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Crude prices slip as President Trump says Venezuela will give up to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and that he will control the proceeds. Trump says he has asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to enact the plan, immediately. The White House refuses to rule out military act ...  Show more

European stocks line up another day in the green - the benchmark Stoxx 600 hitting a new high in Monday's session, and the Dow Jones notching a fresh record stateside. This, in the shadow of rising geopolitical tensions as President Trump says he is "very serious" about taking Gr ...  Show more

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Congress blew past a midnight funding deadline, triggering the US government’s first shutdown in nearly seven years — and the third under President Donald Trump. (2) US equity-index futu ...  Show more

On Friday, the US announced a meagre 12K nonfarm job additions last month, the manufacturing and private nonfarm payrolls printed negative numbers. But the bright spot was that unemployment remained steady at 4.1% - suggesting that the NFP number probably took a one-off hit, and ...  Show more

While it's still anyone's guess who will become the next US President, some currency analysts took the latest polls favouring Kamala Harris to unwind some of their 'Trump trades' by selling the US dollar. US equities saw some volatility yesterday, but safe-haven US Treasuries ...

As investors grapple with the implications of an ‘earnings yield inversion’, where the S&P 500 Index yields more than 10-year US Treasuries, US equities took a breather yesterday from last week’s gains. Meanwhile, Asia is seeing its busiest IPO week in more than two years, ...