now they are a real risk, especially in the wake of the covid pandemic. Since then, bitcoin or ethereum … Read more

For those concerned that the notoriously accommodative monetary policy of the last decade has created asset bubbles around the world, the first signs of a puncture are beginning to be palpable. Trouble may be just around the corner after years of sparkling markets. For Bank of America (BofA) strategists, including Michael Hartnett, the bubble is … Read more

10/01/2022 – 14:52 Updated: 15:25 – 10/01/22 This could be the year of the ‘hawks’. There are many investment banks that have played in recent days with the lexicon to try to create ingenious phrases with the monetary tightening that is coming: ‘The great flight of the hawks is coming’, ‘hawks on, risk off‘,’ the … Read more

For months, the lack of truckers in the United Kingdom has hurt the country’s economy. Although long lines at gas stations and empty shelves have been reduced after weeks of acute crisis, the situation is far from being fully resolved. And the industry association, Logistics UK, presented a report on Monday detailing the origin of … Read more

Madrid. 7:00 – 10/01/2022 With the fundamental lines of the reform of the public pension system already on the table, it seems evident that a good part of the improvement in the System’s income during the next decades will come from the greater contributions to Social Security that the highest incomes will have to make. … Read more

With an unknown increase in ceilings, Bizum has been presented in 2022 bordering on the 20 million users and an assessment that is around 50 million euros. The system that has completely changed the way of dealing with transfers in Spain, but as it is experiencing good growth, it will continue to have news that … Read more

Nuclear energy returns to the scene after the decision of the European Commission to include it in the sustainable investment taxonomy. According to data from the Nuclear Forum, there are 479 plants in the world in the project, which would mean double the current 443 reactors. Of this number 54 plants are under construction, 99 … Read more

Tristán de Acuña, one of the overseas territories of the United Kingdom, is the most inaccessible inhabited island in the world. This small territory full of peculiarities is located in the South Atlantic and has 245 inhabitants, of which 133 are women and 112 men. To get to Tristán de Acuña it is necessary to … Read more