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Shares lose momentum as doubts cloud interest rate optimism

FILE PHOTO: The London Stock Exchange Group offices are seen in the City of London, Britain, December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWall Street edges higher as Euro STOXX 600 falls 0.06%Dollar gains as appetite for riskier currencies diminishesTreasury yields slip as investors weigh Fed commentaryAussie drops 1.2% on 'dovish hike' from RBANEW YORK/LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - World share markets lost momentum on Tuesday as investor optimism that interest rates have peaked and the Federal Reserve will soon begin cutting them faded, while the dollar made gains...
Funds

US House passes Republicans’ Israel-only aid bill, faces dead end in Senate

WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and cut funding of the Internal Revenue Service, despite Democrats' insistence it has no future in the Senate and the White House's promise of a veto.The measure passed 226 to 196, largely along party lines, a shift from typical strongly bipartisan congressional support for providing aid to Israel. Twelve Democrats voted with 214 Republicans for the bill, and two Republicans joined 194 Democrats in objecting.The bill's...
Banking

Stocks mixed as Wall St eyes elevated Treasury yields, earnings

Treasury yields retreat after crossing 5%Global, Wall Street stocks mixed ahead of earningsOil down 2% on continued Middle East turmoilOct 23 (Reuters) - The benchmark U.S. Treasury yield on Monday pulled back after crossing 5% - a 16-year high - but stock indices were mixed and oil slipped amid continued fighting between Israel and Hamas.Higher bond yields and the risk of a wider Mideast conflict soured investor sentiment at the start of a week full of major corporate earnings and key inflation data. A gauge of global equity markets fell...
Economy

Analysis: Is the US strategy of engaging China working?

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Early in the Biden administration, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed that the United States would only hold talks with China if they led to "tangible outcomes" to resolve disputes between the strategic rivals.Two-and-a-half years later, that approach appears to have changed.Since the start of the summer, the administration has embarked on a largely unreciprocated push to talk with Beijing, establishing working groups and sending three cabinet-level officials and its top climate envoy to Beijing.The strategy, intended in part to salvage a relationship that...
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