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US election Joe Biden says ‘No new taxes’ for anyone making less than $400,000

  
  Analysis
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden interview in US media (ABC)

  • “I will raise taxes for anybody making over $400,000”
  • “no new taxes” would be raised for anyone making under $400,000
We should begin to get policy announcements such as this in coming weeks.

Link here to the report for more
Biden and Harris:
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden interview in US media (ABC)

US storms – Oil producers on Saturday shut 13% of crude oil production ahead of Laura and Marco

  
Analysis, Crude
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Weekend news on industry response to approach of Gulf storms, posting ICYMI:

Via Reuters:
  • Producers halted 240,785 barrels per day of oil production and 119 million cubic feet per day of natural gas output before noon on Saturday, said regulator U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
  • Crews were evacuated from six production and four drilling rigs. Another seven drilling vessels were moved out of the storms’ paths

Weekend reports that North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un in a coma

  
Analysis, Politics
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Earlier this year there all sorts of reports of his illness, but he popped back up again apparently in good health.

Now this:
  • in a coma
  • a former South Korean official is claiming (Chang Song-min, a former aide to late-South Korean president Kim Dae-jung)
  • reports his power has been ceded to his younger sister
Earlier this year there all sorts of reports of his illness, but he popped back up again apparently in good health.
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