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Reuters Police officers are seen in front of a cargo ship with containers at a port in Qingdao, Shandong province, China April 6, 2018. China opposes all forms of protectionism and will firmly safeguard the world’s multilateral trading system, its commerce minister wrote on Monday in the ruling Communist Party’s …

Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan before him, is an outside-the-beltway president. That recently prompted longtime market watcher Ralph Acampora to investigate whether the two had anything else in common. What he found could be a warning to the stock market. “Ronald Reagan had a six-month honeymoon,” Acampora, director of technical …

The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images 117-year-old Nabi Tajima dance with music during the ‘Respect-For-Aged’ Day celebration at a special nursing home on September 18, 2017 in Kikai, Kagoshima, Japan. Tajima is now the world’s oldest person after Violet Brown of Dominican Republic died three days ago. Tajima was born …

David Degner | Getty Images A view The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) on April 13, 2016 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry on Sunday instructed drone enthusiasts to obtain permission to fly the devices until regulations were finalized, a day after security forces shot down a recreational …

Scott Olson/Getty Images isitation is held for former first lady Barbara Bush at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church on April 20, 2018 in Houston, Texas. Bush, who died at her home in Houston on April 17, was the wife of former president George H. W. Bush and the mother of former …

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note hit 2.96 percent Friday, hitting its highest level since Jan. 10, 2014. The two-year yield hit 2.461 percent, meanwhile, its highest level since Sept. 8, 2008, when the two-year yielded as high as 2.542 percent. Friday’s moves cap a week of rising rates …

Companies have been crushing earnings so far this quarter, but a strange trend is developing: Those that beat expectations are seeing their stock prices fall. Since the earnings season kicked off last week, shares have returned, on average, a loss of 0.12 percent on the trading day immediately after companies …

KCNA | Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Command of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in an unknown location in North Korea in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 15, 2017. South Korean officials no …

Sergei Savostyanov | TASS | Getty Images The headquarters of the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab in Moscow, Russia on Oct. 2, 2017. Twitter said on Friday that it has banned ads from Russia’s Kaspersky Lab, charging that the company’s business model conflicts with the social media platform’s advertising rules …

President Donald Trump blasted the oil-producing cartel OPEC on Twitter on Friday. “Looks like OPEC is at it again,” he wrote. “With record amounts of Oil all over the place, including the fully loaded ships at sea, Oil prices are artificially Very High! No good and will not be accepted!” …