© Reuters. By Barani KrishnanInvesting.com – Oil has started the year with a boom, ending the first week with a gain of nearly 8%, as OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia continued with its lower-for-longer supply strategy. Since…
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The race is on to secure vaccines that will protect people from COVID-19. But it’s already become apparent that there is gross inequality playing out in the procurement and distribution of the new drugs. One…
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Editor’s note: MVS Chandrashekhar is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of South Carolina. In this interview, he explains how smoke detectors work and why they sometimes sound an alarm for what seems…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Clouds hover above a corn field in Dubuque (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a lower court ruling that severely limited the government’s powers to exempt…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – The expectation was that 2021 would be a brilliant year for gold. While it may still turn out to be so, the first week of the year is…
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Luxury goods giant LVMH has completed its US$15.8 billion (£11.6 billion) mega-deal to buy famous American jeweller Tiffany & Co. LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, originally agreed to pay US$16.2 billion for Tiffany in 2019,…
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The attack on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 was shocking, but no one following right-wing activity on social media should have been surprised. The attempt by President Donald Trump’s far-right supporters to violently…
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© Reuters. Beijing’s Coldest Spell Since 1966 Is Spurring Energy Prices (Bloomberg) — A cold blast across China that’s brought temperatures in Beijing to the lowest since 1966 is wreaking havoc on energy markets, creating…
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Amid the chaos in the US Capitol, stoked largely by rhetoric from President Donald Trump, Twitter has locked his account, with 88.7 million followers, for 12 hours. Facebook and Instagram quickly followed suit, locking Trump’s…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Gold prices rose Thursday as investors began making a beeline for the yellow metal despite a rebound in the dollar, as the win of the U.S. Senate by…
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