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How Etsy won the stock market in 2020

Pin up the artful balloon garlands and toss the custom glitter confetti: Etsy Inc is having a gangbusters year. The online marketplace for handmade, vintage and other creative goods, which joined the S&P 500 Index last month, is the best-performing stock in that group year to date: Like many of its e-commerce-focussed peers, Etsy benefited earlier this year when brick-and-mortar ...

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What’s next if Trump is ‘unable’ to govern

Now that President Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19, the Department of Justice is almost certainly focussing on the 25th Amendment, which provides for the transfer of presidential authority to the vice president. No one who works for a sitting president wants to think about that amendment. But in any administration, worst-case scenarios get attention, and if the president ...

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World’s best airport warns of ‘daunting’ future amid virus

Bloomberg Changi Airport Group said the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic isn’t abating as officials behind the world’s best airport warned of a “daunting” period ahead. Passenger traffic for Changi for the fiscal year ended in March declined for the first time in more than a decade, as a slump in the last two months of the period wiped out ...

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