© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Gold prices rose on Thursday but still finished with a weekly loss, after the twist to a U.S. coronavirus stimulus package and the dollar’s unexpected gains in recent…
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This week I was vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, which brought to mind some frequently asked questions about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. I am a professor of infectious diseases at the…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An attendant walks past EU and China flags ahead of the EU-China High-level Economic Dialogue in Beijing By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) – China will conduct talks on an investment…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Crude prices rose Thursday but were unable to extend their seven-week rally as a new strain of the coronavirus discovered in Britain and feared to be spreading brought…
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Imagine opening the weekend paper and looking through the puzzle pages for the Sudoku. You spend your morning working through this logic puzzle, only to realise by the last few squares there’s no consistent way…
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3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad 2/3 By Ruma Paul and Rajendra Jadhav DHAKA/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Bangladesh is finalising a purchase of 150,000 tonnes…
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No one raised an eyebrow when Mark Zuckerberg bought tiny Instagram in 2012 for US$1 billion. Now regulators want to unwind the deal, by forcing Facebook to sell Instagram, and WhatsApp. This move may spell…
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In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or the “seven sisters”. Look carefully and you will probably count six stars. So why do we say there…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – One swallow doesn’t make a summer. Likewise, one positive EIA dataset for the winter doesn’t ensure oil’s fundamentals will stay strong through a season when demand for travel…
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The seeds of the 2020 UK recession were sown on March 23 when the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, put England into its first coronavirus lockdown. Over the following month, UK GDP fell by 19.5%.…
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