The FINANCIAL — One sector that has already begun to notice the effects of the “new normal” is the beauty industry. After the free fall of sales revenue during lockdown, which showed a decline of 18.8% from the previous year, there are now signs of recovery as the decline has levelled off to only 2.4%. This is a sector that the
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The FINANCIAL -- New York , N.Y. -- Recently it's become nearly impossible to walk through a grocery store or look at a restaurant menu without seeing the words "gluten-free" emblazoned on every other package and page. In a world filled with
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The FINANCIAL -- Latin America is home to more than 425 million Catholics – nearly 40% of the world’s total Catholic population – and the Roman Catholic Church now has a Latin American pope for the first time in its history. Yet
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The FINANCIAL -- The pervasive conflicts that have gripped the Middle East over recent years — from political turmoil in the wake of the Arab Spring to the rise of Islamic State militants — have taken a serious toll on the outlook
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The FINANCIAL -- On a rainy Friday, a man in a business suit looked out the 56th floor window of Seattle high-rise. The phone call he was on - an interview for a job in New York - couldn’t hold his attention.
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The FINANCIAL -- Nearly three-quarters of the public (72%) now thinks religion is losing influence in American life, up 5 percentage points from 2010 to the highest level in Pew Research polling over the past decade. And most people who say religion's
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The FINANCIAL -- When it comes to family vacations, home really is where the heart is. Families are among the heaviest users of vacation home rentals this year, representing 56 percent of all vacation home rental lodgers. Families are also more likely
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The FINANCIAL -- For the first time in decades, the non-marital birth rate in the U.S. has been declining, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics.
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The FINANCIAL -- To most Americans, citizenship, like DNA, seems like something a parent passes to a child without thought or effort. And indeed, for fathers around the world, that’s almost universally true.
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The FINANCIAL -- It's something that keeps many Americans up at night, tossing and turning, worrying about whether they have enough money to do a myriad of things - retire, meet unexpected costs, and so forth.
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The FINANCIAL -- A study in which Facebook manipulated the news feeds to more than 600,000 users sent social media users into a cyber-swoon this week and spilled over into the mainstream media: “Facebook Tinkers With Users’ Emotions,” began the headline on
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