Nigeria will no longer provide foreign currency for importers of sugar and wheat, the central bank said on Twitter on Friday, as the country tries to conserve national dollar reserves. Africa’s most populous country, and its biggest economy, relies on imports to feed its 200 million people. The central bank restricted access in 2015 to…
Topline Nearly 100 days into his presidency, Joe Biden has maintained a remarkably steady approval rating despite the tenuous state of the economy and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic—marks far better than his predecessor during the same period, but a few ticks below other modern presidents. Key Facts Biden’s approval rating hit 60% in an April…
Topline The Biden Administration will allow patients to be prescribed and sent medicine that induces abortion without visiting a doctor in-person through the remainder of the pandemic, reversing a Trump-era curb on accessing abortion services. Key Facts Food and Drug Administration acting commissioner Janet Woodcock shared the changes Monday in a letter to the American…
Robinhood said it was “experiencing issues with crypto trading” on Thursday evening but says service has been “fully restored.” The trading issues came as Dogecoin’s price has soared in recent days, prompting outrage from users. Robinhood has come under fire repeatedly after users were unable to trade during market rallies. See more stories on Insider’s…
Topline Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a pair of bills Monday to legalize recreational marijuana in New Mexico and expunge some criminal records for related offenses, joining a wave of states that have done so in the face of budget shortfalls and complaints that drug policies have disproportionately targeted minority communities. FILE – In this…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man receives a Pfizer COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a COVID-19 … [+] vaccination center in Jerusalem Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ASSOCIATED PRESS The novel mRNA vaccines of Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech are among the most effective of all the developed vaccines at preventing…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Jack Ma, former chairman of Alibaba Group, appears at a forum in Tokyo, Japan, on December 6, 2019. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg Alibaba Group was hit with the highest-ever antitrust fine imposed in China when the country’s regulator announced on Saturday that it had slapped a fine of 18.2 billion…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinBitcoin has suddenly surged higher, climbing firmly above $60,000 per bitcoin for the first time since mid-March. The bitcoin price hit highs of $61,222 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange before falling back slightly, a rise of 5% on the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency after bitcoin,…
A man walks past a stock quotation board at a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonA batch of Chinese and U.S. economic data helped underpin global stocks near record highs on Friday, as investors priced in a solid global recovery from the coronavirus-induced slump.In Asia, markets were largely steady after China reported…
Robinhood said it was “experiencing issues with crypto trading” on Thursday evening but says service has been “fully restored.” The trading issues came as Dogecoin’s price has soared in recent days, prompting outrage from users. Robinhood has come under fire repeatedly after users were unable to trade during market rallies. See more stories on Insider’s…
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