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why the global drive to keep food cheap is unsustainable

why the global drive to keep food cheap is unsustainable

As prices rise, everywhere, for pretty much everything, the prospect of the human suffering this will cause is deeply worrying. There are predictions that the number of people in the world experiencing acute hunger –…

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Central bank websites vary greatly in popularity

Central bank websites vary greatly in popularity

There is wide variation in the amount of traffic that central bank websites attract. Of the 30 banks that provided data to the Communications Benchmarks 2022, nine reported a monthly average of between 1 and…

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Oil drops on China COVID worries By Reuters

Oil drops on China COVID worries By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen at the Kinder Morgan terminal in Sherwood Park, near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Helgren By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices…

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any new UK chancellor faces an unenviable in-tray

any new UK chancellor faces an unenviable in-tray

The flood of ministerial resignations from UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s government in recent days started with Rishi Sunak’s resignation as UK chancellor of the exchequer on July 5 2022, alongside health secretary Sajid Javid’s.…

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what we now know about the meteor that lit up the daytime sky above New Zealand

what we now know about the meteor that lit up the daytime sky above New Zealand

Meteorites hit New Zealand three or four times a year, but the fireball that shot across the sky above Cook Strait last week was unusual. It had the explosive power of 1,800 tonnes of TNT…

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Energy & Precious Metals – Weekly Review and Outlook By Investing.com

Energy & Precious Metals – Weekly Review and Outlook By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – The U.S. labor market isn’t giving any other market a break, with the probably being the only exception.  Friday’s report for June again showed how badly the Federal…

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Morocco – a top fertiliser producer

Morocco – a top fertiliser producer

Morocco has a large fertiliser industry with huge production capacity and international reach. It is one of the world’s top four fertiliser exporters following Russia, China and Canada. Fertilisers tend to divide into three main…

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Indian supreme court overturns RBI crypto ban

Indian supreme court overturns RBI crypto ban

The Reserve Bank of India’s ban on financial firms providing services relating to crypto assets has been overturned by India’s Supreme Court. In a ruling dated March 4, the court ruled the RBI did have…

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Viruses can change your scent to make you more attractive to mosquitoes, new research in mice finds

Viruses can change your scent to make you more attractive to mosquitoes, new research in mice finds

Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal. Over 1 million deaths per year are attributed to mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya fever. How mosquitoes seek out and feed on their…

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Gold Locked at $1,740 as Bulls Seek Direction By Investing.com

Gold Locked at $1,740 as Bulls Seek Direction By Investing.com

By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — Call it “goldilocks” of the literal kind. Far from the concept of an ideal economic state where things aren’t expanding or contracting too much, the goldilocks here refer to gold…

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