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Bloomberg: Stocks Drop as Trade Tensions Ramp Up Before Talks: Markets Wrap
Stocks dropped Wednesday in Asia after a weak session on Wall Street spurred by escalating trade tensions, though declines were more modest than in the U.S. Trading volume was below average. [Read more...]
Bloomberg: Stocks Finish at Lows as Trade Tensions Escalate: Markets Wrap
U.S. equities tumbled on concern tensions with China are escalating just days before high-level talks between officials from the world’s biggest economies. [Read more...]
Bloomberg: California Braces for Historic Power Shutdown to Millions
It was a once-unthinkable move: purposely shutting off power to millions of people and plunging a major metropolitan area into darkness. [Read more...]
Bloomberg: Investors Take Cover as Gold ETFs Post Longest Run in a Decade
As global tensions escalate, signs of a slowdown mount and equities decline, more investors are turning to gold. Worldwide holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded funds have expanded for 17 days in a row, capping the longest run of inflows since 2009. [Read more...]
Bloomberg: CEO of Greece’s Largest Bank Has a Plan to Move Past Financial Crisis
National Bank of Greece, the country’s biggest bank by assets, wants to pick up the pace as its moves on from the crippling legacy of the financial crisis, and its Chief Executive Officer is planning two main initiatives to get there. [Read more...]
Reuters: U.S. visa move against China casts pall over talks to end trade war
The United States on Tuesday imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials for the detention or abuse of Muslim minorities, angering Beijing, but a U.S. official said high-level trade talks would still take place on Thursday and Friday as planned. [Read more...]
Reuters: Fed's Powell says U.S. expansion is 'sustainable'
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday flagged openness to further rate cuts to fend off global economic risks, repeating that the central bank will act “as appropriate” amid an economy that he said is likely to continue to expand. [Read more...]
CNBC: ‘You don’t do these things prior to negotiations,’ ex-diplomat says of US actions against China
The latest U.S. actions against Chinese officials and companies don’t “set a good tone” for an upcoming high-level trade talk, a former American ambassador to China said Wednesday. [Read more...]
CNBC: China ‘strongly urges’ US to remove sanctions and stop accusing it of human rights violations
China’s Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday that it “strongly urges” the U.S. to stay clear of the country’s domestic issues, after the White House blacklisted a slew of Chinese companies due to alleged human rights violations against Muslim minorities in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang. [Read more...] |
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