© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Gas leak at Nord Stream 2 as seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark September 27, 2022. Danish Defence Command/Forsvaret Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS By Guy Faulconbridge and Sachin Ravikumar…
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Most financial crises have plenty in common. They tend to start in the banking sector and involve excessive borrowing, together with an asset bubble, usually related to property. The global crisis of 2008 was no…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A combine harvests wheat in a field near the village of Zghurivka in Kyiv region, Ukraine August 9, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Musiienko/File Photo By David Ljunggren (Reuters) – Russia on Saturday suspended…
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People’s responses to large infrastructure projects – railways, bridges, highways – are rarely neutral. To some, these projects represent powerful social and political promises of transformative change and a brighter future. To others, they mean…
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When Nancy Pelosi travelled to Taiwan in August, it made front page news around the world and raised the spectre of all-out war between the US and China. Early in October, the Biden administration made…
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Reshuffle heralds new era of Chinese central banking – Central Banking End of drawer navigation content Skip to main content President Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist…
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© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com — U.S. crude oil prices slipped Friday, amid China-infused demand concerns, but ended the week higher on bets that a supply crunch is unlikely to be avoided ahead of…
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Ghana is grappling with runaway inflation as prices of basic commodities have spiralled. Government finances are also at their weakest in years. Ghana’s local currency, the cedi, is now the world’s worst performer against the…
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A quick look at some TikTok stats shows more than 38,000 posts under the hashtag #Autism, with more than 200 million views. The hashtag #ActuallyAutistic (which is used in the autism community to highlight content…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle 2/2 OTTAWA…
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