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Oct152020 by adminNo Comments

WHO: Average person may wait until 2022 for vaccine

World

Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization said if there is an effective vaccine against COVID-19 next year the distribution plan prioritizes vaccinating those most at risk to the virus, forcing the average person to possibly wait for their inoculation until 2022. "People tend the think 'Ah! On the first of January or the first of April, I'm going to get the vaccine, and then things will be back to normal,'" WHO's chief scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said. "It's not going to work like that." Advertisement Swaminathan made the remark Wednesday during an online question and answer discussion hosted by the U.N. health body, explaining that if there is a vaccine by next year there will not initially be enough produced for everyone, so countries will need a plan for distributing the drug...

Jul152020 by adminNo Comments

Average age of our investors have dropped to 30: Nikhil Kamath

Finance

New investors will be well advised to stay away from smallcaps and penny stocks and should not buy stocks based on a tip and SMS messages, says the Co-founder & CIO, Zerodha.What kind of traction are you seeing? We have seen a lot more action in mobile trades as well with investors flocking to equity markets. Do you see further emphasis on mobile and digital and does that help to boost volumes further?The trading will continue to move away from traditional EXE-based platforms onto mobile and web platforms. We see this trend continuing. In terms of the account opening and new investor interest which is coming into the market, it is a factor of many things. A lot of it has to do with the interest rate cycle, how quickly interest rates have gone down and bank FD is no longer as appealing...

Mar32020 by adminNo Comments

Global air pollution shortens lifespan by average of three years

Science

March 3 (UPI) -- Air pollution is a greater drag on the average human lifespan than war, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking and more. In a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Cardiovascular Research, an international team of scientists used a novel modelling technique to estimate the effects of different types of air pollution on death rates around the world. Simulations showed global air pollution was responsible for 8.8 million premature deaths in 2015, shortening human life expectancy an average of three years. By comparison, smoking tobacco shortened life expectancy by 2.2 years. Diseases spread by parasites or insects like mosquitoes, ticks and fleas shortened life expectancy by a little more than half a year. Using the results of previous scientific studies as their guide, the crea...

Feb202020 by adminNo Comments

Democrat plans to tax the wealthy could hit an unintended target: Average Americans

Finance

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a campaign event on February 17, 2020 in Richmond, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Justin SullivanWhen Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposed legislation last year to tax stock trades, he decried the "recklessness of Wall Street billionaires" and cited a goal of building an economy "that works for all Americans."Now, Sanders and other Democratic Party presidential candidates — Michael Bloomberg, most recently — are leveraging a "financial transaction" tax as a way to fix wealth inequality and fund central initiatives such as health-care reform.But there's one problem: The tax could end up hitting average Americans, as well, namely those saving for retirement, future health costs or a child's colleg...

Jan62020 by adminNo Comments

FTSE chief executives ‘earn average salary within three days’

Business

Bosses of Britain's leading firms will be paid more within three working days of 2020 than the average employees' annual wage, according to research.FTSE 100 chief executives starting work on 2 January will by 17:00 GMT on Monday have earned above the average wage of £29,559, the report says.The data was compiled by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the High Pay Centre think tank.Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the pay gap was "concerning".The figures - based on the latest available data - suggests the average FTSE 100 chief was paid £3.46m in 2018, equivalent to £901.30 an hour.The average full-time annual salary of £29,559 works out at £14.37 an hour, the report said, meaning that top bosses earned about 117 times their ave...