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USA 30-year returns top 10% as investors gorge on yields

Bloomberg Treasury 30-year bond returns pushed past 10 percent for 2016 as the U.S. prepares to sell $15 billion of the securities on Thursday. The long bonds yield 2.60 percent, more than any other benchmark maturity in the U.S., the U.K., Germany or Japan. Thirty-year debt is leading a rally in Treasuries as traders push back bets for when the ...

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Brazil’s Senate ‘impeaches’ Rousseff after long fight

  BRASILIA / AFP Brazil’s Senate voted on Thursday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff after a months-long fight that laid raw the country’s fury over corruption and economic decay, hurling Latin America’s largest country into political turmoil just months before it hosts the Summer Olympics. Rousseff’s enraged backers called the move a coup d’etat and threatened wide-scale protests and strikes. Her ...

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US court to hear appeal in Abu Ghraib case

  RICHMOND / AFP Four former Iraqi detainees who say they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison are asking a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit. A three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case on Thursday in Richmond, Virginia. The former detainees sued CACI Premier Technology Inc., an ...

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