June 30, 2020/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week – U.S. commercial oil inventories reached an all-time high of 541 million barrels for the week ending on June 19, breaking a record last set in March 2017. These numbers exclude the SPR. – As of June 19, inventories were at 62 […]
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Reopening Asia: How the Right Policies Can Help Economic Recovery
June 30, 2020/IMFBlog by Chang Yong Rhee For the first time in living memory, Asia’s growth is expected to contract by 1.6 percent—a downgrade to the April projection of zero growth. While Asia’s economic growth in the first quarter of 2020 was better than projected in the April World Economic […]
In Times When Black Lives Finally Matter, Building Purpose-Driven Businesses is Key to Economic Empowerment
The Opportunity Fund will invest only in companies led by people of color, and is the first such fund to be created in response to growing protests June 30, 2020/AEC Earlier this month and following the death of George Floyd, SoftBank announced a $100m investment fund for minority-owned businesses. The […]
