© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — Oil prices extended their rally on Wednesday after the U.S. government reported an outsized weekly drop in crude stocks that seemed to reflect a heavy year-end destocking exercise…
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Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma has allegedly fallen out with the Beijing government. Several recent articles reported that Ma offended the Chinese authorities by delivering a speech in Shanghai in October criticising financial regulation, and…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A polar bear keeping close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge By Nichola Groom and Yereth Rosen (Reuters) – The Trump administration on…
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The coronavirus has crippled the world economy. Global GDP suffered its sharpest drop since the end of the second world war in 2020, millions were unemployed or furloughed, and governments pumped trillions of dollars into…
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Bitcoin continues to trade close to its all-time high reached this month. Its price is now around US $34,000 — up about 77% over the past month and 305% over the past year. First launched…
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© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – U.S. oil stockpiles fell last week, but product inventories rose sharply taking some shine off a positive day for oil prices Tuesday after Saudi Arabia delivered an expected cut…
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The U.S. transportation sector is one of the largest contributors of carbon dioxide, the potent driver of climate change. Transportation accounts for about 28% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and, since 1990, emissions in…
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Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It slowly destroys memory, thinking and behaviors, and eventually the ability to carry out daily tasks. As scientists search for a cure, we have been learning…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub By Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices inched up on Tuesday as tension around Iran’s…
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Two separate economic studies point to a grim current economic reality in South Africa. Close to 3 million jobs lost due to the COVID-19 lockdown in April were not recovered again by June 2020. Also…
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