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Raindrops hang on a sign for Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., October 26, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File PhotoU.S. shares slip but global markets rally on U.S. jobs dataAmazon shares surge 8% on strong earnings; Apple falls nearly 5%U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar declineOil gains 1% plusAug 4 (Reuters) - Wall Street stocks fell on Friday, while the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields were lower, after a government jobs report showed a slowing but still tight U.S. labor market.Nonfarm...

Aug 1 (Reuters) - Rating agency Fitch on Tuesday downgraded the U.S. government's top credit rating, a move that drew an angry response from the White House and surprised investors, coming despite the resolution of the debt ceiling crisis two months ago.Fitch downgraded the United States to AA+ from AAA, citing fiscal deterioration over the next three years and repeated down-the-wire debt ceiling negotiations that threaten the government’s ability to pay its bills.Fitch had first flagged the possibility of a downgrade in May, then maintained that position in June after...

WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's legal entanglements on Monday showed signs they could impact spending on his White House bid, as one of his main political groups reported massive outlays on legal expenses while also clawing back more than $12 million it had transferred to a super PAC supporting Trump's 2024 campaign.Trump's Save America group, which he founded in 2020 following his defeat in that year's presidential election, said in a filing to the Federal Election Commission that it spent more than $21 million on legal expenses during...

LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - A German data watchdog has been investigating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Worldcoin project since late last year due to concerns over its large-scale processing of sensitive biometric data, the regulator's president told Reuters.Worldcoin, which launched last week, requires users to give their iris scans in exchange for a digital ID and, in some countries, free cryptocurrency as part of plans to create a new "identity and financial network".The Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision started investigating Worldcoin in November 2022 because of concerns that...