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Jack Ma’s Online Bank Plans a $282 Billion Lending Spree – Lockdown News

6 May 2020 By Port Elizabethan

Jack Ma’s Online Bank Plans a 2 Billion Lending Spree: With China’s economy in free fall and millions of small businesses running low on cash, the online lending platform backed by billionaire Jack Ma entered crisis mode.It was mid-February, near the peak …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

France’s Macron makes mask-wearing an act of national pride: With a face mask 100% made in France, President Emmanuel Macron showed the famously fashionable French people Tuesday that civic responsibility and style are not mutually exclusive. Macron used a …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Ordinary investors warned as hundreds of millions lost on volatile Australian stock market: The corporate watchdog has warned ordinary investors against trying to pick stock market winners after finding that day traders lured into action during the coronavirus lockdown lost hundreds of …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

AFTER COVID-19 group on Facebook: Amidst all the panic over the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic we need to also plan for what happens AFTERWARDS. This group is a platform to share some positive suggestions about what we personally, as business, community leaders and politicians can do to ensure a better life for all ONCE this pandemic has ended. Post your suggestions and advice freely and with a better, faster recovery in mind.
Source: AFTER COVID-19

Australian Homes Loading Up for Lockdown Sent Retail Soaring: Australia’s frenzied stockpiling of food and other household goods ahead of coronavirus lockdown restrictions sent retail sales soaring in March.Sales surged 8.5% from February, when they advanced an …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Europe’s Fresh Food Prices In Flux As Virus Impact Bites: For German office worker Nathalie, 54, there’s no doubt her weekly food shop costs more than it did before the coronavirus pandemic. “Peppers especially have become expensive,” she said, walking into …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Amid coronavirus celebs’ ‘Mean Tweets’ video combats antisemitism: The video, a spin on Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Mean Tweets’ video, features celebrities reading anti-Semitic posts at a time of increasing coronavirus-related anti-Jewish sentiment.
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Oil Price Fundamental Daily Forecast – With Production Cuts Just Starting, Demand Controlling Price Action: Until the production cuts start to work their way through the global economy, the primary focus will be on the pace of the easing of restrictions and lockdowns and their effects on demand.
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

French farmers sound alarm in cheese market meltdown amid pandemic: “Brussels must provide our producers with more protections,” said Lacoste, adding that French cheesemakers have already lost €157 million in turnover since the coronavirus lockdown started. The CNAOL …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

French farmers sound alarm in cheese market meltdown: Former French President Charles de Gaulle once asked how anyone could govern a country with 258 kinds of cheese — and that task has now only gotten harder in the coronavirus crisis as the nation’s top …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

CLICK HERE to join the AFTER COVID-19 group on Facebook and tell us what you have planned for AFTER the Coronavirus Lockdown.

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Port Elizabethan

This author is a 'catch-all' for occasional articles and letters written to MyPE. The Author of each article can be found in the signature at the bottom of each individual article.

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