© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pump jacks operate at sunset in Midland, Texas, U.S. February 11, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Oxford//File Photo SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose in early trade on Tuesday as supply concerns arising from…
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The United Auto Workers union, which represents nearly 150,000 employees of companies that manufacture U.S.-made vehicles, kicked off in mid-July 2023 the labor negotiations it undergoes every four years with the three main unionized automakers.…
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Last week, a special Senate committee released a report on foreign interference through social media. It makes for scary reading. In addition to widely publicised criticisms of WeChat and TikTok – social media platforms owned…
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© Reuters. A worker selects coffee beans from coffee plants during a harvest at a farm in Esp?rito Santo do Pinhal, 200 km (124 miles) east of Sao Paulo May 18, 2012. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo…
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Scotch whisky exports grew from £4.51 billion in 2021 to more than £6 billion in 2022, while separate government figures showed a 25% sales increase last year – the biggest for any UK manufactured product…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S. April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base/File Photo By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) –…
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When Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-cutting mini-budget triggered a UK debt crisis in autumn 2022, the pound plummeted to almost parity with the US dollar. In 2023 the UK has endured weak growth, falling…
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In 2022, the Royal Australian Mint issued a $2 coin decorated with honeybees. Around 2,400 years earlier, a mint in the kingdom of Macedon had the same idea, creating a silver obol coin with a…
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© Reuters. Investing.com — There are four more weeks to this year’s Labor Day – the timeline typically used to ascertain the peak for summer oil demand; typically, because oil demand itself is so dynamic…
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If we have not been warned of the dangers of climate change this summer, we never will be. Extreme heat, forest fires and floods have been all over news reports. Yet the oil and gas…
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