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Amazon, Apple earnings to provide look at consumer habits
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Amazon, Apple earnings to provide look at consumer habits

[ad_1] Consumer habits will come to the fore again in next week's earnings deluge, when Amazon.com Inc., Shopify Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc. are expected to talk about online spending trends and Apple Inc. may comment on the outlook for iPhone sales.It follows a packed week that showed the US economy and consumer spending growing at a faster clip than expected, while corporate earnings delivered a few surprises of their own. Intel Corp. surged post-market after the chipmaker signaled its long-awaited comeback may be just around the corner; McDonald's Corp. and Mastercard Inc. also topped estimates. Thus far, US companies have registered the most earnings beats in almost two years, according to data tracked by Bloomberg Intelligence, and companies selling non-essential products and ser...
Nasal Vaccines Could Be Beneficial In Controlling Covid: WHO
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Nasal Vaccines Could Be Beneficial In Controlling Covid: WHO

[ad_1] CanSino and Bharat Biotech both have WHO-approved injectable Covid-19 vaccines.Geneva: Nasal Covid-19 vaccines could help to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control, the World Health Organization said Wednesday after homegrown products were approved in India and China.The WHO welcomed the new front in the fight against the virus -- but also said it wanted to see the data behind the vaccines, to assess whether to aprove them.China on Sunday launched the world's first inhalable Covid vaccine, Convidecia Air, which is made by CanSino Biologics and administered through a nebuliser.And India approved a nasally-administered Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Tuesday, developed by Bharat Biotech.WHO emergencies director Mike Ryan said nasal vaccines generated immune response in the ...