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May 2021
10m 23s

US issues emergency powers to keep fuel ...

Financial Times
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The US government enacted emergency powers on Sunday in a bid to keep fuel supplies flowing after a cyberattack shut down a key pipeline, and European and US banks are split on whether to bring staff back to the office. Plus, the FT’s race and equalities correspondent, Taylor Nicole Rogers, looks at how much US corporations have lived up to diversity promises they made after the police murder of George Floyd.


US and Europe split on bringing bankers back to the office

https://www.ft.com/547a4dc2-e11b-4e8f-b526-cbf135ba7b4d?


Are CEOs living up to the pledges they made after George Floyd’s murder?

https://www.ft.com/content/67e79b20-bc41-4cb0-992f-a28e3eaa5695


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