U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio completed a Gulf tour.
The city mayor told busy Parisians to slow down as large parts of Western Europe remained in the grip of a deadly heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives, disrupted power supplies, and shut schools and cultural landmarks.
Investors expect heavy trading volume on Friday to reflect changes to the Russell indexes, including reclassifications for megacaps like Microsoft and the Russell 1000’s “fast-track” addition of SpaceX following the recent IPO.
Just two weeks after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in January he would allow limited electric-vehicle imports from China, that country’s biggest auto exporter, Chery, held its first meetings in Canada with car dealers.
Micron, one of the world’s leading memory stocks, reports earnings roughly $5 billion above expectations.
An Israeli bill that would extend civil control over ancient sites in the West Bank has drawn criticism from Palestinians and Israeli rights groups who say it is tantamount to annexation of occupied land and would expand Jewish settlements.
The death toll will most likely run into the thousands based on predictive modeling, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee
Iraq will be compelled to consider all available options if its OPEC quota is not significantly increased, a senior Iraqi oil ministry official told Reuters on Thursday.
A surging dollar has swept past chart resistance and is heading toward its sharpest monthly gain in almost a year on Thursday, as traders bet on a strong U.S. economy propping up short-term interest rates and waited on key inflation data.