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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/the-us-mexico-trade-deal-may-be-bad-news-for-china-experts-say.html The US-Mexico trade deal may be bad news for China, experts say The trade deal with Mexico offers U.S. President Donald Trump "some wins from a political perspective that the administration can point to ahead of the mid-terms," said John Woods, the chief investment officer for Asia Pacific at Credit Suisse. That could mean the country's ongoing dispute with China may drag on, Woods said.

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China's new currency policy is a dovish signal in the trade war, analysts say

China's new currency policy is a dovish signal in the trade war, analysts say China's central bank altered how it manages the country's currency, showing the yuan won't be a trade war weapon, analysts say. President Donald Trump has accused China of "manipulating" the yuan. The measure from the People's Bank of China comes as the U.S.-China tariff battle shows no sign of ending. see : https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/27/china-yuan-counter-cyclical-factor-currency-tweak-is-trade-war-dovish.html

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Trump admits he paid hush money, ducks question on Manafort pardon

• President Trump admits he provided the hush money used by attorney Michael Cohen to suppress the allegations of two women that they had affairs with Trump.
• But Trump insists in a Fox interview that he only knew about payments "later on," contradicting Cohen's sworn statement that Trump had directed him to make the payments.
• Trump also doesn't rule out a pardon for former campaign chief Paul Manafort.

10 Interesting things about Singapore

Singapore, which is officially known as the Republic of Singapore, is an island located in Southeast Asia. This city state which was occupied by Japan during the Second World War, is regarded as the easiest place to do business by the World Bank.

Besides the perfect skyline and the bustling city center, there is still a lot about Singapore for visitors to explore. If you are planning to visit this beautiful country, the following facts about it will interest you.

1. Tallest indoor waterfall

2. It has 63 islands

It is made up of 63 islands surrounding the main island. Can you imagine that? Some of these islands are:

• Sentosa
• Pulau Ubin
• St. John’s island
• Sisters’ islands

3. One of the greenest cities of the world

4. City State

Singapore is among the three surviving city states in the world. The remaining two are the Vatican City and Monaco. It gained independence from Malaysia in 1965 thereby becoming a city state

5. Exciting events

While in Singapore you are sure not to be bored. This is due to the many year round events that will keep you entertained such as the cultural festivals, lifestyle, major sports and art events. For example, there is the Great Singapore Sale that happens annually in June which is followed by the Singapore Food Festival that happens every year in July.

6. Night zoo

7. Singlish

Singaporeans don’t just speak English, but Singlish. Singlish is whereby they add ‘lah’ and ‘leh’ at the end of their sentences. This language is inspired by the multiculturalism of Singapore.

8. F1 Night Race

Since 2008, Singapore has been holding concerts, entertainment and racing activities for fans of Formula One and to visitor s of all ages. Singapore made history by hosting the first ever Formula One night race in the world. This was the star event of the Grand Prix Singapore, known as, the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix.

9. National Anthem on the currency

If you are looking for the lyrics to the national anthem of Singapore, then look no further than at the back of your $1000 Portrait series banknote. The national anthem is written in the official language of Malay. The anthem was composed by Zubir Said in 1958 when Singapore had not acquired self-governance status. It was an anthem to be used during the official functions of the City Council of Singapore. Upon attaining independence, it was chosen as the island’s anthem.

10. UNESCO World Heritage Site

Singapore is home to UNESCO World Heritage Site; the botanic gardens of Singapore which have a history of more than 150 years. The National Orchid Garden, a major attraction, houses a variety of orchid species that are also referred to as Very Important Plants (VIP). This garden houses thousands of species of the orchid.

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China is testing roads paved with solar panels in an attempt to deepen its innovation and domination of the renewable energy sector, the New York Times reports.

Best Buy, the No.1 U.S. consumer electronics retailer, posted a forecast-beating jump in quarterly comparable sales and earnings on Thursday, but online sales growth decelerated and shares dipped in pre-market trading.

The rising use of air conditioners (ACs) in offices and homes is set to be a top driver of global electricity demand in the next 30 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday.

The main issue on Wall Street isn't about more or less regulation but about the need for a streamlined system that supports 21st-century investing, a Professor of Law and an Associate Professor of Public Administration argue in the Conversation

Recent readings show demand for vehicles skyrocketing, a sign that generally points to inflationary pressures building up in the supply chain.

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India's current account and fiscal deficits mean the central bank may have little room to tap into its reserves to to defend the currency.

It is at present unclear whether the environmental harm wrought by deep-sea mining will be less or more than the harm wrought on land. But the environmental information available so far – in an area of research still in its infancy – is troubling.

Britain is set to enforce greater transparency in tax havens after a minister for the U.K. government announced Tuesday it would not oppose a legal amendment proposed by a cross-party alliance of lawmakers.

China will nearly double its natural gas production from shale basins over the next two years, energy research firm Wood Mackenzie forecasts.

Aging is, with no doubt, one of the strongest, one of the least cyclical, one of the most permanent trends in the market," Vafa Ahmadi, head of thematic equity management at Amundi's CPR Asset Management, told CNBC's Dan Murphy.

access to water is also a problem for businesses, which may find themselves in ever greater competition for a finite resource as growing populations increasingly drain reservoirs and rivers.

This is a seismic shift from years past, when "uncertainties" about climate change were the party line for oil companies. Humanity's role in rising temperatures has now been established in court, and future legal wrangling will have to build on this foundation.

Hopes that behind-the-scenes talks between the U.S. and China will prevent a looming trade war supported global markets, including crude oil futures.

The way people move around towns and cities is changing, with electric and hybrid vehicles becoming increasingly common.

U.S. home sales surged in February but a chronic shortage of houses on the market remains an obstacle heading into the spring selling season.

Companies you could buy with Facebook's market cap Companies you could buy with Facebook's market cap 21 Hours Ago | 02:07 Facebook shares may have taken a big hit as questions mount over how the social network treats user data, but the company still has a stock market value of over half a trillion dollars, more than Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and McDonald's combined.

Also looming over oil markets has been surging U.S. crude oil production, which has risen by more than a fifth since mid-2016, to 10.38 million barrels per day (bpd), pushing it past top exporter Saudi Arabia.

Powell's public comments and Reuters conversations with his Fed colleagues since January, when he was confirmed as chairman, suggest such fears are overblown: Powell, the consensus-builder, may make some tweaks to reflect changing economic conditions but is as committed to gradual, moderate rate increases as his predecessor Janet Yellen who adopted that approach.

Oil prices were set to fall this week, with both benchmarks dropping slightly on Friday, on concerns among investors about rising supply from the U.S. and other nations threatening to undermine efforts by OPEC and other producers to tighten the market.

Newly listed stocks on the mainland traded lower, with names like China Express Airlines down 9.35 percent. The dive in share prices came after a Xinhua report cited regulators saying such stocks were vulnerable to near-term speculation, Reuters said.

Analysts polled by Reuters had predicted industrial output growth would dip marginally to 6.1 percent from 6.2 percent in December, pressured by tough winter pollution restrictions.

Bitcoin traded lower, remaining below the psychologically key $10,000 level after news of increased regulatory scrutiny of cryptocurrency exchanges.

Japan's economy expanded at an annualised rate of 1.6 percent in the final three months of 2017, revised up from a preliminary estimate of 0.5 percent growth due to an upward revision to capital expenditure, the Cabinet Office said on Thursday.

Rising interest rates will soon have a devastating effect on our economy, mostly because of a single factor that hardly anyone is talking about.

Ripple climbed as investors speculated leading U.S. cryptocurrency marketplace Coinbase will add the digital currency to its platform.

Investors worried about a potential trade war should look at buying shares of Boeing and Raytheon, among other companies, as their trade war exposure is low, according to Fundstrat Global Advisors' Tom Lee.

Despite rising interest rates, Americans are borrowing more than ever to buy new and used vehicles.

Many are expecting Paul Chan to outlay Hong Kong government's expenditure plans Paul Chan to outlay Hong Kong's spending plans 8 Hours Ago | 02:51 Hong Kong unveiled short-term relief measures and capital spending initiatives to sustain growth in an expansionary budget on Wednesday that carried hefty strategic spending to try to bolster the city's innovation industries.

British digital banking app Revolut has broken even for the first time, in a rare development for a niche sector that has struggled with profitability.

Market participants have distorted expectations on how much consumer prices will change in the future, an economist told CNBC Thursday.

China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, using roads, ports, railway tracks, pipelines, airports, transnational electric grids and even fiber optic lines.

That's the highest since the cryptocurrency started gaining public attention in January 2016 and well surpasses the prior high of 19 percent in mid-December, Colas said.

We need to find ways to help them develop new skills to meet the demands of the marketplace and find equally paid work.

China is on a drive to promote the use of its currency globally but the yuan is still far from upsetting the greenback, according to an important global metric.

India will once again become the world's fastest-growing major economy according to its latest forecast, which places economic growth at 7 to 7.5 percent in the 2018/19 fiscal year.

J.P. Morgan Chase is still allowing customers to buy cryptocurrencies with their Chase credit cards, the bank told CNBC. The bank did not respond to a question about potential changes to that policy.

Brazil expects to see upwards of 3 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2018, Brazilian Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles told CNBC Tuesday, a figure that flies in the face of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) forecast of 1.5 percent.

This results in world leaders failing to account for how inclusive, or not, their economies are, the WEF said. The study looked at living standards, environmental sustainability and protection of future generations from further indebtedness as a way to determine if the economies were including every individual equally in their society.

Netflix could be set to soap on earnings next week Netflix set to report earnings next week 6:23 PM ET Thu, 18 Jan 2018 | 01:48 Netflix has been on a tear this year, and traders are expecting a big move when the company reports quarterly earnings Monday after the market close.

Amid threats of a potential ban on cryptocurrency, former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair said digital currencies such as bitcoin should be more tightly monitored but not stopped.

A major Australian university is set to achieve carbon neutrality on its energy use and will have all of its energy needs met by solar photovoltaics (solar PV).

There's a common story told in the media about the opioid epidemic: In this telling, it's not a coincidence that many of the communities that have been hit hard by the drug overdose crisis happen to be Rust Belt and Appalachian towns that have seen jobs leave over the past few years. This economic hardship has fed what some have characterized as, borrowing a term from groundbreaking research by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, "deaths of despair."

The unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing cargo air vehicle (CAV) would be used to test Boeing's autonomous technology.

U.S. wholesale inventories rose slightly more than initially estimated in November, suggesting that inventory investment will probably contribute to economic growth in the fourth quarter.

Tesla said on Tuesday it began manufacturing its premium solar roof tiles at the company's Buffalo, New York factory last month and has started surveying the homes of customers who made a deposit of $1,000 to reserve the product last year.

This decision was made due to the "macroeconomic fundamentals of the Angolan economy, and particularly the decreasing trend of international reserves," it emerged in a central bank statement Thursday, as reported by Reuters.

Developments in financial technology and electric cars have led China to move beyond being just a manufacturing hub, UBS Asia Pacific President Kathryn Shih said