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Scott Bessent should stop blaming the bond market automated-news
Scott Bessent should stop blaming the bond market

It is working just fine; his interventions, less so

04 Oct 2026
How 60,000 Polish number plates exposed Italy’s tax allergy automated-news
How 60,000 Polish number plates exposed Italy’s tax allergy

Giorgia Meloni is moving to cut unpopular road levies that have spawned evasion schemes using cars registered in Poland

04 Oct 2026
Americans Have Always Been Extremely Demanding In Britain and Europe automated-news
Americans Have Always Been Extremely Demanding In Britain and Europe

September was a rotten month for America’s would-be allies. In Washington Donald Trump welcomed China’s Xi Jinping with a pomp seldom accorded to former friends of the US. He delivered a brutal “America First” speech to the United Nations, and attacked Mark Carney’s talk of possible “associate membe

04 Oct 2026
Ethiopia Retakes Tigray Airport as Northern Rebels Retreat automated-news
Ethiopia Retakes Tigray Airport as Northern Rebels Retreat

Ethiopian forces seized control of the airport and other parts of Mekelle, the capital of the northern Tigray region, as leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front retreated from the city, a major turning point in the renewed conflict.

04 Oct 2026
OPEC+ Set to Keep Quotas Steady in November, Delegates Say automated-news
OPEC+ Set to Keep Quotas Steady in November, Delegates Say

Major OPEC+ nations have an agreement in principle to keep oil production quotas unchanged next month, as conflict in the Middle East continues to shutter swaths of the group’s output.

04 Oct 2026
Australian authorities probe Flydubai attacker’s links to the country automated-news
Australian authorities probe Flydubai attacker’s links to the country

Recriminations among various governments have escalated after the attempted hijacking of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week

04 Oct 2026
Why the IPO market is booming and busting automated-news
Why the IPO market is booming and busting

Flotations have stalled and returns from new listings have been weak

04 Oct 2026
Britain’s Budget needs to tame spending and boost growth automated-news
Britain’s Budget needs to tame spending and boost growth

Chancellor Healey can still make a low-key fiscal event a constructive one

04 Oct 2026
Iraq Shifts Oil Strategy by Arranging Tanker to Move Past Hormuz automated-news
Iraq Shifts Oil Strategy by Arranging Tanker to Move Past Hormuz

Iraq’s state tanker company arranged a very large crude carrier to transport 2 million barrels beyond the Strait of Hormuz, marking a move toward offering oil outside the Persian Gulf.

04 Oct 2026
Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting automated-news
Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting

Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting

03 Oct 2026
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