(For a live blog on the US stock market, click or type LIVE / in a new window) * Tesla up after stock split announcement (Updates to close) By Caroline Valetkevitch Aug 12 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 jumped on Wednesday, but ended just short of its February record high, …
Read More »Portland police say the gathering outside the courthouse is a riot
(Reuters) – Fireworks and firefighters were set up by Protestants in the U.S. federal courthouse in Portland on Wednesday, police said in a tweet, declaring the assembly an uprising. Protests against anti-racism in cities, including Portland, Oregon, are sometimes erupting and arson, and federal officers sent into the Northwestern city …
Read More »North Korea’s nuclear reactor site threatened by recent flooding, says US think tank
SEOUL (Reuters) – Satellite images suggest that recent floods in North Korea may have linked harmful pump houses to the country’s main nuclear facility, a U.S. think tank said on Thursday. A view from the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center shows flooding along the banks of the Kuryong River in …
Read More »European markets review data on data on U.S. unemployed
European equities traded lower on Thursday morning as investors waited for the latest data on US unemployment data and followed the lack of progress in negotiations over a US pandemic relief package. The Europa Stoxx 600 Index was down 0.4% in the early morning trading session, with base sources hitting …
Read More »Economic clock makes China more difficult challenge for US than Soviet Union was – Pompeo
PRAGE (Reuters) – China’s global economic power is somehow making the communist country a more difficult enemy to face than the Soviet Union during the Cold War, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a visit to the Czech Republic on Wednesday. Pompeo called on countries in Europe to …
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