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Australia To Test Coronavirus Vaccine; US Doctor Claims To Have Potential Cure

PYMNTS

Australia’s national science agency plans to test a pair of vaccines over the next 90 days, part of a global race to stop the coronavirus pandemic. As researchers scramble for a cure, a doctor featured in “Pandemic,” a Netflix documentary, announced his team may have discovered a coronavirus cure which will now be tested by the U.S.

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Supply Chain Bottlenecks Impact Shipments To Stores, Warehouses

PYMNTS

The executive also noted that operations at the firm’s storage facilities and those of wholesale clients “have been slower just due to some labor shortages and other disruption due to Covid.”. In August, international container shipping volumes were up 34.2 percent as compared to February, WSJ reported, citing Container Trade Statistics.

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The effects of subsidised flood insurance on real estate markets

BankUnderground

million properties built before 2002 and sold multiple times. In our regression, we interact this flood exposure with a binary variable capturing the time period when Flood Re was operating. We employ a ‘repeat sales approach’ examining only those 1.5 Specifically, we regress the change in property price on their exposure to flooding.

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Walmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business

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Walmart has been operating in Japan for the last 16 years — a time described as “tumultuous” by the Financial Times ( FT ). Walmart first purchase Seiyu in 2002, but has faced difficulties gaining traction in the extraordinarily challenging Japanese market. As Walmart is refocusing its efforts in the U.S.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: Philadelphia, PA. Operating Location: Menlo Park, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. 11 of the top 20 worked in big tech prior to entering VC.

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Wayfair’s Burgeoning Home Goods Ecosystem

PYMNTS

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. Houzz, Overstock and Target.com have all incorporated AR VR into their digital home furnishing sales operations. And that growth has carried on since then. As of today, Wayfair brings in $6.6

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Good News from Gen Next

Independent Banker

Another significant finding of the survey was that across generations, Americans prefer to work with locally owned and operated banks. Fifty-four percent of millennials said, specifically, that they would prefer the local option, while 30 percent of them said they would rather bank at a national or international bank.