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Asia stocks rise on upbeat China PMI; tech spurs bumper quarter Investing.comAsian Equities Climb as Tech Rebounds, Yen Weakens: Markets Wrap Bloomberg.comStocks surge in stellar quarter; dollar sinks gold and yen ReutersAsian shares follow Wall Street higher, while the Japanese yen hits a 39-year low against the dollar AP News
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Japan's central bank may look to exploit low trading volumes over the U.S. holiday to push its currency higher.
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Today, the PR industry is quietly shifting. Independent consultants — especially those who've cut their teeth at large agencies — are proving that great storytelling doesn't need a big name attached to it. For small businesses and early-stage founders, this shift might be the best thing to happen to PR in years.
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The advance marks a sharp turnaround after years of underperformance versus large-cap peers.
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Call it the ‘Axios put': On average, stocks have been up more on Mondays in the second quarter than in recent years
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Fossil found tucked away in a drawer turns out to be first dinosaur bone from Antarctica CBS NewsFossil kept in drawer for decades turns out to be first ever Antarctica dinosaur bone CNNAntarctica's first ever dinosaur bone discovered in a drawer BBCA Fossil From Antarctica Sat in a Drawer for 40 Years. It Turned Out to Be the First Dinosaur Bone Ever Found on the Continent Smithsonian Magazine
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WHAT are Republican lawmakers in politics to achieve? Not many years ago, at the peak of their outrage over Barack Obama''s economic stimulus package, 'balanced budgets' might have featured in the answer. But the frenzied passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through Congress has revealed the insincerity of the party''s fiscal moralising. Republicans in Congress do not oppose government borrowing when it suits them. Rather, the overarching policy objective that unifies them is cutting taxes—and damn the fiscal consequences. Following the passage of the tax bill through the Senate in the early hours of December 2nd, Republicans are on the brink of achieving their goal.On November 30th budget scorekeepers unveiled a forecast for how much extra economic growth the tax bill might spark: enough to pay for about one third of its $1.5trn cost. Previously, Republicans might have viewed this projection as a triumph. They have long pressed for budget forecasts to include such 'dynamic' effects (see blog). But the score briefly seemed to imperil the bill. It undermined the absurd claim, made by the Republican leadership and the Trump administration, that tax cuts would pay for themselves in full. No serious economist ever thought this credible. Yet the official score seemed to blow Republicans'' ...
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