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AkademikerPension’s allocation to Treasuries is too small to affect the market, and its move to other dollar-denominated assets further lessens the blow.

From Barron's

AkademikerPension’s allocation to Treasuries is too small to affect the market, and its move to other dollar-denominated assets further lessens the blow.

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He said that while that does not lessen the impact of what has happened to the victims, he hoped it would "contain any sense of panic among the wider school community".

From BBC

"In this way, the effects of climate change could be lessened by taking appropriate action to slow down the production of microplastics," they state.

From Science Daily

It raises the question of whether U.S. levies are making a dent on China’s export dominance, and lessening this country’s reliance on foreign goods.

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