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Cities have stopped being the engines of growth and opportunity they once were

The pandemic is dealing prodigious blows to cities across the country. But the world can’t hope to thrive again if its cities don’t—they’re the places that have historically supplied the keys for unlocking human potential. Though beset by racism and other injustices, cities not only provided shared, robust public infrastructure like schools, libraries and transit systems, they stirred together vast numbers of people from different cultures and classes.

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Capital Market

Gold hits eight-month low as higher bond yields dent its appeal

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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End of ‘liquidity premium’ to unleash shareholder activism

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Bitcoin cannot replace the banks

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Why it is usually a mistake for investors to take profits

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Bond turmoil heralds end of the standard portfolio

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Spac led by tech founders targets Europe’s unicorns for US listings

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Financials may be a silver lining in bond market rout

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Wall Street stocks waver as ‘bubble’ fears mount

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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EU Finance
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Out of office: what the homeworking revolution means for our cities

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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European commission to crack down on offshore tax avoidance

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Tax abuse and money laundering is trapping billions in poverty, says UN

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Out of office: what the homeworking revolution means for our cities

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Finance
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Fintech firms want to keep their golden shares. London may be forced to agree

Financial technology, or fintech, firms like to present themselves collectively as the very model of a 21st-century industry: slick, disruptive, growing rapidly and vital for national prosperit

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Massive losses should be a warning to big oil that its bonanza is over

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Out of office: what the homeworking revolution means for our cities

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Netflix still several steps ahead in strategy for wooing subscribers

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Companies
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Netflix still several steps ahead in strategy for wooing subscribers

Financial technology, or fintech, firms like to present themselves collectively as the very model of a 21st-century industry: slick, disruptive, growing rapidly and vital for national prosperit

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Massive losses should be a warning to big oil that its bonanza is over

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Out of office: what the homeworking revolution means for our cities

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Netflix still several steps ahead in strategy for wooing subscribers

Exchange traded funds tracking the metal sustain biggest outflows in a year

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Environment
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Recent Australian emissions cuts likely to be reversed in recovery from Covid and drought

Scott Morrison says Coalition is ‘getting on with’ reductions, but analysis finds end of lockdowns and drought will reverse trend

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California's rainfall is at historic lows. That spells trouble for wildfires and farms

Precipitation fills reservoirs, limits fire danger and feeds important crops. But the state has seen only 30% to 70% of what it would expect

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Unstoppable eating machines: why Australian farmers are renting out goats for weed control

Goats have a well-deserved reputation for eating anything. Now you can rent them to deal with your weed problems

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Johnson: no reason to think Covid vaccines won't work against Brazil variant

Boris Johnson has said Public Health England does not believe there is a 'threat to the wider public' as authorities seek a person in the UK who has the highly contagious Brazil strain of coronavirus. He also said there was no reason to think the vaccines being administered in the UK would not work against new variants. Scientists say the Brazil variant is more transmissible and may be able to infect people who have previously had Covid-19. So far six cases have been identified in the UK

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Sport Economy
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Recent Australian emissions cuts likely to be reversed in recovery from Covid and drought

Scott Morrison says Coalition is ‘getting on with’ reductions, but analysis finds end of lockdowns and drought will reverse trend

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Sports Flick: the obscure start-up bidding $60m for Australia's Champions League broadcast rights

Scott Morrison says Coalition is ‘getting on with’ reductions, but analysis finds end of lockdowns and drought will reverse trend

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California's rainfall is at historic lows. That spells trouble for wildfires and farms

Precipitation fills reservoirs, limits fire danger and feeds important crops. But the state has seen only 30% to 70% of what it would expect

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How a ‘technicality’ could rule out one of Australia's top Olympic medal hopes

Precipitation fills reservoirs, limits fire danger and feeds important crops. But the state has seen only 30% to 70% of what it would expect

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Unstoppable eating machines: why Australian farmers are renting out goats for weed control

Goats have a well-deserved reputation for eating anything. Now you can rent them to deal with your weed problems eating anything

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Centimetre perfect: 23 classic Dennis Cometti AFL commentary lines

Goats have a well-deserved reputation for eating anything. Now you can rent them to deal with your weed problems

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Blog

Europe’s largest chipmaker tells car companies to overhaul supply chain

Scott Morrison says Coalition is ‘getting on with’ reductions, but analysis finds end of lockdowns and drought will reverse trend

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Recent Australian emissions cuts likely to be reversed in recovery from Covid and drought

Scott Morrison says Coalition is ‘getting on with’ reductions, but analysis finds end of lockdowns and drought will reverse trend

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Sports Flick: the obscure start-up bidding $60m for Australia's Champions League broadcast rights

Scott Morrison says Coalition is ‘getting on with’ reductions, but analysis finds end of lockdowns and drought will reverse trend

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Media blackout: why Facebook pulled the plug on news in Australia

Precipitation fills reservoirs, limits fire danger and feeds important crops. But the state has seen only 30% to 70% of what it would expect

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California's rainfall is at historic lows. That spells trouble for wildfires and farms

Precipitation fills reservoirs, limits fire danger and feeds important crops. But the state has seen only 30% to 70% of what it would expect

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How a ‘technicality’ could rule out one of Australia's top Olympic medal hopes

Precipitation fills reservoirs, limits fire danger and feeds important crops. But the state has seen only 30% to 70% of what it would expect

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Building trust in AI systems is essential

Goats have a well-deserved reputation for eating anything. Now you can rent them to deal with your weed problems eating anything

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Unstoppable eating machines: why Australian farmers are renting out goats for weed control

Goats have a well-deserved reputation for eating anything. Now you can rent them to deal with your weed problems eating anything

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Centimetre perfect: 23 classic Dennis Cometti AFL commentary lines

Goats have a well-deserved reputation for eating anything. Now you can rent them to deal with your weed problems

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Why is Uber selling its autonomous-vehicle division?

Self-driving cars were meant to be its future

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Don’t trust AI until we build systems that earn trust

Self-driving cars were meant to be its future

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Az Uber vesztesége meghaladta az egymilliárd dollárt

Self-driving cars were meant to be its future

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The power of liberalism can combat oppression in all its forms

Self-driving cars were meant to be its future

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Special

Is it the end of the oil age?

Power in the 21st century

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The ECB’s lack of credibility could hamstring Europe’s recovery

A strong currency is both cause and consequence of the ECB’s failure

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Will TikTok survive?

The contortions at TikTok and Arm are an unfortunate sign of things to come

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Viruses have big impacts on ecology and evolution as well as human health

They are ubiquitous, diverse and very powerful

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The South Asian monsoon, past, present and future

They are ubiquitous, diverse and very powerful

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The story of China’s economy as told through the world’s biggest building

They are ubiquitous, diverse and very powerful

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