(Boomberg) — Crude in London tumbled below $40 a barrel for the first time since late June in the wake of faltering demand and weaker equities dampening market sentiment. Brent futures tumbled as much as 5.3% to $39.77 a barrel on Tuesday. The combination of a stalling Asian demand recovery, the end of the U.S. …
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Pfizer’s potential vaccine is one of three backed by the U.S. that’s currently in late-stage testing. The U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant has been working alongside German drugmaker BioNTech. In July, Pfizer released promising data from its early-stage trial. University of Maryland School of Medicine | AP Pfizer could have results from its late-stage coronavirus vaccine trial …
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Vice President Mike Pence predicts the U.S. will have a COVID-19 vaccine “before the end of this year.” During a Tuesday interview with SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Daily,” the vice president explained that the Trump administration has been involved in efforts to develop a vaccine since February. “On Monday, one company known as Moderna went into …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Global oil demand could fall by 9-10 million barrels per day (bpd) this year due to impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday, adding prices had room to recover further. That’s in line with last month’s forecast by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France must stay vigilant as more people will be hospitalised in intensive care units in the next two weeks, reflecting a flare-up in COVID-19 infections in recent days, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Saturday. Veran however ruled out the need for a new nationwide lockdown, telling BFM television that France had …
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Sept 5 (Reuters) – The California Independent System Operator (ISO) declared a “Stage 2” power emergency late on Saturday, warning that rotating power outages were possible amid a record heat wave. A Stage 2 power emergency means the ISO has taken all mitigating actions but can no longer provide its expected energy requirements. Temperatures of …
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Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen said Friday he believes his former boss will “do anything and everything” to win re-election and “even go so far as to start a war” to remain in office. In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt, Cohen was asked if he thought Trump would win in November. …
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‘The worst is yet to come’ The U.S. will top more than 410,000 Covid-19 deaths by the end of the year as the country heads into the fall and winter, according to a new forecast from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Covid-19 has already killed at least 186,800 people in the …
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Oil prices fell more than 3% on Friday and posted their biggest weekly decline since June as fears of a slow economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic compounded worries about weak oil demand. Brent crude , the international benchmark, fell $1.41, or 3.2%, to settle at $42.66 a barrel While there is evidence to support …
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The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic. When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” …
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