BEIRUT/AMMAN - Armed men burned five buses that were supposed to be used for an evacuation near Idlib in Syria, stalling a deal to allow thousands to depart the last rebel pocket in Aleppo, where evacuees crammed into buses for hours before departing the city.
WASHINGTON U.S. Republican and Democratic senators called on Sunday for a special bipartisan panel to investigate cyber attacks against the United States by foreign countries with a focus on Russia's alleged efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election.
BRUSSELS NATO will seek to reassure Russia on Monday that its troop deployments to the Baltics and Poland next year are purely defensive, in a rare meeting of the alliance's envoys with those of the Kremlin that is unlikely to resolve long-standing grievances.
SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON/WASHINGTON In the summer of 2013, Yahoo Inc launched a project to better secure the passwords of its customers, abandoning the use of a discredited technology for encrypting data known as MD5.
OTTAWA Canada's BlackBerry Ltd will open an autonomous driving research center on Monday, as it tries to make itself an indispensable under-the-hood piece of the automotive industry's weaponry in the self-driving vehicle arms race.
SHANGHAI Zhang Yuting lives and works in Shanghai, has only visited the United States once, and rarely needs to use foreign currency. But that hasn’t stopped the 29-year-old accountant from putting a slice of her bank savings into the greenback.
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who parlayed beauty, diamond-studded glamor and nine marriages into a long celebrity career, died on Sunday. She was 99.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| US 10YR |
+2.590
|
-0.007 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.315
|
+0.000 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.077
|
-0.003 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 1 | 1.0457 | 0.0085 |
| EUR | 0.9563 | 1 | 0.0081 |
| JPY | 117.5800 | 122.9800 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |
1,133.20
USD
|
+5.40
Exp: Dec2016
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| Copper |
2.55
USD
|
-0.01
Exp: Dec2016
|
| Crude Oil |
52.35
USD
|
+0.45
Exp: Dec2016
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