Catalina Sales was faced with an impossible choice: Sign a paper agreeing to take her son with her if she were deported back to Guatemala. Or agree to leave him behind to pursue his own asylum claim, which might give her son a better chance at staying in the United States.
The Nasdaq Composite opened lower on Friday as weak forecasts from Applied Materials and Nvidia weighed on chip stocks, while gains in energy stocks due to rising crude prices helped the S&P and the Dow Industrials cut their losses.
Warren Bachman, a 72-year-old Iowa soybean farmer, is one of many who turned Clarke County into Donald Trump country, as the Republican president took 61 percent of the votes in 2016 in a county that went for Democrat Barack Obama four years earlier.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had canceled a planned military parade for November due to high costs and would instead visit Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, a day after the Pentagon postponed the event to at least next year.
Tesla Inc's shares slumped 8 percent on Friday after Chief Executive Elon Musk told the New York Times his tweet about taking the company private was not reviewed by anybody, and a brokerage raised doubts about the profitability of the electric carmaker's Model 3 sedan.
Germany has reached an agreement with Greece to send back migrants to the Mediterranean country if they have already applied for asylum there, a German Interior Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
A Malaysian financier wanted for his role in the multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB has said he does not expect to get a fair hearing anywhere and will not present himself to any country where his guilt has been predetermined.
| STOCKS | BONDS | CURRENCIES | COMMODITIES |
|---|
|
| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| US 10YR |
+2.859
|
-0.012 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.299
|
-0.016 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.096
|
+0.001 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 1 | 1.1411 | 0.0090 |
| EUR | 0.8789 | 1 | 0.0079 |
| JPY | 110.4700 | 126.1650 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |
1,180.20
USD
|
+3.10
Exp: Dec 02
|
| Copper |
2.60
USD
|
+0.02
Exp: Dec 02
|
| Crude Oil |
65.45
USD
|
+0.55
Exp: Dec 02
|
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