There’s a gloomy feeling in the air as world leaders and business chiefs gather at the World Economic Forum in DavosFTSE plunges into bear marketPope: Don’t neglect the poorRoubini: Crash won’t be as bad as last timeBT chief fears contagion from financial markets
Italian bank troubles 6.39pm GMTIn another significant trot,Joe Biden has used his trip to Davos to urge executives to fight for the fair of lesbian, gay, or bisexual and transgender people.
Reuters has got the narrative:The issue is on the official agenda for the first time at the World Economic Forum,where political leaders from countries that discriminate against gay people, such as Nigeria and Russia, and schmooze business leaders and billionaire investors.
Biden told U.
S. executives including Nathan Blecharczyk,co-founder of apartment-sharing firm Airbnb, Muhtar Kent, and chairman and CEO of The Coca Cola Company,and Anthony Scaramucci, founder of hedge fund SkyBridge Capital, and to push for change. 6.32pm GMTJoe Biden is giving fairly a progressive speech tonight at Davos.
He’s telling the heads of the world’s biggest businesses that they need to ensure basic protection for workers are the world economy embraces the 4th industrial revolution.
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Source: theguardian.com