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Oil slips after U.S. crude stocks rise amid deep freeze hit to refiners By Reuters

Oil slips after U.S. crude stocks rise amid deep freeze hit to refiners By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell in early trade on Wednesday after industry…

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Decision-making experts explain how to avoid arguments over where to get dinner together

Decision-making experts explain how to avoid arguments over where to get dinner together

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The next time someone asks you where you want to go for dinner, state a clear preference. And if you’re inviting…

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Facebook’s news is gone. Here’s where to turn for trusted information

Facebook’s news is gone. Here’s where to turn for trusted information

Information is everywhere, right? Well, here in Australia, we now have one less source of news information at our fingertips. Today, Facebook banned Australian users from posting news links, and sharing or viewing Australian and…

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BofA hikes 2021 Brent price view by $10/bbl on strong oil balances By Reuters

BofA hikes 2021 Brent price view by $10/bbl on strong oil balances By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An oil worker walks toward a drill rig in Loving County, Texas (Reuters) – Bank of America (NYSE:) (BofA) Global Research lifted its forecast for prices for this year citing tighter…

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Why Black and Hispanic small-business owners have been so badly hit in the pandemic recession

Why Black and Hispanic small-business owners have been so badly hit in the pandemic recession

The pandemic has taken a heavy toll on Main Street, with small businesses across the U.S. closing by the thousands. But as bad as the overall scene is, for minority-owned businesses the picture is even…

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Oil prices jump more than $1 on slow U.S. output restart By Reuters

Oil prices jump more than $1 on slow U.S. output restart By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An employee holds a sample of crude oil at the Irkutsk Oil Co-owned Yarakta field in the Irkutsk region By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices jumped by more than…

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If Big Tech has the will, here are ways research shows self-regulation can work

If Big Tech has the will, here are ways research shows self-regulation can work

Governments and observers across the world have repeatedly raised concerns about the monopoly power of Big Tech companies and the role the companies play in disseminating misinformation. In response, Big Tech companies have tried to…

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This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting

This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting

In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter above the Drysdale River. In a paper published today in Nature Human…

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Oil producers eye long road to recovery as Texas begins to thaw By Reuters

Oil producers eye long road to recovery as Texas begins to thaw By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks to his friend’s home in a neighbourhood without electricity as snow covers the BlackHawk neighborhood in Pflugerville 2/2 By Devika Krishna Kumar and Laila Kearney NEW YORK…

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Child poverty in the U.S. could be slashed by monthly payments to parents – an idea proved in other rich countries and proposed by a prominent Republican decades ago

Child poverty in the U.S. could be slashed by monthly payments to parents – an idea proved in other rich countries and proposed by a prominent Republican decades ago

Which former president pitched a Family Assistance Plan to the American people that would have provided many families with children a monthly stipend? It may surprise you that it came in 1969 from Richard Nixon,…

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