The corona crisis is not without its effects on the leadership style of managers. This was not only revealed by a recent Xing survey, but also confirmed by Thomas Mielke, partner at the international HR consultancy AETHOS Consulting Group.
Palm Set for Best Year Since 2011 With La Nina in Spotlight
Bloomberg 1/15/2021 Anuradha Raghu and Eko Listiyorini
(Bloomberg) Palm oil prices are set to have their best annual showing in a decade even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
Benchmark futures for the tropical oil, used in everything from cooking oil to shampoo, will average 3,200 ringgit ($791) a ton in 2021, the highest in a decade, according to the median of 23 estimates in a Bloomberg survey of analysts, traders and plantation executives, versus 2,700 ringgit last year.
A bullish cocktail of La Nina-linked flooding and shrinking inventories in Malaysia is bolstering the market, but prices may come under pressure in the second half as production of palm, as well as soybean oil, rebounds. Food and fuel demand is shrouded in uncertainty as the virus persists in key markets.
(Repeats story published on Thursday)By Mei Mei ChuKUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Palm oil prices are likely to remain high in the first quarter but "fall dramatically" during the second half of the year as palm and oilseed plantings pick up, two leading industry analysts said in a webinar on Thursday.Prices would be propelled by the soyoil market, with crop-stressing drought in South America squeezing global soybean supplies and China continuing its stockbuilding of commodities, they said.
Palm oil prices are likely to remain high in the first quarter but “fall dramatically” during the second half of the year as palm and oilseed plantings pick up, two leading industry analysts said in a webinar on Thursday. Prices would be propelled by the soyoil market, with crop-stressing drought in South America squeezing global .
German SF looks back upon a history found in many other European countries: 17th and 18th-century proto-SF (such as
Somnium [The Dream] by astronomer Johannes Kepler), a first novel meeting modern SF criteria published at the beginning of the 19th century (
Ini. Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert [Ini. A Novel from the Twenty-First Century] by Julius von Voss in 1810 – eight years before Shelley’s
Frankenstein), and then an era of novels about travelling to strange and alien territories and exploring them. German SF even has its own counterpart to H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, namely Kurd Laßwitz, whose deep humanity noticeably shapes his great novel