Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive for a joint news conference at the White House June 7, 2018. He said Tokyo was also in contact with Iran. The United States has told countries to cut all imports of Iranian oil …

Hannah McKay | Reuters Ambulance arrives at the Topos Congress hotel in the soccer World Cup host city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia June 26, 2018. Russian police received multiple bomb threats on Tuesday relating to venues in the World Cup host city of Rostov-on-Don, the press service of the Rostov region …

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee delivers food at a Sonic drive-in restaurant in Normal, Illinois. Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Sonic plummeted more than 8 percent in extended-hours trading. The popular drive-in restaurant chain, earned 52 cents per share in …

Alexander Zemlianichenko | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as they attend the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 30, 2017. Picture taken July 30, 2017. During a state-of-the-nation address in March, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Avangard was capable of reaching targets …

VCG | VCG via Getty Images Alibaba CEO Jack Ma makes a speech at 2017 Global Netreprenuer Conference on July 11, 2017 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. In cloud computing, Alibaba is primarily known for its rapid growth in China, where the company has long been the leading player …

Matthew Staver | Bloomberg | Getty Images Leslie ‘Les’ Moonves, president and chief executive officer of CBS Corp., right, speaks with Jeff Bezos, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Thursday, July 7, …

Win McNamee | Getty Images News | Getty Images Billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist Tom Steyer speaks during a press conference at the National Press Club December 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. Steyer, founder of the ‘Need To Impeach’ initiative, presented legal grounds calling for the impeachment investigation of …

ULISES RUIZ | AFP | Getty Images Guadalajara, Mexico, June 10, 2018. According to official figures, more than 200,000 people have been murdered and over 30,000 have disappeared since the government launched a controversial military offensive against organized crime in late 2006. Violence hit a record peak in Mexico last …

Crude prices jumped on Tuesday after the U.S. State Department ordered companies to cut all of their imports coming from Iran to zero by November. West Texas Intermediate futures for August delivery traded 2.7 percent higher at $69.90 per barrel, erasing earlier losses. WTI intraday chart Source: FactSet “It’s an …

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he boards Air Force One to depart for travel to a campaign rally in Duluth, Minnesota from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, June 20, 2018. President Donald Trump is giving a renewed purpose to the Franco-German relationship, a critical …