Pfizer now expects COVID vaccine sales to reach $33.5B this year, a whopping $7.5B bump from its estimate 3 months ago
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The world’s biggest mining companies are expected to announce record profits and eye-watering dividends this week. That's because commodities like iron ore and aluminium are among the biggest beneficiaries from the world’s economic recovery (BN Commodities)
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Frost in Brazil, flooding in China, scorching heat in the U.S. and Canada, torrential rains in Europe. Extreme weather is hitting crops across the globe, bringing with it the threat of further food inflation when hunger is already on the rise (BN Commodities)
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Further flooding feared in western Europe with death toll over 100. - More than 90 people have died in Germany - 1,300 people missing in district south of Cologne - Dam close to Belgian border flooded At least 14 dead in Belgium, further four missing
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17 suspects have been detained so far in the stunning assassination of Haiti’s president, and Haitian authorities say two are believed to hold dual U.S.-Haitian citizenship and Colombia’s government says at least six are former members of its army.
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Russia was not involved in the cyber attacks on US and other Western companies, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
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Jeff Bezos the world’s richest man reached a record $211B net worth Tuesday after Amazon.com Inc. shares rose 4.7% after the Pentagon announced it was canceling a cloud-computing contract with rival Microsoft. The rally raised Bezos’s fortune by $8.4B, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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UK: The gov, is poised to announce a ban on junk food advertising online and before 9pm on TV from 2023, as Boris Johnson looks to deliver on his pledge to tackle the UK’s growing obesity crisis.
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Marfrig, which owns National Beef in the US, has purchased land in Paraguay to construct a processing plant in Paraguay expected to have the capacity to slaughter around 1,200 head of cattle per day and generate around 6K direct and indirect jobs.
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‘Spider apocalypse’ hits Australia covering countryside in eerie blankets of cobwebs after biblical mouse plague
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Moscow ordered service-sector and municipal workers to get vaccinated amid a spike in COVID-19 infections, as the Kremlin denied any reversal in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s opposition to compulsory inoculation.
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China Returns to Its Strict Covid Restrictions to Fight a New Outbreak. Neighborhoods under strict lockdown. Thousands quarantined. Millions tested in mere days. Overseas arrivals locked up for weeks and sometimes months.
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Brazil’s worst water crisis in almost a century will impact river navigation and make transportation of goods more expensive in the world’s largest exporter of commodities ranging from soybeans to coffee and sugar.
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