High activity is associated with the consequences of the price crackdown

On Wednesday, the volume of trading on stock exchanges in the United States was the highest, exceeding the indicators of the busiest days of the crisis in 2008. According to FactSet, more than 24 billion shares changed their owners.


 

The Financial Times notes that such high activity is due to the consequences of the crackdown on individual stock prices by retail investors, who united to raise the prices of securities in which significant short positions of hedge funds and other market participants were concentrated.Financial topics have now increased and are at the peak of their rise.For more information, you can also find out from deltamarket broker, which has proven itself with good reviews.

Trading volumes are comparable to the record number of options contracts sold at 57 million, surpassing the record of 48 million set at the start of the pandemic, according to Options Clearing.

The publication notes that the increase in trading volumes is the latest signal that the retail trading community has a growing influence on international financial markets.

"What we've seen over the last few trading sessions is bordering on crazy," said Steve Sosnik, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers. "There can always be crazy things happening in individual stocks, but you see it spreading across a whole range of stocks."

On Wednesday, the volume of trading on stock exchanges in the United States was the highest, exceeding the indicators of the most intense days of the crisis in 2008. According to FactSet, more than 24 billion shares changed their owners.

The Financial Times notes that such high activity is due to the consequences of the crackdown on individual stock prices by retail investors, who united to raise the prices of securities in which significant short positions of hedge funds and other market participants were concentrated.

Trading volumes are comparable to the record number of options contracts sold at 57 million, surpassing the record of 48 million set at the start of the pandemic, according to Options Clearing.

The publication notes that the increase in trading volumes is the latest signal that the retail trading community has a growing influence on international financial markets.

"What we've seen over the last few trading sessions is bordering on crazy," said Steve Sosnik, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers. "There can always be crazy things happening in individual stocks, but you see it spreading across a whole range of stocks."

AirPods are still the most popular wireless headphones

According to the research agency Counterpoint Research, AirPods headphones
once again occupy a leading position in the market of wireless headphones —
more than a quarter of all deliveries.
 
It's not the first year Apple has been in the first place. The report is
provided for the third quarter of 2020. Deliveries of AirPods in the category
of TWS headphones accounted for 29 %, and in the category of "smart" watches,
Apple Watch leads with a share of 28 %. And this is provided that Apple
products are more expensive than competitors!

Nevertheless, budget headphones and smart watches show excellent results.
More than half of the best-selling TWS headphones in the third quarter of
2020 are budget models that cost less than $ 50, and some less than $ 20.
Xiaomi occupies a leading position.

The wireless headphone industry is expected to grow by 83 % (to 238 million
units) this year. This is partly due to the lack of wired headphones bundled
with many smartphones.

EU countries are not innovative enough. The truck is pulled mainly by Germans and Swedes

Spending on research and development (R & D) is a major accelerator of innovation, which is crucial to the enrichment of society and the building of the country's position in the international arena. According to Eurostat data, spending on R & amp; D varies widely across the EU.

In 2019, more than € 306 billion was spent in the EU on R & amp; D, representing 2.19%. EU GDP. This is also a slight increase compared to 2018, when spending on R & D amounted to 2.18%. However, this is not a momentary trend, as spending on innovation has increased regularly over the years. In 2009, the EU average was 1.97%.
Eurostat points out that the level of EU spending was much lower compared to the countries that spend the most on R & amp; D in the world. South Korea spent 4.52 percent on R & D in 2018. GDP, Japan 3.28 percent. (2018 data), and the United States 2.82 percent. (data 2018). On the other hand, China was at a similar level to the EU, with spending equal to 2.08 of GDP.

Sweden, Austria and Germany European primaries
The leader in the EU in terms of spending on innovation is Sweden, which allocates 3.39% for this purpose. GDP. Above 3%. issued by Austria (3.19%)) and Germany (3.17%).). It should also be noted that just behind them were three other countries that were close to reaching 3 percent. GDP for research and development. In this case, we are talking about Denmark (2.96%).), Belgium (2.89%).) and Finland (2.79%).). They were also the only countries to achieve a level above the EU average. This means that R & amp; D spending in the EU is very unevenly distributed, with only six community countries increasing the EU average.
However, the EU average was higher than in countries such as the UK (1.76%).), Turkey, or Russia (both countries spent 1.03 percent on R & D. GDP).
Romania at the grey end of the chart
At the other end of the scale is Romania, which spends only 0.48% on R & amp; D. GDP. This is by far the worst result. However, in addition to Romania, there are seven other countries that spend less than 1% on innovation. GDP. These are mainly the countries of the so-called new EU. These include Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Malta, Cyprus and Latvia. The raisin in this list is Ireland, which is generally associated with innovative technology companies like Google or Apple. However, the presence of digital giants, which is largely due to liberal tax laws, does not affect development spending.

Poland is practically in the middle of the table with R & amp; D spending at 1.32%. This is better than, for example, in Greece (1.27%).), or Spain (1.14 percent.), but for this much worse than in Slovenia (2.04 percent.) and the Czech Republic (1.94%).).

It is worth noting that the recommended level of R & amp; D expenditure is 2%. GDP. However, only 9 out of 27 EU countries are implementing these recommendations. This is too low if Europe as a whole wants to compete with global giants like China and the US. For now, it can be seen that the innovation cart in the EU is being pulled by Germany with the help of several smaller countries. However, it should be borne in mind that these economies are incomparably smaller than the German Moloch.

Private companies with the highest expenditure
The main sector where funds are spent on innovation is the business sector. That's where 66 percent is spent. in second place is the higher education sector with spending at the level of 22 percent. The government sector accounts for 11%. and the private non-profit sector 1 percent.

THE KISS SCENE. TV SERIES NETFLIX ACCUSED OF INSULTING RELIGIOUS FEELINGS

"The film" a suitable boy " was shown on one of the internet platforms. It depicts extremely reprehensible scenes that offend the feelings of a certain religion. I instructed the police officers to look into the matter, "wrote in social media the minister of foreign affairs of the state of Madhya Pradesh Narottam Mishra, whose entry is quoted by the newspaper"the Indian Express".

Indian internet users quickly deciphered the words of a state minister from the ruling Indian people's party (BJP). It turned out that in the" reprehensible scenes " in the series produced by the BBC, available on Netflix, the actors were shown kissing, and religious feelings were supposed to relate to the place where the kiss took place - a Hindu temple.

According to the Indian Express, BJP spokesman Gaurav Goel warned all streaming platforms that if they "intentionally offend" Hindu gods and goddesses, those who felt offended should go to the police or the local court and report the matter under Section 295A of the criminal code. "The law will take care of the villains," wrote Goel on Twitter.

Paragraph 295A of 1927 provides: m.in. fine and up to three years in prison for insulting religious feelings. "It is so general that it can be applied in almost any situation," says PAP Pankaj Mehta, a lawyer in Delhi. - Hinduism is capacious, there is no hierarchy and one interpretation of the sacred texts. Therefore, one follower may be offended by something, and the other no longer-evaluates.

"A kiss filmed in a temple does not offend me, at most it may surprise or disgust me," admits Jagdish Acharya, who comes from a conservative Brahmin family in the city of Puna, in an interview with pap. - Someone else may already offend, it is a very individual issue-he points out.

Boycott Netfliks
Meanwhile, the hashtag "BoycottNetflix" (boycott netfliks) began to gain popularity. Supporters of the boycott demanded the withdrawal of the series, and opponents defended freedom of speech and artistic freedom.

- If a kiss is a religious insult, then what can be the sculptures depicting sexual acts in Khajuraho (a city famous for Hindu temples with erotic decoration of the outer walls)?"- asks Arjun Desai, a musician from Delhi. - But for many more important than the place of the kiss was probably the religion of lovers-he notes.

"According to the scenario, a Muslim youth is in love with an Indian woman," wrote on social media Gaurav Tiwari from the youth organization of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, who formally reported the case to the police. "But why do they kiss in the temple grounds?"- he added.

The series directed by Mira Nair, whose " Salaam Bombay!"in 1988, he won the audience award at the Cannes Film Festival, based on the novel by Vikram Seth. "The pretender to the hand" tells the story of four families a few years after the rise of India. Seth's work, written in English, has received critical acclaim in the UK and the US.

"It's about love jihad"
- This is all about love jihad, which is the seduction of Hindu women by Muslims. This is how they convert to Islam, " explains Soham Majumdar, an economist from Calcutta. - Many people believe that this is a top-down organized action against Hindus-he adds.

On Thursday, November 26, the government of Uttar Pradesh passed a law against" Love Jihad", which allows to annul marriages between people of different religions if it is proved that the change of faith by deception. For such an act, he faces 10 years in prison. The introduction of similar regulations was announced by the authorities of the state of Madhya Pradesh.

At the same time, the Indian Ministry of internal affairs at a meeting of parliament in February admitted that organized" love jihad " has no place in the country, as confirmed by police investigations in several states of India.

- It seems that the controversial kissing scenes were not filmed in the temple. Probably these scenes were filmed somewhere else in the fort, - said the agency PTI Anuragha P, governor of Khargone district, which granted permission to the filmmakers in December last year.

Vaccine and economic recovery, Usa ahead of Europe

With several Covid vaccines approaching the approval stage by the competent authorities, Goldman Sachs conducted research on the possible spread of the vaccine and the impact on the economic restart in major developed countries, using both supply-side data provided by major manufacturers, and the results of surveys and surveys conducted among the population on the demand side.

ADMINISTRATION IN THE USA ALREADY IN DECEMBER
The results of the Goldman research, illustrated by a report by Daan Struyven and Sid Bhushan, indicate that in the United States the expectation is that the first available doses can begin to be administered to population groups at higher risk as early as mid-December. In this perspective, the forecast formulated is that significant public health benefits can begin to be seen from the first quarter of next year, with the estimate of widespread vaccinations starting in April.

WIDESPREAD VACCINATIONS BY MID-2021
Looking at the entire universe of developed countries, Goldman Sachs research predicts that large portions of the population can be vaccinated by the latter part of the second quarter of 2021. In particular, research estimates that in Britain 50% of the population may have been vaccinated as early as March, while the US and Canada would follow soon after in April, while for the European Union, Japan and Australia will have to wait until May.

The negative SCENARIO hypothesis
With abundant vaccine production expected in the second quarter of 2021, it should be demand and no longer supply to drive the spread of anti-Covid, surpassing 70% of the population during the fall across the area of developed countries. Goldman Sachs research also explores a possible negative scenario, which predicts that vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are unsuccessful and that demand is weaker than expected.

Expected economic rebound strengthened
In this scenario, vaccinations would proceed more slowly in Europe, which is more dependent on the supply of the two houses, but would also cause weaker demand in other geographical areas and consequently fewer vaccinations, particularly in the USA and Japan. While the exact timing of the large-scale spread of the vaccine remains obviously still uncertain, ricercar nevertheless reinforces Goldman Sachs ' baseline forecast that achieving widespread immunization would prompt a sharp rebound in global economic growth starting in the second quarter of 2021.

Bper: capital ratios 'significantly higher' than ECB minimum requirements

L'edizione 2021 del Salone del Mobile si terrà dal 5 al 10 settembre 2021, posticipata dalle consuete date che cadono ad aprile. La notizia è accolta con favore dal titolo Fiera Milano arrivato a oltre il +4% sopra i 3 euro.

Il Salone del Mobile è una delle fiere più importanti del calendario di Fiera Milano e la notizia ha risvolti positivi per l'operatore fieristico italiano. "Il rinvio a un periodo nel 2021 in cui il vaccino COVID-19 dovrebbe essere ampiamente diffuso consente di mantenere un'edizione normale", sottolineano gli esperti di Intesa Sanpaolo.
La BCE, per quanto riguarda il processo di revisione e valutazione della vigilanza (SREP), ha annunciato che non emetterà alcuna decisione sui pertinenti requisiti prudenziali nel 2020 e, pertanto, Bper dovrà conformarsi ai Requisiti attualmente in vigore.

BPER deve mantenere su base consolidata per il 2021 un coefficiente minimo di capitale in termini di Common Equity Tier 1 ("un CET1 ratio) pari al 8,125%, costituito dalla somma del minimo regolamentare Pilastro 1 pari al 4,5%, l'ulteriore requisito del rispetto del Pilastro 2, pari a 1.125% 2 e il Buffer di Conservazione del Capitale pari al 2,5%, mentre il requisito minimo di Totale patrimonio netto ("Total Capital ratio") deve essere pari al 12,5%.

I coefficienti patrimoniali consolidati di BPER al 30 settembre 2020 sono significativamente superiori ai requisiti patrimoniali minimi richiesti dalla BCE con il Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio Phased in pro-forma 3 del 14,61%. L'indice pro-forma 4 fully Loaded è del 13,03%, mentre il total Capital ratio Phased in pro-forma 5 è del 17,53%
Wall Street in rialzo, con il Dow Jones che avanza di circa 100 punti. Tieni d'occhio l'indice di paura CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), che è sceso sotto la soglia dei 20 punti per la prima volta dalla fine di febbraio. Insieme al Nasdaq e allo S&P, Il Dow Jones ha guadagnato circa il 2% su base settimanale.

Oggi è il Black Friday, giornata cruciale per lo shopping negli States ma anche per quello di tutto il mondo, visto che diversi paesi hanno adottato la giornata, tutta dedicata a forti sconti. A Wall Street, le azioni al dettaglio stanno avanzando, sperando nel successo delle promozioni: well Gap, Shopify e Wal-Mart. Anche in aumento è stato Amazon, che ha annunciato tra le altre cose che spenderà più di.500 milioni di bonus per le vacanze per i dipendenti che serviranno durante le festività natalizie.

I lavoratori a tempo pieno riceveranno un bonus di dollari 300, mentre i lavoratori part-time riceveranno un bonus di parte 150.

Sotto i riflettori anche altri titoli, come AstraZeneca: CEO Pascal Soriot ha detto, in un'intervista a Bloomberg, che il gigante farmaceutico potrebbe lanciare una nuova sperimentazione globale per testare il candidato vaccino covid a dosaggi più bassi, invece di aggiungere un test a dosaggi più bassi al processo in corso negli Stati Uniti.

Focus anche sull'altro colosso farmaceutico che ha messo a punto un vaccino contro il coronavirus, ovvero sull'americana Pfizer che, secondo alcune indiscrezioni arrivate dal Canada, potrebbe ricevere l'approvazione da parte delle autorità sanitarie per l'utilizzo del vaccino già a dicembre. In precedenza erano circolate voci sull'approvazione del candidato al vaccino nel primo trimestre di 2021.

Attenzione a Facebook, dopo che un articolo del Financial Times ha riferito che il gigante di Mark Zuckerberg potrebbe lanciare la sua valuta digitale "Libra", in versione limitata, a partire dal prossimo gennaio.

Attenzione infine a Walt-Disney, che ha portato il numero di licenziamenti previsti dai precedenti 28.000 annunciati a settembre a 32.000. Il gigante sconta la chiusura del parco a tema Disneyland in California e il fatto che altri parchi hanno aperto ma con una capienza ridotta..

Tesla also overtakes Buffett on Wall Street, now only the 5 Big Tech are worth more

Piazza Affari positively archives the last session of a week that saw the Milan Stock Exchange stretch its positive streak again. The Ftse Mib closed at 22,351 points, with a progress of 0.68% that brings the balance to over +24% from the beginning of the month when there is now only one session left at the end of November.

In Italy, the Btp auction saw new historical lows for 5-and 10-year Btp rates, falling to 0.01% and 0.59% respectively.

Among the big ones in Piazza Affari, the positive moment is confirmed for Telecom Italia, which again took forward a further +1.57% with quotations returned well above the threshold of 0.40 euros with a balance of almost +40% in the last month. Keep waiting for an unblocking of the unique network dossier. Infratel allegedly sent a letter to Open Fiber about the delays in the implementation of the FTTH coverage plan. "The intervention of Infratelcreates further pressure on OF and indirectly on ENEL to accelerate the rete unica project, a positive catalyst for TIM", the experts of Equita SIM point out.

Sprint today for Hera, which gained 2.85% to 3,175 euros, closing ahead of the Ftse Mib. The Emilian utility yesterday placed on the market of Eurobonds a bond aimed at qualified investors of the nominal amount of 500 million euros and with a duration of 10 years that saw orders for 4 times the offer.

Among the banks stands out today Bper with +1,75% to 1,51 euro. Well also Intesa Sanpaolo with +0,8%.

On the opposite front instead, down Pirelli that yielded over 2 percentage points. Also bad Leonardo (- xxx%) with an article in La Stampa that talks about slowdowns in the process relating to a potential maxi-order that would include 24 Eurofighters in addition to an unspecified number of M-346 flight trainers.
Tesla continues to grind records on Wall Street and still climbs the ranking in the gotha of the most capitalized securities. With the jump of about 4% ordierno, which projects the stock in the area 595 dollars (reached a record peak at 598,77 $), the market cap of the electric car giant jumped to about 562 billion dollars, surpassing that of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in sixth place among the mega caps of Wall Street.
Tesla shares have risen more than 600% since the beginning of the year making Elon Musk the second richest person in the world behind Jeff Bezos.

The latest rumors reported yesterday by Reuters see Tesla poised to start producing electric vehicle chargers in China next year as part of its mission to boost sales in the Asian country. Tesla's domineering rally is not scratched by the indiscretion collected by the Afp agency, which cites the Chinese market authority, about the risk that Tesla will have to recall 870 Model X cars in China due to a problem in the roof covering. The risk is that some parts may fall creating a collision hazard on the road.

Tesla stock as of December 21 will become part of the S&P 500 index, a change that will force index funds to buy about.50 billion of its shares and Goldman Sachs estimated last week that actively managed mutual funds could buy another 8 8 billion.

Intesa: in Milan, 144 SMEs with 3.2 billion revenues report of 'winning companies'

"In Italy, the pandemic has hit hard on hospitality and spa companies, which are undoubtedly among the most affected, if not the most affected at all. In these weeks, we are witnessing a replica of what was already seen during the spring lockdown, when Istat recorded a 91% drop in attendance in the accommodation exercises (7 million overnight stays in the March ‐ May 2020 quarter, compared to 81 million in the corresponding period of the previous year).

Gloomy prospects loom over the holiday season and the winter holidays." This is denounced by the Director General of Federalberghi Alessandro Massimo Nucara in the hearing on Bill N. 2790 bis before the productive activities, trade and Tourism Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.

In 2020 will be less 165 million foreign presences (-74.6%) and 81 million Italian presences (-37.5%). Total attendance will be well 245 million less (-56.2%). The revenue of the receptive sector will suffer a loss of 14 billion euros( -57%) - between August and December the government has estimated for the tourism and Spa sectors a reduction of 70% of hiring compared to the same period of 2019.
A group of companies that collectively generated in 2019 approximately € 3.2 billion turnover, marking a growth ten times higher than the Italian average in the last six years, employing over 15,000 employees, with a growth rate eight times higher than the national average from 2014 to the present. "Despite the difficulties that the crisis pandemic is causing, the response and the participation of Italian smes was total, demonstrating that the common features of Italian entrepreneurship are passion, ingenuity, Italian and determination," says the head of the Banca dei Territori Division of Intesa Sanpaolo, Stefano Barrese. By the testimonies of entrepreneurs emerges a picture that in some way draw a line important to the recovery, by showing that, even in this difficult phase of the crisis, these smes have continued to invest on the basic guidelines for growth: sustainability, innovation, human capital, generational transition, internationalization, connection with the territory and with their chains of production, in addition to a strong focus on the social impact generated on its territory.

From clothing to agri-food, from industry and services to chemical and metalworking, from fashion to furniture and design, textiles, transport, but also medical and pharmaceutical, to digital and Ict: these are some of the product categories to which the 'winning companies' 2020 belong. According to the analyses carried out on this sample of companies, during the digital tour that lasted more than two months, at the time of the crisis, training and welfare systems were a critical factor of success to look beyond the pandemic phase, alongside investments, with a reorientation towards digitalization and sustainability. The strong link with its territory of rooting has been an element that has characterized all companies and has contributed to international growth. This element emerged in particular also in the stage dedicated to social enterprises, new in the 2020 edition, from which it emerged how the integration between profit and non-profit is a crucial factor, as a lever for the creation of social well-being for all communities. Also for the' winning companies 2020 ' the selected SMEs will be included in growth support and visibility programs at national level offered by Intesa Sanpaolo and the partners of the initiative, Bain & Company, Elite, Gambero Rosso, together with Cerved and Microsoft Italia.

Gualtieri, further commitment at EU level for the sectors most affected

A postponement of the instalments of the scrapping ter and the balance and excerpt to March 1, 2021: this, according to what is learned, would be the government's guideline to prevent from December 10 those who have debts with the Tax Office vanga called again to pay, after the suspension decided in the first phase of the Covid epidemic. The measure should therefore enter the' menu ' of the decree Ristori quater, although still the text of the measure has not been closed.

The executive would also have assumed the stop until April 30, 2021 to taxes for those who have suffered loss of turnover due to Covid. The measure should come with the decree Ristori quater. The new decree will confirm for December the suspensions already arranged for the month of November for the red zones and will introduce a new fiscal moratorium, linked to the Covid crisis: it should in fact slip to next 30 April the payment of the second Deposit Irpef, Ires and Irap planned for 30 November. The measure should apply to those who suffered a decrease in turnover of 33% over the six months.
"A joint proposal at European level for new support for the sectors most affected by the crisis, in the coming months such as tourism, skiing, bars and restaurants". This is what the Minister of Economy Roberto Gualtieri announced, after the meeting with the French Minister of Finance Bruno Le Maire.

'The budgetary deviation that is being voted on in these minutes will allow us to intervene on the next fiscal deadlines by suspending them wider than the one made so far that concerned only the sectors of the Ateco codes.
We are working for the next decree that will use these eight billion for the postponement of tax deadlines for all economic sectors that have suffered losses', the minister also explained.

"The government's position is always the same: we consider that debts by definition must be repaid and are always repaid. And that the Italian strategy for debt cancellation, and its reduction is through a path of public finance that is focused on growth, on investment and on the financial policies and budget today, with the need for a strong fiscal stimulus, tax but as of course, as indicated by the Nadef, in the medium to long term must put the debt on a path of gradual reduction and sustainable," he added Gualtieri answering a question of journalists.

A postponement of the instalments of the scrapping ter and the balance and excerpt to March 1, 2021: this, according to what is learned, would be the government's guideline to prevent from December 10 those who have debts with the Tax Office vanga called again to pay, after the suspension decided in the first phase of the Covid epidemic. The measure should therefore enter the' menu ' of the decree Ristori quater, although still the text of the measure has not been closed.


The executive would also have assumed the stop until April 30, 2021 to taxes for those who have suffered loss of turnover due to Covid. The measure should come with the decree Ristori quater. The new decree will confirm for December the suspensions already arranged for the month of November for the red zones and will introduce a new fiscal moratorium, linked to the Covid crisis: it should in fact slip to next 30 April the payment of the second Deposit Irpef, Ires and Irap planned for 30 November. The measure should apply to those who suffered a decrease in turnover of 33% over the six months.
"A joint proposal at European level for new support for the sectors most affected by the crisis, in the coming months such as tourism, skiing, bars and restaurants". This is what the Minister of Economy Roberto Gualtieri announced, after the meeting with the French Minister of Finance Bruno Le Maire.

'The budgetary deviation that is being voted on in these minutes will allow us to intervene on the next fiscal deadlines by suspending them wider than the one made so far that concerned only the sectors of the Ateco codes.
We are working for the next decree that will use these eight billion for the postponement of tax deadlines for all economic sectors that have suffered losses', the minister also explained.

"The government's position is always the same: we consider that debts by definition must be repaid and are always repaid. And that the Italian strategy for debt cancellation, and its reduction is through a path of public finance that is focused on growth, on investment and on the financial policies and budget today, with the need for a strong fiscal stimulus, tax but as of course, as indicated by the Nadef, in the medium to long term must put the debt on a path of gradual reduction and sustainable," he added Gualtieri answering a question of journalists.

Here is Black Friday, in Covid era stravinces the web

This year, however, the pandemic has taken its toll, profoundly changing its features and transforming what was a pre-Christmas shopping day around the already decorated streets of cities in yet another moment to pass in front of tablet and pc screens.

The mandatory closure of stores in the red and orange areas and shopping centers, galleries and department stores on the weekend also in yellow regions such as Lazio inevitably pushes towards online shopping, so much so that - according to Confesercenti-83 million euros of sales per day are passing from physical stores to the web. 

The calculation is on the days of the week because another of the characteristics of the 2020. 

Is just the formalization of the black week, already experienced in some cases in the past years and become mandatory this year, to cope with the stop of the end of the week, and dilute it so as possible in the time occasions of purchase.

 

For Fismo, the Association of Confessercenti fashion trade companies, spending on clothing and accessories is the one that is undergoing the most significant transfer, with 25 million euros per day of household spending diverted to the internet. But the impact is significant even on games and toys for boys and children (€20 million transferred to the e-commerce every day), technology and home appliances (15 million per day for both sectors), and books (about 300 thousand euros per day).

 

Also according to data from the Observatory Compass, Consumer Credit Company of the Mediobanca Group, among Italians who intend to shop for Black Friday, 84% are ready to buy online and only 42% in stores. According to the Central Director of Marketing and Innovation Luigi Pace, something good is there anyway because the appointment " can help the country to restart consumption, especially in view of Christmas. 

 

Italians - he explains-want normality and do not want to give up putting gifts under the tree". 

 

However, the budget available is affected by the overall contraction in consumption. This year, Compass still calculates, is equal to 284 euros, down 7% compared to 2019.

 

Faced with the overwhelming power of the web, the fear is that at this rate thousands of stores are gradually forced to close. "We have presented an antitrust expose to signal the serious distortion of competition that has been created with the anti-contagion restrictions: - explains Fabio Tinti, national president of Fismo - while the stores are closed, the web acts in conditions of Monopoly or almost. It is a problem that must be solved, especially if the containment rules were to be extended". 

Confcommercio has instead launched the campaign "I buy under house because I feel at home" aimed at supporting purchases in neighborhood stores "and thus help the activities that keep Cities Alive and give jobs to many people".

Govt’s euro bond trouble gets funding grade

International credit rating corporations have assigned funding grade rankings at the authorities's deliberate 500-million euro ($554-million) bond issuance.

In a statement, S&P Global Ratings stated it "assigned its 'BBB+' long-term overseas forex problem score to the proposed benchmark-size euro-denominated senior unsecured notes to be issued by means of the Republic of the Philippines (BBB+/Stable/A-2)."

Fitch Ratings, in a separate declaration, additionally announced it has assigned the Philippines' forthcoming euro-denominated bonds an predicted rating of onlinemarketshare broker .

"The expected rating is consistent with the Philippines' Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of 'BBB' with a stable outlook," it introduced.

Also on Monday, the Bureau of the Treasury said it is presently engaging in traders name for the planned issuance.

"We started the investor calls for these days [because] we nonetheless need to see the market conditions. But we've already achieved the indication in phrases of tenor both for 3 years and nine years," National Treasurer Rosalia de Leon informed newshounds in an interview.

She delivered that the Treasury bureau additionally appointed four banks to sell the euro bond, which includes UBS, Citi, Standard Chartered Bank, and Credit Suisse.

In May final yr, strong investor demand enabled the authorities to raise $842 million from its euro bond issuance.

The amount generated — 750 million euros while transformed — changed into an upsize of the initial 500-million-euro benchmark imparting.

The eight-12 months euro bond fetched a discount rate of zero.875 percent.

The Treasury bureau stated the transaction allowed the authorities to diversify its funding application to help efficient spending for infrastructure and social offerings.

By geographical allocation, 24 percentage of the bonds were allocated to Germany, 15 percentage to Italy, 10 percentage to the United Kingdom, 26 percentage to the rest of Europe, 9 percent to the United States, 6 percent to the Philippines, 5 percent to the relaxation of Asia, and every other 5 percent to other countries.

In terms of investor kind, 59 percentage went to fund managers; 24 percent, banks and corporates; 11 percent, insurance, pension funds and authentic institutions; and the relaxation to other buyers.

Deutsche Bank and UBS had been the transaction's joint international coordinators, even as BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered Bank were the joint bookrunners.
AFTER hurling threats — most of them richly deserved — on the owners of Metro Manila's two water concessionaires at the end of ultimate yr, President Rodrigo Duterte has became his points of interest at the consortium in the back of the Light Rail Manila Corp. (LRMC), the operator of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1). The President need to be careful now not to permit his ire at the events worried, Ayala Corp. And the Metro Pacific Investments Corp., compromise an goal evaluation in their concession.

In addition to working the present LRT-1, the Ayala/MPIC group also gained the contract to build and function the P64.Nine-billion LRT-1 extension to Cavite.

There are two separate topics occurring in all of this. The first is the government's review of all current concession contracts, which turned into an objective that changed into introduced lengthy before the controversy over the water concessions exploded at the give up of closing year.

That is the type of factor that makes contractors and capacity traders worried, however there may be clearly not anything wrong with it; no settlement should encompass phrases that limit its being studied at a few later point, so long as any desired modifications to its terms are treated fairly.

The 2d is President Duterte's personal pique at wealthy human beings, specifically those who've earned a full-size a part of their wealth due to doing business with the authorities.

Ayala and MPIC (one of whose shareholders in Sen. Francis Pangilinan, a Liberal Party stalwart and an competition burr underneath President Duterte's saddle) have made first-rate quantities of money from government contracts, which includes the grossly faulty concessions for Manila Water Co. Inc. (Ayala) and Maynilad Water Services Inc. (MPIC). In remarks at a characteristic ultimate Friday, President Duterte characterised the LRT-1 extension contract, and by implication the concession for the existing LRT-1 as "the largest rip-off of all," and said that the P64.Nine-billion deal had by no means been proven to the Filipino human beings.

The latter accusation isn't quite real; although it isn't always without problems available, the LRT-1 extension concession settlement is offered to absolutely everyone keenly involved sufficient to read it. The key points of it are to be had at the PPP Center internet site. Whether or no longer the deal is virtually the "biggest scam of all" is controversial. For one issue, the investment LRMC can be collecting returns on is not P64.9 billion, but P45.07 billion; P19.Eighty three billion of the challenge cost is coming from official improvement help. None of which means that the agreement can not or ought to no longer be reviewed, but it ought to be carried out so objectively, without the presumption that it's miles "arduous."

Another large factor that mitigates the presumption of irregularity is the decidedly higher operation and performance of the LRT-1 in comparison with its government-owned and -operated counterpart, the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-three). Although the MRT-3 is slowly undergoing a complete rehabilitation, using it's far still a nightmarish enjoy, from dirty, understaffed stations in terrible repair to extraordinarily overcrowded trains to the bad circumstance of the line itself, which limits trains to very low speeds. The LRT-1 is relatively higher maintained and higher controlled universal, and includes some touches that imply LRMC is as a minimum trying to run a purchaser-pleasant business. For instance, for the duration of crowded rush hour periods, so-referred to as "bypass trains" are often dispatched to sweep up passengers at stations farther up the road, in preference to letting trains fill to ability at the first station. The LRT-1 control also mechanically posts summaries of its key overall performance indicators for the enlightenment of any patron who wishes to skip the time with the aid of studying them.

In brief, regardless of the nature of the working contract, the LRT-1 commonly meets consumer expectancies, that is a robust indication that the agreement won't be "exhausting."

By assessment, the provider overall performance of the two water concessionaires, running on contracts that every had as a minimum a dozen laborious provisions, in line with a Justice Department assessment, has left a lot to be favored.

The fine viable outcome to all of this, for the sake of the public, the authorities and capability buyers, could be a transparent evaluation of any agreement the administration wishes to impeach. If there are undesirable provisions discovered, then provide an explanation for clearly why they may be, and what legally applicable steps can be taken to correct them. If the contracts are honest, as one suspects the contracts regarding the LRT-1 may be, regardless of the President's non-public dislike for the humans worried, then the authorities need to give an explanation for that without a doubt as properly.

DeltaMarket Review

 

DeltaMarket is a new unregulated Forex broker, that recently opened on October 1st 2020.

Owned and operated by; BI-GLOBAL WORLD LTD, Reg. No. 105143. They are located at: Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands, MH 96960. Contact phone number in United Kingdom is: +441507243012, and the email address is support@delta-market.net. Official Website is: https://DeltaMarket.net.

 

DeltaMarket Review

Our review of the brokers DeltaMarket finds, that they offer day traders and investors, a simple web-based CFD trading platform. At this stage they are not offering MT5, but they do have the standard MT4 mobile apps. They offer the standard list of underlying assets for trading CFD’s, including all popular Forex pairs, Oil, Gold, Stocks and Bitcoin / Crypto Currency pairs.

Margin / leverage rates on Forex pairs is up to 300:1, and Crypto leverage is a bit lower, and the spreads start at 2.8 pips on the basic trading account. Many new investors look for brokers with high leverage because they believe they will make money easier that way. However, the reality proves that trading with on high margin is extremely risky, and new traders that don’t understand the risk, end up losing their money fast.

The minimum deposit for a new trading account is $250, and they offer deposit via Credit Card or Crypto / Bitcoin. Their website is localized in just English and Russian.

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No, DeltaMarket is not licensed and they are not regulated.

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Online deals giant Groupon said Tuesday

Online deals giant Groupon said Tuesday it turned into cutting some 1,100 jobs over the approaching months in every other signal of cooling in the as soon as-hot area.



Groupon also said it'd be ending operations in several markets round the arena such as Morocco, Panama, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay, following latest exits from Greece and Turkey.



The streamlining aims “to realize the efficiencies we’ve been operating so tough to benefit, to further enhance the manner we function around the arena and—most significantly—keep to channel an increasing number of of our assets in the direction of long-term boom,” chief operating officer Rich Williams stated in a blog publish.



“Practically, this indicates we’re taking some wide restructuring movements to higher focus our resources and streamline our worldwide operations.”



The employer will remove a few 1,one hundred positions, frequently in worldwide operations, more often than not in on line deals and customer support, Williams said.



“Our teams have achieved brilliant work to streamline our operations in those and other areas, and our worldwide abilties and sturdy nearby provider facilities allow us to do extra with much less whilst still imparting the excessive stage of carrier our customers anticipate and trust,” he stated.



“These are difficult moves to take, particularly whilst we consider we’re more potent than ever… Yet just as our commercial enterprise has developed from a largely hand-controlled daily deal website to a true ecommerce era platform, our operational version has to conform.”



Groupon went public in 2011 amid enthusiasm over its model of imparting offers on a selection of products and services. But its stock price has slumped greater than 75 percent from its supplying charge of $20, and has been soaring around $four in recent weeks.

The peso tumbled to its lowest degree towards the USA

The peso tumbled to its lowest degree towards the USA dollar in almost two weeks on Wednesday as weak spot in fairness markets at the returned of tepid Chinese production records spurred call for for the greenback.

The nearby unit weakened to P46.Eighty three to $1, losing 24 centavos from its P46.Fifty nine near on Tuesday. Wednesday’s end became the weakest near on account that Sep 11, whilst the peso slid to P46.89 to $1.

Jonathan Ravelas, chief marketplace strategist of Banco de Oro, stated weakening equity markets had been in large part chargeable for the volatility that encouraged shopping for of america foreign money.

On Wednesday, Asian fairness markets softened as interest in China’s manufacturing area fell forty seven percent in September, its biggest decline in six-and-a-half of years.

In the Philippines, the nearby stocks benchmark index slipped 1.Seventy six percent.

The nearby foreign money opened at P46.Sixty seven to $1 on the Philippine Dealing System (PDS) on Wednesday earlier than trading among P46.Sixty five and P46.83.

Total quantity transacted at the PDS rose to $877.2 million from $562.Seventy five million inside the previous

RE/MAX teaches its franchisees/agents

RE/MAX teaches its franchisees/agents to get to know their customers. We want them to talk to their prospects and discover what those human beings need as opposed to what they want. This is how they can be effective agents. In the cease, what we can have are glad customers and that’s why we are here,” said Perlas.

Similarly, RE/MAX offers clients with extra property alternatives and publications them in deciding on the assets to accumulate.

“There are so many actual property trends proper now. If you are a patron, you want greater records and steering. How do you understand which one to pick to shop for, rent or rent?”

RE/MAX’s commercial enterprise model has labored in round one hundred nations. The worldwide firm is found in 97 international locations international and has approximately 155,000 real estate sellers.

In the Philippines it has 20 branches with about 100 brokers.

Perlas said they target to have 2 hundred franchises within the subsequent  years, which is predicted to result in approximately 1,000 real property agents.

Targets community boom to 2 hundred franchises, 1,000 agents

Targets community boom to 2 hundred franchises, 1,000 agents

US-based totally real property agency RE/MAX (Real Estate MAXimum) goals to expand its present pool of agents in the Philippines and offer them with professional schooling earlier than the business enterprise launches its local operations formally.

The agency advised Manila newshounds at its press release it offers brokers numerous trainings so one can equip and increase their talents in regions including enterprise control, sales and negotiation, recruitment strategies, effective communication, motivation and education.

RE/MAX Philippines usa manager Michelle Perlas stated the brand has been in the Philippines due to the fact that 2012 however up until now has waited for the proper time to release its operations.

“We experience that the time is ready proper due to the fact the Philippine marketplace is very ripe,” Perlas advised newshounds.

She stated it is also the ideal time to release its local offerings for the reason that its aim of standardizing the approach to real property is consistent with the currently regulated exercise of brokers by using the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC).

METRO Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC)

METRO Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), a subsidiary of Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) led with the aid of businessman Manny Pangilinan, has finished a deal to accumulate a significant stake in an infrastructure business enterprise in Vietnam.

MPTC stated it has obtained a forty five percentage stake in CII Bridges and Roads Investment Joint Stock Co. (CII B&R) in Vietnam thru a aggregate of percentage

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stocks Exchange, MPTC said it “now holds a widespread minority equity hobby identical to about forty five percentage of the first-rate capital of CII B&R through a combination of purchase of CII B&R secondary shares from Ho Chi Minh City Infrastructure Investment Joint Stock Company (CII), and subscription to VND-denominated bonds issued by way of CII, which are exchangeable into secondary stocks in CII B&R.”

CII B&R is majority owned with the aid of CII, one in every of the most important private infrastructure improvement businesses in Vietnam with publicity in toll roads, water, actual estate, and engineering and creation.

CII B&R is a dual carriageway employer based totally in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam with about eight toll road and bridge projects totaling approximately 123 kilometers, with present traffic of approximately forty six thousand cars a each day.

CII B&R has a wealthy task portfolio comprising

CII B&R has a wealthy task portfolio comprising of 5 operating projects. These are the New Rach Chiec Bridge Project; the Phan Rang – Thap Cham Bypass (Phase 1) B.O.T. Project; the DT741Road Project; the Sai Gon 2 Bridge B.T. Project; and the Rach Mieu Bridge (Phase 1) B.O.T. Project.

Two initiatives are below construction, particularly the Ha Noi Highway Expansion B.O.T. Project and the Expansion of National Highway 1, a B.O.T. Assignment.

It has one undertaking inside the pipeline, the Binh Trieu 2 Bridge (Part 2 – Phase 2) B.O.T. Project, which it expects to secure within some months.

MPTC said the acquisition fee for the received stocks and subscription charge for the bonds are to be paid upon of entirety of the last conditions and deliverables.

MPTC is the figure corporation of Manila North Tollway Corp. (MNTC) and is the tollway unit of MPIC, which in turn is owned through First Pacific Co. Ltd.

The enterprise in advance stated that First Pacific and MPIC could collectively bid for the $757-million DauGiay-Phan Thiet Expressway task in Vietnam. It said it would buy bid files but the lead entity might be First Pacific together with MPIC.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport (MOT) in 2013 invited packages for a “2d investor” within the layout, construction, finance, operation and upkeep of the 98.7-kilometer DauGiay-Phan Thiet Expressway beneath a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.

The Vietnam authorities has already recognized Vietnamese conglomerate Bitexco Group Ltd. As the “first investor” inside the challenge, which shall have an fairness stake of as a minimum 60
percentage. The 2nd investor shall keep the closing stake, in line with the MOT.

MPIC is seeking out funding opportunities out of doors the united states of america as a part of efforts to diversify its investments.

With CII B&R’s enjoy in the Vietnam highway industry and its electricity in identifying and growing new initiatives, MPTC believes that CII B&R is the proper associate to make bigger its operations in the Vietnam.

AYALA Corporation (AC)

AYALA Corporation (AC) has authorized the funding of its strength unit in Monte Solar Energy, Inc. (MonteSol) for a solar strength venture in Negros Oriental.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), Ayala Corporation said its absolutely-owned subsidiary, AC Energy Holdings, Inc. (AC Energy), has signed an agreement with MonteSol.

MonteSol is a joint task between AC Energy Holdings Inc. And Bronzeoak Clean Energy Inc., the investment arm of Bronzeoak Philippines Inc (Bronzeoak).

According to AC, the project might be owned and operated by MonteSol, a special motive automobile business enterprise, and will be undertaken in  levels.

The first section is for an 18-megawatt (MW) solar energy plant with a complete undertaking value of P1.3 billion and is centered for completion by way of March 2016.

The second section is for the expansion of the preliminary 18-MW sun electricity plant to elevate its potential to forty MW.

MonteSol has named Conergy, a main German photovoltaic (PV) answer and provider issuer, to put up the solar energy plant in Bais, Negros Oriental.

Conergy can be answerable for the engineering and layout, aspect procurement, and assignment control of the new plant.

The new sun farm will occupy a land vicinity of 213,292 square meters and is anticipated to generate 24,205 megawatt hours of strength yearly.

This is sufficient power to supply the equal of 10,1/2 households inside the area and save 14,838 lots of carbon emissions (CO2) each year.

Bronzeoak become also the developer and is the handling shareholder of the forty five-MW San Carlos Solar Energy (SacaSol) assignment.

The SacaSol challenge is taken into consideration because the united states’s first and biggest solar farm, inaugurated through President Benigno S. Aquino third in May of 2014.

Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI)

Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI), Honda’s car enterprise unit within the Philippines, said it bought 1,seven-hundred automobiles in August.

To date, a complete of 12,167 Honda vehicles had been bought in 2015, indicating a 48 percent growth as compared to its income inside the identical length closing 12 months.

The lone domestically-produced Honda car – the City – remains the organisation’s first-rate dealer, contributing forty four percent to HCPI’s August sales.

The organization also said the currently launched Mobilio indicates quite a few promise because it registered a 22 percentage contribution to HCPI August income.

For the month of August, the Mobilio garnered 830 new reservations. The Mobilio is Honda’s first seven-seater Multi-purpose Utility Vehicle (MUV) that addresses the market’s need for an low cost family car.

From September 25 to 27, Honda will keep a car display on the Alabang Town Center activity middle to give customers an possibility to test the automobiles being provided and to check drive fashions they'll be making plans to buy.

Cars to be displayed include the City, Mobilio, Accord, and Odyssey. Event members can have the opportunity to avail of cash reductions and other unique offers to be able to be to be had handiest at some stage in the event, the corporation said.