WASHINGTON - Early optimism among business lobbyists and executives that Trump's election heralded better days has eroded as the president-elect fires off mixed messages on healthcare, taxes and trade.
OSLO World temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a ceiling set for global warming with extremes including unprecedented heat in India and ice melt in the Arctic, U.S. government agencies said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON Renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico will be the Trump administration's first trade priority, U.S. Commerce Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday at his confirmation hearing.
WASHINGTON Democratic Senators quizzed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, over his energy industry ties during a contentious confirmation hearing on Wednesday that was briefly interrupted by protesters.
MOSCOW Russia said its war planes had joined forces with Turkish jets for the first time on Wednesday to target Islamic State militants holding the town of al-Bab in northern Syria, evidence of increasingly close cooperation between Moscow and Ankara.
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence analyst who was responsible for a 2010 leak of classified materials to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the biggest such breach in U.S. history.
NEW YORK JPMorgan Chase & Co has agreed to pay $55 million to settle a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against minority borrowers by allowing mortgage brokers to charge them more for home loans, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| US 10YR |
+2.375
|
+0.048 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.356
|
+0.007 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.059
|
+0.004 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 1 | 1.0678 | 0.0088 |
| EUR | 0.9365 | 1 | 0.0083 |
| JPY | 113.4000 | 121.0800 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
|---|---|---|
| Gold |
1,214.60
USD
|
+2.60
Exp: Jan2017
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| Copper |
2.61
USD
|
-0.01
Exp: Jan2017
|
| Crude Oil |
51.47
USD
|
-1.01
Exp: Jan2017
|
