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...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...This week a French study evaluating the use of doxycycline and the meningococcal B vaccine to prevent bacterial STIs, both in combination and separately, reported similar results....
...Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospital, ambulance, mental health and community services, welcomed Plan B while conceding the fresh rules would come as a disappointment...
...One Conservative MP, William Wragg, told Johnson in the Commons: “Very few will be convinced by this diversionary tactic.” Johnson denied that charge categorically....
...b/d, according to ING....
...After a series of difficult meetings, Wilkinson saw he would need a Plan B....
...Mvula’s music is already lush and maximalist — her willingness to employ the harp and celeste might have been a signal that she was never going to make coffee-table R&B records — and Troy Miller’s arrangements...
...Strategic assets, such as aircraft carriers, F-22 jets and B1-B bombers, would also be deployed....
...Meanwhile, gold prices were flat at $1,274 a troy ounce....
...Separately, spot gold moved higher, rising $9.70 to $1,182 a troy ounce....
...“This fall needs to be seen in the context of global oil demand totalling 96m b/d.”...
...The online quiz from the B-ho-ho-E is here....
...Gold traded up 0.6 per cent at $1,091 a troy ounce on Tuesday, slightly above a five and a half year low of $1,077 hit two weeks ago. Agricultural commodities also stabilised....
...In precious metals, gold fell to a six-week low of $1,171.08 a troy ounce on Friday despite a weaker dollar....
...“If Town A bans fracking and Town B approves it, it’s just not possible to efficiently and economically develop the resource,” she says....
...She started at Horace Mann, where she sold 403(b) plans — a defined contribution (DC) plan for public entities and non-profits — to state schools....
...Russia produces more than 10m b/d, of which it exports about half....
...A large painting of Agamemnon looking like Tsar Nicholas II is eventually removed to reveal the king of kings and his trophy concubine, Cassandra, back from Troy....
...Based in Troy – one of the featureless suburbs encircling Detroit – the Kresge Foundation was already spending millions to help clean up the city’s toxic riverfront....
...The heightened risk aversion across global financial markets lifted gold prices to a fresh nominal record of $1,681.67 a troy ounce....
...Foreign oil company executives and consultants have said that Libya would need between 18 months and three years to restore oil output to 1.6m b/d....
...Yet B-B-J shows this to be nonsense – if you want to get on, you need to sound and seem as unremarkable as everyone else. B-B-J is evidence of a pervasive corporate lie....
...The doubts about price direction were clear in the precious metals market, where gold fell on Friday to $1,487 a troy ounce, down 0.5 per cent on the week....
...The precious metal plunged 7.2 per cent to a low of $32.57 a troy ounce on Thursday, a fresh 2½-month low....
...In commodities, spot gold touched an all-time high of $1,447.82 a troy ounce in New York on Thursday. It had eased to $1,428 on Friday, for a rise of 0.7 per cent on the week....
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