During the Second National Lockdown in France On November 12, 2020, during the Second National Lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, a st-c-chair inside a closed restaurant on Champs-É Lissis Avenue in Paris. Stefan de Scutin / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks …
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Whenever there is a surprise in stocks, customers’ stocks usually start pouring. But recently, financial advisers have been getting more and more customers from worrying about the devastation of West Coast wildfires, which come amid the worst public-health crisis of a century this year. “We always get a lot of …
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Stock market ignores restrictions of Trump administration. Here’s why it should not.
Text size Kevin Frayer / Getty Images Brands responded calmly to the recent escalation of the Trump administration’s war on Chinese telecom giant Huawei. Maybe too calm. U.S. Commerce Department regulations issued Aug. 17 will in theory prevent Huawei from purchasing any hardware or software that has all inputs of …
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A few Danish computer scientists have solved a years-long mathematical puzzle that lay dormant for decades, after researchers made insignificant progress since the 1990s. The abstract problem in question is part of what is called graph theory, and specifically deals with the challenge of finding an algorithm to solve the …
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