2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An oil storage tank and crude oil pipeline equipment is seen during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport 2/2 By Jonathan Saul…
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The economic orthodoxy has long been that governments should try to balance their books and leave all the heavy lifting in managing their economies to central banks. We saw this writ large in the years…
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Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot…
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© Reuters. Views of Total Grandpuits oil refinery TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Tuesday, extending declines for a third day, as concerns about rising stockpiles in the United States added to the threat…
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President Joe Biden commemorated the COVID-19 pandemic’s one-year anniversary by giving Americans an ambitious goal: Return to a semblance of normalcy by the Fourth of July. “But to get there we can’t let our guard…
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During COVID-19 lockdowns, a major concern for LGBTIQ+ communities, mental health professionals and academics was that young lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and questioning, intersex and asexual+ people may suffer from being stuck in transphobic,…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A sticker reads crude oil on the side of a storage tank in the Permian Basin By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Monday, with Brent reaching $70…
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Wakey Wakey. Steve Harvey, CC BY-SA As the UK prepares for economic recovery from COVID and makes the best of Brexit, it is striking that there has been no talk of investing in the national…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Birds fly over a closed steel factory where chimneys of another working factory are seen in background, in Tangshan BEIJING (Reuters) – The pull-out of high-carbon industries in China would lead…
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The global market in government bonds has been bleeding red lately. “Bond market screams for help but no one answers”, says Bloomberg. It is “the worst start to a year in bonds since 2015”, according…
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