Mexico's peso surged on Friday, gaining the most in six weeks as it tracked a rally in oil prices, while stocks in Brazil edged back from a steep selloff. In currency markets, the peso climbed 1.5 percent to a nearly three-week high. That was its biggest one-day gain since May 10. The peso firmed for the third session in a row as it clawed back ground from a 1-1/2-year low it hit last week. Oil prices rose s

The Canadian dollar gained against the greenback on Friday, recovering from an earlier one-year low, as a jump in oil prices offset domestic inflation and retail sale

Bitfinex Chief Strategy Officer Phil Potter is leaving the cryptocurrency trading platform, the executive and the exchange told Reuters on Friday.

** S&P 500 falls for first time in five weeks, finishes down ~1 pct as U.S.-China trade tensions escalate

* U.S. stocks rise, MSCI world index up, but still down for week

Speculators turned bullish on the dollar for the first time since July last year, according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday, as sentiment improved after the Federal Reserve forecast two more interest rate hikes this year. The value of the net long dollar position was $8.64 billion in the week ended June 19, shifting from a

Speculators turned bullish on the dollar for the first time since July last year, according to calculations by Reuters and Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday, as sentiment improved after the Federal Reserve forecast two more interest rate hikes this year.

* U.S. stocks rise, MSCI world index up, but still down for week

Bitfinex Chief Strategy Officer Phil Potter is leaving the cryptocurrency trading platform, the exchange told Reuters on Friday.

Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them. 1/Trade winds in China As the trade war rhetoric starts to turn into action, China's markets are on the defensive. The yuan has fallen to its lowest against the dollar since early 2018, stocks just had their biggest weekly decline in five months, and cash rates are rising, with the 14-day repo rate hitting a two-month high as f