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    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
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    • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Coronavirus: Daily new case rate in US remains above 23,000 — as it happened
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      Coronavirus pandemic
      Coronavirus latest: Southern states underpin jump in new US cases
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    • Wednesday, 3 June, 2020
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      Coronavirus: US daily death toll remains above 1,000 — as it happened
    • Friday, 29 May, 2020
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    • Friday, 22 May, 2020
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      Coronavirus: Trump demands reopening of ‘houses of worship’ — as it happened
    • Sunday, 5 April, 2020
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      Coronavirus: Queen tells British people self-isolation ‘right thing to do’ — as it happened
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      Countries vie for cryptocurrency supremacy as Libra tips scales

      Facebook project has raised the stakes for national regulators

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    • Monday, 15 October, 2018
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      Pound timeline: from the 1970s to Brexit crunch

      Sterling has experienced several periods of volatility in the past 48 years

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      Remainers would like jitters, Leavers exuberance — investors refuse to play along

    • Sunday, 30 September, 2018
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      Italian budget fallout, trade tensions and key UK meeting bring politics to the fore

    • Monday, 24 September, 2018
      US politics & policy
      Turkish lira rallies on US pastor breakthrough hope

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    • Thursday, 20 September, 2018
      Currencies
      Rate normalisation remains in the slow lane for Europe

      Central banks must weigh impact of tighter policy on high levels of household debt

    • Thursday, 20 September, 2018
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    • Sunday, 16 September, 2018
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      A bigger pullback in the reserve currency seen helping emerging markets

    • Friday, 14 September, 2018
      ExplainerCharts that Matter
      Bullish US stocks leave rest of the world trailing

      Wall Street’s outperformance creates ‘unstable equilibrium’ that hurts EMs

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