HOUSTON/SINGAPORE - In the middle of a Sino-U.S. trade war, the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company is turning toward Beijing for business at a time when most of Corporate America is looking elsewhere to avoid the threat of tariffs.
Asian stocks were capped and the dollar rose to a one week-high in early Thursday trade after the minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest meeting showed broad agreement among board members on the need to raise borrowing costs further.
More Honduran migrants tried to join a caravan of several thousand moving through Guatemala on Wednesday, defying calls by authorities not to make the journey after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to cut off regional aid in reprisal.
Republicans could try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in U.S. elections next month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, calling a failed 2017 push to repeal the healthcare law a "disappointment."
When Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke learned in January that hackers cracked a 40-character password and cleaned out their cryptocurrency wallet, they did not go to the police or alert the tokens' issuer, the Berlin-based technology group IOTA.
Spain's Santander is the latest bank to be caught up in Germany's biggest post-war fraud investigation involving a share-trading scheme that the authorities say cost taxpayers billions of euros.
The United States plans to turn up sanctions pressure on Venezuela but sees less need to immediately target its energy sector, given sagging production from the OPEC member's state-run oil company, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday.
| STOCKS | BONDS | CURRENCIES | COMMODITIES |
|---|
|
| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| US 10YR |
+3.213
|
+0.034 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.463
|
+0.001 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.154
|
+0.008 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 1 | 1.1493 | 0.0089 |
| EUR | 0.8699 | 1 | 0.0077 |
| JPY | 112.4600 | 129.2500 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |
1,223.70
USD
|
+0.00
Exp: Oct 18
|
| Copper |
2.76
USD
|
-0.01
Exp: Oct 18
|
| Crude Oil |
69.68
USD
|
-0.07
Exp: Oct 18
|
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