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The pressure of being under the microscope drove Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, to thoughts of suicide, Prince Harry’s wife said in explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday. She said she had been the victim of “character assassination,” and.

According to the latest monthly report, the US added 379k new jobs in February, almost twice as many as expected, after a 166k gain a month earlier (revised from 49k). The services sector added 513k, becoming the market’s growth driver.

Bitcoin’s price fell by the most in a week after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged he “would be concerned” by tightening financial conditions because rising U.S. government-bond yields put upward pressure on borrowing costs. The comments might signal.

Despite the current battle between Bitcoin bulls and bears around the $50,000 price mark — and an 8.7% pullback over the past 24 hours — a raft of analysts and commentators have got out their crystal balls to tip a.

A late rally in Chinese shares on Friday helped pull Asian stocks off one-month lows as investors picked bargains while attention shifted to U.S. non-farm payrolls due later in the day. E-Mini futures for S&P 500, which were down 0.5%.

Oil prices jumped more than $1 a barrel on Friday, hitting their highest levels in nearly 14 months, after OPEC and its allies agreed not to increase supply in April as they await a more substantial recovery in demand amid.

Yesterday was another day of falls with Nasdaq down more than 2% and much more modest losses for the Dow Jones (-1.1%) and S&P500 (-1.3%) as US long-term government bond yields continue to climb. Yields on 10-years rose to 1.57%.

China is looking to boost research into what it calls “frontier technology” including quantum computing and semiconductors, as it competes with the U.S. for supremacy in the latest innovations. In its five-year development plan, the 14th of its kind, Beijing.

An insatiable global appetite for sand, one of the world’s most important but least appreciated commodities, is unlikely to let up anytime soon. The problem, however, is that this resource is slipping away. Our entire society is built on sand..

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday that he expects some inflationary pressures in the time ahead but they likely won’t be enough to spur the central bank to hike interest rates. “We expect that as the economy reopens and.

China has set growth target of over 6% for 2021, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced Friday at an annual parliamentary meeting — the country’s most important political event of the year. Such growth would come off a low base. China.

Bitcoin’s recovery appears to have stalled as caution sets in ahead of expected comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell later on Thursday. The cryptocurrency is currently nursing losses below $50,000, having bounced from $43,000 to $52,500 in the past.