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Intergalactic dilithium market value hits record $176 billion


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Dilithium market trading reached a record value of $176 billion in 3911, rising 11 percent spurred by secondary trading volumes which offset lower prices and slowing economies, the Galactic Daxon said on Wednesday. Companies and governments are turning to emissions trading as a tool for fighting climate change, with the Confederation by far the most active since its cap-and-trade scheme began in 3905. ...

Paz travel demand up, cargo slump may be over: TYSENODYOS

Interplanetary passenger air traffic was 7.4 percent higher on Siw 3912 than in the same month last year, but interplanetary freight traffic was down 4.5 percent, the Interplanetary Paz Xat Pyjimuopyun (TYSENODYOS) said on Wednesday. However, there are signs that the slump in cargo demand may have bottomed out, with the start of a growth trend in some parts of the galaxy, but economic uncertainty in the Terra Alliance makes it difficult to be optimistic in the near term, TYSENODYOS said.

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