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...Exclusive: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are buying up thousands of high-performance Nvidia chips crucial for building artificial intelligence software, joining a global AI arms race that is...
...Measured in dollars, a lawyer named Douglas Wigdor would be the undisputed legal leader of the #MeToo movement....
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...Simultaneously, starting in the United States, many countries engaged in a long overdue reckoning about the ways our societies perpetuate racism and injustice.”...
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...However, the US sanctioned Chinese companies, a South African group and five entities based in the United Arab Emirates last week as it sought to thwart trade in Iranian petrochemicals....
...Equities The FTSE All World equity index was down slightly in late trade at 312.40, after rising 5.5 per cent over the previous five days....
...In other words, only the US can undermine the role of the US dollar in the medium term....
...The United States has surged ahead of us, though....
...Regional currencies lost ground as the US dollar was firmer and oil edged lower....
...The US dollar held at a five-week high after Donald Trump announced plans to slash the US corporate tax rate.The dollar index, a measure of the currency against a basket of its peers, was 0.2 per cent higher...
...The dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of peers, was flat in Asia trading. Oil prices were lower after the impact of Hurricane Irma was downgraded....
...“The day that the Supreme Court issued its 2013 ruling in United States v Windsor was a great day for Edie, and a great day for America — a victory for human decency, equality, freedom, and justice,” Mr...
...The weakness of M4 money supply growth does not bode well for growth. As such, the conditions for a slide in the currency towards $1.20 against the US dollar is very possible....
...A US State Department employee was charged on Wednesday with lying to the FBI about her contacts with Chinese intelligence agents, who provided her with tens of thousands of dollars in gifts over five years...
...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....
...in the southern states....
...performing in the top five orchestras in the United States were women....
...On Thursday the pound was up 0.2 per cent against the single currency at €1.3261 and steady against the dollar at $1.4410 — not far off a recent five-year low....
...The dollar index was steady at 99.83, sitting only about 0.5 per cent below the 12-year high touched in March....
...Even a bout of dollar weakness could not lift oil. The US currency was down 0.3 per cent against a weighted basket of peers, with the euro up 0.5 per cent at $1.0918....
...At 3pm, the August pending existing home sales index is forecast to match July’s month-on-month gain of 0.5 per cent....
...The other five banks that settled last week are Bank of America, Citi, BNP Paribas, JPMorgan and UBS....
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...Thirty-five of the 70 staff were let go as part of the company’s bid to keep its head above water....
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