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...What was Bank of United States?...
...This basic approach seems appropriate so long as the default reflects a political impasse and not any underlying inability of the United States to meet its obligations, so that all payments on defaulted...
...His new film is more conventionally christened: The United States vs Billie Holiday. Even Daniels couldn’t upstage those two. The hint of the courtroom is deliberate....
...States to watch: pivotal lawsuits that could shape the US election...
...Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — together, the Gulf Cooperation Council — have kept their currencies glued to the dollar since the 1970s....
...When natgas prices cratered in the summer of 2009, the USO’s sister product, the United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG), experienced eerily similar stresses....
...A 2017 study estimated that in the United States, pet food is responsible for a quarter of the environmental impacts of meat production in terms of the use of land, water, fossil fuels, phosphates, and pesticides...
...The euro was down 0.2 per cent against the US currency at $1.1434, while dollar/yen rose as high as ¥110.15 before easing back slightly to ¥109.91, still up 0.4 per cent on the day....
...In currency markets, the dollar index, a measure of the greenback against a basket of currencies, fell 0.1 per cent....
...The United Arab Emirates reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday for the first time in seven years in a move intended to counter Iranian and Turkish influence in Syria....
...Von der Leyen won ratification in parliament by 383 votes to 327 with 22 abstentions. The nine-votes margin that has won her the seat raises some eyebrows in Brussels circles....
...Chinese citizens told 'recently, gun shootings, robberies and thefts have occurred frequently in the United States' as US law enforcement agencies accused of 'repeated harassment'....
...Canada has agreed to join a US deal with Mexico to revamp the pact, ending months of uncertainty over trade in North America that had been hanging over the economies of all three countries...
...Michael Wessel ,a trade expert and former US Democratic staffer, is not a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States as incorrectly stated in a column on July 2....
...0.00 (0.00%) at 13,434 Currencies €/$ 1.22 (1.22) $/¥ 110.83 (110.76) £/$ 1.39 (1.38) €/£ 0.8813 (0.8844) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.21 at 68.82 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.16 at 63.53 100 Oz...
...South Korean President Moon Jae-in hopes that the summit will lead to 'a new era of complete denuclearisation, peace and a new relationship between South Korea, North Korea and the United States'...
...Crude (ICE) down -0.40 at 57.50 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.24 at 51.90 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -4.70 at 1,279 Copper (Comex) down 0.00 at 2.91 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.34% Germany 0.49%...
...The index recorded its longest losing streak in 14 years after ending August in negative territory — its sixth straight month of declines. The Japanese yen was flat against the greenback at ¥110.00....
...American War begins with the premise that civil war is the basic condition of a future United States....
...The yen is 0.1 per cent stronger at ¥110.64 per dollar The renminbi firmed to a 10-month high with the onshore renminbi pushing to Rmb6.7057 per dollar after the Chinese central bank fixed the currency...
...US President Donald Trump said he had been in contact with British Prime Minister Theresa May about the attack, calling it 'a very sad situation' that the United States is taking "very seriously"....
...In other major currencies, the moves are muted, with the Japanese yen 0.1 per cent softer at ¥110.57 per dollar and the euro off 0.1 per cent to $1.1268 ahead of the European Central Bank’s monetary policy...
...European markets Eurofirst 300 up +17.99 (+1.21%) at 1,509 FTSE100 up +64.37 (+0.88%) at 7,377 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,196 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,475 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/...
...Beyond the Square Mile Asia Pacific equities were gaining as an apparent easing in the war of words between the United States and North Korea saw investors step away from havens....
...How are people in the region feeling about Donald Trump's appearance in Texas? Did it go down well?...
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