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What to call a merged Exxon Mobil-Chevron?

What would one even call a merged Exxon Mobil and Chevron? Exron sounds a little too much like another former energy powerhouse from Texas. Standard Oil would be a reasonable compromise given it would reunify so many of the baby Rockefellers. But the PR types and the lawyers might think it best not to put that in front of the ...

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India’s half-a-trillion dollar budget aims to spur growth

Bloomberg India unveiled a spending plan of almost $500 billion as the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to dig Asia’s third-largest economy out of its pandemic-induced slump. His government’s plan relies on taxes, including higher levies on some imports to boost self-reliance, selling state assets and dividend income to partly fund the nearly 35 trillion rupee ($480 billion) ...

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Jakarta to get 23.1mn Astra shots via Covax

Bloomberg Indonesia will receive as many as 23.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca Plc vaccine in the first half, boosting the government’s inoculation efforts as Covid-19 cases and deaths continue to rise by record numbers. The Southeast Asian nation will get the shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine through the World Health Organization-backed Covax initiative, the Indonesian foreign affairs ministry said ...

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