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Oil pares weekly gain as ‘traders’ eye $60 threshold

Bloomberg Oil erased almost an entire week of advances as chart-watching traders tested a key price barrier. Futures in New York fell 1.2%, a day after closing at a three-month high. Selling accelerated after a foray above $61 a barrel petered out, a bearish technical signal. The next key threshold is at the $60 level, traders said. On the fundamental …

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267m Facebook users’ IDs, names, phone numbers exposed online

Bloomberg Information on 267 million Facebook users, including user names, phone numbers and Facebook IDs, was exposed online, according to a cybersecurity researcher. The data, mostly from US Facebook users, was posted on a searchable database by a group that appeared to be based in Vietnam, said Bob Diachenko, the cyber threat intelligence director at Security Discovery, a Ukrainian cybersecurity …

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Ex-HSBC North America executive sued for fraud

Bloomberg The former head of HSBC Holdings Plc’s North American interest rates business was sued for fraud by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Christophe Rivoire helped manipulate the price of an interest rate swap between the bank and a bond issuer, the CFTC said in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court. The agency claimed the issuer had …

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