Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a greater market share…
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The International Monetary and Financial Committee says it backs a proposed trust that would allow the International Monetary Fund to channel resources to a wider range of needy countries. The IMFC – one of the…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — One of the most insulting epithets hurled at investing professionals is where they are likened to blindfolded monkeys throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages to select portfolios…
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Many Newcastle United fans cheered the announcement on October 7 that their club had finally been sold for £305 million. The sale, to a consortium headed up by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, adds to…
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© Reuters. Downtown Anchorage sits on a coastal plane between Cook Inlet and the Chugach Mountains, in Alaska, June 24, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Meyer/Files (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Friday took a procedural step towards…
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“Britain will become the Qatar of hydrogen,” Boris Johnson declared as the government laid out its 368-page strategy for reaching net zero emissions by 2050. It sounds magnificent, but what does it mean in practice?…
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On October 23, 2001, Apple released the iPod — a portable media player that promised to overshadow the clunky design and low storage capacity of MP3 players introduced in the mid-1990s. The iPod boasted the…
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The sharp increase in US sovereign debt yields in the past few months is unlikely to result in central bankers ending their decade-long pursuit of foreign exchange diversification, according to delegates attending National Asset and…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An Aramco oil tank is seen at the Production facility at Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield in the Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia May 22, 2018. Picture taken May 22, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah/File…
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Bitcoin’s journey into mainstream finance has reached another major milestone – and another record price. The cryptocurrency was trading at US$66,975 (£48,456) following the launch of an exchange traded fund (ETF) in the US which…
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