U.S. dollars are counted by a at a bank in Westminster, Colorado. Rick Wilking | Reuters Top currency strategist Jens Nordvig said he has exited his long positions in the dollar and is looking for opportunities to short it, particularly against emerging market currencies. Source link
An Emirati woman paddles a canoe past skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. Christopher Pike | Bloomberg | Getty Images ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s efforts to rival the United Arab Emirates as the region’s top business and financial hub won’t have a “dramatic negative impact” … Read more
A bus drives past a United Russia campaign poster put up ahead of the elections to the Russian State Duma of the 8th convocation scheduled for September 17-19. Vladimir Smirnov | TASS | Getty Images Russians vote on Sunday in the final stretch of a three-day parliamentary election that the ruling party is expected to … Read more
Hong Kong skyline seen at dusk. Marc Fernandes | NurPhoto | Getty Images Hong Kong’s justice secretary said on Sunday that a mainland Chinese law to counter foreign sanctions could also be adopted in the China-ruled city by writing it into Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, pending a decision by the Chinese parliament. Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng’s … Read more
The Headquarters of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria on 17 December, 2018. Beata Zawrzel | NurPhoto | Getty Images OPEC+ ministers are meeting on Sunday in another attempt to agree a quick oil supply boost to address soaring prices as the global economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. An … Read more
Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi attends a news conference in Tehran, Iran June 21, 2021. Majid Asgaripour | WANA News Agency | Reuters DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s president-elect Ebrahim Raisi gave his first press conference since the country’s election, saying Monday that his government’s priorities would be to improve ties with regional neighbors and … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ABIR SULTAN | AFP | Getty Images Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, gathered to vote in its new government — and new prime minister for the first time in 12 years — on Sunday. The vote, set to ring in the leadership of a very diverse and cobbled-together coalition of right-wing, … Read more
People wait in line at a temporary Covid-19 rapid testing center in the Wanhua area of Taipei, Taiwan, on Saturday, May 15, 2021. I-Hwa Cheng | Bloomberg via Getty Images The United States will donate 750,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan as part of the country’s plan to share shots globally, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth … Read more
A combination of file photos shows Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaking in Jerusalem May 14, 2018 and Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid delivering a speech in Tel Aviv, Israel March 24, 2021. Ammar Awad; Amir Cohen | Reuters It was an eleventh hour breakthrough, quite literally. Less than 30 minutes before his midnight … Read more
In the past 24 hours, Israel has inched closer to what could be the removal of its longest-serving prime minister. Naftali Bennett of the right-wing Yamina party announced late Sunday his intention to team up with the centrist Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, to form what aims to be a unity coalition. … Read more