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You might want to get familiar with this term because you will be hearing it a lot: the bond taper, or more widely known as just the taper. When markets …
The Bond Taper & Why You Should Know About It Read More
After coming down with COVID-19 in December, Vinicio Sánchez visited three health centres in a single day. At the first, a clinic in the south of Ecuadorian capital, Quito, he …
How corruption has added to Latin America’s COVID death toll Read More
LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Business activity in the euro zone grew strongly this month, only dipping from July’s two-decade high monthly pace, as a rapid COVID-19 vaccination drive allowed …
Euro zone business boom roared on in August – PMI Read More
Facebook Inc. and some of the world’s largest telecommunications carriers, China Mobile Ltd. and MTN Group Ltd., are set to build a wider-than-earlier planned giant sub-sea cable in Africa. The companies …
Facebook, telecom carriers to expand undersea cable network in Africa Read More
(Bloomberg) — Britain’s exit from the European Union and the pandemic are adding to inflationary pressures that are starting to slow the U.K. economic recovery, two business surveys show. The …
Brexit and Covid Add to U.K. Inflationary Pressure Read More
“We keep a close watch on developments in Afghanistan. Imports from there come through the transit route of Pakistan. As of now, Taliban has stopped movement of cargo to Pakistan, …
Taliban stop imports, exports from India through Pakistan’s transit routes Read More
According to agency estimates, the boost will translate to a total of $19.7 billion in additional benefits over a one-year period. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Monday that …
USDA announces biggest SNAP benefits increase in program history Read More
Forty members of the House of Lords have been reported to parliamentary authorities, in what is believed to be one of the most wide-scale breaches of transparency rules ever reported …
40 Lords reported to authorities over financial interests Read More
America’s growing income inequality has long needed attention. Last January, under emergency circumstances, it finally got some, in the form of a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package. The quietly influential …
Turning MMT into practice Read More
The eurozone’s latest economic growth figures are a little better than expected. This group of 19 EU nations grew 2.2% in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the first quarter, partly …
Four reasons why EU is staring down the barrel of a second lost decade Read More