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Oil Rises Most in Weeks Swept Up in Broader Market Enthusiasm By Bloomberg

© Bloomberg. Oil tanker rail cars parked at the Motiva Port Arthur refinery ahead of Hurricane Delta in Port Arthur, Texas, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Delta churned toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, packing…

Why Indian farmers are so angry about the Modi government’s agricultural reforms

India’s farmers have been protesting since the autumn, with a growing intensity that culminated in a violent breaching of barriers in the Red Fort in Delhi during India’s Republic Day celebrations on January 26. The…

Meet Clubhouse, the voice-only social media app setting the internet abuzz

There’s a new kid on the social media block, and it is making big waves. It is less than a year old, yet is already valued at US$1 billion, and has venture capitalists scrambling to…

Silver swept up by GameStop retail frenzy, prices soar By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ingots of 99.99 percent pure silver are seen at the Krastsvetmet non-ferrous metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk 2/2 By Tom Westbrook and Thyagaraju Adinarayan SINGAPORE (Reuters) –…

People become less likely to contribute to a virtual public good like Wikipedia or Waze if they know many others are already doing it

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea While people tend to contribute more to a virtual public good if they see others doing the same, this effect reverses…

nature’s rare colour owes its existence to bee vision

At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that humans are so fond of blue? And why does it seem…

Oil Drops Below $52 as Virus Resurgence Weighs on Demand Outlook By Bloomberg

© Reuters. Oil Drops Below $52 as Virus Resurgence Weighs on Demand Outlook (Bloomberg) — Oil fell in early Asian trading — after the first back-to-back weekly decline since October — amid fresh evidence that…

raising it to £100 could push more people into debt

In recognition of our changing spending behaviour during the pandemic, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced plans to consult on increasing the contactless spending limit from £45 to £100. Prior to the COVID-19…

Exports empty Canada’s canola bins, driving prices to near records By Reuters

3/3 © Reuters. A deer feeds in a Western Canadian canola field in full bloom in 2019 2/3 By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canada, the world’s biggest canola grower, is running short of…

hedge fund attacks have opened up powerful new front against Wall Street

In the dying days of 2009, Rage Against the Machine achieved the unlikeliest of Christmas number ones with a re-release of their anti-establishment anthem Killing in the Name. This was driven by an online campaign…

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Oil Rises Most in Weeks Swept Up in Broader Market Enthusiasm By Bloomberg

Why Indian farmers are so angry about the Modi government’s agricultural reforms

Meet Clubhouse, the voice-only social media app setting the internet abuzz

Silver swept up by GameStop retail frenzy, prices soar By Reuters

People become less likely to contribute to a virtual public good like Wikipedia or Waze if they know many others are already doing it

nature’s rare colour owes its existence to bee vision

Oil Drops Below $52 as Virus Resurgence Weighs on Demand Outlook By Bloomberg

raising it to £100 could push more people into debt

Exports empty Canada’s canola bins, driving prices to near records By Reuters

hedge fund attacks have opened up powerful new front against Wall Street

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