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Wall Street Journal (July 1)

2025/ 07/ 02 by jd in Global News

“The automation of Amazon facilities is approaching a new milestone: There will soon be as many robots as humans.” After years dedicated to “automating tasks previously done by humans in its facilities,” Amazon now has over “one million robots in those workplaces…. The most it has ever had and near the count of human workers at the facilities.” The shift “has helped Amazon improve productivity, while easing pressure on the company to solve problems such as heavy staff turnover at its fulfillment centers.” Currently, “some 75% of Amazon’s global deliveries are assisted in some way by robotics.”

 

New York Times (December 4)

2024/ 12/ 06 by jd in Global News

“On Wednesday, the price of a single Bitcoin rose to more than $100,000, a remarkable milestone for an experimental financial asset that had once been mocked as a sideshow…. Bitcoin now stands as arguably the most successful investment product of the last 20 years. The value of all the coins in circulation is $2 trillion, more than the combined worth of Mastercard, Walmart and JPMorgan Chase.”

 

MarketWatch (May 16)

2024/ 05/ 18 by jd in Global News

“Hold on to your hats. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly traded above 40,000 for the first time ever Thursday but ended the day shy of a milestone that investors said could help further boost bullish spirits on Wall Street.” The Dow’s attempt to close “above 40,000 comes amid a broader rally that saw the blue-chip gauge, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite ll close at record highs on Wednesday.”

 

Institutional Investor (June 10)

2022/ 06/ 13 by jd in Global News

“From 2006 to 2015, only four ESG shareholder proposals at companies in the Fortune 250 passed with majority votes. But in recent years, institutional interest in ESG proposals has undergone a dramatic transformation: From 2016 to 2021, 41 ESG shareholder proposals passed.” With ESG proposal now regularly passing, we’ve reached “a milestone for ESG integration.”

 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 1)

2022/ 02/ 03 by jd in Global News

“The highly contagious omicron variant has pushed the daily average of U.S. COVID-19 deaths higher than last fall’s delta wave as the nation nears a chilling milestone of 900,000 coronavirus deaths.” Statewide deaths have also been growing, though “it remains unclear if Georgia will surpass the peak that followed the devastating surge of the earlier delta variant.”

 

New York Times (January 5)

2022/ 01/ 06 by jd in Global News

“Toyota Motor unseated General Motors as the top-selling automaker in the United States last year, becoming the first manufacturer based outside the country to achieve that feat in the industry’s nearly 120-year history.” Coming amidst a “tumultuous” year shaken by supply chain and manufacturing issues, the milestone also “underlines the changes shaking automakers… as they move into electric vehicles.”

 

Market Watch (September 16)

2021/ 09/ 16 by jd in Global News

“The U.S. passed another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, when the number of fatalities from COVID-19 passed 666,000, meaning that about 1 in every 500 people living in America has died of the illness.” And with just under 2,000 deaths from COVID a day, “the U.S. is suffering more deaths every two days than in the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001.”

 

CNN (June 20)

2021/ 06/ 21 by jd in Global News

“China has administered more than 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses, an astonishing milestone that comes as the country rolls out an unrivaled inoculation drive…. Those doses are almost 40% of the 2.5 billion shots administered globally” and “all the more remarkable given that China’s rollout…. only reached its first million administered doses on March 27.”

 

Reuters (March 15)

2021/ 03/ 15 by jd in Global News

U.S. airlines are pointing to “concrete signs of an industry recovery as a slowing COVID-19 pandemic helps leisure bookings.” One of them, “Chicago-based United, which had been among the most pessimistic of the airlines heading into the pandemic a year ago, is the first to say it could hit the industry’s cash burn milestone” and return to the black in March.

 

Houston Chronicle (March 2)

2021/ 03/ 04 by jd in Global News

“Houston is the nation’s first city to record every major variant of the novel coronavirus—many of which are more contagious than the original strain.” This unwelcome milestone “comes barely a week after the ever-evolving virus’ death toll in the United States passed the half-million mark, a grim figure that…experts believe will continue to increase unless Americans double-down on social distancing, masks and vaccination efforts.”

 

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