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2020, August, 24, 12:30:00
FRANCE'S ECONOMY DOWN 11%
The French government is sticking to its forecast for an 11% contraction of the French economy this year
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2020, August, 21, 11:15:00
CHINA STOCKS UP
The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.9%, to 4,718.84, while the Shanghai Composite Index added 0.5% to 3,380.68.
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2020, August, 21, 11:10:00
AUSTRALIA'S SANTOS NET LOSS $289 BLN
Santos reported first half free cash flow of US$431 million and underlying profit of US$212 million
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2020, August, 20, 14:40:00
ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IS EXTREMELY HIGH
the uncertainty related to the economic effects of the pandemic was extremely elevated
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2020, August, 19, 12:30:00
S&P 500 UP
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 66.84 points, or 0.24%, to 27,778.07, the S&P 500 gained 7.79 points, or 0.23%, to 3,389.78 and the Nasdaq Composite added 81.12 points, or 0.73%, to 11,210.84.
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2020, August, 19, 12:15:00
U.S. NUCLEAR POWER CLIMATE RISKS
The consequences of climate change can affect every aspect of nuclear plant operations – from fuel handling and power and steam generation to maintenance, safety systems and waste processing
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2020, August, 19, 12:10:00
GERMANY'S RWE RENEWABLE EMISSION $2.4 BLN
German utility RWE on Tuesday completed a 2 billion euro ($2.4 billion) share issue to back its expansion into renewable energy,
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2020, August, 19, 12:00:00
NORWAY'S FUND DOWN
The return on the fund's equity investment was -6.8 percent. Investments in unlisted real estate returned -1.6 percent, whereas the fixed income investments returned 5.1 percent. The fund's overall return was 11 basis points lower than the return on the benchmark index.
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2020, August, 18, 12:25:00
U.S. $ DOWN
The dollar was down 0.2% versus the euro at $1.1895 EUR=EBS and had fallen 0.5% against the Japanese yen to 105.40 JPY=EBS, a 1-1/2-week low.
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2020, August, 17, 12:35:00
JAPAN'S ECONOMY DOWN
The Cabinet Office reported that Japan’s preliminary seasonally adjusted real gross domestic product, or GDP, the sum of a nation’s goods and services, fell 7.8% quarter on quarter.
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2020, August, 17, 12:30:00
U.S. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION UP
The U.S. total industrial production rose 3.0 percent in July after increasing 5.7 percent in June
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2020, August, 14, 11:40:00
MALAYSIA'S GDP DOWN 17%
This is Malaysia's worst performance on record and first quarterly decline since the third period of 2009, amid the global financial crisis.
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2020, August, 13, 13:45:00
OIL DEMAND WILL UP BY 7 MBD
For 2021, world oil demand growth is forecast to rise by 7.0 mb/d,