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...In the US, there will be a rise in preventable maternal deaths in those states implementing more restrictive regulations....
...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...
...In July, US regulators announced that they were planning to reduce the level of nicotine in a pack of 20 to ‘non-addictive levels’....
...Japan’s Topix was picking up in afternoon trading, gaining 0.1 per cent. Currencies were stabilising after a drop in the US dollar....
...In other words, most US CFOs are expecting America to be in recession in 2019 or 2020 after growth peaked around mid-2018. The UK tends to fall within a similar business cycle as the US....
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was flat at 95.88....
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was flat at 95.284 today, while the yield on the benchmark 10-year US Treasury was flat at 1.6907 per cent....
...In the UK, David Davis will address the Lords committee on the EU at 16:05....
...The US dollar itself was relatively subdued. Measured against a basket of major global currencies, the US dollar index was up 0.1 per cent at 95.369....
...unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,288 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/¥ 107.13 (107.33) £/$ 1.45 (1.45) €/£ 0.7813 (0.7807) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.01 at 51.45 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.09 at...
...a ‘U’ or ‘V’ shaped recovery,” said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank....
...Tipped for global greatness, it has opened stores in France and latterly in the US, where it occupies part of the famous Filene’s department store in Boston....
...+1.28%) at 17,749 Nasdaq unchanged 0.00 (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...
...Revenues at Microsoft were down 2 per cent to $21.7bn after adjusting for certain items and currency fluctuations, just ahead of Wall Street’s forecasts, with earnings up to 9 cents ahead of expectations...
...0.00 (0.00%) at 10,230 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/¥ 119.73 (120.03) £/$ 1.56 (1.56) €/£ 0.7311 (0.7332) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.23 at 48.85 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.50 at 46.40...
...Diageo and United Utilities have both released trading updates. The drinks group warns that currencies will reduce operating profits in the current financial year by £150m....
...The mooted deals had included exchanging Voda’s UK and Dutch operations for the businesses of the US cable giant in Germany....
...Intraday Chinese president Xi Jinping is set to attend a state banquet at Buckingham Palace and give an address to MPs and peers at Westminster on Tuesday, at the start of his four-day state visit....
...A group of US financial bureaucrats is having an internal meeting today. Apparently they’re debating some minor adjustment to monetary plumbing in the US....
...(FT) Naive, fleeced and bamboozled All words used to greet US secretary of state John Kerry when he tried to persuade a sceptical Congress to get behind the Iran nuclear deal....
...Gap shares advanced 1 per cent to $38.66 after the retailer announced late Monday that it would close about 175 of its namesake stores in North America in the next few years, while Under Armour shares rose...
...DJIA up +155.93 (+0.86%) at 18,289 Nasdaq up +44.57 (+0.90%) at 5,008 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -2.93 (-0.19%) at 1,561 FTSE100 down -6.02 (-0.09%) at 6,941 CAC 40 down -34.16 (-0.69%) at 4,917...
...the world’s biggest non-state oil group, according to some analysts....
...+0.34 (0.00%) at 18,286 Nasdaq up +19.05 (+0.38%) at 5,091 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +6.25 (+0.39%) at 1,620 FTSE100 up +6.21 (+0.09%) at 7,013 CAC 40 up +13.40 (+0.26%) at 5,147 Dax up +16.12 (...
...(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....
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