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G20 Finance Ministers Agree on Trade Provisions in Draft Communique

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G20 finance ministers drop anti-protectionist pledge

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Gold heads for first weekly gain in three as Fed hurts dollar

The euro, which touched its highest level in 5-1/2-weeks early on Friday, hovered near that level at $1.0773, after two days of strong gains. U.S. Treasury yi...

G20 leaders fail to reach agreements on free trade

But they have so far been unable to bridge the differences between the U.S. and other leading G20 members over trade. The OECD is one of several global organiza...

Parallel Advisors LLC Invests $199,000 in U.S. Bancorp (USB)

The stock has a consensus rating of "Hold" and a consensus price target of $47.87. Finally, Guidant Wealth Advisors bought a new stake in U.S. Bancorp during th...

Justice Department Calls Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Structure Unconstitutional

The DOJ argues that under the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, the president "must have the authority to remove executive branch agency heads at will",...

Winners and losers in Trump's first budget plan

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China plans station on disputed South China Sea shoal

Manila, which previously fought China's claims to the shoal vigorously, has wavered in its opposition to Beijing in recent months with President Rodrigo Duterte...

US Dollar Index Fell despite the Fed's Interest Rate Hike

The rate hike is appropriate in the economy when the economy shows a stronger move. Although the dollar was unable to make any significant headway and USA bon...

Alma and Mt. Pleasant JCPenney stores not closing

The only New Jersey store that will be closing is in Rio Grande. Roughly 876 stores will remain open in the United States. It has no stores in Hawaii. but did...

Maharashtra Budget: Fadnavis Govt. increases Value-Added Tax from 23.08 to 25.93 pct

Mungantiwar announced several sops in taxes on procurement of sugarcane, milk kit and swipe machines. State Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, while present...

Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD) Raises Dividend to $0.16 Per Share

The low EPS estimate is $0.61, while the high EPS estimate is $0.72. Several other equities research analysts also recently commented on STLD. According to ...

British complain after Trump spokesman cites wiretapping report

Donald Trump alleged that Barack Obama wiretapped him after he read an article published by The New York Times in January... The White House wouldn't conf...

USA issues trade challenge at fraught G-20

It was totally undisputed that we are against protectionism. "President Trump is looking at the Paris treaty and other treaties and the administration will ha...

Turkey condemns Germany allowing terrorist PKK rally

Today's protest march in Frankfurt went off peacefully, a police spokesman said. Police said no banners or flags were confiscated so as to not provoke the cro...

G20 ministers struggle to reach consensus on trade, climate

Reports suggest the difficulty stems from a major shift in the views of the United States, where the new Trump administration is considering protectionist tra...

Moody's: Hitting debt ceiling won't affect United States credit rating

Those sources said there is concern among Republican members of Congress that GOP leadership may be burning its capital on efforts to repeal and replace the ACA...

G-20 finance chiefs warn of FX rate volatility

Finance ministers from world's biggest economies have dropped an anti-protectionist commitment after opposition from the US. Finance ministers of world's majo...

Delhi prepares for metro shutdown as Jat agitation intensifies

There's a Supreme Court direction in place which prescribes that no tractor and trolley should be permitted inside Delhi; therefore, the police is bound to impl...

Alberta's Progressive Conservatives to pick a new leader Saturday

A victory by the new merged conservative party will restore the status quo for the mostly right-voting province and could bring drastic changes, as both the PC ...

Spotlight on currency volatility, cyber crime and climate change

As host nation, Germany has attempted to broker a compromise over the wording on trade that is to be included in the meeting's final statement. Mnuchin said...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson agrees that his department needs budget cuts

On North Korea, Tillerson said, "The policy of strategic patience has ended", and that the Donald Trump administration was "exploring a new range of diploma...

EPA awards $100 million to Flint water crisis recovery

Officials switched the small Eastern Michigan city's water supply from Lake Huron in 2015 to the Flint River in a bid to save money. The Stabenow-Peters-Kil...

Trump's Not So Different on Trade, Canada Says on G-20 Bargain

By contrast, last year's statement called on all G20 states to resist "all forms" of protectionism. The failure by ministers to agree on trade and climate act...

YouTube to discontinue video annotations because they never worked on mobile

From May 2, you'll no longer be able to add new or edit existing annotations, only delete them. Google's making a change to YouTube that's already been underw...

Court vacates forfeiture order, returns OPL 245 to Shell and Agip

A Nigerian court overturns a request by Nigeria's financial crimes agency to seize an oilfield from Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) and Eni (NYSE:E). The c...

Turkey Foreign Minister: Anti-Islam Sentiment Pushing Europe to 'Wars of Religion'

Turkey has so far met most of the requirements for visa liberalization, but the EU's demands for change in Ankara's anti-terrorism laws led to a deadlock in ne...

Japan Court Rules Government to Blame for Fukushima

At the Fukushima plant, the reactor buildings were not watertight and backup power generators were stored in the basement. The government had issued a "long-t...

G20 Ministers Battle To Break Deadlock On Trade

During the talks with Mnuchin, Aso said free trade has contributed to global economic growth and protectionism should be resisted. "We reaffirm our previous e...

Judges look into French candidate Fillon's fancy suits

Robert Bourgi said in a statement sent to AFP that there was neither "conflict of interest nor influence-peddling" involved in the gifting of the suits to Fillo...

Gold gains further, silver weakens

Investors lodged large bets on the dollar after Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election win a year ago, expecting his mix of tax reform, capital repatriation ...