© Reuters By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — A year ago, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman lamented that “psychological factors” and “extremely negative expectations” were hampering the oil market despite “very limited impact on global oil demand”.…
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The governors of Texas and Mississippi announced that they were rescinding their statewide mask mandates and allowing restaurants and other businesses to return to 100% capacity in early March. The moves come while new infection…
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Over the past few days, Google has been inking multimillion-dollar deals to pay media companies for news content that will appear on Google News Showcase. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is the latest beneficiary of a…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – US gasoline futures finished their first week above $2 per gallon since 2019, while global crude benchmark Brent neared $70 a barrel, after producer alliance OPEC+ largely withheld…
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There was room for some optimism in Rishi Sunak’s budget. The UK’s GDP is forecast to return to its pre-pandemic level by the middle of 2022, six months earlier than previously predicted. And after nearly…
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Although international travel restrictions for Australia have been extended to at least June, there may still be potential for a trans-Tasman bubble with New Zealand (and maybe some other countries), according to reports. Air New…
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6/6 © Reuters. People wait for the opening of a polling station during the legislative election in Abidjan 2/6 By Ange Aboa and Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast voted on Saturday in a…
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In the budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed a £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund to help reverse 40 years of growing inequality across the UK’s regions. This stems from the Conservatives’ 2019 manifesto commitment to close…
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Scientists have found another piece in the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-long evolutionary mystery. All bats — apart from the fruit bats of the family Pteropodidae (also…
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3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Senator Joe Manchin Democrat of West Virginia discusses climate policy coal and renewable energy at a press briefing at the IHS Markit CERAWeek conference in Houston 2/3 By Timothy Gardner…
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