Tag Archives: July 2022

Front Page: Wall Street Journal – July 26, 2022

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Investors Look Beyond Expected Fed Rate Rise

After Wednesday’s policy meeting, which is expected to result in 0.75-percentage-point rate increase, attention is likely to turn to how the central bank signals its course of action for September and beyond.5 min read

China Targeted Fed to Build Informant Network, Probe Says

The investigation by Senate Republicans found that the decadelong effort included threatening to imprison a Fed economist during a trip to Shanghai unless he agreed to provide nonpublic economic data.

Morning News: Ukraine Grain Deal Missile Strike, Tunisia Vote, Formula 1

Missile strikes on the port of Odessa have dimmed hopes for a UN-brokered deal to get Ukraine’s grain on the move.

We ask what chances it may still have. Tunisia’s constitutional referendum looks destined to formalise a march back to the autocratic rule it shook off during the Arab Spring. And how Formula 1 is looking to crack America. 

Sunday Morning: Stories And News From Zurich, London, Tokyo & Reykjavík

Our weekend programme comes live from Monocle’s radio studio in Zürich, where Tyler Brûlé and a panel of special-guest thought leaders discuss key topics in front of a studio audience.

Front Page View: The New York Times – July 24, 2022

On the Docket: Atlanta v. Trumpworld

Eighteen months into a criminal investigation of election interference by Donald J. Trump and his allies, a Georgia prosecutor is beginning to show the broad contours of her inquiry.

After Parkland, One Question Remains: What Is Justice?

Four years after the Hoyers lost their youngest child in the Florida school shooting, a jury will decide whether the killer should get the death penalty. The Hoyers had to decide, too.

By AUDRA D. S. BURCH and SCOTT MCINTYRE

Front Page: WSJ Weekend Edition – July 23, 2022

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Signs Inflation Has Peaked Offer Little Hope of Quick Fall

Falling commodity prices, bond yields and inflation expectations fuel optimism on price pressures.

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Companies from Coca-Cola to McDonald’s will share insights on inflation, supply chain and consumers

Morning News: Trump’s ‘Dereliction Of Duty’, ECB Rates Rise, Bangladesh

Last night, in a televised hearing, the committee investigating the events of January 6th 2021 charged Donald Trump with “dereliction of duty” for failing to stop his supporters’ attack.

The evidence was strong; whether it will change anything remains unclear. We examine the thinking behind the European Central Bank’s surprise half-point rise in interest rates. And the money motivations of Bangladesh’s loosening booze laws.

Cover Preview: Science Magazine – July 22, 2022

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Species tend to live in narrower slices of mountainside on tropical versus temperate mountains. Stronger competition in the tropics explains this pattern for birds. For example, the habitable range of this white-tipped sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) is limited as a result of competition with its close relative, the buff-tailed sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini). See page 416.

As Omicron rages on, virus’ path remains unpredictable

Fast-spreading subvariants are coming and going. But an entirely new variant could still emerge

Cleaner air is adding to global warming

Satellites capture fall in light-blocking pollution

Consortium seeks to expand human gene catalog

Finding sequences that code for short proteins could add thousands of genes