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Bitcoin is now nearly a third of its record high of nearly $20,000 reached last December. To investors worried bitcoin’s bursting bubble could spill over into equities, one market watcher says the crisis is contained. “There are things to be concerned about in terms of the stock market here with …

Anthony Wallace | Pool | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin asked North Korean official Kim Yong Nam at their meeting on Thursday …

Emmanuel Dunand | AFP | Getty Images European Central Bank President Mario Draghi attends an Eurogroup finance ministers meeting at the European Council in Brussels on May 24, 2018. The European Central Bank (ECB) outlined plans to end its massive stimulus program by the end of this year, but keep …

SeongJoon Cho / Bloomberg / Getty Images A model of Comac’s C919 aircraft at the Singapore Airshow on Feb. 6, 2018. Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) aims to obtain type certification from China for its narrowbody C919 jet by the end of 2020, putting the state planemaker on track …

Sasha Mordovets | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (L) attend a meeting in Moscow in May 2015. Russia’s government has proposed raising value-added tax (VAT) to 20 percent from 18 percent, starting from 2019, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. Medvedev said the …

Sebastian Delgado | SOPA Images | Getty Images Young people marching against fraud in some formats of vote counting in the last presidential elections of Colombia on May 31, 2018. Last month, Colombia held its first presidential election since the government signed a historic 2016 peace agreement with guerrilla movement …

Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono hold a joint press conference on June 14, 2018 in Seoul. American, South Korean and Japanese officials strove to present a unified stance Thursday in an effort to quell …

Chung Sung-Jun | Getty Images News | Getty Images A South Korean man reads a newspaper reporting the U.S. President Trump meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12, 2018 in Seoul, South Korea. Tuesday’s U.S.-North Korea summit was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough, but it unleashed critical …

Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a press conference at the Kremlin on May 26, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. Japan is working on arranging a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with one possibility including the premier’s visit …

Getty Images President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping (not shown) make a joint statement at the Great Hall of the People on November 9, 2017 in Beijing, China. Beijing is surely watching closely as a deadline for proposed American tariffs on China draws near, but any concern has …