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Asian stocks bounce as bond market calms

Pedestrians walk past an electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2021. /CFP Asian shares firmed on Monday as some semblance of calm returned to bond mark

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2021 balance sheet: Flood of global monetary liquidity hard to rein in

The world's major central banks adopted unprecedented monetary stimulus measures in 2020 in response to the impact of COVID-19. /CFP Editor's note: Guan Tao is the chief economist of BOC Inter

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China's bond market attracts record foreign inflow in 2020

03:40 The year 2020 was remarkable for China's bond market, which played a vital role in supporting the recovery across many pandemic-stricken economies and attracted a record foreign

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Underwater lives flourishing in Hainan's marine ranch

A scientific research center and university united with local authorities in Sanya City, Hainan Province five years ago to create a marine ranch in the area around Wuzh

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Indonesian robo-advisor app Bibit raises $30 million led by Sequoia Capital India

Bibit, a robo-advisor app that wants to make investing more accessible in Indonesia, has raised $30 million from Sequoia Capital India. Returning investors East Ventures, EV Growth, AC Ventures and 50

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Silicon Valley should reward zebras, not unicorns

Silicon Valley has a unicorn problem.While no one is calling for startups with high valuations to go extinct, there ought to be a lot fewer of them. At least that’s what many young founders have concl

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What we learned from the 2020 G20 Riyadh Summit

The media center of the Group of Twenty (G20) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 19, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Hannan Hussain is a foreign affairs commentator and author. He is a Fulbright re

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Passion Capital backs UK fertility workplace benefits provider, Fertifa

UK-based Fertifa has bagged a £1 million (~$1.3M) seed to plug into a fertility-focused workplace benefits platform. Passion Capital is investing in the round, along with some unnamed strategic angel

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British farmers struggle after the worst crop harvest in decades

The harvest in the UK is finishing much later than usual because of damaged crop fields. /Kitty Logan/CGTN Europe A combine harvester paints broad lines through a field of barley as it gathers

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Africa's great green wall grows to yield jobs, restore degraded land

One of the world's most ambitious environmental projects — the great green wall —covering the entire width of the African continent and built to combat land degradation, has completed nearly 20 pe

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Palantir’s S-1 alludes to controversial work with ICE as a risk factor for its business

Palantir’s mysterious work and its founding origins with Trump ally and anti-press crusader Peter Thiel have inspired a number of controversies in recent years, none as divisive as its ongoing b

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Biden, Harris lash Trump in introduction of historic VP pick

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered an aggressive one-two attack on the character and performance of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as they made their election

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U.S. job openings increase, hires decrease in June

Photo taken on May 8, 2020 shows the building of U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., the United States. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)The number of hires decreas

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Chinese internet users brand ByteDance CEO a ‘traitor’ as TikTok seeks US buyer

ByteDance is not backing down from its ambitions to become a global technology powerhouse, even as TikTok loses its largest market India and faces insurmountable challenges in the US. But some in Ch

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Louie Gohmert who refused to wear a mask tests positive for COVID-19

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) questions Attorney General William Barr who appears before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 28, 2020. /Reuters Rep. Louie Gohm

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Gold hits record high on haven demand as markets rally sputters

VCG Gold hit a record high Monday as investors rushed into the safe-haven on concerns about China-U.S. tensions, a spike in virus infections around the world and a lack of progress on a new st

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White House drops payroll tax cut after GOP allies object

The White House reluctantly dropped its bid to cut Social Security payroll taxes Thursday as Republicans unveil a $1 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, yielding to oppos