The Unfiltered Lens

Let's take the corona map of the United States. See the much larger circles on the coasts than in the countryside. See the huge ring around New York, where 1 in 1,000 residents is infected. The circles on the west coast, where the virus…

Japanese technology and electronics group Sony is unsure whether it will be able to meet its profit expectations this current financial year, due to the impact of the corona crisis. In February, Sony had just revised up its profit forecast…

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) is lowering the credit rating of the US auto group Ford Motor to junk status because of the major problems the corona crisis is causing in the auto industry. This means that, according to…

São Paulo, the largest Brazilian city, has entered a lockdown in the fight against the corona virus. That measure was against the sore leg of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who calls on residents to continue working and picking up…

Japanese telecom giant and tech investor SoftBank plans to sell a significant portion of its stake in the Chinese online store Alibaba as part of its debt reduction plans. Reuters news agency heard from insiders that the Japanese want to…

China's second-largest economy is expected to show the weakest growth in more than 40 years this year due to the corona crisis. Economists predict that, polled by Bloomberg news agency. According to economists, growth will be 2.9 percent…

For the super-rich it is not an option to wait at home what the corona virus brings. The demand for protected exclusive shelters has risen sharply in recent months. Like a modern Noah's ark for the wealthy, but in an old rocket silo, deep…

The interest rates that Chinese banks charge to their best customers have unexpectedly been kept the same. The majority of economists expected that the so-called Loan Prime Rate (LPR) would be lowered, so that companies could borrow more…