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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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.
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