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Brood X Is Back — But Cicadas Have Been In Chinese Art For Millennia By Our new cicada overlords have officially arrived. You might be using Cicada Safari to track Brood X, which appears to be slowly emerging from the earth in the U.S. all the way from Florida to Michigan. But cicadas are global citizens. In China, the critters have long been symbolically significant. "Cicadas are actually quite prominent in Chinese literature, art and culture," says Haiyan Lee, a professor of east Asian languages and cultures and of comparative literature at Stanford University. They're even part of m...

"Cicadas are actually quite prominent in Chinese literature, art and culture," says Haiyan Lee, a professor of east Asian languages and cultures and of comparative literature at Stanford University. They're even part of military strategy, she adds. Among the legendary Thirty-Six Strategems, a collection of essays a little like The Art of War, is a maneuver called "Slough off the Cicada's Golden Shell." It refers to creating a decoy to escape from a stronger enemy. Wang Zhen, Cicada on tree branch, Modern period, 1919, Fan mounted as album leaf, ink on gold-flecked paper, Gi...

Oil fell this week with spreading coronavirus cases in countries such as India tempering optimism. (Bloomberg) -- Oil fell this week with spreading coronavirus cases in countries such as India tempering optimism around positive signs out of the U.S. and Europe. Futures in New York rose the most in over a week on Friday, but were unable to reverse a 1.6% weekly loss as the market weighed a global economic reopening that’s coming in fits and starts. The U.S. has remained near the forefront of the world’s budding demand recovery from the pandemic, and the latest manufacturing figures out of ...

Oil Set for Weekly Loss With Market Facing Patchy Demand Rebound Bloomberg 1 hr ago Andres Guerra Luz (Bloomberg) -- Oil headed for a weekly decline with spreading coronavirus cases in countries such as India tempering optimism around positive economic data in the U.S. and Europe. Popular Searches Futures in New York pared gains on Friday after briefly surging as much as 1.6% in a choppy trading session. U.S. benchmark crude is headed for a roughly 2% weekly decline, as progress toward a global economic reopening comes in fits and starts. While the outlook is firming up in t...

From trading houses in Geneva to Wall Street banks, much of the oil world agrees global markets could use some more barrels. The big question is whether Opec+ will provide enough of them. A crude glut that piled up during the pandemic is vanishing fast. Global inventories are plunging at the steepest rate in two decades, according to Morgan Stanley. Prices have rallied to pre-virus levels, while US production has taken a hit from freezing storms. Talk swirls of market supercycles, and even the return of $100 oil. With the need for more supply evident, traders expect the Opec+ coalition, led b...