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Oil’s 7-Week Hurrah Ends With New Covid Strain By Investing.com

Oil’s 7-Week Hurrah Ends With New Covid Strain By Investing.com

© 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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4 ways physics will challenge your reality

4 ways physics will challenge your reality

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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Exclusive-Bangladesh, India finalising first bilateral rice deal in 3 years

Exclusive-Bangladesh, India finalising first bilateral rice deal in 3 years

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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Changing the rules to control monopolies could see the end of Facebook domination

Changing the rules to control monopolies could see the end of Facebook domination

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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The world’s oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about ‘seven sisters’ stars may reach back 100,000 years

The world’s oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about ‘seven sisters’ stars may reach back 100,000 years

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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Oil Bucks Two-Day Drop on Supportive U.S. Inventory Data By Investing.com

Oil Bucks Two-Day Drop on Supportive U.S. Inventory Data By Investing.com

© 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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V shaped recovery or W shaped double-recession for the UK? More like a flat U

V shaped recovery or W shaped double-recession for the UK? More like a flat U

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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Silence please! Why radio astronomers need things quiet in the middle of a WA desert

Silence please! Why radio astronomers need things quiet in the middle of a WA desert

A remote outback station about 800km north of Perth in Western Australia is one of the best places in the world to operate telescopes that listen for radio signals from space. It’s the site of…

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Oil prices fall amid worries over new coronavirus strain By Reuters

Oil prices fall amid worries over new coronavirus strain By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices slid in early trade on Monday as a…

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how Britain’s problems converged at Christmas

how Britain’s problems converged at Christmas

We were not surprised concerns about food shortages emerged when France and over 40 countries imposed travel or truck movement bans on the UK after rocketing COVID-19 cases were linked to a new variant of…

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