Oil soared after the US announced sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil companies, threatening supplies from one of the world’s top producing countries.
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Oil soared after the US announced sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil companies, threatening supplies from one of the world’s top producing countries.
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American, United Pause Middle East Flights on Rising Tension
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Stocks Drop as Economic Fears Spur Flight to Bonds: Markets Wrap
Trump says economy faces ‘transition,’ avoids recession call
Strategists see more stock volatility as tariff fears kick in
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Canada's incoming PM Carney faces Trump, tariffs and looming election.
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US stocks sink on tech weakness and tariff confusion.
www.ft.com/content/eb63...
Meloni Backs Giving Ukraine NATO Security Without Membership.
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The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows. Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
California fires live: LA issues new evacuation order as thickening smoke prompts ‘health emergency’
Palisades and Eaton fires start coming under control as fierce winds ease but forecasters predict another red flag warning for Monday.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Blowout Jobs Report Fuels Wall Street Fear of ‘Lose-Lose’ Market. Hot data fuels market concern over the Fed policy trajectory
Correlations rise in sign of a macro-driven investing regime.
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Los Angeles wildfires spark insurance anxiety among victims.
www.reuters.com/world/us/los...
What a Christmas cash scheme from the Great Depression tells us about money. A scrip still handed out by city of Hawarden is built on sound administration.
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German far right brings political edge to Magdeburg attack site.
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RFK Jr vow to purge FDA sets up collision with Big Pharma.
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Microsoft’s AI deal with France’s Mistral faces EU scrutiny
Microsoft is already under regulatory scrutiny over its ties to OpenAI.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
The Bank of England may sell all the UK government bonds bought under quantitative easing to better prepare for a future crisis, a move that would put it at odds with the US Federal Reserve.
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Europe’s farmer protests are spreading. Here’s where and why:
Protests around the EU reflect common grievances over debts, price pressures, extreme weather and cheap imports, POLITICO has found.
www.politico.eu/article/farm...
Inside the Scientology-linked UK rehab centre :
‘My mind had been shattered into a million pieces’
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...
Inside the last true political machine in America.
What a town is like when one family runs everything.
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
What the world gets wrong about ‘civilisation’.
Politicians everywhere are making appeals to ancient history -but their thinking is based on a myth.
www.ft.com/content/bb44...
Several people injured in Gare de Lyon knife attack, one man arrested
According to a provisional police report, the attack left one person seriously injured, with a non-life-threatening prognosis, and two slightly injured. The attacker's motives are still unknown.
www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
Stock Market Euphoria, Steel Deal Headaches: Saturday US Briefing
Something for the weekend.
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