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...The United Steelworkers union will later today ask President Joe Biden to open a trade investigation into alleged Chinese unfair economic practices in the shipbuilding and maritime logistics sectors....
...The Red Sea route itself carries almost a tenth of seaborne-traded oil supplies, according to the US Energy Information Administration, and is also a conduit for goods from Asia....
...The next day another strike destroyed a state of the art S-400 Triumph air defence system....
...And that would require not a maritime corridor, which makes a lot of headlines, but is technically and operationally complicated....
...Here’s why S&P is making the U-turn....
...s=20 But Reid seeing faint potential parallels to last year’s LDI-stirred Gilt market mayhem is interesting....
...The G7’s cap on Russian crude is a case in point....
...China’s Covid generation: the surging inequality behind Xi’s U-turn Xi Jinping’s administration took a dramatic U-turn last month, ending its zero-Covid policy of lockdowns, mass testing and fastidious contact...
...Explainer: The implications of Opec+’s decision reaches well beyond the oil price to the future of the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, as our energy team explains....
...Members of the Public and Commercial Services union at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Ofsted and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency also walk out....
...The ports in California became so congested last year that the Biden administration intervened to unclog them....
...To him, the logical target would be Bank of New York Mellon, which has $1.8tn of assets under management and another whopping $44.3tn of assets under custody or administration....
...The new initiatives include $60mn for maritime co-operation, and the US will also deploy a coast guard ship to the region to enhance security co-operation....
...AT&T said the company had also agreed to the two-week delay, but added the company “remain[s] committed to the six-month protection zone mitigations we outlined in our letter”....
...Sweden’s maritime administration on Tuesday reported two leaks in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline close to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea....
...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 share index closed up 2.6 per cent, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 2.3 per cent....
...For example, they’ve announced last year on maritime security how they will help the smaller countries of the region....
...“If our app becomes widely used, the concept of a dog getting lost will disappear,” Satsuki Sawashima, chief operating officer of Tokyo-based start-up S’more told Nikkei....
...sectors The US Federal Aviation Administration banned US airlines and pilots from flying over Ukraine, Belarus and a western portion of Russia, expanding a previous safety warning...
...The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers said a Yes vote among its 40,000 members could lead to the biggest UK rail strike in modern history....
...The S&P 500 has now closed at a record high 65 times this year, according to S&P analyst Howard Silverblatt — the second-highest total in history. 2....
...But, look at it more closely, and the causes of 2021’s (still continuing) supply chain problems — and the policy lessons to be drawn from them — appear different....
...In 2019 it generated a 58 per cent net return, about double the S&P 500....
...Reducing inflation has recently become a significant focus of the Biden administration, which used its early days in office to try to stimulate demand....
...Pump fist to chants of “U.S.A.”.] And tonight I am announcing that we are imposing sanctions on all oil exports from Russia. Vlad, the world doesn’t want your oil!...
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