2) London is the largest technology hub in Europe where capital comes out of the crisis: The London-based tech firms have rejected Covid, to lure $ 12.5 billion in investment in the past 12 months: more than France and Germany combined.
3) Hitachi pours millions into rival Richard Branson Hyperloop: Hitachi will invest millions of pounds in its rival Hyperloop Sir Richard Branson, which will travel at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour.
4) Companies are turning to virtual and mindful yoga to combat mental health: The pandemic is causing a mental health crisis among employees who work long hours in isolation: this is how employers respond.
5) Uber has stopped developing self-driving cars because it sells technology: Uber has dropped plans to build its self-driving car and sold the division developing the technology to an American start-up after repeated setbacks.
What happened overnight
Asian stocks came under pressure on Tuesday as investors struggled to balance hopes for more economic stimulus and vaccines with concern over a spike in Covid-19 cases.
a The mixed Asian opening was followed by a similar mixed trading session on Wall Street, as the high-tech Nasdaq Composite closed at a record low as investors flocked to massive growth stocks, while the other two major indices fell in the US.
The MSCI’s broadest index of Asia Pacific stocks outside of Japan fell 0.25%. The Australian S & P / ASX 200 Index gained 0.23% as gold miners rallied on strong bullion prices, although the gains were capped by losses in energy stocks stemming from lower oil prices overnight.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index trimmed its losses from early trade, down 0.27 percent, as Prime Minister Yoshihdi Suga unveiled 73.6 trillion yen ($ 708 billion) in new economic stimulus measures, indicating his intention to pull the country out of the recession caused by the coronavirus crisis. .
Chinese blue-chips fell 0.2%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.62%.
Is coming today
Company: Be commended (Interim results); Ferguson (Trading statement)
Economics: BRC Retail Sales Monitor (United kingdom); Final reading of GDP Q3 (Euro-zone) ; ZEW Polls (Germany); Non-agricultural productivity (United State)
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