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Why Cathie Wood is the fund manager of the moment
ButtonwoodWhy Cathie Wood is the fund manager of the momentHer hunt for the big business winners of the future holds mass appealCATHIE WOOD, founder of Ark Investment Management, provokes a variety of responses. The main one is envy. The firm has been wildly successful. Ark manages a suite of exchange-traded funds...
Facebook and Australia both claim victory as they end their spat
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Prices in Europe’s carbon market, the world’s biggest, are soaring
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[Health] Child heart transplants: Record year for new-style operations
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[Health] Child heart transplants: ‘I’m ecstatic I got such an amazing gift’
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[Uk] Covid: Boris Johnson to unveil ‘cautious’ plan to lift England’s lockdown
image copyrightGetty ImagesAll schools in England are expected to reopen on 8 March as part of the prime minister's "cautious" four-part plan to lift the coronavirus lockdown.Boris Johnson will share his finalised "road map" with ministers on Monday, before unveiling it to MPs and later leading a news conference at 19:00...
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Why Cathie Wood is the fund manager of the moment
ButtonwoodWhy Cathie Wood is the fund manager of the momentHer hunt for the big business winners of the future holds mass appealCATHIE WOOD, founder of Ark Investment Management, provokes a variety of responses. The main one is envy. The firm has been wildly successful. Ark manages a suite of exchange-traded funds...
Republicans introduce a torrent of new laws to restrict voting
Daily chartRepublicans introduce a torrent of new laws to restrict votingThere are nearly seven times as many such proposals in state legislatures than there were a year agoON FEBRUARY 18TH Barry Fleming, a Republican state representative from Georgia, introduced a bill to the newly created Special Committee on Election Integrity that,...
Counting the cost of Brexit’s impact on trade
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Facebook and Australia both claim victory as they end their spat
Relationship status: it’s complicatedFacebook and Australia both claim victory as they end their spatThe social network coughs up, but wriggles out of the obligations it had feared mostAFTER UNFRIENDING each other last week, Facebook and Australia are pals again. On February 23rd the world’s largest social network announced that it would...
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DNA from Neanderthals affects vulnerability to covid-19
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