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South Korea pitches Trump on shipyards for last-minute trade deal
South Korea is pitching the US on a shipbuilding partnership as a key proposal to seal a last-minute agreement to avoid a 25 per cent…
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Asia: Most markets rise, euro boosted after EU strikes US trade deal
Most stock markets rose with the euro on Monday after the European Union and United States hammered out the “biggest-ever” deal to avert a…
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US dollar set for worst week this month as trade deadline nears
The US dollar is wrapping its worst week in July as US President Donald Trump amps up his calls for interest-rate cuts amid a looming…
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Europe: Shares settle lower as investors gauge mixed earnings, EU-US trade progress
European shares closed lower on Friday (Jul 25), as investors assessed mixed corporate earnings while awaiting updates on a framework of…
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Trump’s Big Trade Deal With Japan Is Already Falling Apart
Despite Maxwell’s crimes, as Rolling Stone reported Thursday, “the Trump administration and the president’s allies in Congress seem to…
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UK auto industry expresses cautious optimism on UK-India trade deal
There appears to be a mixture of reactions in the British automotive industry to the trade deal struck this week between the UK and India,…
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Asia: Markets turn lower as trade war rally fades
Asian stocks fell on Friday as their latest rally ran out of legs, with sentiment weighed by strong US jobs data that saw investors row…
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American Car Companies Are Pissed About Trump’s Japan Trade Deal
U.S. automakers are reporting that Trump’s trade deal with Japan is favoring Japanese automakers over them in yet another reneging on the…
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ECB keeps rates steady as it awaits clarity over trade
The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged on Thursday (Jul 24) after cutting eight times in a year, biding its time while…
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Exports defy rockets: Israel keeps $150 b. trade flowing through war
Israel Export Institute chairman Avi Balashnikov. (photo credit: Israel Export Institute ) “When rockets are flying and the world…
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US: Wall Street opens higher as US-Japan trade deal lifts sentiment
Wall Street opened higher on Wednesday (Jul 23) after President Donald Trump struck a trade deal with Japan, shoring up expectations of…
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BOJ sees trade deal as raising chance of meeting inflation goal
Japan’s trade deal with the US has reduced uncertainty surrounding the economy, the central bank’s deputy governor Shinichi Uchida said,…
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US: Wall St opens muted with corporate earnings, trade talks in focus
Wall Street opened flat on Tuesday (Jul 22) as investors weighed signs of potential trade deals between the US and its partners ahead of…
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US: Wall Street opens higher with tech earnings, trade updates in focus
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Monday (Jul 21), as investors welcomed the prospects of new trade deals to kick off a week…
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Gold steady as investors await US trade updates, central bank meetings
GOLD prices were little changed on Monday as investors monitored developments in US trade talks and awaited potential market-moving…
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Leaders of the UK and Germany to sign a treaty on defense, trade and migration
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are set to sign a treaty on Thursday pledging to…
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Vietnam stocks pop as foreign investors return on sweetened US trade terms: analysts
Vietnam’s stock market has come alive as foreign investors return from positions near historic lows, following news that the country has…
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Europe: Mining, healthcare prop up shares; US-EU trade talks in focus
EUROPEAN shares closed higher on Thursday, with mining and healthcare stocks the biggest boosts as investors watched for signs of progress…
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Asia: Stocks mostly rise on trade deal optimism
Asian markets mostly rose on Thursday on optimism that governments will hammer out deals to avoid the worst of US President Donald Trump’s…
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Senegalese President Resorts to Bribing Trump in Trade Meeting
In an appearance on Fox Business on Wednesday, Trump’s agriculture chief, Brooke Rollins, revealed that the administration has no plan to…
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US: Wall Street opens higher as markets await trade talks
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Wednesday (Jul 9), as investors shrugged off President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff moves…
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Gold rises as fresh Trump tariff threats dampen trade talk hopes
Gold edged higher on Wednesday (Jul 9) as US President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats dampened hopes for trade talks, but a stronger…
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Russia and Ukraine trade drone strikes, disrupting air travel
Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones on Sunday, throwing Russian air travel in disarray, days after Moscow…
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Airbus inks US$20 billion Malaysia jet deals on Anwar trade trip
Malaysia’s biggest airlines sealed Airbus deals worth US$20 billion as Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim wrapped up his European tour. AirAsia…