Astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui all munched on red romaine lettuce this afternoon, except unlike your sad desk salad, this produce was grown on the worldwide Space Station.
While space food has come a long way since the freeze-dried ice cream and Tang you remember from childhood, the vacuum of space isn’t exactly an ideal environment for growing fresh food.
Gold steadied not far above a 5-1/2-year low on Monday, with a firm dollar after solid US job gains in July suggesting that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates as early as next month. On Friday, the dollar rose as high as US$0.9885, its loftiest peaks since late March....
In the end, only Ian McCafferty wanted to hike rates at the August meeting which ended on Wednesday, resulting in an 8-1 vote in favor of keeping rates at their record low of 0.5 percent, the BoE said.
The services sector added the lion’s share of positions with 178,000 new jobs. The government will release the July figures on Friday. Intuit, creator of QuickBooks and similar software suites, released their report, which aligned with ADP’s but added that businesses...
The BoE’s Inflation Report, showed officials expect annual inflation to tick back up to the 2% target by the third quarter of 2017 if interest rates rise in line with market expectations.