© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil prices fell on Friday morning in Asia as investors express doubts about a U.S.-mediated truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. U.S. Crude Oil WTI Futures jumped almost 25% in the last…
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As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, the focus of business leaders and others has been on immediate responses and short-term time horizons. This is for good reason. Yet there are initial signs of how the crisis…
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COVID-19 is not the world’s first pandemic. Nor is it the only type of big problem that the world faces. Environmental degradation and drug-resistant diseases are other examples. What’s special about the new coronavirus is…
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© Reuters. By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com –Gold returned to trading like a risk asset on Thursday, rising over 2% in line with U.S. stocks as President Donald Trump called an end to the global price…
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The power of cities comes from the number of interactions they enable, between people, firms and markets – they are centres of social interaction. For all their virtues, however, cities have a major downside. They…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump holds meeting with pharmaceutical executives to discuss developing coronavirus vaccine at the White House in Washington By Jeff Mason and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald…
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Professor Ekanem Braide, a professor of parasitology and epidemiology, was recently named president of the Nigerian Academy of Science and will assume office in January 2021. She is the first female president in the Academy’s…
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Deliveries of groceries and packages are soaring as physical retailers close their doors and tens of millions of Americans “shelter in place.” Moreover, the need for social distancing may encourage more delivery workers to leave…
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© Reuters. By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com — Gold prices recovered fractionally on Wednesday after a sharp end-of-quarter selloff by portfolio investors drove it briefly below $1,600 an ounce. Prices were lifted by a broad risk-off sentiment…
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The digital economy has been getting a lot of attention, with increasingly strong headlines offering apocalyptic as well as breathtakingly exciting scenarios. Some warn of job losses due to automation, some wonder at the things…
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