Global financial media last night and this morningThe main headlines of common concern are:
1. Pelosi said that the US House of Representatives will pass the $550 billion infrastructure bill this week.
2. Biden says he supports taxing the wealth of billionaires
Rio Tinto PLC and the Canadian trade union reached a labor agreement on British Columbia's actions.
4. Pfizer Inc CEO: it is predicted that he will return to a normal life within a year.
5. Panic buying aggravates BP P.L.C. 's cut-off at nearly 1/3 of the gas stations in the UK.
6. Top analysts say now is the right time to buy Neflix and Tesla, Inc.
Pelosi said the U.S. House of Representatives will pass a $550 billion infrastructure bill this week.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated Sunday that she expects a $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill to be passed this week.
However, the vote may be delayed from the original Monday schedule.
Pelosi says President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion settlement bill may also be lower than expected.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated on Sunday that she expected the $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill to be passed this week, but that a vote on the bill could be delayed from the original Monday schedule.
"I just want to say that we will pass the bill this week," Pelosi said. " "I will never introduce a bill without votes. You can't choose a date. You must get the vote within a reasonable time, and we will. "
Pelosi had promised to vote on the infrastructure bill on or before September 27. The Senate has passed the measure.
Biden says he supports taxing billionaires' wealth
U.S. president Joe Biden said on Friday local time that U.S. tax laws do not usually tax investment income, which would be a major change in the U.S. tax code, and he supports the proposal to impose an annual tax on billionaires' unrealized capital gains.
When asked about Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden's plan to impose a "billionaire income tax" on the richest American families, Biden told reporters at the White House that he supported such a tax. his ambitious social spending plan as part of his efforts to offset costs. "I support a lot of these proposals," Biden said. "We don't need everything I support to pay for it, but I do support it."
According to an analysis released at the White House on Thursday, if unrealized capital gains are considered income, the 400 richest households in the United States pay an effective federal income tax rate of about 8.2%. Wyden spoke in support of his tax proposal.
Rio Tinto PLC and Canadian trade unions reached a labor association on British Columbia's actions.议
Rio Tinto PLC(RIO.L) said on Sunday that it had reached a labor agreement in principle with Canadian trade unions on operations in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.
The agreement was reached after weeks of second-round negotiations on proposed changes to workers' retirement benefits and unresolved grievances, but failed in July.
The Canadian union, representing about 900 workers at the company's aluminium smelter in Kitimat and its power generation facility in Kemano, went on strike at its plant in British Columbia in July after the first round of talks failed.
"both sides are satisfied and the proposed agreement will provide a competitive and sustainable future for the British Columbia plant," Rio Tinto PLC said in a statement on his website on Sunday. "
Pfizer Inc CEO: it is predicted that he will return to normal life within a year.
Pfizer IncAlbert Burla, chief executive and chairman, said on Sunday that he would return to normal life within a year, adding that COVID-19 might need to be vaccinated once a year.
There will be some warnings about a return to normal life, he said: "I don't think it means that the mutation will not continue, and I don't think it means that we should be able to live without vaccination," Burla said. "but it remains to be seen."
Burla's prediction of when to return to normal life is consistent with that of Moderna Inc CEO St é phane Bancel.
To achieve this goal, Burla suggests that the coronavirus vaccine may need to be injected once a year.
Panic purchases exacerbate BP P.L.C. 's outage at nearly 1/3 of gas stations in the UK
BP P.L.C.The company (BP.L) said that despite the government's plea for motorists to behave normally, nearly 1/3 of its UK gas stations ran out of two major grades of fuel on Sunday as panic purchases continued. And insist that there is no fundamental shortage.
After oil companies reported a lack of drivers causing traffic problems from the refinery to the front yard, motorists queued at the gas station for a third day, some waiting for hours to fill up.
Some operators have to ration supplies, while others have to close gas stations.
BP P.L.C., which operates 1200 sites in the UK, said in a statement: "due to strong demand over the past two days, we estimate that about 30 per cent of the sites in the network currently do not have any major grade fuel."
Top analysts say now is the right time to buy Neflix and Tesla, Inc.
Although the market has been volatile, analysts still see rising opportunities in selected companies.
From electric cars to video streaming, some top analysts in US capital markets have recently expressed their views on these stocks.
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, investors are interested in video streaming services and content producer NetflixThere are high hopes, but the high growth in one quarter usually means that the next quarter will be more difficult. Although the company experienced a slowdown in subscriber growth throughout 2021, Stifel Nicolaus's Scott Devitt believes the worst is over.
Devitt rated the stock a buy and raised its target price to $650 from $580.