© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pumpjacks are seen during sunset at the Daqing oil field in Heilongjiang province, China August 22, 2019. Picture taken August 22, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil slipped on…
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Sri Lanka recorded the first casualties from its spiralling economic crisis several days ago, with one protester dead and 24 more injured. This was from police firing gunshots into a crowd who were demanding the…
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Researchers at the IMF have called for governments to adopt a more nuanced approach to tackling large stocks of public debt, warning of the dangers of “knee-jerk” fiscal consolidation in a staff discussion note published…
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© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden announces an additional $800 million security assistance package for Ukraine as he delivers an update on U.S. efforts related to Russia’s invasion, during a speech in the Roosevelt Room…
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Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta/Facebook, recently remarked in a podcast interview that when it came to hiring new staff, his preference was people whose “values aligned in the things that you care about”. This,…
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Most people who use Twitter have had the experience: you fire off a quick tweet, realise it contains a typo, then get annoyed you can’t click “edit” to fix it. Twitter users have been clamouring…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A logo of the Exxon Mobil Corp is seen at the Rio Oil and Gas Expo and Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 24, 2018. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes/File Photo LONDON (Reuters)…
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In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse…
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The Central Bank of Brazil governor, Roberto Campos Neto, signalled over the weekend interest rates at 12.75% should be enough to bring inflation down to the target. The key Selic rate currently stands at 11.75%.…
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When United States Vice-President Kamala Harris was at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California earlier this week she said the US would not conduct tests of destructive, direct ascent anti-satellite missiles. This is the…
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