© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub By Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices inched up on Tuesday as tension around Iran’s…
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Two separate economic studies point to a grim current economic reality in South Africa. Close to 3 million jobs lost due to the COVID-19 lockdown in April were not recovered again by June 2020. Also…
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With the festive season having come to a close, consumers the world over will be playing with a variety of new tech toys. In recent years, the most popular gadgets sold on Amazon have included…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – After ending the worst year in oil trading down 21%, crude prices began 2021 on a weak note as well, hampered by worries about rising production in a…
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The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that the amount we work would gradually shrink to as little as 15 hours a week as technology made us more productive. Not only did this not…
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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. What happens in your brain when you wake up from…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind the chimneys of the Total Grandpuits oil refinery southeast of Paris By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices touched multi-month highs on Monday on expectations OPEC and…
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2/2 © Reuters. OPEC Secretary General Barkindo delivers his speech in Vienna 2/2 By Vladimir Soldatkin and Alex Lawler MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) – OPEC sees plenty of downside risks for oil markets in the first half…
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Imagine yourself as the first naturalist to stand in a place where little recorded scientific knowledge exists, like Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago or Alexander von Humboldt in the Americas in the early…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Call it the year of polar opposites. Those looking at oil and gold returns for 2020 might have blinked, had they seen the numbers back-to-back. To be sure,…
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