Wall Street was set to open higher on Friday as latest comments from China and U.S. President Donald Trump lifted hopes of a trade deal after conflicting headlines this week knocked stock indexes off record highs.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that a trade deal with China is “potentially very close” and that he stands with both the people of Hong Kong and Chinese President Xi Jinping amid massive protests in Hong Kong.
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Bitcoin slumped to a six-month low on Friday after China’s central bank launched a fresh crackdown on cryptocurrencies, warning of the risks entailed in issuing or trading them.
South African Airways (SAA) reached a deal on wages with two trade unions on Friday to end an eight-day strike that has weighed on the cash-strapped state airline.
Uber is waiting to find out whether its taxi license in London, one of its most important markets, will be renewed, just three days before it is due to expire in the latest stage of a long-running battle with the city’s transport regulator.
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Brazilian inflation fell to the second lowest level in more than two decades, according to a mid-month measure of consumer prices released on Friday, a figure likely to give the central bank extra cover to reduce interest rates again next month. The annual rate of Brazil’s IPCA-15 consumer price inflation in the month to mid-November fell to 2.67% from 2.72% the month before, marking the lowest rate since September last year and the second lowest since March 1999. Both the annual and monthly rates of consumer price increases in mid-November were slightly below the median forecasts in a …read more […]
(Bloomberg) — Travis Kalanick’s November selling spree has almost reached $1.5 billion.The Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder sold about $578 million of stock over three days this week, extending a series of transactions since a lockup ended Nov. 6. More disposals may be coming, with a Nov. 11 filing signaling Kalanick could offload his entire stake.The 43-year-old’s holding in the ride-hailing company now constitutes far less than half of his $3.3 billion fortune. The shift started even before Uber’s May listing, with Kalanick participating in private transactions after he was ousted as chief executive officer in 2017.“While it is usual to …read more […]
U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday as latest comments from China lifted hopes of a trade deal after conflicting headlines this week knocked Wall Street off record highs.
Beijing said it wanted to work out an initial trade pact with Washington “on the basis of mutual respect and equality” after reports earlier in the week suggested that a truce could be delayed into 2020. …read more […]
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