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By Koh Gui Qing (Mon, October 11, 2021) Oil prices surged on Monday to multi-year peaks, boosting U.S. materials and energy stocks, but fears that rising prices would exacerbate supply-chain snags caused Wall Street to give up early gains.https://bdaca05bcb204a105aa384e4eb6f8468.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html Higher vaccination rates against the coronavirus have supported a revival in economic activity, helping Brent prices to …

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By Hyonhee Shin (Mon, October 04, 2021) The two Koreas on Monday restored their hotlines that the North cut months ago, and Pyongyang urged Seoul to redouble its efforts to improve relations after criticizing alleged double standards in weapons development. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed a willingness last week to revive the hotlines, …

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By DUBLIN Global plant based biomanufacturing market will report an impressive CAGR in the forecast period, 2022-2026. The market growth can be attributed to the advancing healthcare capabilities to device treatment from plant based elements. Moreover, increasing number of pipeline products that are a part of plant based biologics is further drive the growth of …

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By Jennifer Jacobs The administration of United States President Joe Biden is aiming to counter China’s Belt & Road infrastructure expansion into Latin American by sending an official there to scout for projects, sources tell Bloomberg News. The Biden administration is considering a U.S.-led competitor for China’s Belt and Road international trade and public works …

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By Expansion China dealt a severe blow to cryptocurrencies on Friday, as the People’s Bank of China declared that all transactions with these digital assets are illegal and should be banned throughout the country, as well as mining processes. Bitcoin is currently in free fall and its value has plummeted to $42,428. The same goes …

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By Diego Coto More than 2.8 million workers are no longer in outsourcing and their wages increased by 14%.Taxpayer Provided © After the entry into force of the outsourcingreform,more than two million 800 thousand workers have left the subcontracting scheme.https://widgets.informars.com/c/standard/mx/es/creditcard/widgets/CreditCardsWidget.aspx In addition, according to Luisa María Alcalde, head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare …

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By AP SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the brash lawyer recently sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison in a $25 million extortion case in New York, now is on trial in California on charges of embezzling millions from his clients and told jurors Wednesday that he “gave people who had no chance a fighting …

Michael Avenatti denies embezzlement charges in California Read More »

By ALEX VEIGA Stocks closed higher on Wall Street for a second straight day Wednesday following a sharp drop at the beginning of the week. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% and is now on pace for a weekly gain. Technology stocks, banks and companies that rely on consumer spending helped drive the benchmark index’s advance. …

Stocks climb on Wall Street as more company earnings roll in Read More »

By TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — For months, anyone who wandered onto a dealer lot to look for a used car could be forgiven for doing a double take — and then wandering right off the lot. Prices had rocketed more than 40% from their levels just before the viral pandemic …

A small victory: Used-car prices slip from dizzy heights Read More »

By DAVID KOENIG Rising concern about the fast-spreading delta variant of COVID-19 is creating turbulence for the stocks of big travel companies, but airline executives say they don’t see any slowdown in ticket sales, maybe because a high percentage of their best customers are fully vaccinated. “We haven’t seen any impact at all on bookings, …

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