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What is a vaccine passport?

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A Deliveroo rider cycles through central London on March 26, 2021. – The meal delivery platform Deliveroo is bracing for strikes and other social actions by disgruntled riders as it gears up for a major London stock listing. The group has come under fire for employment conditions that have already scared off a couple of large institutional investors (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Deliveroo shares plunge in its trading debut, a blow to Britain’s Big Tech ambitions

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MARCH 10: People walk around Nasdaq building at Times Square on March 10, 2021, in New York. The Nasdaq Composite continued falling more than half a percent during the day. Also, the move away from Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc , Facebook Inc, Tesla Inc and Microsoft Corp, falling during the day, helped small-cap stocks rise more than double the gains of the S&P 500.

Meet Arrival, the latest buzzy electric vehicle startup to debut on Wall Street

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A Palestinian Medic holds up a box of the of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines at the Rafah border crossing, Gaza Strip. Palestinians received 40,000 doses of Russias Sputnik V vaccine on Thursday, on March 11, 2021 a donation by the United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Sameh Rahmi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Russia has an unlikely new social media star: Its Sputnik COVID vaccine

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A pedestrian holding a child checks a smartphone outside a bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) kiosk in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Bitcoin climbed, aided by supportive comments from Ark Investment Managements Cathie Wood and news that Square Inc. boosted its stake in the cryptocurrency. Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘Crypto kryptonite’: A digital euro would be dual threat to banks and fintechs, a critical new report warns

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Kasper Rorsted, chief executive officer of Adidas AG, gestures while speaking during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Adidas is most concerned about a global trade war that could turn into a currency war, Rorsted said in the interview. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Adidas unveils an ambitious 5-year recovery plan as crosstown rival Puma steals its buzz

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LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 01: A commuter crosses London Bridge at sunrise on March 1, 2021 in London, England. As the government prepares to present the 2021 Budget to parliament on Wednesday, political factions within the ruling Conservative party and the opposition are weighing in on how they think the government can best shape its tax and spending plans to recover from the economic devastation of Covid-19. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Two age-old European trading rivals are at loggerheads again—this time over SPACs

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – OCTOBER 05: Whisky specialist at Bonhams Georgia Porteous views the pinnacle of a private whisky collection the extremely rare highly sought after Macallan-50-year-old in a crystal decanter made by the renowned French glassmaker Lalique on October 5, 2020 in Edinburgh, Scotland.The bottles displayed today are the first part of a collection to be sold over two sales between now and Christmas. The auction house is selling the bulk of the 70 bottles on October 7th, and the remainder on December 9th. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Whisky redemption: Biden administration lifts hated tariffs on Scotland’s most famous export

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An employee wearing a protective face mask removes a cordon next to an Opel Astra at a showroom in Ruesselsheim, Germany, on Monday, April 20, 2020. Germany shut businesses and factories over the past month, but a government scheme to pay a portion of wages kept layoffs to a minimum.

American companies laid off 22 million in the past month. Europe chose a different path

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Oil pumping jacks, also known as “nodding donkeys,” operate in an oilfield near Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, Russia. Saudi and Russia, two of the world’s biggest exporters, have been engaged in a damaging price war for over a month.

Oil prices could plunge if OPEC and Russia fail to agree on a production cut

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King dollar is back, creating a big headache for the global economy at the worst possible time

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Participants ring the bell to mark the initial public offering (IPO) of Saudi Aramco at the Fairmont Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December. 2019. On Monday, the company held a year-end webcast with analysts, outlining its strategy to win the oil price war. Wire photography: Matthew Martin—Bloomberg via Getty Images

Crude is tanking. Why then are the Saudis so confident?

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A stock trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 09, 2020 in New York City, a session in which trading was halted for 15 minutes after the opening bell as stocks fell 7 percent. Wire photography: Spencer Platt—Getty Images.

Shut down! Why the world’s stock markets kept going quiet last week

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 12, 2020.

What the world’s biggest economies are doing to fight coronavirus, and fend off recession

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A stock trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 09, 2020 in New York City, a session in which trading was halted for 15 minutes after the opening bell as stocks fell 7 percent. Wire photography: Spencer Platt—Getty Images.

How high-frequency algorithmic trading programs can make bad stock market days even worse

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