Energy prices across the world have soared in recent weeks, hitting households and businesses hard. Combined with the costs of dealing with the pandemic, this may make political leaders think twice about making the case…
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Press enquiries: +41 61 280 8477[email protected] Ref: 30/2021 The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a report describing the progress over the past year and planned work to enhance the resilience of non-bank financial…
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The path from ordinary operations to crisis communications is not typically a long one. Running monetary and financial stability policy often means addressing crises: bank failures, currency fluctuations, critical systems outages and sudden capital movements…
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2/2 © Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden adjusts his face mask as he and European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen (not pictured) make a joint statement to speak about steel and aluminium tariffs, on…
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Many of the world’s richest and most powerful people are in the spotlight for the wrong reasons – again. The Pandora papers is the third and largest leak of documents in which the secret financial…
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Physicists searching for evidence of a “light sterile neutrino”, a hypothetical particle that could give clues to cosmic puzzles such as the nature of dark matter and why the Universe is made of matter at…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Protesters hold flags and chant slogans as they march against the Sudanese military’s recent seizure of power and ousting of the civilian government, in the streets of the capital Khartoum, Sudan…
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Dangote Industries Limited dominates the Nigerian cement market and is a key player in the rapidly expanding African cement business. The conglomerate has also expanded its manufacturing activities in a range of food processing industries…
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Most groups of modern animals had their beginnings more than half a billion years ago in an amazing evolutionary event known as the Cambrian Explosion. This wasn’t the kind of explosion caused by a bomb…
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Four Democratic senators introduced legislation to forbid Federal Reserve officials from holding or trading individual stocks and other securities on October 26. The proposed law, titled the ‘‘Ban Conflicted Trading at the Fed Act’’, would…
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