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Pharma industry may be golden goose ready for plucking

RTE 02 Apr 2025
"But it's going to make our country very rich because we're the piggy bank that everybody steals from ... And yet that seems to be what at least some in this administration are banking on ... "We’re the biggest market in the world, and they have to be here.
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Mowing Down An Ecosystem

The Maritime Executive 01 Apr 2025
... from land, the Saya de Malha Bank extends over an area the size of Switzerland and is one of the world’s biggest seagrass meadows, which make it the planet’s most important carbon sink.
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The most important part of the ocean you’ve never heard of

The Los Angeles Times 28 Mar 2025
The Saya de Malha Bank is existentially crucial to the planet because it is one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks ... But the biggest allure is that the bank is hundreds of miles beyond the jurisdictional reach of any nation’s laws.
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Gold Hits Record High as US Tariffs Spark Trade Tensions

Scrap Monster 28 Mar 2025
Global stock markets fell as shares in some of the world's biggest carmakers tumbled. Gold is also seeing support from strong central bank inflows and ETF demand, said Phillip Streible, chief market strategist at Blue Line Futures.
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Argentina seeking $20 billion IMF loan

Oelwein Daily Register 27 Mar 2025
In addition to the $20 billion IMF request, Luis Caputo said Argentina -- the IMF's biggest debtor by far -- was negotiating an additional package with other organizations such as the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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News24 | World Bank and SA have R55bn plan to 'reverse the collapse' in major cities

News24 27 Mar 2025
South Africa, with the help of the World Bank, has a R55 billion plan to reverse the decline in services and infrastructure in eight of its biggest cities ... .
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Emirate NBD's high networth clients can now access BlackRock's platform

Gulf News 25 Mar 2025
This follows a MoU the UAE financial institution signed up with one of the world's biggest fund managers. BlackRock to create an investment platform that will provide the bank’s wealth clients access ...
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ArcelorMittal indicted in France pollution case

Business Day 25 Mar 2025
The world’s second-biggest steelmaker has been placed under judicial supervision, subject to a €250,000 and a €1.75m bank guarantee, the prosecutor’s office said in an emailed statement ... There has been no falsification of data.” ... Reuters .
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Women are south Asia’s ‘silent contributors’ – changing that could transform economies

The Conversation 25 Mar 2025
Whether it's selling at a market or working in the home or in the field, south Asian women are contributing to their economies ... Across South Asia, only 25% of women have a bank account, compared with 41% of men – the biggest gender gap in the world ... .
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Erdogan bets world will turn a blind eye to turmoil in Turkey

The Brunswick News 24 Mar 2025
... NATO’s second-biggest army is banking on the world .
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Sukkur barrage gates

Dawn 24 Mar 2025
This is probably the biggest barrage in the world with seven irrigation canals. Its gates on the right bank seem to be affected the most ... Now if we go to Sukkur from Rohri using the barrage, we can see several silt islands appearing on the east bank ... S.
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Fixing a flawed levy on the banks could leave Australia’s budget billions of dollars better off

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
The budget would be billions of dollars better off every year if Australia’s biggest banks were forced to pay taxpayers for an unspoken guarantee that taxpayers will bail them out in a crisis.
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Book Review: ‘Dark Towers’ tells the sordid story of Trump’s epic trail of financial destruction

People's World 21 Mar 2025
Trump’s reputation as a deadbeat who lost other people’s money was so toxic that no bank other than Deutsche Bank would float loans to him ... Deutsche Bank grew to be one of the biggest banks in the world.
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Vikings are back in London to plunder the property market - in another vote of ...

This is Money 20 Mar 2025
In its second property raid in just two months, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund – the world’s biggest – is buying a quarter of the prestigious Covent Garden estate for £570million.
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Why you can’t trust economists

New Statesman 19 Mar 2025
“We do not rely on investment banks to deliver any of our physical human needs ... An investment bank would argue that we rely on them for all of those things. The cost to the world’s biggest pharma companies of developing a new drug is more than $2bn.
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