Halloween shoppers have many delicious decisions to make before trick-or-treaters show up at their doors. And in many states, those choices will change how much tax they pay. In Illinois, for example, residents pay a…
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The golden age of discovery of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets) began in 1995. Since the first discoveries, more than 4,500 worlds have been found, most of them orbiting ordinary stars like our…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A person walks near a China Energy coal-fired power plant in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang By Shivani Singh and Muyu Xu BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s imports…
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Press enquiries: +41 61 280 8477[email protected] Ref: 24/2021 The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a progress report on the first year of the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-Border Payments, bringing together in one place…
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In his 2021 letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, the CEO and chairman of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, wrote: “No issue ranks higher than climate change on our clients’ lists of priorities.” His comment…
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The French government has just announced a trial using virtual reality to try to prevent domestic violence. There has been considerable excitement about this, with claims the virtual reality experience is an “empathy machine” that…
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The Central Bank of Barbados has closed its offices until April 16 following a volcanic eruption on the nearby island on St Vincent and the Grenadines. In a statement, the CBB announced “in-person” business operations…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Business jets are seen at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. October 21, 2019. REUTERS/David Becker By Allison Lampert LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – The National…
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Walk into any U.S. store these days and you’re likely to see empty shelves. Shortages of virtually every type of product – from toilet paper and sneakers to pickup trucks and chicken – are showing…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to…
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