The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced, according to a report by the Defense Department’s Inspector General.
BELBEK AIR BASE, Crimea/MOSCOW Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see "common sense" when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula.
The Dow Jones and S&P 500 were lower on Friday afternoon, pulled down by energy stocks as oil prices dropped, while the Nasdaq was little changed as Applied Materials boost technology stocks.
LONDON British Prime Minister Theresa May will not begin formal divorce talks on leaving the European Union before the end of the year, a government spokeswoman said on Friday.
WASHINGTON More than 30 major technology companies are joining the U.S. government to crack down on automated, prerecorded telephone calls that regulators have labeled a "scourge."
BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have agreed that women should be banned from wearing the face veil in schools and universities and while driving, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Friday.
CARACAS Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said the purge by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meted out on rivals after a failed coup would look like child's play compared with the action he would take if opposition tried something similar in the OPEC nation.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
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| US 10YR |
+1.592
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+0.056 |
| DE 10YR |
-0.031
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+0.003 |
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-0.083
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+0.000 |
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| USD | 1 | 1.1310 | 0.0100 |
| EUR | 0.8842 | 1 | 0.0088 |
| JPY | 100.2100 | 113.3600 | 1 |
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| Gold |
1,339.80
USD
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-10.80
Exp: Aug16
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| Copper |
2.17
USD
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-0.00
Exp: Aug16
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| Crude Oil |
48.27
USD
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+0.05
Exp: Aug16
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BEIRUT Syrian Kurdish authorities evacuated thousands of civilians from Kurdish areas of a city in northeastern Syria on Friday, the second day of government air strikes, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia said.
Online music video service Vevo has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc to raise up to $500 million from new investors, the Financial Times reported, citing people briefed on the plans.
