All posts tagged "Newyear"

Successive countries are marking the coming of the year 2022, with many holding muted celebrations amid the coronavirus pandemic. Celebrations were under way in Europe, where despite unseasonably mild weather, many large parties and fireworks displays were cancelled, for example in London and Paris, or scaled down, like in Madrid. In Berlin, there were no big fireworks display at the Brandenburg Gate and no party with hundreds of thousands of people, and just before midnight Berlin police called on people not to head to the landmark. Crowds that flocked to the area before midnight started diss......

Thousands of people were expected to descend to ticketed vantage points to watch Sydney's famous New Year's Eve fireworks despite record-shattering numbers of infections in New South Wales. Sydney on Wednesday released details about its fireworks display, for which some 17,000 tickets for vantage points managed by the city were already sold, according to news agency AAP. The agency quoted a city spokesperson as saying they could not predict the turnout for the pyrotechnic show, but five of the six locations managed by the city were sold out and tickets for another 25 locations, with capacity f......

Sydney was like a ghost town as the clock ticked over from 2020 to 2021. The fireworks were smaller than previous years, limited to the Sydney Harbour Bridge for just seven minutes and aimed at a global TV audience. Wire fences blocked entry to the foreshore and police stopped anybody from heading towards vantage points where normally up to a million people pack together to watch the world famous fireworks up and down the harbour. New Year's revellers who try to breach Sydney harbour lockout laws to watch the midnight fireworks risk being hit with fines of 1,000 Australian dollars (770 dollars......

COVID-19 took a heavy toll on the U.S. economy in 2020, causing millions of job losses and forcing many businesses to close. It also affected lots of retirement plans in the process. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more A survey by the Pew Research Center found that 36% of Americans who save regularly are saving less because of the pandemic, and one-third said they’ve had to dip into their retirement savings to pay bills. Tips To Help Your Retirement Savings In The New YearThis is unsettling news, but as we gratefully flip the calendar to 2021, there is good news. Vaccines for COVI......