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Aaron M. Sprecher | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, Mexico’s Energy Secretary, speaks during the 2018 CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Mexico’s Minister of Energy, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, said North America’s energy trade would continue even if NAFTA is ended, but …

Getty Images President Donald Trump and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn affirm their support for each other at Camp David on January 6, 2018 in Thurmont, Maryland. President Donald Trump said on Thursday White House chief economic advisor Gary Cohn’s departure from his administration may be temporary. “This is …

Bitcoin traded lower, remaining below the psychologically key $10,000 level Thursday after news of increased regulatory scrutiny on cryptocurrency exchanges. The cryptocurrency fell about 1.3 percent to $9,778, bringing two-day losses to about 8.6 percent, according to CoinDesk, whose bitcoin price index tracks prices from major exchanges. Bitcoin dropped below …

Wikus de Wet | AFP | Getty Images Customers in a bar watch former South African President Jacob Zuma make a live address to the nation to announce his resignation on February 14, 2018. He described February’s annual budget, in which a sales tax was raised for the first time …

Etienne Oliveau | Getty Images Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a meeting at the Great Hall of the People on October 19, 2017 in Beijing, China. China’s foreign minister Wang Yi called on the United States and North Korea on Thursday to have talks as soon as possible. He …

Drew Angerer | Getty Images Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a UN Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters on September 21, 2017. China’s foreign minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that China would make a necessary response in the event of a trade war with the United States …

Dillemma Photography | Getty Images Motion blur of busy pedestrians walking at famous Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, Japan Japan’s economy expanded at an annualised rate of 1.6 percent in the final three months of2017, revised up from a preliminary estimate of 0.5 percent growth due to an upward revision to capital …

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images General Motors CEO Mary Barra unveiled the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle during the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Barra said the scale of the production increase was yet to be determined, but the ramp-up would create new jobs at the …

Toby Melville | Reuters Police officers seal off the road on which Russian Sergei Skripal and his daughter have been staying in Salisbury, Britain, March 7, 2018. British police are treating an incident in which a Russian ex-spy and his daughter fell critically ill as attempted murder by administration of …

Bachchan Kumar | Hindustan Times | Getty Images Then – CEO of Ikea India Juvencio Maeztu (3R) with Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis (3L) during the groundbreaking ceremony of Ikea’s store, at Turbhe, on May 18, 2017 in Navi Mumbai, India. Ikea, the world’s biggest furniture retailer, will maintain or …