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Trading curbs reverse GameStop rally, angering upstart traders
Small groups of investors protested outside the New York Stock Exchange and at the Menlo Park, California, headquarters of Robinhood, a company that popularised the notion of commission-free trading
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GM Will Only Sell Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035
The announcement is likely to put pressure on automakers around the world to make similar commitments and embolden President Joe Biden and other elected officials to push for even more aggressive policies to fight climate change.
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4 Things to Know About the GameStop Insanity
The internet and stock market are aflame over GameStop, the video game retailer whose stock is suddenly the darling of day traders who are putting the squeeze on Wall Street's big players.
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An Australia with no Google? The bitter fight behind a drastic threat
In a major escalation, Google has threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved legislation that would force tech companies to pay for journalism shared on their platforms
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'Dumb Money' is on GameStop, and it's beating Wall Street at its own game
How numerous amateur traders, followers of a popular Reddit page called Wall Street Bets, have come together to take on some of Wall Street's most sophisticated investors
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China wanted to show off its vaccines. It's backfiring
China had hoped its vaccines would prove it had become a scientific and diplomatic powerhouse. Instead, in some places, they have set off a backlash
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Biden, with powerful allies and foes, targets climate change
Biden has already staffed his government with more people concerned with climate change than any other president before him
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If poor countries go unvaccinated, a study says, rich ones will pay
If people in developing countries remain out of work because of lockdowns required to choke off the spread of the virus, they will have less money to spend, reducing sales for exporters in North America, Europe and East Asia
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Five takeaways from the developing space war between China and the U.S
Beijing is intent on dominating the democratised space age even as Joe Biden's administration aims for orbital resilience
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Biden inherits a vaccine supply unlikely to grow before April
The pace of vaccination is critical not just to curbing disease and death but also to heading off the impact of more infectious forms of the virus.
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At Biden's inaugural events, the music was earnestly reassuring
Echoing the Biden campaign, and tightly coordinated with the speeches and imagery of his first day in office, the music insisted on unity after division, hope after pain