Enter all-electric aircraft: Rolls Royce’s Spirit of Innovation completes its first flight across the UK skies as the company announces it could have a speed of 300kph and starts a further investigation. Evergrande, China’s most prominent real-estate developer and a Fortune 500 company, enters deep trouble as fears of loan defaults increase. SpaceX is ahead in the space race again, as it launched its first tourist-loaded ship into space on Wednesday evening. US consumers report shows unexpected growth even amid the resurgence in delta variant cases; Some industries are still shrinking.

1. Week of September 20, 2021
Rolls Royce’s electric plane
takes flight
Musk’s SpaceX
launches tourists
into space
August’s Consumer
Report impresses
the Street
Real Estate
mammoth Evergrande
is up for massive
default
Rolls Royce, not to be confused with Rolls Royce Motorcars, which BMW
owns, is now leading the entry of the air industry into the age of
sustainable energy sources.

2. 30,500.05 107,680.22 50,715.35 15,132.06
+176.71/+0.58% -3,759.15/-3.37% -592.36/-1.15% -358.11/-2.31%
6,903.91
-59.73/-0.86%
3,613.97 3,041.73 33,896.44 58,490.93 55,246.07
+6.87/+0.19% -29.50/-0.96% -688.44/-1.99% -524.96/-0.89% -1,359.18/-2.40%
Markets
Tokyo, Japan
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Frankfurt, Germany
(DAX 30 Index)
London, UK
(FTSE 100 Index)
Shanghai, China
(SSE Composite Index)
Mumbai, India
(BSE SENSEX)
Singapore
(Straits Times Index)
São Paolo, Brazil
(Bovespa Index)
Johannesburg, South Africa
(JSE Top 40)
Mexico City, Mexico
(BMV IPC)
New York, USA
(Dow Jones Industrial Average)
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Index
Bovespa
Index
BMV Ipc
DAX 30
Index
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Index
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Index
Straits Times
Index
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3. Market news
U.S. Markets spiral in fear as
Evergrande threatens assets.
Cigarette giant Phillip Morris takes over an Asthma inhaler company.
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4. Rolls Royce’s electric
plane takes flight
Rolls Royce, not to be confused with Rolls Royce
Motorcars, which BMW owns, is now leading the
entry of the air industry into the age of
sustainable energy sources. On Wednesday, the
company announced that the maiden flight of the
‘Spirit of Innovation’ was a success. It flew over the
U.K. for over 15 minutes, marking the start of
extensive safety and functionality tests for this
new technology. The company expects to reach
speeds of 300 miles per hour with a robust energy
pack.
Last Week’s Highlights

5. The space race keeps heating up as the first tourists were sent to space by Elon Musk’s
SpaceX on Wednesday last week. Four tourists were sent to space, as the first civilian crew
ever to go to space commercially. The Inspiration 4 was launched from Florida’s Cape
Canaveral station with a Cancer patient, a billionaire who self-funded the mission and a
teacher. The capsule included provisions and food for a week, although touchdown was
expected on Saturday if weather conditions allowed it.
Last Week’s Highlights
Musk’s SpaceX
launches tourists
into space

6. Real Estate
mammoth
Evergrande is
up for massive
default
Some companies are too big to fail, Evergrande should
be one of those as even the risk of loan default could send
chinese markets into peril. And not only Chinese
companies and debtors are to worry, if the real estate
giant defaults on its loans, markets worldwide may be
affected. On Monday markets were spiraling down with
fears of Evergrande’s fall, and a crisis is expected if the
worst fears are confirmed.
Coming Up This Week

7. August’s Consumer Report
impresses the Street
Even as inflation has taken its toll on prices, retail consumers keep going to the
stores in better numbers in the US as shown by an unexpected August consumer’s
report. Ahead of the holiday season investors had their eyes fixed on this report,
even before an important announcement on policy from the FED. Sales jumped a
combined 1.8% but excluded important industries such as Auto manufacturers
and air travel, due to semiconductor shortages and the delta variant respectively.
Coming Up This Week

8. · Bitcoin dips to 44,000 on Evergrande fears
· U.K. food supplies remain at risk among shortages.
· U.S to mandate vaccines for foreign travelers.
· Pfizer says its vaccine is safe for children.
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