When Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-cutting mini-budget triggered a UK debt crisis in autumn 2022, the pound plummeted to almost parity with the US dollar. In 2023 the UK has endured weak growth, falling…
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In 2022, the Royal Australian Mint issued a $2 coin decorated with honeybees. Around 2,400 years earlier, a mint in the kingdom of Macedon had the same idea, creating a silver obol coin with a…
Read MoreBack Published on 31 July 2023 480 Views Print UOB nets $2.3 billion profit in 1H 5 min read UOB Group reported a core net profit of SGD 3.1 billion ($2.3 billion) for the first…
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© Reuters Investing.com — All eyes will be on the U.S. in the coming week as inflation data is released. GDP data out of the U.K. will show how the economy is holding up in…
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© Reuters. Investing.com — There are four more weeks to this year’s Labor Day – the timeline typically used to ascertain the peak for summer oil demand; typically, because oil demand itself is so dynamic…
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If we have not been warned of the dangers of climate change this summer, we never will be. Extreme heat, forest fires and floods have been all over news reports. Yet the oil and gas…
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Until the late 19th century, the success of criminal investigations largely hung on witness reports and (often extorted) confessions. A lack of scientific tools meant investigators needed advanced deductive reasoning abilities – and even then…
Read MoreBack Published on 31 July 2023 507 Views Print Standard Chartered Asia’s income up by 23% in first half 5 min read Standard Chartered Asia delivered a strong performance with income up 23% year-on-year (YoY)…
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Beginning August 21, Jeffrey Schmid will be the president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The appointment ends a lengthy search process, as former president Esther George retired on January…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The view of the U.S Capitol on the day former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is facing federal charges related to attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, appears at the…
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