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as reassuring data about the health of China’s economy helped investors shrug off disappointing bank earnings in the United States, while volatility in European markets took another leg lower. Tokyo’s Nikkei gained 0.2 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng 1 per cent, and the Shanghai Composite 2.4 per cent. In Europe, London’s FTSE 100 and Germany’s DAX were up by between 0.4 and 0.6 per cent by about 6:40 a.m. ET, with the Paris CAC 40 little changed. New York futures were up.
: “Passengers love the fares charged by Uber. Why wouldn’t they? Uber loses money on almost every ride. When you’re sitting in the back of an Uber car, you can take pleasure in knowing that the company’s business concept relied on taking money from the rich – the private investors who subsidized the amazing growth of the ride-hailing service – to the unrich, which would be you and me and anyone else who finds the cost of regular licensed taxis excessive.
John Kirk is a professor of Latin American studies at Dalhousie University. Stephen Kimber is a professor of journalism at the University of King’s College.The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the second-worst in history. More than 100 new cases were detected in the past week alone, with more than 1,250 infected and 800 dead since the outbreak began last year. And there’s growing concern that a key reason for the spike is because despite the effectiveness of a Canadian-developed vaccine, many citizensVaccine hesitancy is also contributing to measles outbreaks worldwidethe amount over the same period last year.
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