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Oil climbs on expected further draw in U.S. crude inventories By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A sticker reads crude oil on the side of a storage tank in the Permian Basin in Mentone, Loving County, Texas, U.S. November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Angus Mordant By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO…

How do you start your own company?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How do you start your own company? — Noah H.,…

How to see tonight’s conjunction of Venus and Mars in the evening sky

Venus has returned to our evening skies and is looking lovely in the north-west after sunset. Tonight, July 13, it will pair up with the red planet Mars and just above the two planets will…

Vietnam’s central bank to pilot ‘virtual currency’

Vietnam’s prime minister, Pham Minh Chinh, has instructed the country’s central bank to develop a “virtual currency” based on blockchain within the next three years. On June 15, Chinh published a plan for the development…

Oil prices slip as economic fears offset tightening crude supplies By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An employee demonstrates a sample of crude oil in the Yarakta Oil Field, owned by Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), in Irkutsk Region, Russia in this picture illustration taken March 11, 2019.…

Poverty in 2021 looks different than in 1964 – but the US hasn’t changed how it measures who’s poor since LBJ began his war

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty. “The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it,” he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. “We cannot afford…