Editor’s note: When the Trump administration ordered hospitals to report COVID-19 data to the Department of Health and Human Services rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as they had been doing, it…
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COVID-19 has shown how damaging ill-health can be for the economy. But it has also shown how measures that benefit health (lockdowns) can be seen as bad economic prosperity. A similar paradox is at the…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Robert Giatras fuels-up his car at a Speedway gas station in Des Plaines, Illinois By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – Marathon Petroleum (N:) plans to permanently close two small U.S. oil…
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A big year for privacy just got bigger. On July 16, Europe’s top court ruled on the legality of two mechanisms for cross-border transfers of personal data. The Court of Justice of the European Union…
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a R70 billion (US$4.3 billion) loan for South Africa to help the country manage the immediate consequences of the fallout from COVID-19. The Conversation Africa’s editor, Caroline Southey,…
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By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – One day — that’s all the bears in gold could manage in keeping gold prices down as the yellow metal bounced back Friday from a brief selloff across markets forced…
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A debt service relief package has been approved by some of the world’s biggest lenders for more than 25 African countries. The arrangement includes the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the G20, the African…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan and Geoffrey Smith Investing.com – Like a shadow in the background that could suddenly leap to the front depending on how the light is cast, OPEC’s looming supply increase is…
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Horses, like our dogs and cats, are familiar to many of us, be they racehorses, police horses, or much-loved pony club mounts. So it might surprise you that horses, in Australia, are more deadly than…
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COVID-19 has wrought havoc on poor households in countries across the world. In South Africa, more and more people are facing hunger resulting from mass job losses and small, poorly implemented supplementary cash grants. On…
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