Author: Andrew Beck

Although the rapidly deteriorating new crown epidemic in the United States has made secondary infections a topic of market concern again, all this cannot withstand the positive confidence that the Fed has brought to the market. Under the influence of ultra-low interest rates and the highest fiscal scale in history, the US employment and housing markets have performed better than expected, simultaneously driving the stock market including Asian stocks to turn red. However, according to the actual rhythm of fund trading, it can be found that foreign capital has become more cautious about inflows to Asian stock markets. According to…

The Foreign Trade Association, in cooperation with National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, held today (6) a video seminar on “Taiwan’s Specialized Medicine Applied in African Epidemic Prevention” to share the experience of anti-epidemic with African countries through topic sharing and promotion High-quality medical treatment in Taiwan. Huang Zhifang, chairman of the Foreign Trade Association, said that the Trade Association last month established the “Taiwan National Epidemic Prevention Pavilion” facing the world, combining Taiwan’s successful epidemic prevention experience and a complete epidemic prevention industry to help countries suffering from the epidemic. In the past few…

The US stock market rose sharply in early trading on Monday as Wall Street tried to capitalize on the strong performance of last week and get rid of the unfavorable factors caused by the continued rise in new cases of pneumonia. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 370 points or 1.4%, while the S&P 500 index rose 1.4%. The high-tech Nasdaq Composite Index rose 1.5%, a record high. There are several reasons for the bullish start this week: In pre-market trading on Monday, stocks are closely related to the economic reopening. Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line have…

The launch of the new mid-range 4G mobile phone Desire 20 Pro drove revenue to rise, HTC (2498) June revenue surged nearly 63.5% to 649 million yuan, setting a new high this year, with HTC planning to list in Taiwan in August for the first 5G U20 mobile phone, August revenue will have a chance to rise again. HTC released the mid-range 4G mobile phone Desire 20 Pro on June 15 and shipped it on the Taiwan market that day. With the increase in new mobile phone shipments, HTC’s revenue in June increased by more than 250 million yuan from…

Using robots to make game consoles and improving production efficiency have become an important strategy for SONY’s automated production. According to Japanese media reports, SONY’s robot production line at the Chiba Prefecture plant in Japan can assemble and produce 2 PS4 game consoles per minute. In the future, the new generation of game console PS5 will also be produced on this production line. SONY’s factory in Kisazaru, Chiba, Japan has built a high-speed assembly line managed by robots to produce PS4 game consoles. It takes less than 1 minute to assemble a PS4, and an average of 2 can be…

The international dollar weakened, hot money expanded into overweight Taiwan stocks of 20.1 billion yuan, and the index stood at “Ten Thousand Seconds”, encouraging the New Taiwan dollar to soar. It once surpassed 2 corners and reached 29.39 yuan. Afterwards, the gains converged to 5.8 points, closing at a new high of more than two years at 29.551 yuan to 1 dollar, and the turnover of the Taipei foreign exchange brokerage company was enlarged to 1.078 billion dollars. Foreign exchange traders pointed out that hot money is making great progress in emerging markets, major Asian stock markets are in full…

As the US presidential election approaches in November, Silicon Valley’s support for the Democratic Party is becoming clearer! Employees of five major technology companies such as Apple and Microsoft have so far donated US$15 million to the Democratic Party’s election. Among them, streaming giant Netflix has the strongest support, and about 98% of the political contributions go to the party. In contrast, the most supportive Republican Qualcomm employees’ political contributions accounted for only about 50%. According to data from the website of the Independent Supervision Organization Interactive Political Center (CRP), the top five technology companies Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google parent…

According to the five indicators proposed by Harvard Business School Finance Professor Malcolm Baker and New York University Finance Professor Jeffrey Wurgler, US stocks are not currently in an irrational glory. Hertz, the nation’s second-largest car rental company, claimed that two weeks after its bankruptcy, investors sought after, and its stock price rose sharply; Chesapeake Energy hinted in May that it might claim bankruptcy protection, but the stock price was in early June. Jump up more than 180%. Land company Fangdd (Fangdd), because the company’s name is similar to the fang stock FAANG, had a 400% surge in one day.…

Tesla’s share price has skyrocketed. It has been 26% bigger in the past few days, and it has broken through the $1,000, $1100, and $1200 barriers. Now, more analysts are optimistic that its share price will rise to a high price of $2,000, compared with 1208 on Friday. The dollar is 66% higher. Tesla’s stock price has experienced ups and downs, and the rise in stock prices has not been steadily increasing at all, so it is called “demon stock” by the outside world. Foreign media reported that investment bank Wedbush analyst Dan Ives pointed out that the strong demand…

Since the outbreak of the new COVID-19 coronavirus, the situation of bats has become very delicate. Many medical studies believe that they are the source of viruses, and some biologists have called for not to kill bats maliciously. In fact, bats are the host of a variety of coronaviruses, but bats themselves are not infected by viruses, so studying them may find important implications for the next new coronavirus. The BBC was invited to follow the research team of the Thai Red Cross New Infectious Diseases Health Science Center to learn about the process of collecting bat samples at Khao…