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US stocks trade near all-time highs, Treasury yields climb

Bloomberg US stocks churned near all-time highs, while Treasury yields climbed as investors assessed the latest developments from the Trump administration’s trade policies. The S&P 500 clung to a record after opening above 2,900 for the first time. Rate-sensitive shares retreated as the 10-year Treasury yield moved towards 2.90 percent. The Mexican peso failed to hold onto Monday’s gains as ...

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Nafta-exposed European stocks taste sweeter

Bloomberg Sweetener-maker Tate & Lyle Plc, a UK household name due to its former glory days of supplying Britons with sugar for their tea, rose the most in three months on Tuesday after President Donald Trump said the US is pursuing a new trade accord with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. The 97-year-old company’s stock has ...

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Tech giants chase $1trn payments market

Bloomberg Surendrasingh Sucharia always has a few thousand rupees in his pocket, but can’t recall the last time he used cash. The 29-year-old product manager in Bangalore uses a string of smartphone apps including ones from Google and India’s Paytm to pay for everything from $40 bags of groceries to street food that costs pennies. A bewildering array of digital ...

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India to fill gap left by US exports to China

Bloomberg India has drawn a list of goods it can export to China, replacing US exports that have become costlier in light of the trade spat between the world’s two biggest economies, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The South Asian nation has identified more than 40 products, including fresh grapes, cotton linters, flue-cured tobacco and alloy ...

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Meituan Dianping draws Tencent to $4 billion-plus IPO

Bloomberg Meituan Dianping, the Chinese restaurant review and delivery giant, has started gauging investor demand for a planned Hong Kong initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said. A stock offering from the company could raise more than $4 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the details are private. Chinese social ...

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US northeast set to sweat with high temperatures

Bloomberg Cities ranging from Boston to New York and Washington are set to swelter through Thursday as high heat and humidity combine to make 95-degree temperatures feel as if they’re 100 degrees Fahrenheit or more, boosting energy demand to cool homes and businesses. A large area of high pressure has parked across the eastern US, bringing in a typical summer ...

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Amazon’s Whole Foods starts to steal trader Joe’s shoppers

Bloomberg When Amazon.com Inc. bought Whole Foods last year, investors panicked and dumped shares in Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market and even Walmart. The fear was that the e-commerce leviathan would disrupt yet another industry. Since then, the concerns have subsided as investors and analysts came to recognise that it will be years before Amazon becomes a major player in the ...

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JetBlue hikes fees for checked bags

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp., which for years let passengers check luggage at no charge, became the first major US carrier to bump the fee for a first checked bag to $30. The $5 increase is effective for trips booked started on Monday. JetBlue also raised the charge for a second checked bag by $5 to $40 and for a third ...

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Ryanair seals first labour deal with Italian pilots

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc signed its first-ever union contract, granting Italian pilots perks such as severance pay in a deal the airline hopes to repeat across its network to contain a protracted labor dispute. The deal commits Ryanair to making contributions to national health care and social-security funds as well as paternity rights, the Italian pilots union ANPAC said in ...

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