Thursday was generally a lousy day to be a stock investor...unless you're a shareholder of Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), that is. The mighty U.S. pharmaceutical company was a winner, with its shares rising almost 3% in contrast to the S&P 500 index's nearly 1% decline. Pfizer and BioNTech, the German biotech that co-developed Comirnaty, announced that the U.S. government is ordering new doses of the vaccine.
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The dollar nursed its wounds on Wednesday following big tumbles against the euro and sterling, but the yen remained mired near 34-year lows even as Japanese officials stepped up intervention warnings. The Australian dollar made the most of a weakened greenback as it rallied on the back of hotter-than-expected local consumer price data, leading markets to abandon hopes for any rate cuts from the Reserve Bank of Australia in the near-term. "The Australian dollar has benefited from a re-evaluation of the RBA's monetary policy path, but geopolitical risks remain."
One man wasn’t told that probes had been placed in the wrong place for nearly eight years.
Will Renner says his flock has been attacked three times in the last 10 days of lambing season.
Detectives and secret service agents investigating the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church executed search warrants in the city on Wednesday as part of a major operation, officials said. The Joint Counter-Terrorism Team, which incorporates federal and state police as well as the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation’s main domestic spy agency, said in a statement there is no current threat to public safety. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said the operation was related to a knife attack in a Sydney church on April 15 in which an Assyrian Orthodox bishop and priest were injured.
We've been speaking to Londoners to find out how crime and violence is affecting their lives.
The report says life expectancy is below the average for England in some parts of Kent.
A city centre store stocking items from local entrepreneurs says it is bucking the High Street trend.
Thousands gathered for a torchlit procession in Yerevan on Tuesday to commemorate those Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey more than a century ago.
The owner of the hotel and health club wants to turn the Edwardian mansion into 15 flats.
The annual Bugs Matter survey is compiled by hundreds of volunteers across Kent and the UK.
The housing minister says a new proposed law will balance the needs of tenants and landlords
PCs Tom Blount, Oliver Smith and Sarah Clark tackled a man wielding an imitation firearm.
A new study says North Ayrshire is the area where people are most likely to need help to put food on the table.
It may file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Steve Truluck swapped engineering in London for whale and dolphin expertise in north east Scotland.
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Edinburgh University plans to install a heat pump which will take the excess warm air to heat some of its buildings.
Greens criticise Albanese government’s ‘abysmal lack of action’ as CPI figures show education costs driving up inflation
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