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...In the US, there will be a rise in preventable maternal deaths in those states implementing more restrictive regulations....
...Simultaneously, starting in the United States, many countries engaged in a long overdue reckoning about the ways our societies perpetuate racism and injustice.”...
...in Latin America....
...As export growth in USD terms declined to -13.3% y-o-y in Q1 2020 from 0.5% in 2019, the year-on-year change in the prices of US imports from China recorded by US Customs was -1.5% in January-February 2020...
...Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, reportedly paid at least $300m for 97 per cent of Lanai, a Hawaiian island with a population of about 3,000....
...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...
...Greece and Italy are in a common currency zone as are Puerto Rico and the highly leveraged US states....
...West Texas Intermediate was down 0.3 per cent at $51.97 a barrel....
...While the weakness in the currency overnight marked a change, it is premature to think that the People’s Bank of China is now advocating outright weakness....
...The dollar index tracking the US currency against a basket of peers was flat at 93.515. Oil prices were pulling back from gains made in the previous session....
...court’s 1973 Roe v Wade decision....
...Perceived haven currencies benefited from the flight to safety: the US dollar index, a measure of the greenback against a basket of currencies, was 0.2 per cent higher at 97.263 while the yen gained 0.6...
...“This would clearly be highly controversial among member states in view of the constraints — political and legal — on such commitments within the currency union.”...
...Colgate generates two-thirds of its revenues from outside North America, and the dollar’s appreciation against a number of major developed and emerging market currencies has sharply eroded the value of its...
...In China, the People’s Bank of China strengthened the daily fix for the renminbi, ending a 10-session streak of weaker mid-rates that had contributed to pushing the currency to a four-year low....
...Also weighing on the price of many dollar-denominated commodities of late is strength in the US currency....
...The euro is dipping 0.3 per cent to $1.0991 and the dollar index is up 0.2 per cent to 97.58 as the common currency’s recent rebound — following disappointment at the European Central Bank’s latest easing...
...It is not immediately obvious that there will be closer economic ties with the United States, although Trump may well aim for that....
...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....
...Since the $12bn deal, CME has captured 99.97 per cent of US interest rate futures and options volumes, according to the FIA, an industry group....
...It’s a tale of two cities in the US luxury goods sector....
...(FT) Markets Data 05:48 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +11.62 (+0.06%) at 19,532 Topix down -7.18 (-0.45%) at 1,586 Hang Seng up +105.74 (+0.38%) at 28,239 US markets S&P 500: +1.09% at 2,108 DJIA up...
..., a day after soaring 3.8 per cent....
...On Friday, the dollar index — a measure of the currency against a basket of peers — was down 1.3 per cent at 97.94, taking its decline over the week to 2.4 per cent....
...(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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