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...The action takes place on and within a large sphere, only the top of which is visible when nymphs and shepherds gather for Orfeo and Euridice’s wedding....
...The men, Bradly Cape, Zachary Smith and Phillip Yeomans, drove in on Interstate 80 and Rattlesnake Pass Road and set up camp on public land, a square administered by the federal Bureau of Land Management...
...P our in the lavender-infused oil and stir to melt together. Once the beeswax has melted, remove the double boiler from the heat. Stir in a suitable dilution of essential oils....
...In 1996 the Harvard political scientist Samuel P Huntington made a prescient case for conflict between civilisations as the defining feature of a new era, arguing that the most important distinctions between...
...Affairs of the European Parliament in Brussels OECD publishes its forecast of the near-term prospects for the global economy in its interim economic outlook Germany, Ifo business climate index Japan, S&P...
...“I would not expect [an embargo on crude oil and oil products] to shift the price of gasoline,” said Zachary Rogers, a director at Rapidan, the Colorado-based energy consultancy....
...S&P Global Platts estimated that demand for steel in the property sector reached 322m tonnes last year, and expected demand to range between 313m and 328m tonnes this year....
...A lack of these was a big barrier to Tesla’s entry to the S&P 500 in spite of rapid stock price gains. It finally joined in December as the sixth-biggest company on the benchmark index....
...They face supply shortages and rising prices domestically and in Mongolia, the quickest alternative source of coal, S&P Global Platts said in a research note....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell as much as 2.5 per cent on Tuesday following reports of Ms Cheng's detention in China, with shares down across all sectors....
...Letter in response to this article: China’s ‘cool’ US policy belies burning ambition / From Walter P Blass, Retired Director of Strategic Planning, AT&T, Warren, NJ, US...
...If Tesla is admitted to the S&P 500 and index funds add the stock to their portfolios, then the price will rise further....
...China installed a record number of wind power generators in 2020, our Beijing-based colleague Christian Shepherd wrote this week....
...In March, China’s largest state-owned oil refineries reached about 70 per cent of capacity, after hitting a record low of 67 per cent in February, according to an S&P Global Platts survey....
...Tokyo’s Topix dropped 0.72 per cent while Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.14 per cent. The Australian dollar, which investors view as a proxy for China’s economy, rose 0.5 per cent to almost $0.67....
...But that might not be an option when markets such as South Korea are contending with their own virus outbreaks, says Sebastian Lewis, an analyst at S&P Global Platts....
...Cash on hand plus available credit cover last year’s interest costs several times at most listed groups, according to data from S&P. Marston’s and Mitchell’s & Butlers are exceptions....
...The outbreak prompted S&P Global Ratings, the credit rating agency, to warn that if it worsened the disease could knock 1.2 percentage points off China’s economic growth this year....
...“It’s tough to say if this was all part of a larger plan but it does seem to be working out in a way that should help continue to grow gas demand,” said Jeffrey Moore of S&P Global Platts....
...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq narrowly closed at record highs, retreating slightly from their intraday peaks following the announcement earlier on Friday....
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...China’s offshore renminbi strengthened 0.4 per cent versus the dollar to its strongest in almost three weeks in response to the tweet, and the S&P 500 closed 0.3 per cent higher....
...Its balance sheet could do with a tidy-up: net debt in the past 12 months was more than $32bn, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, almost three times that of competitor Valero Energy....
...The S&P 500 closed modestly higher on Thursday after the WHO’s announcement, after shares in mainland China and Hong Kong fell following the quarantines....
...The S&P 500 gained 0.9 per cent by mid-morning trading in New York after shedding 2.4 per cent on Monday....
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