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Trump to act against Chinese software firms, says Pompeo

Bloomberg The Trump administration will announce measures shortly against “a broad array” of Chinese-owned software deemed to pose national-security risks, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said. The comments suggest a possible widening of US measures beyond TikTok, the popular music-video app owned by ByteDance Ltd., one of China’s biggest tech companies. President Donald Trump told reporters that he plans …

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UAE secures 35% of Japan’s crude oil needs in June

TOKYO / WAM Japan’s imports of crude oil from the UAE reached to 20.13 million barrels in June, according to data from Agency for Natural Resources and Energy in Tokyo. The agency, part of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, reported that the percentage of oil imports from the UAE amounted to 35.1 percent of the total Japanese …

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Russia slightly increased July oil output ahead of Opec+ tapering

Bloomberg Russia slightly increased its oil production in July, ahead of the Opec+ plans to start easing their record supply cuts starting this month. The nation’s producers pumped 39.63 million tons of crude and condensate last month, according to preliminary data from the Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK unit. That’s an average daily of 9.371 million barrels, applying a 7.33 barrel-per-ton conversion …

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