“Two, four, six, eight; bog in, don’t wait”. As children, we learn numbers can either be even or odd. And there are many ways to categorise numbers as even or odd. We may memorise the…
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Press enquiries: +41 61 280 8477press@fsb.org Ref: 12/2022 The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a report that aims to assist supervisory and regulatory authorities in developing their approaches to monitor, manage and mitigate…
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Paraguayan legislators are considering amending the central bank law to change provisions on bank secrecy, after clashing with the institution’s board of directors. Several legislative committees met on April 20 to consider the matter. The…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Oil barrels are pictured at the site of Canadian group Vermilion Energy in Parentis-en-Born, France, October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/ By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil edged lower on Friday…
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The U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank in the first quarter, according to gross domestic product data released on April 28, 2022. While the reasons were technical and weren’t seen as signs of weakness, they add to…
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Global maize production is worth billions of dollars annually and is key to global food security because it’s a staple food for billions of people. Most maize production relies on natural rainfall, making it vulnerable…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Shipping containers are stacked up at the Port of Antwerp, Belgium July 26, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – The Port of Antwerp is adapting to losing…
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Maize production in some of the sub-Saharan African countries that dominated maize supplies during the 2021/22 marketing year is expected to be lower this coming season. This will bring about some changes in the sub…
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“Quasi-fiscal policies” undertaken by the Bank of Mongolia (BoM) suffered from weak controls and may have conflicted with other parts of the central bank’s mandate, leading to large losses, a new report finds. Between 2012…
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Will the big storm on Jupiter ever go away? — Edgar Nuttall, age 5, Brisbane Hi Edgar! Thank you for such a unique question. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar neighbourhood, and its…
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