RIO DE JANEIRO - A blustery storm, a touch of melancholy and a sense of pride converged at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympics as Brazil breathed a collective sigh of relief at having pulled off South America's first Games.
WASHINGTON A senior aide to U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump signaled a possible shift in his hardline immigration policies on Sunday, saying his plans to deport 11 million people who are in the country illegally were under review.
SEOUL The United States and South Korea kicked off annual military exercises on Monday, prompting warnings of retaliation from the North, as already-heightened tension on the peninsula has been inflamed by the defection of a Pyongyang diplomat.
LONDON The dollar strengthened and U.S. Treasury yields hit a two-week high on Monday on expectations the Federal Reserve will give a signal this week that it is gearing up to raise interest rates.
BAGHDAD Iraq said on Sunday it had hanged 36 militants sentenced to death over the mass killing of hundreds of mainly Shi'ite soldiers at a camp north of Baghdad two years ago.
JERUSALEM Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft and tanks responded by shelling the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the army and police said.
It’s lucky that my mother and I were admitted as refugees to America before the topic of immigration became so contentious. If the current laws were to change to add skills or financial requirements, we could have never gotten in. Hell, I myself, a bitter teenager then, thought us perfectly useless and was stunned that anybody wanted us at all.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
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| US 10YR |
+1.587
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+0.007 |
| DE 10YR |
-0.058
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-0.023 |
| JP 10YR |
-0.066
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+0.003 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
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| USD | 1 | 1.1292 | 0.0099 |
| EUR | 0.8856 | 1 | 0.0088 |
| JPY | 100.6500 | 113.6600 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
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| Gold |
1,333.30
USD
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-7.10
Exp: Aug16
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| Copper |
2.14
USD
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-0.03
Exp: Aug16
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| Crude Oil |
47.50
USD
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-1.02
Exp: Aug16
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TOKYO Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp is in the final stages of negotiations to acquire U.S. chipmaker Intersil Corp for as much as 300 billion yen ($2.99 billion), an industry source familiar with the deal said on Monday.
