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...“The problem in the United States and it doesn’t matter which administration . . . is that the US is addicted to sanctions . . . to pressure . . . to bullying,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister...
...“Some 6,000,000 US teenage girls live in a world all their own,” ran the text of a 1944 Life magazine photo-essay, alongside artful shots of young women sat at desks and in diners....
...Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,280 Copper (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 3.16 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.34% Germany 0.41% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe at 19.9bp Markit...
...€/$ 1.19 (1.19) $/¥ 108.77 (108.80) £/$ 1.30 (1.30) €/£ 0.9144 (0.9138) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.16 at 53.22 Light Crude (Nymex) unchanged 0.00 at 48.66 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +1.10 at...
...But this may all be overshadowed by the extent to which the world economy continues on a path of a synchronised slowdown and the impact from any worsening in trade relations between the United States and...
...at 1,349 Hang Seng: +1.11% at 23,577 Nikkei: +0.84% at 16,684 S&P 500: -0.86% at 2,146 DJIA: -0.91% at 18,095 Nasdaq: -0.91% at 5,257 Eurofirst 300: -1.57% at 1,338 FTSE 100: -1.32% at 6,818 Currencies...
...or ‘V’ shaped recovery,” said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday climbed above the 18,000 mark for the first time since July: Intraday Bank of England Governor Mark Carney appears before the House of Lords Economic Affairs...
...(0.00%) at 5,071 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +29.31 (+2.08%) at 1,441 FTSE100 up +129.76 (+2.16%) at 6,148 CAC 40 up +99.31 (+2.15%) at 4,724 Dax up +220.53 (+2.11%) at 10,690 Currencies €/$ 1.09...
...But drugmaker Eli Lilly saw shares spike after a study of 7,000 patients with type 2 diabetes who had a risk of heart attack or stroke showed a new drug reduced the number of deaths by roughly a third....
...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....
...At the same time, August housing starts should fall to to a 1,160,000 rate from a previous 1,206,000....
...) at 4,987 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -20.11 (-1.31%) at 1,510 FTSE100 down -99.50 (-1.50%) at 6,521 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,790 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,945 Currencies €/$...
...(Bloomberg) In the news Baltimore riots The US state of Maryland declared a state of emergency and deployed national guard troops as rioters clashed with police in the city of Baltimore....
...(NYT$) The Art of Agenting Chris Parris-Lamb, the literary agent who soldThe Art of Fielding for $665,000 and had three books on bestseller lists in the autumn, discusses why it is more difficult to sell...
...300: -2.25% at 1,332 | FTSE 100: -2.00% at 6,417 Currencies €/$ 1.1947 | $/¥ 119.2300 | £/$ 1.5258 | €/£ 0.7829 Commodities ($) Brent Crude ICE +0.28% at 53.26 100 oz Gold Comex +0.34% at 1,208 Copper...
...RETURN TO NORMAL From KRTBN, (April 16, 2001): Beenz.com, a New York company, spent $40,000 for a party in San Francisco. (Remember? The parties had to be here to maximize the buzz....
...A Pentagon think-tank spends roughly $300,000 a year interpreting the body language of foreign leaders while the US has spent $900m since 2007 trying to read the body language of passengers in airports....
...In June, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency noted that the average amount of an auto loan was greater than the value of the car during the fourth quarter of 2013, as lenders bundled the costs...
...(Financial Times) GE vs France: France’s socialist government has claimed a resounding victory for state intervention after forcing General Electric to significantly revise its $16.9bn takeover deal for...
...Moscow has around 20,000 troops deployed in battle-ready formations on the border, according to senior Nato military officers – significantly more than the 15,000 US officials said were deployed there last...
...per cent within three years, in a move set to prompt a spate of divestments in state-backed entities that could raise more than $9bn....
...(Financial Times) “FedEx was indicted on Thursday for shipping packages from illegal online pharmacies despite repeated warnings from U.S. drug enforcement officials, according to a court filing....
...9,407 Currencies €/$ 1.34 (1.34) $/¥ 102.87 (102.79) £/$ 1.69 (1.69) €/£ 0.7932 (0.7928) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.01 at 106.01 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.17 at 98.00 100 Oz Gold (Comex...
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