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The world’s two largest economies are once again battling for dominance. In the latest exchange between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Beijing is using financial markets as leverage in the trade war, betting that a sustained downturn might pressure Trump to compromise. The Trump administration, however, has made clear it will…
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) – The custodians of trillions of dollars of global central bank reserves are eyeing a move away from the greenback into gold, the euro and China’s yuan as the splintering of world trade and geopolitical upheaval spark a rethink of financial flows. According to a report, opens new tab by the…
Bucking threats from Hamas, hundreds in Gaza seen protesting terror group for 1st time in a year * Trump says Iran still has ‘some’ military capability, but ‘not much’ Speaking to reporters outside the State Department, Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leither says Israel will maintain its buffer zone in southern Lebanon until the…
BEIJING, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Another round of bad Chinese economic figures is raising pressure on Beijing to loosen the fiscal spigot further and even dole out shopping vouchers to get growth back towards this year’s target of roughly 5%. After a dismal second quarter, the world’s second-largest economy lost momentum further in July: new…
The mission is intended to combat the country’s rampant gang violence What happened Some 400 Kenyan police officers arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday to launch a long-awaited peacekeeping mission. The deployment is the first wave of an expected 2,500-person law enforcement effort sanctioned by the United Nations to combat gang violence roiling…
Good morning. This is Mared Gwyn, writing in the early hours from Brussels. Even earlier this morning, EU lawmakers and diplomats agreed to implement the controversial trade agreement concluded last summer with the US, after hours of late-night talks in Strasbourg. Our trade reporter Peggy Corlin writes that despite the breakthrough, which is set to…