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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 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....
...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'...
...In contrast, Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have seen their revenues per barrel more than halve since 2008’s peak as they have rigidly maintained their currency pegs...
...(0.00%) at 5,399 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,126 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.18) $/¥ 112.75 (112.53) £/$ 1.34 (1.34) €/£ 0.8804 (0.881) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.44 at 62.88 Light Crude...
...American War begins with the premise that civil war is the basic condition of a future United States....
...The economic calendar for Friday is as follows (all London times): 07.00: Finland Q2 gross domestic product 07.00: Czech Republic Q2 GDP (preliminary) 08.00: Poland August purchasing managers’ index 08.15...
...US President Donald Trump said he had been in contact with British Prime Minister Theresa May about the attack, calling it 'a very sad situation' that the United States is taking "very seriously"....
...For investors, the question is how much longer this can continue: Ashtead’s share price is up 400 per cent in the last five years....
...FTSE100 up +13.08 (+0.18%) at 7,289 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,288 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,473 Currencies €/$ 1.09 (1.09) $/¥ 111.29 (111.03) £/$ 1.29 (1.28) €/£ 0.8462 (0.8487) Commodities...
...How are people in the region feeling about Donald Trump's appearance in Texas? Did it go down well?...
...(0.00%) at 4,491 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,573 Currencies €/$ 1.12 (1.12) $/¥ 102.52 (102.65) £/$ 1.33 (1.33) €/£ 0.8471 (0.8462) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.86 at 47.15 Light Crude...
...Akzo Nobel has warned of a “challenging” market environment as the Dutch paints and chemicals company said revenues were down 4 per cent to €3.43bn in the first quarter, because of “adverse currency effects...
...“These countries can’t put off an adjustment in their currency any more....
...This recorded a 5 per cent increase in operating profits at constant currencies....
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