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fool: Making bold predictions can be a risky move, leaving one looking more fool than oracle especially when the crystal ball gazing is done from several decades away, according to Nine News Australia. We've put together seven predictions for life in 2020, from as far back as the 1960s and as recent as 2017. To improve your experience update it hereLIVE UPDATESLatest on Australia's bushfire crisis News World How futurists from the past predicted life in 2020By 9News Staff6 47am Jan 1, academics and technologists have always wondered what life will be like in the years ahead. Matt Damon sits on the planet Mars in the movie 'The Martian'. 20th Century Fox Man on Mars In 1997 futurists Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden wrote a report detailing how man would set foot on Mars in the year 2020. The four astronauts touch down and beam their images back to the 11 billion people sharing in the moment. It's an extraordinary event by any measure, coming a half century after people first set foot on the Moon, they wrote. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

fuel producer: Here is a review of the year in business, according to The Guardian. Floats Saudi Aramco secured its position as the most valuable listed company in history after investor appetite for the world's biggest fossil fuel producer pushed its market value to just under 1.9tn 1.4tn after its long-awaited listing. Bankers and tycoons tried to get on with things by attempting huge flotations, large mergers and sizeable refinancings with mixed results. Shares in the Saudi state-backed oil company defied Aramco's critics by climbing nearly 11% above the 1.7tn valuation set before its market debut on Riyadh's stock exchange. The word's most profitable company was supposed to be worth 2tn when it listed the number coveted by Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman while a secondary goal was to insert Aramco shares into the portfolios of international investors. However, despite those numbers, it was still difficult to class the float as an unmitigated success. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

future: Kim also reportedly said his country planned to introduce a new strategic weapon in the near future. 2019 the year US foreign policy fell apart Read more In response, Trump said he had a good relationship with Kim and believed the North Korean leader would keep his word to refrain from nuclear and long-range missile tests, according to The Guardian. He did sign a contract, he did sign an agreement talking about denuclearisation. ... That was done in Singapore, and I think he's a man of his word, so we're going to find out, Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The North Korean leader told a four-day meeting of party officials in Pyongyang that the test ban, which Kim agreed to in talks with the US president, was no longer needed, state media said on Wednesday. Trump's secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said he hoped North Korea would choose peace over war. We're hopeful that ... chairman Kim will make the right decision he'll choose peace and prosperity over conflict and war. So, seeing that reporting publicly, it remains the case that we hope that chairman Kim will take a different course, Pompeo told Fox News in an interview. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

deal: I will be signing our very large and comprehensive Phase One Trade Deal with China on January 15, he said in the tweet, according to The Guardian. Donald J. Trump real Donald Trump I will be signing our very large and comprehensive Phase One Trade Deal with China on January 15. In a tweet on Tuesday, the US president said high-level representatives of China would attend an official ceremony at the White House, adding he would also be travelling to Beijing for talks on the second phase of the deal. The ceremony will take place at the White House. At a later date I will be going to Beijing where talks will begin on Phase Two!December 31, 2019 Under the deal, which was announced on 13 December, US plans for new tariffs on 160bn 121bn of Chinese imports of items such as smartphones and toys will be suspended. High level representatives of China will be present. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

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Pointing out more liberal lunacy Frank Aquila Guest Columnist Updated Dec. 30, 2019, 4 09 p.m. Did they impeach for quid pro quo Bribery Extortion or Witness intimidation Nope. COPY Nancy Pelosi admitted Democrats have been trying to find something to impeach President Trump on for two and a half years. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

advertising campaign: And after hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on ads attacking Donald Trump in 2016, the results were the same They never did much damage, according to The Independent. Now Michael R Bloomberg is trying his way spending millions each week in an online advertising onslaught that is guided by polling and data that he and his advisers believe provide unique insight into the president's vulnerabilities. So did 16 rival Republicans. The effort, which is targeting seven battleground states where polls show Mr Trump is likely to be competitive in November, is just one piece of an advertising campaign that is unrivalled in scope and scale. THIS IS TEMP CODE TO RESOLVE TEADS ISSUES ON SAFARAI - ISSUE-387 - START THIS WAS ORIGINALLY IN THE FOOTER EJS FILE THIS IS TEMP CODE TO RESOLVE TEADS ISSUES ON SAFARAI - ISSUE-387 - END Download the new Indpendent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now That is on top of the 128m 97m the Bloomberg campaign has spent on television ads, according to Advertising Analytics, an independent firm, which projects that Bloomberg is likely to spend a combined 300m 228m to 400m 304m on advertising across all media before the Super Tuesday primaries in early March. On Facebook and Google alone, where Mr Bloomberg is most focused on attacking the president, he has spent 18m 13.7m on ads in the last month, according to Acronym, a digital messaging firm that works with Democrats. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

bond rally: Now investors are positioning for the tech revolution's next 10 years, according to The Japan Times. Could we see a repeat of the Roaring '20s, as the 1920s were known years of prosperity, technological innovation and such social developments as women winning the right to vote Possibly. They go into the new decade with a spring in their step after watching world stocks add over 25 trillion in value in the past 10 years and a bond rally put 13 trillion worth of bond yields below zero. ; They also saw internet-based firms transform the way humans work, shop and relax. But there's unease, along with all the euphoria. And solutions may need to be unconventional, even more so than the extraordinary policies of negative interest rates and bond-buying that eased the post-2008 global funk. The current economic cycle is already the longest in U.S. history and a recession looks inevitable in the new decade which also will mark 100 years since the Wall Street crash of 1929. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

chinese observers: In 2020, more unpredictable incidents will happen or are likely to happen, including the upcoming Brexit proxy war in Libya, uncertain Korean Peninsula situation and the intensive US presidential election, according to Global Times China. Rising protectionism and unilateralism, especially in the US, also add more uncertainties and challenges to those global challenges shared by members of the international community such as climate change, terrorism, nuclear-proliferation and the sluggish world economy, said Chinese observers. Photo He Zhuoqian/GT As the year 2019 comes to an end and the new year is around the corner, many countries and regions around the globe are still suffering from political unrest, sectarian conflict, violent protests and even civil wars. Chinese President Xi Jinping said during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on December 23 that today's world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. Jin Canrong, associate dean of Renmin University of China's school of international studies in Beijing, told the Global Times that President Xi's remark that the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century is an assessment that can objectively reflect the current international situation and this assessment could mean China might actively participate in shaping the current world order and reforming globalization system. The more complicated the situation is, the more we need to maintain strategic resolve and adopt a forward-looking vision that takes the overall situation into consideration. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

dollar holdings: Some Tokyo-based strategists expect a repeat in 2020. ; The case for a stronger yen is backed by a seasonal pattern that sees the greenback typically weaken at the start of the year, as global investors sell their dollar holdings to make fresh investments overseas, according to Credit Agricole CIB. The investment bank expects the dollar to also be pressured by the unwinding of positions by Chinese market participants ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, according to The Japan Times. The dollar has gained against the yen only once since 2014 in January, said Yuji Saito, executive director of Credit Agricole's foreign exchange department in Tokyo. January has typically proved to be a favorable month for Japan's currency, bringing gains against the dollar in seven of the last 10 years. Considering this, traders may want to sell the dollar around the end of the year or early next year. Demand has been sapped by improving U.S.-China trade relations, signs of a revival in global manufacturing and a decisive U.K. election result. Bolstering predictions for a rebound, the yen has been sold off in the lead-up to the end of 2019. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

inf treaty: ARMS CONTROL One prominent issue that testifies to their worsening ties in 2019 was the withdrawals of the United States and Russia from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces INF Treaty, one of the cornerstones for the arms control regime between the two military powers, according to Global Times China. After the collapse of the INF Treaty, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty New START remains the last legal instrument that mutually limits the nuclear missile potential of the two countries and provides predictability in the field of arms control. Some chronic rifts grew even deeper this year, and there are no signs for quick reconciliation as the 2020 election is likely to heat up negative sentiment in the United States against Russia. The bilateral New START is due to expire in February 2021, but Washington has yet to respond to Moscow's proposal to extend it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month at his annual press conference. MIDDLE EAST In 2019, Russia delivered two batches of its most advanced S-400 air defense missile systems to Turkey, a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in defiance of strong US opposition. Russia is ready to work on new arms control agreements but in the meantime will continue to strengthen its nuclear forces to ensure adequate deterrence, Putin later told a meeting of senior defense officials. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

mr trump: Underscoring the divide was the fact the split was almost entirely along party lines, with 45 per cent of Republicans opting for Mr Trump and 41 of Democrats selecting his predecessor at the White House, according to The Independent. Download the new Indpendent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now Meanwhile, former first lady Michelle Obama was the most admired woman among Americans, securing 10 per cent of votes, with current first lady Melania Trump being selected by 5 per of respondents and coming second. A poll that suggested a starkly divided nation, found the current and former presidents tying for the title of America's most admired man. THIS IS TEMP CODE TO RESOLVE TEADS ISSUES ON SAFARAI - ISSUE-387 - START THIS WAS ORIGINALLY IN THE FOOTER EJS FILE THIS IS TEMP CODE TO RESOLVE TEADS ISSUES ON SAFARAI - ISSUE-387 - END Each year since 1948, Gallup has asked Americans to name, in an open-ended fashion, which man and woman living anywhere in the world they admire most. Created with Sketch. This year's results are based on a December 2-15 poll, said the polling company. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

points: The widening yields between the two maturities briefly steepened this key gauge of the so-called yield curve to around 34 basis points, its most positive levels since October 2018, but later ended at 32 basis points, according to Market Watch. A steeper curve can indicate brewing expectations for a bump in economic growth and inflationary pressures. What are Treasurys doing The 10-year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.96% rose 2.2 basis points to 1.894%, while the two-year note rate TMUBMUSD02Y, 0.75% was down by 1.6 basis points to 1.571%, its lowest since Dec. 3. The 30-year bond yield TMUBMUSD30Y, 2.52% climbed 3.3 basis points to 2.342%. Bond prices move in the opposite direction of yields. Haven assets have been on the backfoot since the agreement to a phase-one U.S.-China trade deal, which has helped boost forecasts for global growth. What's driving Treasurys U.S. Treasurys took their cue from overseas, as investors ditched German government bonds, pushing its benchmark rate to its highest level since late May. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

atheendar venkataramani: Atheendar Venkataramani, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, who was first author of the study, according to CNN. The study is important because it shows that when economic opportunities collapse, it not only has consequences for people's economic wellbeing but it might adversely affect their health too, Venkataramani said. People using illicit opioids face higher risk of death from these causes, study finds Relative to the trends in manufacturing counties where an automotive plant did not close, having a plant closure meant that your opioid overdose death rate was 85% higher after five years than it otherwise would have been -- and that was a large number to us, said Dr. Economic opportunity matters for our health, and as the forces that are shifting economic opportunities for people are continuing to evolve, we have to think about how policies can both make people resilient -- from a health sense -- to the negative changes that might happen, and we also have to think about what types of policies on the economic side may actually give people opportunities, which may also bolster their health. The researchers took a close look at the location of each plant and dates of closure. Incarceration, falling incomes may play a role in the US opioid epidemic, study says The study involved a database of automotive assembly plants in operation as of 1999, which researchers built using data from industry trade publications, automotive company websites and newspaper articles. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

dozens: A month later, another derailed in Brooklyn, according to The Guardian. Elsewhere, footage went viral after a train broke down in the middle of a tunnel on a typically sweltering New York summer day. In June, a train derailed in Harlem, injuring dozens. After almost an hour the temperature inside the carriages soared, causing, according to the New York Times, some riders to panic and one woman to strip nearly naked . A tale of two metros how the London tube beat the New York subway Read more It became known as the summer of hell. Transport groups claimed trains were running slower than in the 1950s. Only 65% of subway trains ran on time. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

figure: Put another way, it's the equivalent of losing Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts and New Jersey, according to CNN. The stunning figure is from the Royal Statistical Society, which chose it as its international statistic of the decade. That's about 24,000 square miles, or about 10.3 million American football fields. The British organization is comprised of statisticians from around the world. Read More Since 2010, miles and miles of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil have been converted for commercial use, including cattle ranching, logging and palm oil production. The statistic only gives a snapshot of the issue, but it really provides an insight into the dramatic change to the landscape that has occurred over the past decade, Liberty Vittert, a visiting scholar at Harvard University and one of the statisticians on the judging panel for the RSS, told CNN. Statisticians calculated that number using deforestation data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research INPE and FIFA's regulations on pitch dimensions. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

premium app: Mr Carney who will become the UN's special envoy for climate action and finance in February 2020 made the comments to the BBC's Today programme for a segment guest-edited by Greta Thunberg and to be broadcast on Monday, according to The Independent. THIS IS TEMP CODE TO RESOLVE TEADS ISSUES ON SAFARAI - ISSUE-387 - START THIS WAS ORIGINALLY IN THE FOOTER EJS FILE THIS IS TEMP CODE TO RESOLVE TEADS ISSUES ON SAFARAI - ISSUE-387 - END Download the new Indpendent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now Asked whether pension funds should divest from fossil fuels even if the returns currently appear attractive, he said Well that hasn't been the case, but they could make that argument. Mark Carney suggested the financial sector had not yet woken up to the looming crisis and was not moving fast enough to divest from fossil fuels. They need to make the argument to be clear about why is that going to be the case if a substantial proportion of those assets are going to be worthless. Fighting climate change with trees The facts Show all 6 Created with Sketch. Created with Sketch. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

points: But from Friday, the Nikkei plunged 181.10 points, or 0.76 percent, and the Topix sank 11.82 point, or 0.68 percent, according to The Japan Times. Stocks went south from the opening bell, weighed down by the yen's strengthening against the dollar. The benchmark index ended at 23,656.62, up 3,641.85 points, or 18.20 percent, from the 2018 closing. ; The Topix, which covers all first-section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, jumped 227.27 points, or 15.21 percent, to wrap up 2019 trading at 1,721.36. Issues in the semiconductor and machinery sectors, in particular, met with heavy selling following a drop in the U.S. SOX Philadelphia semiconductor index on Friday. Trading was thin throughout the day as there were not many participants, said Tomoaki Fujii, head of the investment research division at Akatsuki Securities Inc. The market also faced growing profit-taking and position-squaring pressures before the start of the six-day holiday, brokers said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

sec filing: State Street Global Advisors launched the first-ever exchange-traded fund, in 1993, according to Market Watch. And with a little-noted move this December, they may be pioneering yet another phase in the evolution of how investors allocate their money. But it should keep the fedora. The fund officially known as the S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY, 0.24% and colloquially referred to by its ticker, SPY, was the first and remains the king, says Todd Rosenbluth, head of ETF and mutual fund research at CFRA. SPY has 300 billion in assets and is known as one of the most liquid funds in the world, not least because it tracks one of investors' preferred benchmarks, the S&P 500 stock index. In a Dec. 18 SEC filing, the company said it would switch the index tracked by one of its smaller funds, the SPDR Portfolio Large-Cap ETF SPLG, 0.24% to the S&P 500 as well. SPX, 0.29% That makes State Street's recent move somewhat unusual. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

succession plan: It sounds like a classic case of the cobbler's children having no shoes, according to Market Watch. When advisers retire in place, they will often stop working full time, go into the office less, and only communicate with clients when it's convenient for them. Ironically, it seems that many financial advisers have not taken their own advice, and instead of developing a transition plan to get themselves on the path to retirement, they retire in place. This approach can negatively impact the level of advice they provide to clients, because they have one foot in retirement and one foot in the office. An industry in crisis According to a 2018 study by the Financial Planning Association and Janus Henderson Investors, 73% of financial advisers lack a formal succession plan. However, there are effective ways to retire in place, such as joining a firm that implements joint ventures or staged retirement plans for advisers. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

trend factors: Among the major trend factors, the institutional factor has bottomed out, according to Global Times China. Its reform measures have promoted the improvement of the Total Factor Productivity TFP although it's still not strong enough to reverse the overall economic slowdown trend. Despite some of the causes that still exist in 2020, the economic outlook is not necessarily pessimistic as some cyclical factors will reverse and good results of reform will continue to show up. From 2017 to 2018, TFP growth has picked up and made a bigger contribution to overall economic growth. Goods and services trade's contribution to China's GDP growth had shrunk from the peak of 8.6 percent in 2007 to 0.8 percent in 2018. The China-US trade war has caused severe impacts on economic globalization, but even before the trade war, the globalization has encountered difficulties. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

march: FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW TO BOOST HIGH-LEVEL OPENING UP The second session of the 13th National People's Congress on March 15 passed the foreign investment law, which will become effective on Jan. 1, 2020, according to Xinhua China. Adoption of the law is an important measure to implement the decision and arrangement of the Communist Party of China CPC Central Committee to expand opening up and promote foreign investment. China's national legislature passed the foreign investment law at the meeting. 1. Xinhua The Xinhua chronicle of the top 10 China news events in the year of 2019 is as follows 1. Adoption of the law is an important measure to implement the decision and arrangement of the Communist Party of China CPC Central Committee to expand opening up and promote foreign investment.2. Foreign Investment Law To Boost High-Level Opening UpThe second session of the 13th National People's Congress on March 15 passed the foreign investment law, which will become effective on Jan. 1, 2020. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

militia fighters: The US military carried out air strikes on Sunday against the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group in response to the killing of a US civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base, officials said, according to Nine News Australia. Iraqi security and militia sources said at least 25 militia fighters were killed and at least 55 wounded following three US air strikes in Iraq. To improve your experience update it hereLIVE UPDATESLatest on Australia's bushfire crisis News World Iraqi militia vows response to US strikes By AAP8 41pm Dec 30, 2019Tweet Facebook MailA top Iraqi militia leader warned of a strong response against US forces in Iraq following air strikes in Iraq and Syria that hit several bases of his Iranian-backed group and killed at least 25 people. The blood of the martyrs will not be in vain and our response will be very tough on the American forces in Iraq, senior commander Jamal Jaafar Ibrahimi, known by his nom de guerre Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, said late on Sunday. He is also one of Iran's most powerful allies in Iraq and formerly headed Kataib Hezbollah, which he founded. Iran said it strongly condemned the raids as terrorism . Mohandes is a senior commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces PMF an umbrella grouping of paramilitary groups mostly consisting of Iran-backed Shi'ite militias that was formally integrated into Iraq's armed forces. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

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times wework: The Times Investment banks have been found to be treating their clients more favourably than other companies in equity research coverage, an investigation by The Times has found, according to The Guardian. Financial Times WeWork will have to pay close to 17 million to replace its co-chief executives under exit packages negotiated in the run-up to the company's rescue by Soft Bank. The Daily Telegraph Tough new emissions controls could see car manufacturers hit with mega-fines next year amid disappointing sales of electric vehicles. Financial Times Italian football club AS Roma is close to a deal to be acquired by a consortium led by US billionaire Daniel Friedkin. The Guardian Sales of champagne fell by 28% in the UK over the past year, while consumers also kept other forms of sparkling wine on ice. Business and economics The Daily Telegraph The value of takeovers involving UK companies fell 50% on last year to 189 billion, according to Dealogic, despite various blockbuster deals taking place this year. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

weather events: Carney has been one of the most vocal central bank governors on the need for the financial sector to do more to transition towards a zero-carbon economy, according to The Guardian. He told the programme that the climate crisis was a tragedy on the horizon and that more extreme weather events were inevitable. Carney, who will focus on his new role as UN special envoy for climate change and finance after he steps down from the governorship in the new year, agreed to appear on the programme for an edition edited by the climate crisis campaigner Greta Thunberg, one of several guest editors on Today over the holiday period. By the time that the extreme events become so prevalent and so obvious, it will be too late to do anything about it, he said. They need to make the argument, to be clear about why is that going to be the case if a substantial proportion of those assets are going to be worthless. Political leaders had to start addressing future problems today . On the issue of whether investors should be divesting from companies in the fossil fuel sector, Carney said fund managers would have to make the judgment and justify to the people whose money it ultimately is . When pressed on whether pension funds should divest from oil and gas companies even if the returns were attractive, he replied Well that hasn't been the case but they could make that argument. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

life: He is wealthier than me and before we got married he required me to sign a prenuptial agreement, according to Market Watch. I was fine with this as I thought it would make him and his adult children more comfortable. My husband's children hate me and refused to come to our wedding, yet he is leaving them all of his property. He is now 70 and I am 62. I told him that I needed a place to live after he passes away. He has a trust for his family that was already set up before I came into his life. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.