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...Rick Rieder, chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock, which manages $9.4tn, said he had become more pessimistic about the state of the US economy in recent weeks....
...And no surprise that in 1938, André Breton, the French father of Surrealism, called Mexico “ . . . the Surrealist place par excellence”....
...“Look at how the US and UK absolutely support the one-party state of Rwanda’s Paul Kagame. “Inside the country no one can tell the difference between the US position and the Chinese.”...
...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...Rick Stollmeyer has found that out the hard way. A former US Navy submarine officer, he founded the software company Mindbody in his California garage two decades ago....
..., Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau....
...— André 3000 A lot of (probably smart, well-remunerated) tech sector workers have lost their jobs recently, with Spotify one of the latest to swing the axe. A tracker can be found here....
...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...Andres has signed on as a Bowery investor and adviser....
...In the lesser-known polychrome terracotta “Virgin and Child”, the half-figures — the infant clinging to Mary’s neck, turning his back on us or restlessly trying to break away — are mesmerisingly lifelike...
...As he says: “From our earliest beginnings we’ve built using materials available around us.”...
...“Photographing Alek in Brooklyn was a joyful and powerful experience,” says the documentary-style photographer Andre D Wagner, who shot this cover story....
...Yet it seemed he was in on the joke, winking at us as if to say: I know, right? Where’s the harm in a little fantasy?...
...He said he would still hold a scheduled call with Vladimir Putin on Monday morning to discuss procuring Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and bilateral ties....
...African countries are looking beyond the west in the global vaccine race dominated by Europe and the US, with policymakers across the continent seeking jabs from the likes of Russia and China....
...On his first day in isolation after contracting Covid-19, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador had a call with Vladimir Putin....
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...Why Opec matters Here’s a price chart that looks like all price charts seem to look recently: a lopsided V, higher on the right....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintained that the economy has now touched bottom. “The worst is behind us. Our strategy has worked....
...Historically, economies frequently experience a V-shaped recovery after a recession....
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made a major bet on state oil company Pemex and is building a new refinery — even as the US and Europe make ambitious bets on turning their economies carbon neutral...
...The fall was worse than the 1.2 per cent quarter-on-quarter contraction in the US, with whose economy Mexico is closely linked....
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