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Jennifer Jacobs and Mark Gurman
| 19 Aug 2019
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President Donald Trump said Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook voiced concerns about chief competitor Samsung Electronics getting an edge because its products, unlike Apple's, won't be subject to tariffs when imported by the US.
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Firstlinks |
27 Feb 2020
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In many global cities, housing demand has typically outstripped supply over the past decade with strong housing price inflation affecting affordability. There are marked changes occurring within the global housing markets with a defined long-term trend from home ownership to rental accommodation.
The Economist |
27 Feb 2020
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Investing
THE CELEBRATION of NATO's 70th birthday should have been a triumphal march. The average lifespan of collective-defence alliances over the past five centuries is just 15 years.
The Economist |
27 Feb 2020
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'Winter is coming,' warned a Norwegian representative on November 22nd, at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation (wto). The multilateral trading system that the wto has overseen since 1995 is about to freeze up. On December 10th two of the judges on its appellate body, which hears appeals in trade disputes and authorises sanctions against rule-breakers, will retire-and an American block on new appointments means they will not be replaced. With just one judge remaining, it will no longer be able to hear new cases.
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27 Feb 2020
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The Australian housing market has steadily reaccelerated since the middle of this year. House prices across most capital cities had been falling for 21 consecutive months, but finally bottomed out in around May 2019 and are now rising again.
The Economist |
27 Feb 2020
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COMMODITY PRICES have been on a rollercoaster ride in the past few years. Spurred by Chinese demand, they reached a giddy peak in 2011. Oversupply and fears of an emerging-market slowdown led to a long decline until 2016. Then prices were starting to recover, until President Donald Trump began raising American import tariffs in 2018.