Britain weighs its next moves in the Gulf tanker crisis, with few good options apparent as a recording emerged showing that the Iranian military defied a British warship when it boarded and seized a ship three days ago.
Asia stocks eased on Monday as investors reduced expectations of an aggressive interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, while heightened Middle East tensions following an Iranian seizure of a British tanker lifted crude oil prices.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's party took a commanding lead in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, consolidating the power of the novice politician whose stunning rise has upended traditional politics in the war-scarred nation.
With a record-breaking heat wave intensifying over much of the U.S. Midwest and East Coast through the weekend, it was a bad time for Annie McQueen's air conditioner to break down in her New York City apartment.
The U.S. military on Sunday accused a Venezuelan fighter aircraft of "aggressively" shadowing a U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries II plane over international airspace, a fresh sign of growing hostility between the two countries.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will pause its enforcement of a new rule barring federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, the Washington Post reported late on Saturday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc won a solid majority in an upper house election on Sunday but his coalition and allies fell short of a two-thirds majority needed to begin revising the pacifist constitution, public broadcaster NHK said.
| STOCKS | BONDS | CURRENCIES | COMMODITIES |
|---|
|
| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| US 10YR |
+2.057
|
+0.000 |
| DE 10YR |
-0.324
|
-0.002 |
| JP 10YR |
-0.125
|
+0.009 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 1 | 1.1208 | 0.0093 |
| EUR | 0.8920 | 1 | 0.0083 |
| JPY | 107.9200 | 120.9800 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |
1,425.10
USD
|
+0.00
Exp: Jul 19
|
| Copper |
2.73
USD
|
-0.01
Exp: Jul 19
|
| Crude Oil |
55.84
USD
|
+0.21
Exp: Jul 19
|
China will be able to place armed forces at a Cambodian naval base under a secret agreement the two nations have reached, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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