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As stock prices fall, investors prepare for an autumn chill
Markets are in a very different place to earlier in the year
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Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices?
As policymakers prepare to ease policy, traders (and presidential candidates) hold their breath
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Helen Fisher found out the science behind romance
The biological anthropologist died on August 17th, aged 79
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The King of Java inflames an Indonesian “democratic emergency”
Jokowi is clinging to power and protesters are angry about it
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Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse
A string of lithium and nickel mines have closed this year
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The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
Reliance on America grows, as other countries clutch their pearls
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Why does the West back the wrong Asian leaders?
The supposed bastions of liberalism need to fix their picker
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Canada’s Conservatives are crushing Justin Trudeau
Pierre Poilievre is even winning over the young and the unionised
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Have Israel’s far-right religious nationalists peaked?
They wield great power but schisms within the movement are deepening
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Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court
His inner circle is another barrier to compromise
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A Nigerian’s guide to weddings during the cozzie livs
Even the most lavish of partygoers are adjusting to a cost-of-living crisis
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AMLO’s dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
The outgoing president will use his last month in power to change the constitution
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From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin
The woes of America’s low-cost carriers could soon be mirrored elsewhere
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How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again
The once-troubled brand is now a favourite of millennials and gen-Zs alike
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Pinduoduo, China’s e-commerce star, suffers a blow
It faces a slowing economy, stiffening competition and angry merchants
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“Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city
El-Fasher, until recently a place of refuge, is under attack
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Why the plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
Reliance on America grows, as other countries clutch their pearls