Brent crude falls $7 to settle below $100 a barrel. A strengthening dollar, demand-sapping COVID-19 curbs in China. Rising fears of a global economic slowdown are behind the drop. Oil is generally priced in U.S. dollars. Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of 110 million barrels. Brent rough tumbled $7 on Tuesday … Read more
Antonina Boloto sits at a little table decked with flowers in her funeral supply store, doing a crossword with a view of a building destroyed by Russian shelling in Severodonetsk, Ukraine. Several coffins are perched against a wall behind her. As Moscow’s forces shell Severodonetsk — the easternmost town on the frontline of Russia’s war … Read more
Green Bank, West Virginia Yvonne Wallech loves the digital respite and sense of community in her tiny US town, where cell phone service is effectively barred and outsiders come seeking the shelter of that quiet. She has internet at her property in Green Bank, West Virginia but as soon as she leaves home, and is … Read more
