Nov. 30, 2021Updated 6:28 p.m. ETJust as a worrying new variant of the coronavirus has begun to spread, the Federal Reserve chair signaled on Tuesday that the central bank could reduce its support for the economy more quickly, sending a shudder through Wall Street and pushing the S&P 500 negative for November.A sell-off already in…
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Black Friday indeed. Some grim headline are greeting those investors who aren’t stretching out the Thanksgiving holiday into a long weekend, with news of a new COVID variant — B.1.1.529 —detected in South Africa. It’s the most heavily mutated so far, which means it could be more transmissible and resistant to vaccines. There is no…
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New York (CNN Business)Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou and the US Department of Justice on Friday entered an agreement to defer prosecution of US charges against her until late 2022, after which point the charges could be dropped. The deal, which allowed Meng to return to China, could bring to an end a nearly three-year legal…
Let’s be honest about this year’s big climate gathering in Glasgow, Scotland: There will be far more talk than action and few deliverables. Carbon emissions nearly everywhere will remain alarmingly high, with a warming climate raising the price we pay, in lives and dollars, for inaction.The good news on climate change is a consensus is…
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds the Budget box outside 11 Downing Street in central London ahead of the announcement of the Spring Statement in the House of Commons on 03 March, 2021 in London, England.Wiktor Szymanowicz | Barcroft Media | Getty ImagesLONDON — Multi-billion pound spending on health care services and transport were…
Photo: Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP (Getty Images)If the internet is a digital Wild West, it’s time to lock your doors and close your windows. While the amount of cyber attackers and activity alone is alarming, in this episode, the featured villain is a hacker group backed by the Iranian government. In a blog post published…
Image source, Iraq Security Media CellImage caption, The US had offered a $5m reward for information leading to Sami Jasim al-Jaburi's captureIraq says it has captured the jihadist group Islamic State's financial chief in an operation outside its borders.Sami Jasim al-Jaburi was arrested in a "complex external operation" by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, Prime…
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