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U.S. employment growth seen slowing in July; wage gains steady

U.S. employment growth seen slowing in July; wage gains steady

U.S. job growth likely slowed in July after outsized gains in the prior month, with wages probably maintaining their moderate pace of increase, which could boost market expectations for another interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve next month.



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Exclusive: Foxconn exploring sale of $8.8 billion display plant in China - sources

Exclusive: Foxconn exploring sale of $8.8 billion display plant in China - sources

Taiwan's Foxconn is exploring the sale of its upcoming $8.8 billion display panel factory in China, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as demand for the product wanes amid an intensifying U.S.-China trade war.



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Trump hits China with more tariffs, sharply escalating trade dispute

Trump hits China with more tariffs, sharply escalating trade dispute

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from Sept. 1, sharply escalating a bruising trade war between the world's largest economies and jolting financial markets.



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Toyota posts 8.7% rise in first-quarter operating profit, boosted by better sales

Toyota posts 8.7% rise in first-quarter operating profit, boosted by better sales

Toyota Motor Corp posted on Friday an 8.7% rise in first-quarter profit due to a slight increase in global vehicle sales and an improvement in marketing costs



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'Tariff man is back,' major Wall Street strategists declare as trade ceasefire ends

Wall Street strategists warned clients that they expected the next round of tariffs to go into effect on September 1.

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Analysts sorting winners and losers as new set of tariffs take aim at Nike, retailers

The list of new tariff goods "disproportionately impacts apparel, footwear, consumer electronics, and toys," forcing Wall Street to decide who will bare the most burden.

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Exchange operator Cboe's profit rises 6.3%

Exchange operator Cboe's profit rises 6.3%

Cboe Global Markets Inc reported a 6.3% rise in quarterly profit on Friday, helped by an increase in revenue from options and futures trade.



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Bitcoin is an Unstoppable Force

Bitcoin is an Unstoppable Force

Daily Fintech  | Ilias Louis Hatzis | July 29, 2019 TLDR. During the recent House Committee on Financial Services’ hearing about Facebook’s, Libra, Rep. Patrick McHenry described Bitcoin as an unstoppable force: “The world that Satoshi Nakamoto — author of the Bitcoin white paper — envisioned, and others are building, is an unstoppable force. We

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Chinese billionaire indicted in U.S. for alleged $1.8 billion aluminum tariff evasion

Chinese billionaire indicted in U.S. for alleged $1.8 billion aluminum tariff evasion

A Chinese billionaire has been indicted by a grand jury on charges he schemed with the aluminum company he founded to evade $1.8 billion of tariffs by smuggling huge amounts of the metal into the United States, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.



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Asian shares tumble, dollar firms as Fed scotches big rate-cut bets

Asian shares tumble, dollar firms as Fed scotches big rate-cut bets

Asian shares slipped to six-week lows on Thursday while the dollar jumped to two-year highs as the U.S. Federal Reserve rattled markets by signaling that its first rate cut in more than a decade was not the start of a lengthy easing cycle.



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Britain's LSE seals $27 billion Refinitiv deal to create data giant

Britain's LSE seals $27 billion Refinitiv deal to create data giant

London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy financial information business Refinitiv in a $27 billion deal, it said on Thursday, in a move to transform the British company into a market data and analytics giant.



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Manufacturing pain spreads through Asia, more stimulus seen ahead

Manufacturing pain spreads through Asia, more stimulus seen ahead

Asian factory activity contracted further in July, fuelling worries that a Sino-U.S. trade war and a slowdown in China could tilt the world toward a global recession, which central banks will have to fight with depleted ammunition.



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Thomson Reuters sales rise 9%, raises outlook

Thomson Reuters sales rise 9%, raises outlook

Thomson Reuters Corp on Thursday reported a 9% rise in quarterly sales compared to the same period a year ago, while also raising its forecasts for the next two years.



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South Korean chip giants face 'strangling' from Japanese export curbs

South Korean chip giants face 'strangling' from Japanese export curbs

South Korean chipmakers are hitting a dead end in their quest to find alternatives for key Japanese materials that have been slapped with export restrictions, raising the prospect of major disruption to their operations in the coming months.



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Britain's LSE agrees $27 billion Refinitiv deal to form data giant

Britain's LSE agrees $27 billion Refinitiv deal to form data giant

London Stock Exchange said on Thursday it had agreed to buy financial information firm Refinitiv in a $27 billion deal that will transform the British company into a market data and analytics giant.



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