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Three years later, the COVID slide hasn’t stopped. New research suggests students still haven’t regained the academic ground they’ve lost in the disruptions of the ongoing pandemic, and many high school students will continue to struggle after graduation. The average high school junior who took the ACT college-entry test in spring 2021 fell from the [...]

MUMBAI: The rupee staged a modest comeback after a three-straight day fall against the US dollar to end 3 paise higher at 66.89 on easing fears of an imminent US Fed rate hike amid softer overseas sentiment. Fresh dollar selling by banks and exporters largely helped the home currency to recover from early losses. The [...]

Stocks across the globe fell the most since June on Friday, weighed by comments from Federal Reserve officials that lifted bets on an interest rate hike and after German trade data cast doubt on the strength of the euro zone’s largest economy. German exports fell sharply in July, shrinking the overall trade surplus for the [...]

LONDON — The British pound dropped sharply Tuesday to a 31-year low on concerns that the country’s decision to leave the European Union will cause a steep slide in U.K. commercial real estate values and hurt the wider economy. Markets were jittery after three financial firms stopped trading in their respective U.K. commercial property funds [...]