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Hedge funds and private equity firms are laying the groundwork for a legal clash with the US Securities

Charles Schwab Corp. said it’s experiencing temporarily lower net flows of client money as the brokerage sees attrition

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. indicated it’s prepared to boost its informal offer for Covestro AG to about

India’s trade deficit widened last month as exports and imports stayed weak on slowing demand. The gap between

A prediction about when society is most likely to collapse, made by scientists in the 1970s, has resurfaced – and it looks pretty bleak. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used a computer to model patterns like population, natural resources and energy usage. The study, published by Club of Rome, picked out when these factors could hit “limits to growth”, which they said could lead to the downfall of modern life as we know it. They think we’ve got fewer than two decades left, with collapse due in 2040. Gulp. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter At the time, the report wasn’t given much credence. But a similar study was carried out in 2009, and came up with similar results. Published by American Scientist, the more recent study found that the model’s results were “almost exactly on course”. "It is important to recognise that its predictions have not been invalidated and in fact seem quite on target. We are not aware of any model made by economists that is as accurate over such a long time span," the study said. And to make matters worse, Dutch sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington concurred with the prediction in 2021. Speaking to The Guardian, Herrington said: “From a research perspective, I felt a data check of a decades-old model against empirical observations would be an interesting exercise.” Herrington found that data aligned with the predictions made back in 1972, which had a worse case scenario of economic growth coming to halt at the end of this decade, and collapse around 10 years later. Thankfully, there was a reason to be cheerful too. She added: “The key finding of my study is that we still have a choice to align with a scenario that does not end in collapse. "With innovation in business, along with new developments by governments and civil society, continuing to update the model provides another perspective on the challenges and opportunities we have to create a more sustainable world.” Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

The currency has been hit by rising imports and higher military spending for the Ukraine war.

By Toby Sterling and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM Exor NV, the investment arm of Italy's Agnelli family, has

BEIJING Bank of China Ltd, China's fourth-largest lender by assets, has launched a countrywide exercise to reduce the

Chesapeake Energy said on Monday it would sell its remaining Eagle Ford assets to SilverBow Resources for $700

The BRICS group of emerging-market nations will discuss deepening the use of local currencies in trade between member

Country Garden Holdings Co. is seeking to extend a maturing bond for the first time ever and halted

Britain’s inflation fever may be starting to break, but data due out this week is expected to show