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Cooks Venture raises $10 million in Series A funding

Cooks Venture has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by SJF Ventures and Cultivian Sandbox, with participation from Larry Schwartz and John Roulac.At its most basic level, Cooks Venture provid

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Former U.S. Fed chiefs urge Congress to pass another relief bill

VCG Former U.S. Federal Reserve chiefs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen on Friday urged Congress to pass another COVID-19 relief bill as the pace of U.S. economic recovery could be slow and uneve

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Foreign investors keen on China bonds with high inflows in Q2: WSJ

Overseas investors are cranking up holdings of Chinese government bonds with an eye on yields and safety, said a report by the Wall Street Journal on Monday.Chinese gov

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Moving forward with digital agriculture

Editor's note: Michael Kremer is a 2019 Nobel laureate in economics, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a co-founder and board member of Precision Agriculture for Development. Gilber

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Japan's GPIF posts record quarterly loss as virus hits stocks

Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world's largest pension fund, on Friday reported a record quarterly loss of 17.71 trillion yen (164.74 billion U.S. dollars) in January-March

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Virus hands Japan pension fund worst loss since 2008 crisis

The sign for Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) as seen in Tokyo, Japan, November 16, 2018. /Reuters Japan's huge public pension fund, the world's biggest, said Friday it had su

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Feature: Chinese water-saving technology facilitates agricultural development in Uzbekistan

Abdullah Begmatov, 54, who has more than a decade of experience of growing cotton in Uzbekistan, is very confident in his traditional irrigation practice. But in the f

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Wall Street faces danger signs after best quarter since '98

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 19, 2020. /Reuters A stock rebound marked by Wall Street's strongest quarter in more than two decades h

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Democrats warn against overconfidence in fight against Trump

President Donald Trump is entering the final four-month stretch before Election Day presiding over a country that faces a public health crisis, mass unemployment and a

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China stands pat on benchmark LPR for second straight month

China held its benchmark lending rate steady for the second straight month at its June fixing on Monday, meeting market expectations.Both the one-year and five-year loan prime rate (LPR) remained

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Dollar crunch appears over as central banks rely less on Fed backstop

A global crunch for U.S. dollars that was a hallmark of the early moments of the coronavirus crisis appears to have passed, the latest milestone in a remarkable turnaround in financial conditions eng

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Enterprises, people welcome "good old days" amid relaxing COVID-19 restrictions in Asia-Pacific

"During the post COVID-19 recovery, when consumers pay more attention to how to keep fit and enhance immunity, our products will see a surge in the market need," said New Zealand honey factory

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Feature: A Pakistani student's "golden, happy" days in China

by Yao Youming, Chen Chen and Bai Nimin Abdul Ghaffar Shar, a Pakistani doctoral student in China's Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NWAFU), was busy helping his teachers harvest t

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China issuance of special gov't bonds has limited impact on liquidity

China's upcoming issuance of special government bonds for COVID-19 control will have a limited impact on market liquidity and bond prices, analysts said.China will issue the first three batches of

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China issuance of special gov't bonds to have limited impact on liquidity: analysts

China's upcoming issuance of special government bonds for COVID-19 control will have a limited impact on market liquidity and bond prices, analysts said. China will is

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U.S. May retail sales surge 17.7% biggest monthly jump ever

U.S. retail sales surged by 17.7 percent last month as more businesses were allowed to reopen amid the relaxing of lockdowns, reversing a record plunge of 16.4 percent in April, data from the U.S.

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CMU demonstrates nanoscale technology that causes plants to absorb nutrients with nearly 100% efficiency

Spraying plants with fertilizers and pesticides is typically a highly lossy affair – as little as 1% of the substances currently used in industrial and food production farming is actually taken up by