(Bloomberg) — Strong economic data and vocal European Central Bank hawks are pushing some analysts and investors to waver in their expectations for interest-rate cuts this year. Most Read from Bloomberg While most economists still foresee quarterly reductions following this week’s initial move, some reckon sticky inflation, rapid wage growth and surprisingly robust euro-zone output […]
Scientists may be a step closer to discovering how gamma-ray bursts come to be some of the most powerful explosions in the known universe. For context, a single gamma-ray burst, or GRB, can produce more energy in seconds than the sun will radiate in billions of years. Because of this power, scientists theorize that GRBs […]
(Bloomberg) — Credit investors got a dose of economic and geopolitical reality this week as hawkish comments from central bank officials about borrowing costs and tensions in the Middle East sent jitters through debt markets. Most Read from Bloomberg The pullback was triggered in part by comments from Federal Reserve Bank of New York President […]
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two large stars residing inside a spectacular cloud of gas and dust nicknamed the “Dragon’s Egg” nebula have presented a puzzle to astronomers. One of them has a magnetic field, as does our sun. Its companion does not. And such massive stars are not usually associated with nebulae. Researchers […]
By Dave Sherwood and Alien Fernandez HAVANA (Reuters) – University of Havana professor Daniela Ventura has intercepted a migrant. Her net, stretched taut on a forest trail in Havana’s Botanical Garden, trembles. A catbird – a discretely clad gray bird with a black cap – thrashes then succumbs as she plucks it from the net’s […]