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May 2, 2020
US oil storage may have room for ‘several hundred million barrels’

The US is working on ways to expand storage space to add several hundred million more barrels to it, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a White House briefing, as...

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May 2, 2020
US oil storage may have room for ‘several hundred million barrels’

The US is working on ways to expand storage space to add several hundred million more barrels to it, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a White House briefing, as...

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May 2, 2020
Russia to boost coal production & sales, will be world’s top exporter within decade

The world's largest coal-producing country, Russia, plans to increase its output and exports over the next 15 years. Russia's share of the global coal export market is projected to expand...

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May 2, 2020
Population shrinks in California, still most populous state

The nation's most populous state shrank a bit in the second half of last year, according to official figures released Friday. California had a population of 39.78 million as of...

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May 1, 2020
Wall Street tumbles as US threatens China with tariffs

US stocks are facing a second straight day of losses, after President Donald Trump threatened to unleash a new barrage of retaliatory tariffs on China over the coronavirus crisis. The...

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May 1, 2020
Wall Street tumbles as US threatens China with tariffs

US stocks are facing a second straight day of losses, after President Donald Trump threatened to unleash a new barrage of retaliatory tariffs on China over the coronavirus crisis. The...

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May 1, 2020
Stocks and Chinese yuan cave in on Trump’s China tariff threat

US President Donald Trump's renewed attack on Beijing over the coronavirus crisis has sunk the Chinese national currency, the yuan, to a one month-low, while global markets also dipped lower....

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May 1, 2020
Total disappointment: UK one of FEW govts failing to support its air sector, Heathrow boss says

The CEO of London's Heathrow Airport has called on Westminster to boost support for the vital aviation sector, warning that, without it, Virgin Atlantic might go bust, as the possibility...

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May 1, 2020
Global smartphone market suffers largest annual decline in history due to coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus has hit the global smartphone market hard, sinking worldwide shipments by up to 13 percent in the first quarter of 2020, new data from analyst firms shows. While...

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May 1, 2020
Oil prices grow as historic OPEC+ production cut deal comes into effect

The prices for Brent crude and WTI have increased after the hard-fought OPEC+ deal took effect on Friday. The oil market had seen a dramatic crash last month due to...

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May 1, 2020
Will OPEC+ production cuts agreement save the troubled oil market?

The historic oil deal meant to help crude prices rebound amid the coronavirus crisis has come into force. Starting today, global oil production is set to be slashed by nearly...

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May 1, 2020
Israel’s largest bank agrees to $874mn fine for conspiring to help US citizens hide $7.6 BILLION in assets overseas

The top bank in Israel will hand over just shy of $900 million to the US Treasury after it was implicated in a tax evasion scheme, helping Americans to hide...

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April 30, 2020
Eurozone faces deep economic crisis after its worst quarter ever

The euro area is suffering its worst contraction ever as data published on Thursday showed that the region's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 3.5 percent in the first quarter...

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April 30, 2020
‘That’s a Ponzi scheme’: RT’s Keiser Report looks into US deflationary spiral caused by nonstop ‘printing of debt’

Bond investors have started to debate whether the United States is heading into a deflationary spiral, even after trillions of dollars of stimulus has been injected into the coronavirus-hit global...

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April 30, 2020
‘That’s a Ponzi scheme’: RT’s Keiser Report looks into US deflationary spiral caused by nonstop ‘printing of debt’

Bond investors have started to debate whether the United States is heading into a deflationary spiral, even after trillions of dollars of stimulus has been injected into the coronavirus-hit global...

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April 30, 2020
‘That’s a Ponzi scheme’: RT’s Keiser Report looks into US deflationary spiral caused by nonstop ‘printing of debt’

Bond investors have started to debate whether the United States is heading into a deflationary spiral, even after trillions of dollars of stimulus has been injected into the coronavirus-hit global...

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April 30, 2020
Gold demand skyrockets 80% as pandemic fuels investor dash for safety

Global investment demand for gold soared to a four-year high of 539.6 metric tons in the first quarter of the year, as investors sought safe-haven assets amid the coronavirus outbreak....

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April 30, 2020
Oil pirates have a new favorite hotspot

Gone are the days when Somalia's Gulf of Aden was considered the most dangerous piracy zone for oil companies and other seafarers. But now, with offshore oil storage bursting at...

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April 30, 2020
US unemployment soars to over 30 MILLION as coronavirus pandemic wrecks economy

First-time filings for unemployment insurance hit 3.84 million in the week ending April 25, the US Labor Department announced on Thursday. That brings the total number of first-time claims to...

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April 30, 2020
Many Japanese defy appeals to stay home to curb virus

Under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others...

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April 29, 2020
US economy dives to start year amid business shutdown & worst is yet to come

US gross domestic product (GDP) fell 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, according to data released by the Department of Commerce on Wednesday....

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April 29, 2020
Covid-19 may plunge Germany into worst recession since WWII

Europe's leading economy, Germany, is bracing for a painful fallout from the coronavirus crisis that is likely to result in the country's deepest recession in the post-war era. After a...

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April 29, 2020
Putin calls for global effort to stabilize energy market as coronavirus crushes demand

Energy markets in Russia elsewhere in the world have experienced some serious shocks in recent months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. He called for a global effort to balance...

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April 29, 2020
Federal Reserve’s actions led to ‘total bust’ of US economy, chief strategist tells RT’s Boom Bust

The US Central Bank said this week that it will widen the number of local governments from which it will buy debt through a forthcoming lending program. More than 200...

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April 29, 2020
Federal Reserve’s actions led to ‘total bust’ of US economy, chief strategist tells RT’s Boom Bust

The US Central Bank said this week that it will widen the number of local governments from which it will buy debt through a forthcoming lending program. More than 200...

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April 29, 2020
Coronavirus to shrink Russian economy by over 5% this year – Moody’s

International rating agency Moody's expects Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) to drop by 5.5 percent in 2020 as the pandemic has resulted in the near-shutdown of the global economy. The...

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April 29, 2020
Coronavirus to shrink Russian economy by over 5% this year – Moody’s

International rating agency Moody's expects Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) to drop by 5.5 percent in 2020 as the pandemic has resulted in the near-shutdown of the global economy. The...

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April 29, 2020
Cancelled home sales drop in Miami since start of pandemic

Confidence in South Florida's housing market may be gaining, as a greater percentage of sales contracts are going forward. Or, put another way, the percentage of canceled sales contracts has...

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April 29, 2020
Here are the five biggest residential sales in Miami-Dade for the week of April 19-25

Here are the biggest five residential sales in Miami-Dade for the week of April 19-25. The data was compiled by Condo.com and does not include off-market or new construction pre-sales....

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April 29, 2020
The death of US oil

The US oil industry is facing an unprecedented collapse, and as the global economy faces its worst recession since the 1930s, the industry isn't likely to recover to pre-crash levels...

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April 29, 2020
Airbus says virus aviation crisis still at ‘early stage’

Airbus reported 481 million euros in losses in the first quarter, put thousands of workers on furlough and sought billions in loans to survive the coronavirus crisis – and its...

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April 29, 2020
Convict in LA Times hack again accused of attacking media

A journalist who went to federal prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with a similar attack on a magazine. Probation officials filed a petition Monday alleging...

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April 28, 2020
US unemployment may be as high as 40 MILLION – national poll

The soaring jobless rate in the US due to the Covid-19 outbreak may be far worse than the official data shows, as millions of Americans have been unable to file...

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April 28, 2020
The LNG market is “IMPLODING”

While everyone is understandably watching the meltdown in the crude oil market, the global market for natural gas is also cratering. At least 20 cargoes of US liquefied natural gas...

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April 28, 2020
‘The cure for low oil prices is low prices,’ energy expert tells Boom Bust

The Covid-19 outbreak has severely cut demand for crude and tumbled oil prices. As the crisis hits the US oil industry hard, with 40 percent of rigs going offline, Boom...

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April 28, 2020
Crude oil’s crash below $0 was ‘a pure freak of markets,’ economist tells Keiser Report

A week after the price US WTI crude plunged into negative territory for the first time ever, oil prices continue to freefall as concerns mount about the oversupply on the...

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April 28, 2020
Oil prices extend losses as coronavirus lockdown crushes global demand

Crude prices continued to freefall on Tuesday, with US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) trading around $10 a barrel amid fears that the world is running out of places to store...

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April 28, 2020
US auto factories likely to stay closed another 2 weeks

Fiat Chrysler is backing off a planned May 4 restart at its North American factories because some U.S. states still will have stay-home orders in place. The move likely means...

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April 27, 2020
Fasten your seatbelt: Boeing CEO warns it could be ‘years’ before aviation industry recovers from Covid-19 financial turbulence

Boeing CEO David Calhoun told an online meeting of the aviation giant's shareholders it would be “a while before the dividend comes back,” describing the situation as “like nothing we...

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April 27, 2020
Fasten your seatbelt: Boeing CEO warns it could be ‘years’ before aviation industry recovers from Covid-19 financial turbulence

Boeing CEO David Calhoun told an online meeting of the aviation giant's shareholders it would be “a while before the dividend comes back,” describing the situation as “like nothing we...

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