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1. "The Fragile State of the World's Children" (2020). UNICEF. https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Fragile_State_of_the_Worlds_Children_2020.pdf 2. Blyth, Erica. "The Fragile State of Mental Health in the Workplace" (2020). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2020/08/the-fragile-state-of-mental-health-in-the-workplace 3. Alford, Henry. "The Fragile Beauty of the Ocean" (2020). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/ocean-plastic-pollution.html 4. "Fragile States Index 2020" (2020). Fund for Peace. https://fragilestatesindex.org/ 5. "Global Fragility Act: A Crucial Step Toward Addressing Global Fragility" (2020). U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. https://www.usglc.org/global-fragility-act-crucial-step-toward
Stocks trade pretty volatile. The EuroStoxx50 swung from losses to gains back to losses (twice). All indices on Wall Street opened with gains but only the S&P500 (+0.1%) and Nasdaq (0.80%) can currently maintain some of them. Though fragile, the minor improvement in risk appetite lifts the euro from the daily lows.
The cultural shift toward greater mental health awareness has helped bring needed attention to psychological suffering, improve access to mental health resources, and reduce stigma. However, it may also be increasing the pathologization of ordinary life, leading people to think of themselves as mentally fragile and unwell. This creates a challenge for employers. How can they support workers’ mental health without encouraging them to dwell on their negative thoughts and feelings? The author argues in favor of what he calls an outward-action approach to mental health: evidence-based mental health strategies that don’t encourage a fixation on one’s own negative thoughts and emotions.
India's outlook in the long-term is still positive due to high growth potential and favourable market conditions, even amid a fragile global environment, rising yields and universally high interest rates, according to Anup Maheshwari, CIO of 360 One Asset Management. He recommends picking and choosing stocks by digging deeper than just valuations. Investing is all about compounding the money over long periods, he said. He said the country could benefit from a struggling economy in China. India stars have risen as China stars have been falling.
Some of Monday’s top business news stories: The Associated Press: Moody’s lowers US credit outlook, though keeps triple-A rating, by Christopher Rugaber A fragile global economy is at stake as US and China seek to cool tensions at APEC summit, by Paul Wiseman CNN IRS announces new income tax brackets, by Jeanne Sahadi The Fed […]
In the 1960s, newly independent African governments asserted sovereignty over their metal and mineral resources, in a reversal of their prior colonial exploitation by European mining corporations. In this excerpt from his new book Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus, Ben Radley shows how transnational corporations have once…