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This will offer support to prices, which have been under pressure as fears of a supply glut mount.

Pressure was mounting heading into November, with the nomination window for the company’s board slated to open this month when activists would be able to push for changes.

On Sunday, the story took a darker turn when she was reported as missing, with police mounting an hours-long search for her on a beach north of Tel Aviv.

But some economists believe these central-bank backstops create a “moral hazard” for governments, reducing their need to run balanced budgets or deal with mounting debts.

"These attacks – and their mounting human cost – are unacceptable."