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Fed paper looks at US spillovers to foreign government debt yields

Foreign dollar-denominated sovereign debt is “highly responsive” to Federal Reserve monetary policy, a paper published by the Federal Reserve finds. Simon Gilchrist, Vivian Yue and Egon Zakrajsek measure how yields on foreign government debt issued in dollars…

Oil jumps on lack of progress in Russia-Ukraine talks By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pump Jacks are seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California, October 14, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices extended their rally on Friday at the end of a third…

Ukraine is benefiting from generous donations – and many other global causes need help, too

Ukraine’s resistance to Russia has captivated the world, dominating social media and the news since the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion. With this attention has come a massive outpouring of financial support. Ordinary people, governments, corporations…

Is there such a thing as the perfect alarm tone? We think so (and this is what it might sound like)

With the return to office work – and no longer being able to roll out of bed and straight into a Zoom meeting – many of us will be waking up earlier to beat the…

Gold up as dollar, yields weaken after Fed’s in-line rate hike By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Marked ingots of 99.99 percent pure gold are placed in a cart at the Krastsvetmet non-ferrous metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Manzyuk By…

5 questions about the coveted trading status answered

The U.S., the European Union, Japan and Canada are further severing Russia from global markets by removing a coveted trading designation over its war in Ukraine. Known as most-favored-nation status, it generally entitles a country…

Central banks cannot avoid fiscal impact, Bundesbank panellists warn

Central banks may wield significant fiscal power, raising the need for a debate on the limits of delegated authority, panellists at a conference hosted by the Deutsche Bundesbank said today (July 9). In a panel…

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first aligned image of a star. Here’s how it was done

In a huge milestone, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has finally been aligned to produce the first unified image of a single star. Most traditional telescopes these days (like one you might have in…

Climate-driven water woes spark Colorado rush to conserve ‘liquid gold’ By Reuters

5/5 © Reuters. Greenhouse Technician, Leah Greiner, harvests chard at Altius, a vertical farm in Denver, Colorado, U.S., November 9, 2021. Picture taken November 9, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo 2/5 By Donna Bryson (Reuters) –…

How AI helped deliver cash aid to many of the poorest people in Togo

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Governments and humanitarian groups can use machine learning algorithms and mobile phone data to get aid to those who need it…

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Fed paper looks at US spillovers to foreign government debt yields

Oil jumps on lack of progress in Russia-Ukraine talks By Reuters

Ukraine is benefiting from generous donations – and many other global causes need help, too

Is there such a thing as the perfect alarm tone? We think so (and this is what it might sound like)

Gold up as dollar, yields weaken after Fed’s in-line rate hike By Reuters

5 questions about the coveted trading status answered

Central banks cannot avoid fiscal impact, Bundesbank panellists warn

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first aligned image of a star. Here’s how it was done

Climate-driven water woes spark Colorado rush to conserve ‘liquid gold’ By Reuters

How AI helped deliver cash aid to many of the poorest people in Togo

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