The labor market is changing rapidly with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Many organizations are laying off almost all of their workers, while others are considering which workers to lay off, which to furlough…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A maze of crude oil pipes and valves is pictured during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport By David Gaffen (Reuters) – Energy…
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As the coronavirus pandemic hits jobs and wages in many sectors of the global economy that depend on migrants, a slowdown in the amount of money these workers send back home to their families looks…
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As the world tries to cope with the challenges of 2020, discussions around the use of mined resources from outer space continue to ratchet up. On April 6, the US White House released an executive…
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© Reuters. An oil pump jack pumps oil in a field near Calgary By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Crude oil futures fell on Monday, with U.S. futures touching levels not seen since 1999, extending…
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The range of forecasts about how the coronavirus will affect the world economy is so wide that you question their usefulness. For example, the IMF predicts that the UK will contract 7.5% in 2020, while…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – It must be quite humbling for the world’s oil titans to come out a week after the largest production cut in history to say they’ll do more. But…
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One important aspect of managing emerging infections is identifying chains of transmission and assigned cases to clusters of infection. A case in point is South African trade union leader Zwelinzima Vavi, who spent a few…
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The global economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic will be massive, with the International Monetary Fund forecasting the worst global recession since the 1929 Great Depression. In Africa, the epidemic is gaining momentum. The continent…
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By Cassandra Garrison and Luciano Costa BUENOS AIRES/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil has agreed to release water at the giant Itaipu hydroelectric dam to raise low water levels in the Parana River, a key thoroughfare…
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