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Monitoring US workers, and pushback against, will grow
Employer monitoring of employees is growing, as are the concerns about the extent to which this invades workers’ privacy
United StatesFed’s hawkish pivot divides opinion in world markets
The Federal Reserve shifted to a more hawkish stance last month and is likely to reinforce this at its meeting today
InternationalFreight rates will normalise higher than pre-pandemic
Container shipping congestion is worse than ever and it will take well over a year to return to operational normality
InternationalRemote working fuels crime in stolen data
The sharp and somewhat haphazard rise in remote working has left vast quantities of sensitive data on insecure servers
InternationalGlobal quantum technology competition will heat up
Quantum technologies are becoming an area of competition among the world’s technologically advanced nations
ChinaImproved EM currency practices make Turkey an outlier
Turkey’s travails, with the lira losing 45% against the dollar in 2021, raise questions over EM currency practices
InternationalCopper volatility to persist amid market surplus
Copper is in demand for use in new electrification initiatives but this is unlikely to offset market volatility
InternationalDigital vote-buying will challenge weak democracies
The Philippines is the first country publicly to identify digital vote-buying as a threat to electoral integrity
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