Shell Oil Refinery at Pulau Bukom off Singapore on July 16, 2020. Roslan Rahman / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks traded lower on Thursday on the busiest day of the second-quarter earnings season, with growing concerns about a slow economic recovery and a possible second wave of the …
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The counts: Previously owned home sales increased 20.7% in June when states reopened their economies following coronavirus-related blockades. Existing home sales occurred at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.72 million, the National Association of Real Estate Agents reported Wednesday. It was a big rebound from May, when sales fell …
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The US dollar is taking a beating on Wall Street, measured by a popular index. The blame is partly on the revival of the EURUSD euro, -0.01% as European leaders forged a historic fiscal pact to lift the eurozone economy out of the coronavirus pandemic that has brought much of …
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Fewer Americans now have agreements with their mortgage servicers to skip their monthly payments. Getty Images / iStockphoto Fewer than 4 million homeowners in the US skip their mortgage payments, according to new estimates by the Mortgage Bankers Association released Monday. The business group reported that only 7.8% of mortgage …
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This photo taken on July 12, 2020 shows residents standing in front of a flooded pavilion on the Yangtze River in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province. – Various parts of China have been hit by continuous downpours since June, with the damage adding pressure to a home economy already …
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