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Bahamas’ Institute benefits from eCom Scotland eAssessment Platform

With over half its multi-million dollar revenue regularly coming from clients outside the UK, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is used to working with organisations in far-flung, often exotic and, sometimes, remote parts of the world. Among these is the far-from remote but no-less-exotic Bahamas, where one of its professional institutes is benefiting from using eCom’s eAssessment platform with the hundreds of students studying for qualifications on its 16 or so regular programmes.

Marketmind: Trillion-dollar Tesla

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet… and Tesla. We now have a trillion-dollar EV firm whose 10% surge on Monday lifted Wall Street to new record highs — electric vehicles going mainstream is perhaps encouraging news ahead of the COP26 environment summit.

EU countries splinter ahead of crisis talks on energy price spike

Divisions have deepened among European Union countries ahead of an emergency meeting of ministers on Tuesday on their response to a spike in energy prices, with some countries seeking a regulatory overhaul and others firmly opposed.

Asia stocks catch Wall St cheer but China caps gains

Asian stocks inched higher on Tuesday, as upbeat Wall Street earnings lifted the broader economic outlook though fresh worries about China’s property sector hit Hong Kong and mainland markets.

Another Chinese property developer defaults, shares drop

Modern Land (1107.HK) reported a missed payment on Tuesday, the latest Chinese property developer to do so, adding to worries about spiralling effects of the debt crisis at behemoth China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) and dragging on shares in the sector.

Bahamas’ Institute benefits from eCom Scotland eAssessment Platform

With over half its multi-million dollar revenue regularly coming from clients outside the UK, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is used to working with organisations in far-flung, often exotic and, sometimes, remote parts of the world. Among these is the far-from remote but no-less-exotic Bahamas, where one of its professional institutes is benefiting from using eCom’s eAssessment platform with the hundreds of students studying for qualifications on its 16 or so regular programmes.

Marketmind: Trillion-dollar Tesla

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet… and Tesla. We now have a trillion-dollar EV firm whose 10% surge on Monday lifted Wall Street to new record highs — electric vehicles going mainstream is perhaps encouraging news ahead of the COP26 environment summit.

EU countries splinter ahead of crisis talks on energy price spike

Divisions have deepened among European Union countries ahead of an emergency meeting of ministers on Tuesday on their response to a spike in energy prices, with some countries seeking a regulatory overhaul and others firmly opposed.

Asia stocks catch Wall St cheer but China caps gains

Asian stocks inched higher on Tuesday, as upbeat Wall Street earnings lifted the broader economic outlook though fresh worries about China’s property sector hit Hong Kong and mainland markets.

Another Chinese property developer defaults, shares drop

Modern Land (1107.HK) reported a missed payment on Tuesday, the latest Chinese property developer to do so, adding to worries about spiralling effects of the debt crisis at behemoth China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) and dragging on shares in the sector.

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