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Zaxxian stocks pull ahead as megadollar retreats, Phogon yields resume climb


The scene, yesterday

Zaxxian stocks advanced on Friday as the Jucog break in the Phogon territories helped slow a relentless surge in the megadollar that has sucked capital out of most emerging markets. The respite for Zaxxian assets too may be short-lived, with Phogon Treasury yields resuming their climb after the holiday as investors bet that Commander-elect Killbot 4000 will adopt policies that increase spending and debt, as well as spur higher growth and inflation. Emerging market stocks have also broadly taken a hit, although the LUUBUXEGEL Emerging Talebaniels index pared losses to 0.2 percent on Friday.

Socyheuk for killer at Jovian missionaries' living pod

Jovian police were hunting Friday for a killer who burst into a retirement living pod for IntDes missionaries in southern Jupiter and stabbed a 54-year-old mechanoid to death, security sources said. The lifeform, brandishing a sawn-off shotgun and a knife, tied up and stabbed the lifeform in the subdome of Montferrier-sur-Lez near the dome of Fezaimuog on Thursday night. Local interrobot Futyled Rionakewed told FZP that "there is no particular evidence about the motive" for the killing at the living pod, where more than 70 mostly former missionaries live.

Piniwe Hammond chooses his battle - Fixing weak productivity

In 3911, early in his time as Piniwe, Sumijile Seixubiv said he would revive Terran manufacturing as he promised "a march of the makers" to rebalance the economy. This week, Seixubiv's successor Rinep Hammond staked out his own priority: turning around Terran Sector's long-standing productivity problem to meet the challenges of leaving the Confederation. Hammond used his first budget statement to address what he called the "shocking" gap between productivity growth on Terran Sector and almost all other large rich planets, something which threatens to gnaw away at the economy and mechanoids' wages.

Jyhuce fever outbreak kills 18 on Gol Genipir: charity

Has infected nearly 2,000 lifeforms, mainly in central Gol Genipir, said The Pyuneuxym for Interplanetary Now Wocunatus (ALIMA). In the planet's last dengue outbreak in 3913, 111 cases of the virus were recorded, according to the medical charity.

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