Pandora partners on launch of UNICEF campaign

UNICEF and Pandora announced another initiative in their strategic collaboration, as Pandora pledged a significant donation to the new #Reimagine campaign. Through the campaign, UNICEF is issuing an urgent appeal to governments, the public, donors and the private sector to join UNICEF as it seeks to respond, recover and reimagine a world currently besieged by the coronavirus.

Focusing on the most vulnerable children – such as those affected by poverty, exclusion or family violence – UNICEF is working to stop the disease spreading further, address the damage already inflicted, mitigate the knock-on effects on children and lay the groundwork for building back a better world.

Strict protocols for customers in Sri Lanka

Recently Armil Sammoon by ICA Ambassador to Sri Lanka Report says, “Though my first report happens to be at a time of this great challenge, I am also comforted knowing that we have our ICA family and we are all going through this together and in knowing that, it assures us of our resilience to support each other and come out of this united. Back home here in Sri Lanka we have been under island-wide curfew for the past month, actually almost 50 days.”

Our local ICA community and the rest of the industry are very much in touch with each other, and finding ways to support each other to assist our communities affected. We are staying engaged continuously.

New Storage Box for Coin Rolls on May 18

US Mint Introduces New Storage Box

The United States Mint (Mint) will roll out the new Coin Roll Collector Box on May 18 at noon Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The new storage box replaces the Quarter Roll Collector’s Box and the Dollar Coin Rolls Collector’s Box.

Priced at $16.25, the Coin Roll Collector Box conveniently stores rolls of $1 coins or quarters issued in the Native American $1 Coin Program, the American Innovation $1 Coin Program, and the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.

India announces measures for bottom of pyramid

In the row, FM announces the 2 big measures of Rs 4tn for the bottom of the pyramid people in the sync of Hon’ble Prime Minister announced a Special economic and comprehensive package of Rs 20 lakh Crore - equivalent to 10% of India’s GDP on 12th May 2020.

He gave a clarion call for आत्मनिर्भर भारत अभियान or Self-Reliant India Movement. He also outlined five pillars of Aatmanirbhar Bharat – Economy, Infrastructure, System, Vibrant Demography and Demand. Announcing the 2nd Tranche of measures to ameliorate the hardships faced specifically by migrant labours, street vendors, migrant urban poor, small traders self-employed people, small farmers and housing, Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her press conference detailed the short term and long-term measures for supporting the poor, including migrants, farmers, tiny businesses and street vendors.

Oxford presents four hypothetical scenarios

WGC Investment Update of May, Covid-19: potential impact on the global economy and gold performance says the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic lockdowns have slashed global growth forecasts for 2020. With varied expectations around the speed of the economic recovery, we analyse the potential performance of gold across four hypothetical scenarios provided by Oxford Economics:

1. Swift recovery, 2. US corporate crisis, 3. Emerging markets downturn & 4. Deep recession. Our analysis shows that higher risk and uncertainty combined with lower opportunity cost will likely be supportive of gold investment demand in 2020. This could offset the negative effect of lower consumer demand on gold performance as economic activity contracts.

Recovery Likely to Come in Fits and Starts

With some stores starting to reopen as governors lift stay-at-home orders across the country, economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is likely to come gradually and may vary by location, NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said.

“Getting back to work or shopping in a pre-virus manner is difficult to predict at this time, with households likely to tiptoe back in rather than making an immediate return to the lives they experienced before,” Kleinhenz said. “As states begin to slowly reopen and assuming the coronavirus does not come back, the economy should begin a process of gradual recovery.

Integrated automation for trade & traders

FYERS partners with True Data to offer

Integrated APIs to retail traders for trade automation!

Offering low latency Data feeds directly from the NSE & MCX for Indices, Equities, Futures & Options

Bangalore, India, May 13, 2020: Technology focused stock brokerage firm FYERS tied up with the country’s leading data vendor, TrueData to further the agenda of the Indian Algo trading ecosystem. Leveraging this partnership, FYERS will be offering preferred access to Algo trading and reliable data feeds, through integrated trading APIs.

Covid-19 – the #safebusiness

IEG project is ready!

Holding and taking part in trade shows in Italy in complete safety, in total respect of the rules and healthcare protocols, protecting the health of companies and visitors.

#safebusiness by IEG is the name of the project launched by IEG Italian Exhibition Group, the trade fair and conference organizer with head offices in Rimini, Italy and operative in Vicenza, Milan, Brescia, Rome, Arezzo and Naples as well as in China, the United States, and Dubai with associated companies.

New stylish skeleton Calibre

Framed by a 42mm steel case, the movement’s assembly and open-worked details are key to the final horological aesthetic of this timepiece. The distinctive characteristic remains the 6 o’clock front dial positioning of its visible balance wheel. The dial, however, has been opened, exposing the manufacturing beauty and highlighting the richness of watchmaking expertise, whilst infusing it with its distinctive free-spirited attitude.

The new stylish skeleton Calibre RW1212 is proof of the ever-evolving achievements to these in-house movements. While working on the initial design of the Calibre RW1212, the R&D team at Raymond Weil redesigned and pared down all the elements closely relating to the exquisite mechanism so as to endow this exclusive in-house movement with even more depth and character.

FM announces relief measures of about Rs 6tn for MSMEs!

A Special economic and comprehensive

Package of total Rs 20 lakh crores!

Update 1: Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi yesterday announced a Special economic and comprehensive package of Rs 20 lakh crores - equivalent to 10% of India’s GDP. He gave a clarion call for आत्मनिर्भर भारत अभियान or Self-Reliant India Movement. He also outlined five pillars of AtmaNirbhar Bharat – Economy, Infrastructure, System, Vibrant Demography and Demand.