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Also weighing on the dollar were relatively dovish minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s December policy meeting, released Wednesday, as it suggested that the Fed may not raise interest rates as frequently as previously thought due to concern over low inflation, dealers...

“China devaluing its currency sparks concern that the global growth engine is starting to slow and that creates a dump of any high-flying stocks or anything people perceive as risk”, said Yousef Abbasi, a market strategist at JonesTrading Institutional Services in NY....

The markets closed as the key Shanghai Composite Index fell 7.3 percent to 3,115.89, and the Shenzhen Composite Index for China’s smaller second exchange slumped 8.3 percent, to 1,955.88.

The police procedural, starring Angie Harmon as uptight Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as know-it-all medical examiner Maura Isles, is the network’s most popular show with overall listeners but does skew on the older side.

U.S. Treasury 10-year notes fell for the first time in seven days, sending yields up four basis points to 2.19 per cent. China may be selling Treasuries to raise money as part of its efforts to stabilize markets, said Yoshiyuki Suzuki, head of fixed income in Tokyo at Fukoku...

Stocks went into free-fall until the Chinese government abruptly halted trading using a “circuit breaker” system, which stops trading completely if there is a 7 percent decline in the Shanghai and Shenzhen CSI 300 Index. The “circuit breaker” functions by...

In October 2015, it was announced that BS-V norms would be applied from 2019, followed by BS-VI in 2023, but it now appears the government will go straight to the stricter emission standards in a bid to cut down on pollution caused by vehicles.

The U.S. economy finished the year with a hiring spree, adding 292,000 new jobs, as the unemployment rate held steady at 5 percent.

Trading in Chinese stocks was suspended Thursday after a key index plunged 7 percent, setting off falls in oil prices and world share markets.

The U.S. labor market in December managed to generate 292,000 new positions, according to a report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The PBOC on Friday strengthened the yuan’s midpoint rate for the first time in nine days on Friday, fixing it at 6.5636 per dollar, compared with the previous fix of 6.5646.

LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – China’s yuan fell on Wednesday to its lowest since the 2010 opening of its offshore market, extending a slide that has unnerved global financial markets and sent currency investors rushing for the security of Japan’s yen.

Gov. Jerry Brown warned stakeholders not to get giddy over increased revenues as he released his 2016-17 budget proposal, a plan that calls for shoring up California’s rainy day fund and increasing education spending.

The Lions found Quinn after hiring Ernie Accorsi – the former Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns and New York Giants general manager – as a consultant in late November.

“Global prices will continue their bottoming process during first half of this year, as threats of more Iranian crude and further Fed rate hikes should snuff out any geopolitical prices spikes”, said Mr. Kwan. The group has exceeded its previous target of 30 million...