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One of the warmest winters on record is awakening an early spring, which has consequences for plants and wildlife.

The UK and European Union have made significant progress toward a deal on new post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland — but more work is still needed to finalize an agreement, the region’s political parties said Friday.

A wave of job cuts that’s swept through the global finance industry hasn’t affected demand for ESG specialists, where hiring growth continued through 2022, according to a study by Barclays Plc.

India’s foreign exchange reserves fell the most in more than 10 months on likely dollar sales by the country’s central bank to stabilize the rupee under pressure from equity outflows exacerbated by the rout in Adani Group companies.

Lebanon’s first official devaluation in a quarter century has created a severe liquidity squeeze, as lenders scour for local currency in a country already wracked with a strike by bankers and a crackdown on exchange shops.

Indian tax authorities, who searched the BBC’s offices this week, shortly after the British broadcaster aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said they were probing a “prominent international media company” whose income did not match the scale of its operations in the country.

German bonds erased losses and money markets trimmed bets on further European Central Bank tightening after Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said rate bets have been excessively volatile.

Life Storage Inc., which operates more than 1,100 self-storage properties, rejected an $11 billion bid from Public Storage, saying the offer “significantly” undervalues the company.

The European Central Bank will probably lift interest rates to their peak by September and hold them there at least into next year to ensure inflation retreats back to the 2% target, according to Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau.