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Sen. Menendez will “vote to disapprove the agreement and, if called upon, would vote to override a veto“, according to remarks prepared for a speech at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.

A private factory gauge unexpectedly fell to the lowest level in more than six years, data Friday showed. At the same time, policy makers also expressed concerns that given recent drops in commodity prices inflation is still too low to justify an interest rate increase.

A lot of the FTSE is oil and gas and mining stocks and those are at the mercy of commodity prices, and there’s no knowing where they are going to end up’.

Whatever the precise cause (and the estimate may in any case be revised down), the outlook for the Greek economy remains bleak owing to the trauma of late June and July when the banks were closed for three weeks and capital controls were introduced.

The State Bank of Vietnam devalued the dong by 1% to bring the reference rate of the US dollar to the Vietnamese dong to 21,890.

The move also creates potential headaches for US President Barack Obama as he prepares to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit in September.

“The markets’ response to Chinese surprise devaluation of its currency against the US dollar is ample evidence that investors worry about further measures across Asian countries in order to prop up export competitiveness”, said Anand James, the co-head of the...

The fund had been expected to include the Chinese yuan currency into its supplementary foreign exchange reserve assets on January 1, 2016.

Particularly with uncertainty about the Chinese currency, “people are saying this is risk, and we step away from the market“. “Even then, the dependent question mark over growth will linger”.

European stocks fell into a correction on Friday, with a dismal week for the market rounding off with downbeat data from China and Greece facing a snap election.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe failed to grasp the nettle when he delivered a much-touted address on the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of the Second World War.

Iran can boost output by 500,000 barrels a day within one week after sanctions are lifted, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said earlier this month. In a June survey, the average year-end forecast of participants was that West Texas Intermediate crude would be at .80 per barrel.

The Sri Lankan electorate has voted to sustain the changes that have taken place since the presidential election of January 8, when the common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena scored a surprise victory over Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The DAX is some 16 percent below a record high of 12,390.75 set in April and at its lowest level since January.

A Japanese journalist cited in a Washington Post report described the remarks as “unprecedented”, and it has been suggested that the emperor has shown a subtle opposition to Abe’s “aggressive form of pacifism” when it comes to commenting on the...