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...We should also note this guy, who’s doing his thing: A reminder that Donald Trump, who despite everything remains The Actual President of the United States, tweeted on April 2 that a deal to end the oil...
...But this may all be overshadowed by the extent to which the world economy continues on a path of a synchronised slowdown and the impact from any worsening in trade relations between the United States and...
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was flat at 95.88....
...The board of the Asia-focused bank has to choose between a nation with a penchant for penal taxation of banks, a single party state prone to accusing bears of market-wrecking and a country where financial...
...(0.00%) at 5,071 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +29.31 (+2.08%) at 1,441 FTSE100 up +129.76 (+2.16%) at 6,148 CAC 40 up +99.31 (+2.15%) at 4,724 Dax up +220.53 (+2.11%) at 10,690 Currencies €/$ 1.09...
...(Bloomberg) In the news Baltimore riots The US state of Maryland declared a state of emergency and deployed national guard troops as rioters clashed with police in the city of Baltimore....
...(FT) Apple will launch online TV It struck a deal with HBO to bring its on-demand app to Apple TV and cut the price of its set-top box from $99 to $69....
...JPMorgan Chase led the IPO process for King, alongside Credit Suisse and Bank of America....
...1,165 Hang Seng down -1.00% at 21,539 Shanghai Composite down -0.73% at 2,004 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.70% at 458.57 CNX Nifty up +0.17% at 6,504 Currencies €/$ 1.39 (1.39) $/¥ 101.42 (101.83) Commodities...
...He initially suggested breakfast: he has more time in the mornings. But, in the event, he seems happy to spend more than two hours over lunch holding forth on the state of the world....
...warming is threatening their ability to sell affordable policies in a growing number of places around the world, including parts of the UK and Florida....
...China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington...
...The move, announced by Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker in a state-of-the-nation address on Wednesday, is politically significant but its impact is unclear....
...to Athens for an average of 33.5 cents on the euro, in essence agreeing to a 66.5 per cent voluntary loss on their holdings.”...
...Asian stocks were little changed as investors were cautious ahead of the ECB’s meeting later in the day....
...maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at prevailing on China and Southeast Asian nations to use diplomacy instead of...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...€42.00 Sole meunière x2 €79.00 Basket of bread €6.50 Coffee €4.50 Total €169.50 …………………………………………… From selling books to sailors, to amassing a Picasso collection 1932 Joseph Nahmad, second son of...
...Hungary: $40.89 Japan: $39.26 Bahamas: $29.83 United States (unweighted average): $26.38 Therefore …....
...Winston Churchill famously gave his blessing to the idea of a United States of Europe – as long, he said, as Britain remained aloof....
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...Commodities gained as oil traded above $110 a barrel in New York. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 0.5% and S&P 500 Index futures had gained 0.2% at midday in Tokyo....
...Posco steel plant faces fresh hurdle in India South Korean steel-maker Posco should be celebrating, having at last secured regulatory approval for a long-delayed $12bn steel project in the Indian state of...
...The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 0.3% to 139.75 as of 1pm in Tokyo. S&P 500 Index futures were little changed after the benchmark had its best close since June 2008....
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