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First COVID-19 vaccine is 90 percent effective, says Pfizer

The interim analysis has taken data from 7 days after the second dose of vaccination. Pfizer and BioNTech did add that the final vaccine efficacy percenta...

Japan and Australia reinforce Quad bond in message to Biden

Late Tuesday, Nine Newspapers reported that an anonymous Chinese official had provided it with a document laying out more than a dozen complaints against Austra...

Statistics Canada to detail October inflation reading

Meanwhile, food prices rose 0.1 percent in the month, as compared with a decline of 0.7 percent in October 2019. The increase was nearly entirely driven by ri...

Tesla (TSLA) Sneaks Into the S&P 500

After months of speculation, vehicle manufacturing startup Tesla will become the newest addition to the S&P Dow Jones Indices on December 21, the index annou...

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine progress sends stock markets soaring

This statement by Moderna came a week after pharmaceutical industry giant Pfizer and German partner BioNtech SE announced that their coronavirus vaccine can...

Tesla joining S&P 500 group of companies

When Tesla joins the S&P 500, it will be among the most valuable companies on the benchmark. The announcement, made Monday afternoon by the S&P Dow Jones Indi...

Moderna says COVID-19 vaccine 94.5 percent effective

Furthermore, data from the two trials do not indicate how long the protection afforded by the vaccines lasts. Moderna shares were up 10% to $98 in early Mon...

Moderna says its vaccine shows strong results against COVID-19

And even better, it appears it can be kept in a standard fridge, making it much easier to store. The government has scrambled to secure the vaccine, with Matt...

Oil climbs higher on China, Japan rebound, hopes for OPEC

For the week, both notched gains of more than 8%. While oil prices rallied to $45 a barrel in London last week following news of a breakthrough on a Covid-19 ...

NOAA: Category 5 Hurricane Iota Track, Spaghetti Models

The hurricane center also expects the coast of Nicaragua and Honduras will see a life-threatening storm surge as much as 10 to 15 feet above normal tide levels,...

Hopes raised as second Covid vaccine trial shows almost 95% protection

Soon, millions of people around the world could be spared from illness by the breakthroughs. Moderna's success comes exactly a week after Germany's BioNTech...

Brexit: Trade deal sticking points 'can be resolved', says United Kingdom minister

He added: "If a deal isn't done this week we have real problems". Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in precautionary self-isolation on Monday after contact w...

Why Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine results represent more good news for Canada

The vaccines , both developed with new technology known as messenger RNA ( mRNA ), represent powerful tools to fight a pandemic that has infected 54 million peo...

Iota threatens to batter Central America as powerful category 5 storm

Iota was upgraded to Category 5 - the highest level - as it moved westward over the Caribbean towards the Nicaragua-Honduras border. This is a catastrophic ra...

J&J starts two-dose trial of Covid-19 candidate vaccine in UK

Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are based on a new platform called messenger RNA, which is faster to produce than traditional vaccines. In any event,...

WHO In Talks With Russian Institute On Sputnik V COVID-19 Vaccine

RB Kamal, principal of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College, confirmed the clinical trials will start from next week. "The head of the research, Saurabh Aga...

SeaDream Halts Caribbean Cruise as More Passengers Test Positive for COVID-19

The incident marked the first time SeaDream had resumed its West Indies voyages since the pandemic, with the ship originally scheduled to return to Barbados on ...

15 countries sign trade deal without India

It was the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) that in 2012 initiated the RCEP negotiations between ASEAN and the countries with which it had th...

Nissan Qashqai to introduce hybrid power

On the powertrain front you can say goodbye to diesels as Nissan will be offering just two options in the new Qashqai: a new 1.3-litre turbopetrol engine - ...

Next-Gen Honda Civic Teased Ahead Of Prototype Debut On November 17

This special edition episode of Honda Head2Head on Twitch will begin live at 8 p.m. ET, with the Civic reveal at 9:45pm ET. We have already reported about h...

At Disney, Streaming Soars as Other Businesses Continue to Struggle

With movie theaters closed and TV production stalled, Disney's streaming efforts have become the focus-and promise-of a company otherwise marked by layoffs and ...

Google employees will work remotely until summer 2021

With the announcement, Google became the first major USA company to establish an extended timeline for employees to return to work as the coronavirus continue...

Unemployment Numbers Continue to Drop in South Dakota

That's an increase of 605 claims, or 0.3%, over the previous week. There were 53,138 new unemployment claims filed during the week of October 19 in IL. The in...

European Union purchases 200 million doses of the Pfizer Coronavirus vaccine

Both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines have shown that they produce a T cell response. Still, this could present complications in how the vaccine is distr...

Enhancing connectivity with ASEAN a major priority for India: PM Modi

The Palace official said that the ASEAN welcomed the designation of 2021 as the ASEAN-China Year of Sustainable Development Cooperation, where ASEAN encourages ...

China Congratulates Joe Biden on Election Win After Days of Silence

Biden is finishing the race with 306 electoral votes while Trump has 232, the complete opposite from his race with Hillary Clinton . He said a vaccine wou...

Ford's E-Transit is a more affordable electric delivery van

Ford hasn't gotten overly range-ambitious with its first electric van , using customer telematics data from 30 million miles traveled to try to pinpoint just ...

U.S. stocks drop amid coronavirus concerns

At 9.48am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 189.92 points, or 0.65 per cent to 29,207.71, the S&P 500 lost 17.01 points or 0.48 per cent to 3,555.65 a...

FM Announces Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana

She also noted that Moody's has reassessed India's economic outlook, making an upward revision to its GDP forecast. Sitharaman cited data, including increase ...

BMW’s new iX arrives as firm’s flagship EV

The iX's design is dominated by lines, with not a lot of curves on the body. Comparable with the BMW X5 in length and width, and the BMW X6 in height, the aut...

Working from home? Deutsche Bank say you should pay a ‘privilege tax’

And it would not apply if workers are asked to stay home for public health reasons, such as a national lockdown. The estimated $48 billion generated from the ...

Musk questions coronavirus tests over opposite results on same day

When asked by a Twitter user if he showed any symptoms, Musk said he had symptoms of a " typical cold ". He most probably couldn't believe in this "bogus" sit...

Disney posts losses for 2nd straight quarter

Since the coronavirus hit, Disney has accelerated its efforts to focus its business on streaming, which has been a bright spot during the pandemic. Disney C...

SoftBank books $1.7 billion loss from tech stock speculation

For the July-September quarter, net profit came to ¥627.5 billion, or $6.1 billion. The strong performance continues a remarkable comeback for the Japanese co...

Zoom to add security enhancements following United States govt settlement

The FTC also alleged that the company compromised the security of some users when it secretly installed software, called a ZoomOpener web server, as part of ...