by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 2, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Intermediaries, International News, Life, Non-Life, Technology
New York: Shares of Lemonade, an online insurance company backed by SoftBank Group Corp,more than doubled in its Thursday market debut to reach a $3 billion market cap. Shares closed $138.79% higher. The company’s stock opened at $50.06 after...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
BOA VISTA: Soldiers handed out masks to barefooted Yanomami indigenous people including body-painted warriors carrying spears and bows and arrows on Wednesday on the second day of a military operation to protect isolated tribes from COVID-19.The Yanomami are the last...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Washington: The US government's top experts in infectious diseases have criticised American Airlines' decision to pack flights full while the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow across much of the United States. "Obviously that is something that...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
LONDON: A global goal to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will not be met without a huge acceleration in clean energy innovation, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. The 2015 Paris Agreement set a target to curb global warming and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
DHAKA: Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh have been marooned and thousands of hectares of farmland submerged, officials said on Wednesday, as floods triggered by monsoon rains ravage the country already grappling with the coronavirus. ...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
NEW YORK: Portfolio inflows to emerging markets jumped to $32.1 billion in June from $3.5 billion in May, the bulk of it in debt securities, the Institute of International Finance said on Wednesday. Debt flows accounted for $23.5 billion of total, while Chinese...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic, Risk Management
Treatments for peanut allergy and Parkinson’s disease are among U.S. drug launches that have been postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic as drugmakers struggle with disruptions to business, a Reuters review of filings and interviews with executives show....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management
CHENNAI: A boiler blast on Wednesday at lignite miner and electricity generator NLC India’s plant in the southern Tamil Nadu state killed at least six people, a company official and local police said, the second deadly boiler explosion in two months....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Hydearbad: Prodded by the the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways((MORTH) the segment regulator IRDAI, on Wednesday, has formed a panel under G. Srinivasan, director, National Insurance Academy, to assess the suitability of the Indian insurance industry...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
LONDON: Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said the British central bank would look at introducing climate change considerations when deciding which corporate bonds it buys once the coronavirus crisis has eased.The BoE has been targeted by climate change...
