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In his speech before the convention my father didn’t come right out and say “I endorse Gerald Ford” but he made it clear that he wanted Republicans to unite behind Ford and win the election, not vote their “conscience”.

Veering between boring speeches by rich friends and employees of Trump (billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel, Trump Winery General Manager Kerry Woolard) and frothing-at-the-mouth indictments of Hillary Clinton (former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani, Trump lackey and current New Jersey...

Europe’s banking regulator, the European Banking Authority (EBA), released the highly anticipated results of this year’s “stress tests” of Europe’s 51 biggest commercial banks late on Friday evening.

The Cubs posted their highest-scoring game at home this season, routing the Seattle Mariners, 12-1, Friday in Chicago for their third straight win.

Oil could see technical support in the near-term after Brent and WTI’s drop below the 200-day moving average earlier on Friday, some traders said. Oil headed for the biggest monthly decline in a year as brimming crude and fuel inventories stifle a price recovery.

Following a meeting with the Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny at Downing Street, Theresa May repeated her commitment not to return to hard borders between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

The US central bank said the economy had expanded at a moderate rate and job gains were strong in June.

U.S. economic data have improved since the June FOMC meeting and the strong bounce-back in employment growth in June is particularly notable. This is very similar to the bank’s posture in Q4 of last year when, despite the numerous flagging risks of commodity prices getting...

Most states, for example, do not tax back-to-school clothing so long as it’s less than $100 in value, but SC has no such spending limit and the state of Louisiana’s August 5-6 tax holiday applies to “most goods priced at $2,500 or less”.

The test’s “adverse scenario” looks at how banks could cope with four risks over three years: an abrupt rise in bond yields from very low levels in a market where liquidity is thin; poor profitability at banks in a weak economy; rising public and private debt...

“Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin”, Obama said in an excerpt of the interview that will air in full on Wednesday.

The bank, which led a return to profitability across the Irish sector following years of losses after the country’s 2008 banking crash, reported an underlying first-half pretax profit of 560 million euros ($621 million) versus 743 million a year ago.

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.2 percent in the second quarter this year, which is below market expectation, the Commerce Department said Friday.

When it sees risks tilted to the downside, it keeps rates on hold or lowers them.

Oil futures were poised Friday to mark their third-monthly loss of the year, with West Texas Intermediate crude officially entering a bear market as lingering concerns about oversupply and a deluge of refined products triggered a selloff.