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Germany warns of difficulty in capping price of Russian oil

  Bloomberg The German government is willing to discuss a US proposal to cap the price of Russian oil exports, while cautioning that such a measure may be too complicated to implement. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s idea to link an oil price cap to insurance sanctions is an interesting proposal, and the Group of Seven most industrialized countries are ...

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The death of WTO has only been delayed now

That the World Trade Organization (WTO) was able to come to any kind of deal at its 12th ministerial meeting last week was something of a miracle. The organisation has been dead for years as a location for trade governance — and even longer as a place for successful negotiations. In fact, reports of the WTO’s continued existence are greatly ...

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Centaurs eclipse Tech’s $1b unicorns

When Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s startup LoudCloud clinched a fundraising round at an $820 million valuation even as the dotcom boom unraveled in 2000, management expected cheers from staff. Instead, the first question was: “Why didn’t we get a $1 billion valuation?” Unicorn envy — the quest for those nine zeroes that grab headlines and open wallets — has ...

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