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Oil Gains for 2nd Week, But Prices Range-Bound Again By Investing.com

Oil Gains for 2nd Week, But Prices Range-Bound Again By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan  Investing.com – Oil put in a second week of gains as crude prices reentered range-bound trading on Friday on concerns about slowing U.S. jobs growth and the Covid situation in…

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Remote working has led to managers spying more on staff – here are three ways to curb it

Remote working has led to managers spying more on staff – here are three ways to curb it

With so many more people working from home during the pandemic, employers have stepped up the extent to which they are monitoring them online. Not so many years ago, employees were having to adjust to…

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New Chia cryptocurrency promises to be greener than Bitcoin, but may drive up hard drive prices

New Chia cryptocurrency promises to be greener than Bitcoin, but may drive up hard drive prices

It has been a big year for cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is worth six times what it was 12 months ago, and the joke currency Dogecoin has seen a hundredfold increase in price. A boom in “non-fungible…

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Gold Has Best Week Since October on U.S. Payrolls Shock By Investing.com

Gold Has Best Week Since October on U.S. Payrolls Shock By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Gold had its best week in six months as shockingly low U.S. payrolls numbers for April, coupled with the yellow metal’s belated catch up to inflationary trends, gave…

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Making space for Buddha in the boardroom

Making space for Buddha in the boardroom

It seems farfetched to imagine that an ancient meditation technique, practised by Buddhists over 2,000 years ago, could have a place in the 21st-century corporate boardroom. Yet, despite criticisms that it is just another faddish…

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how evolution engineered nature’s underwater acrobats

how evolution engineered nature’s underwater acrobats

Few fish can outswim a seal. Seals fly through the waves, predators in their natural element. But, unlike fish, seals are air-breathing mammals whose ancestors only returned to the water from a life on land…

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Exclusive-Saudi Arabia wants to see “verifiable deeds” from talks with Iran, says official By Reuters

Exclusive-Saudi Arabia wants to see “verifiable deeds” from talks with Iran, says official By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo By Ghaida Ghantous DUBAI (Reuters) – A Saudi…

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Reducing methane is crucial for protecting climate and health, and it can pay for itself – so why aren’t more companies doing it?

Reducing methane is crucial for protecting climate and health, and it can pay for itself – so why aren’t more companies doing it?

Methane, the main ingredient in natural gas, is a larger climate problem than the world anticipates, and cutting its emissions will be crucial to slow global warming, a new United Nations report warns. The greenhouse…

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motherhood across the animal kingdom

motherhood across the animal kingdom

With Mother’s Day around the corner, it’s a good opportunity to ask what being a mother looks like across the animal kingdom. Most of us have a solid concept of human motherhood, but in nature…

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Oil Heads for Back-to-Back Weekly Gain as Commodities Power On By Bloomberg

Oil Heads for Back-to-Back Weekly Gain as Commodities Power On By Bloomberg

© Reuters. Oil Heads for Back-to-Back Weekly Gain as Commodities Power On (Bloomberg) — Oil headed for a second straight weekly advance as investors bet on rising energy demand amid a broad rally in commodities,…

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