The cost of a chocolate bunny, favorite Easter treats of many Europeans, increased by more than 10% over the last year and may continue to grow. This is associated with price hike of chocolate and ingredients. According to Mintec British company, the price of a kilogram of milk chocolate increased from 1.64 pounds ($ 2.3) to 1.82 pounds ($ 2.6) in a year. The experts link this to the fact that...

Rockefeller Family Foundation announced its withdrawal from assets associated with hydrocarbon production and processing. According to the Fund’s opinion, when the whole world is trying to reduce use of hydrocarbons, investments in this sector are reasonable neither ethically nor from the financial point of view. In the statement, Rockefeller Family Fund declared that the Fund intends to get rid...

Streaming services like Spotify and YouTube in 2015 brought to record labels and musicians more profits than services for downloading music, such as iTunes. However, observers note that the revenue from playing music on such services is growing slower compared to musical traffic on the same websites. This fact questions fairness of copyright royalties that the services pay to musicians....

Global warming leads to earlier ripening of grapes in France, and has a positive effect on the quality of wine. However, in case of long-term preservation of this climatic trend, French vineyards can be seriously affected. Scientists from Harvard published an article in the journal Nature Climate Change. They suggest that over time, owners of some of French vineyards will have to move to other...

Global Finance has published a list of winners of the 2016 World's Banks ranking. This is a list of the best banks providing services in different regions of the world. Recently, due to the high volatility in the markets, many banks found themselves in a difficult situation, with which they cope with varying degrees of success and creativity. According to recent studies of banking assets in...

Bonds in the energy sector are defaulting, the bankruptcy risks are accumulated, and not only the coal industry is to blame for this. Oil and gas companies, seriously affected by the fall in prices as a result of the shale revolution in the United States, are suffocating under the burden of debt on the bonds. Small and medium-sized US companies, especially those that grew up because of the...

Website Marijuana Business Daily, dedicated to the market of marijuana, has published a study that the US market marijuana could reach the volume of $ 44 billion by 2020. This forecast implies continuation of current trends in the legalization of marijuana, and development of the relevant business. Even in the worst case, the market will grow quite considerably, up $ 24 billion. According to...

Germany deprived the UK of the title of the most attractive market for investment in commercial real estate in Europe. The UK had been considered the most attractive market during the previous two years, according to an annual survey of real estate investors held by CBRE company. However, the UK housing market lose its appeal and yielded the position to the Germany this year. About 17% of...

The creator of the portal BuzzFeed Jonah Peretti is not an authority for the "serious" media. However, his view of the monetization of information resources is really interesting. It is necessary to listen to the man who has promoted a website, estimated at $ 1.5 billion, from a scratch. Let’s see what he thinks. Peretti asserts that modern media are difficult to survive without a competent...