The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the final weeks of 2021 left thousands of people displaced or homeless. For many of them, it will be months if not years…
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Central banks worldwide have been working to enhance the ways they collect and analyse data for supervisory purposes. Increasingly, this is pushing central banks to work more closely with industry to improve data tools. “I…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of Abadan oil refinery in southwest Iran, is pictured from Iraqi side of Shatt al-Arab in Al-Faw south of Basra, Iraq September 21, 2019. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani/File Photo/File Photo…
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After about three decades of relatively low inflation, consumer prices are skyrocketing again. The price of gasoline, for example, was up 40% in January 2022 from a year earlier, while used cars and trucks jumped…
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As historians, we have both been immersed for many years in trying to understand and write about South Africa’s complex, conflictual history. Conquest, colonial domination and racial division in the shape of apartheid played a…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen from above at the Cushing oil hub, appearing to run out of space to contain a historic supply glut that has hammered prices, in Cushing,…
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Some form of basic income support is central to the South African government’s agenda. The lockdown-induced shocks have added to the crisis of structural mass unemployment and of poverty. There also seems to be broad…
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Research published by the Bank for International Settlements presents further evidence that the US dollar impacts financial conditions around the globe, finding a key role for the exchange rate in driving stock market returns. Valentina…
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There have been some incredible acrobatics on display in Beijing, with Australia’s Jakara Anthony scoring gold in the women’s moguls this week. How do these athletes pull off such incredible feats of manoeuvrability, and land…
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By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu in an Indiana turkey flock on Wednesday, the nation’s first case in a commercial poultry operation…
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