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Rupee decreased to below the Rs 66 level against the dollar for the first time in nearly two years in opening trade today.

On Friday, the People’s Bank of China set the yuan midpoint at 6.3990 yuan to the dollar, slightly stronger than Thursday’s levels.

European markets continued to fall during the trading session as fears of currency wars ignited a fresh bout of selling across global markets.

Brent and US crude both fell to six and half year lows and Carsten Fritsch, oil analyst at Commerzbank, speaking at Reuters” Global Oil Forum, said the collapse was “not about oil market fundamentals’ but about China.

Walker said he was not fazed by the poll and compared it to low poll numbers for him just before he won a resounding recall battle in 2012.

In addition, the PBOC is reducing the reserve requirements (RRR) for most big banks from 18.5 percent to 18.0 percent.

It also increased the amount of money available for lending by reducing the minimum reserves banks are required to hold by 0.5%.

Only 37 percent of all voters said they trust Clinton and 63 percent think the candidate likely took some action as secretary of state as a result of donations to the Clinton Foundation.

China has sought to calm its panic-stricken stock markets by cutting interest rates and loosening constraints on bank lending after a second day of plunging share prices.

The British lobbying body is forecasting 2.6 percent growth for 2015 and 2.8 percent for 2016, up from its June’s projections of 2.4 percent and 2.5 percent respectively.

The STOXX 600 Basic Resources Index, whose constituents are mostly mining stocks, and the energy sector fell 10 % and 8.8 % respectively, as commodities slumped to multi-year lows, with China being one of the world’s biggest users of metals and oil.

The speed at which this happened yesterday was eerily reminiscent of the May 6, 2010 flash crash, as bids seemingly disappeared only to resurface as fast as they vanished.

Rosanna O’Connor, director of alcohol, drugs and tobacco at Public Health England, said: ‘The danger comes because many smokers who have not tried e-cigarettes say they are afraid they are too risky. they keep smoking because they wrongly believe the alternative is...

Brent oil closed at a $4.45 premium to West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark.

South Africa’s currency tumbled the most since October 2008 in thin Asia trading that exaggerated moves on Monday on concern lower prices for commodities, which account for more than half of the nation’s exports, will deepen as China’s economy slows.