Is the emergence of ‘pump and dump’ groups evidence the US stock market is topping out?

Are we on the verge of a ‘Taper Tantrum’? asks ALEX SEBASTIAN: It is inflation rather than the GameStop saga that will determine how long the US stock market’s gains can keep coming By Alex Sebastian for This is Money Published: 10:37 GMT, 18 February 2021 | Updated: 10:40 GMT, 18 February 2021 The recent … Read more

Climate change ‘may have driven emergence of coronavirus’

Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, a new study claims. UK researchers say global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have driven growth of forest habitat favoured by bats.  This has made southern China, in particular the Chinese Yunnan province, a ‘global hotspot’ for bat-borne coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2.  … Read more