© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The White House is seen the morning after U.S. President Joe Biden returned from a trip to Brussels and Poland to meet with NATO leaders in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2022.…
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The Federal Reserve will likely soon learn what gymnasts already know: sticking a landing is hard. With inflation surging to a new 40-year high and continuing to accelerate, the Fed is expected to lift interest…
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Emerging market economies (EMEs) can dampen the effects of shocks emanating from US monetary policy if they implement tighter prudential policies, new research published by the Bank of England finds. Andra Coman of the European…
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© Reuters. Storage tanks are seen at Marathon Petroleum’s Los Angeles Refinery, which processes domestic & imported crude oil into California Air Resources Board (CARB), gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum products, in Carson, California,…
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Food inflation in Nigeria increased by 15% during the 11 months from April 2021 to March 2022, adding pressure on the cost of living for salary earners whose incomes have not risen for close to…
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Infectious diseases such as malaria remain a leading cause of death in many regions. This is partly because people there don’t have access to medical diagnostic tools that can detect these diseases (along with a…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A shipping container passes through the Suez Canal in Suez, Egypt February 15, 2022. Picture taken February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany ISMAILIYA, Egypt (Reuters) -Egypt’s Suez Canal recorded its…
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Imagine you live alone and walk into a local food market in Lagos, the Nigerian commercial capital, to buy a week’s worth of basic food items. In less than 15 minutes, you would find that…
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Market demand for Hong Kong’s second-ever sukuk exceeded the amount on offer by a two-to-one margin, pushing the Islamic debt instrument’s coupon below 2% at a time when global bond markets are witnessing a rise…
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If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could make themselves easy to spot by building a fire or writing HELP in big letters.…
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