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One unexpected, but welcome by-product of COVID has been a surge in the availability of high-frequency economic indicators, mainly sourced from the private sector. Central banks track these series, although their short histories and extreme volatility at the height of the pandemic can make it hard to judge their usefulness. In the case of labour costs, ...
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After months of anger and outcry over an oil spill which inflicted $23m in damage on Tobago’s shores, the Trinidad and Tobago government says it is pursuing the Solo Creed tugboat, now seized by the Angolan Navy. In February, the Gulfstream tanker (pulled by Solo Creed) capsized and then spilt oil across approximately 88km of Tobagonian coral reefs, beaches ...