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Xi said China will work more closely with the Cuban comrades to carry forward the friendly relationship between the two parties as well as the two nations to fulfill Fidel Castro’s will.

Brent crude futures LCOc1 were trading at $46.40 per barrel at 0035 GMT (7.35 a.m. ET), down 84 cents, or 1.8 percent, from their last close, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were down 74 cents, or 1.6 percent, at $45.32 a barrel.

Trump’s recent denial of climate change science has fumed global leaders, who condemned his thoughts during the worldwide Conference in Marrakesh.

Italian banking stocks staged something of a recovery, but miners came under renewed selling pressure after a sharp decline in commodities prices. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index edged up 3 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,207 and also set a record of 2,214 shortly after...

On Tuesday, the US benchmark fell $1.85, or 3.9 percent, to $45.23 a barrel.

Prices were also hit as non-OPEC Russia confirmed it would not send a delegation to the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ meeting in Vienna on Wednesday.

US President-elect Donald Trump will name campaign loyalist and former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as his Treasury secretary, multiple media reports said today.

Jill Stein’s Green Party served notice that it would petition for a MI recount even as her party pushed forward with recount efforts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where Trump won by somewhat wider but still small margins.

“This election has illuminated the vulnerability of election systems to real and perceived hacks”, King said.

François Fillon, France’s former prime minister, has won the Republican presidential primary race to become the French right’s presidential candidate next spring, The Guardian reports.

And now, the cruel punchline: The man behind it is being nominated for treasury secretary by a self-proclaimed billionaire populist.

He says although Castro just passed away three days ago- Cuba has already seen a number of monumental reforms since his time in office.

“The market in generally is just going sideways as investors are awaiting many key events including the OPEC meeting and USA job data”, said Andrew Sullivan, managing director for sales trading at Haitong International Securities Group Ltd.in Hong Kong.

“If no deal is reached, our expectation of rising (crude) inventories through 1H 2017 would warrant prices averaging US$45 per barrel through next summer”, Goldman said, noting a move to below US$40 per barrel would be hard to sustain. Prices likely will be unable to...

“The election was fair and all votes cast by eligible voters were accurately counted”. The recount is not expected to change the state’s victor, and Clinton would not win the White House even if the recount tipped MI alone her way.