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...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...In 2022, England won a tight race with the United States that was decided only when Michael Adams scored against Gregory Kaidanov in a delicately played knight ending....
...The playlist – Benny Goodman one minute, Eric B & Rakim the next – is always a pleasant surprise....
...Adam Posen: Levelling down. Vicky Pryce: There is little chance of levelling up during 2021....
...Additional reporting by Adam Samson, Alice Woodhouse and Gregory Meyer...
...In the first forecast for 2018 in its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook, the statistical agency said US crude production will rise another 3.3 per cent, or 300,000 b/d, to 9.3m b/d....
...Goldman Sachs said the fires had reduced Canadian oil sands production by 1.0m b/d since Friday, equivalent to a third of the country’s capacity....
...“The hope for a rebalancing in 2016 continues to suffer serious setbacks,” said Adam Longson, analyst at Morgan Stanley....
...“Opec themselves put the first quarter call as low as 28.39m b/d, implying a surplus of 2.57m b/d if September’s production level is continued....
...Norwegian by Night , by Derek B Miller, Faber, RRP£12.99 Bostonian writer Derek B Miller’s discursive but richly written Norwegian by Night‘s Jewish-American anti-hero is the 82-year-old Sheldon, fearing...
...Newly installed Libyan oil officials say flows could reach 1m b/d level in about six months, and full production resume in 15 months. Another factor is economic growth....
...Amrita Sen, commodity analyst at Barclays Capital in London, said a decline of 200,000 b/d of Norwegian oil production in the first quarter had also tightened the Brent market....
...Schlesinger Sr, the distinguished historian, polled historians and political scientists to rank American presidents from “great” to “failure”....
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