Headlines – March 13/17

  • Wall St flat as investors prepare for potential rate hike. Read story
  • Oil touches three-month lows, as US supply swells. Read story
  • Intel makes $15 billion bet on driverless cars. Read story
  • Wall St has found its next big short. Read story
  • Central banks are taking off the market’s training wheels. Read story
  • Brexit prompts Scottish independence push amid UK ‘intransigence’. Read story
  • Iceland to end all capital controls. Read story
  • Fed’s on thin ice in a Trump administration, says expert. Read story
  • Japan to send largest warship to South China Sea. Read story
  • The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, outline its biggest threats. Read story 
  • Texas legislator proposes penalizing men for masturbating to shake up health debate. Read story
  • China makes it illegal to insult ‘heroes and martyrs’. Read story
  • Turkey-Netherlans row: Dutch warn citizens after Erdogan threat. Read story
  • The most striking thing about the WikiLeaks CIA data dump is how little most people cared. Read story
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