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 The U.S. trade war with China is "on hold" after the world's largest economies agreed to drop their tariff threats while they work on a wider trade agreement, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday. Mnuchin and U.S. President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said the agreement reached by Chinese and American negotiators on Saturday set up a framework for addressing trade imbalances in the future.
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 Trump's Bizarre Trade Deal with China
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Yahoo News
By Ginger Gibson and David Lawder. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has agreed to significantly increase its purchases of U.S. goods and services, the two countries said on Saturday, but made no mention of a $200 billion target the White House had touted ...
The Latest: Mnuchin says US-China putting trade war on holdThe Telegraph
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Here are two long recommendations and two short recommendations for the coming week.
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 Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has revealed the specifications for two new versions of the Model 3, the car that is intended to be the company's first high-volume vehicle. The performance version, and a less expensive dual-motor, all-wheel-drive option for the company's Model 3 sedan come as Musk faces pressure from investors to reform Tesla's nine-member board in the wake of production delays for the model. Deliveries will begin in July, he said in tweets posted Sunday.
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 The royal wedding was a star-studded affair, as one might expect when a prince marries a US TV star. The guest list was filled with singers and actors but there were scant few tech moguls to be seen with one big exception: Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian. The wedding event of the year took place on Saturday when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married at St George's Chapel in Windsor in an elaborate and elegant royal ceremony.
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 Tesla is almost ready to start shipping Model 3s equipped with an AWD dual-motor option, so CEO Elon Musk announced specs and pricing for the new options on Twitter. The Performance trim Model 3 will sit at the top of the line, with 20-inch wheels, carbon fiber spoiler, black and white interior and specially-selected dual-motor setup available for $78,000 (adding AutoPilot costs extra). Musk said that its cost is "about" the same as BMW's M3 (a base model starts at $66,500), but it's supposedly
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 It seemed simple, but that only made it more valuable
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CNET
True to form, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Saturday night, revealing preliminary specs and pricing for the company's hotly awaited Model 3 dual-motor all-wheel-drive and performance versions. While horsepower and torque have not yet been ...
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 Recreational marijuana in Canada could generate more money than you think.
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Mnuchin says Washington free to impose tariffs if Beijing fails to live up to commitments
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CNBC
The United States and China have agreed to drop their tariff threats on billions of dollars worth of each country's goods while they work on a wider trade agreement, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday. "We are putting the trade war
China agrees to import more from US, no sign of $200 billion figure
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 Is it really a mistake to claim benefits early?
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 Tesla doesn't have many fans in the open source crowd. It based its car
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USA TODAY
You don't have to be a Starbucks customer to use the bathroom. Starbucks informed employees of the official policy in a letter sent to them on Saturday, spelling out that "any person who enters our spaces, including patios, cafes and restrooms
Starbucks Says Anyone Can Now
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CleanTechnica
May 20th, 2018 by Zachary Shahan. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to his favorite social media and communications platform to share details regarding the new Tesla Model 3 Performance & AWD option Tesla is rolling out. Aside from what you will find in ...
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Business Insider
Some think that Tesla is a tech company, but its main product is cars, so it effectively exists in the auto industry. For years, auto sales have boomed in the US and automakers have raked in profits while Tesla has lost billions. Unless Tesla reverses
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CNNMoney
S&P 500 companies showered Wall Street with at least $178 billion of stock buybacks during the first three months of 2018, according to Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones Indices. That's a 34% bump from last year and tops the prior record of $172
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 France is looking to see if the European Union could compensate European companies that might face U.S. sanctions for doing business with Iran, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday. Le Maire referred to EU rules dating back to 1996 which he said could allow the EU to intervene to protect European firms against any sanctions imposed by the United States, adding that France wanted the EU to toughen its stance in this area.
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 BENGHAZI, Libya, May 20 (Reuters) - A group of Libyan youths
will shut down oilfields in Marada town in the east unless
demands for better state services are met, a statement said on
Sunday.
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Welcome to the world of dropshipping, where entrepreneurs use social-media ads and hip virtual storefronts to flip merchandise from online marketplaces like Alibaba's AliExpress to customers often paying premium prices.
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* Iran looking for more support from Europe
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Daily Journal Online
With the increase in gas prices over the past week or so, it's become almost frightening for Parkland motorists to fill up at the pump. After several years of lower fuel costs, it appears they may be inching towards the $3 mark. As of Friday afternoon
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Fake social media profiles and spurious conspiracy theories threaten to deepen America's political divides.
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CNBC
General Electric is nearing a deal to merge its transportation business, which manufactures train engines, with Wabtec Corp, a U.S. maker of equipment for the rail industry, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. A deal that could value
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 Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called Sunday for a "hardening" of the nation's school buildings in the wake of the attack by a 17-year-old student who killed 10 people at a high school near Houston. Patrick, a Republican, blamed a "culture of violence" and said more needs to be done to keep shooters away from students, such as restricting school entrances and arming teachers. Services for 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh were to take place at a mosque in suburban Houston.
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President Donald Trump in a series of tweets criticized special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into foreign meddling in the 2016 election, following reports the probe has expanded beyond Russia to look more closely into actors from the Middle East.
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The Columbus Dispatch
The U.S. and China said Saturday that two days of "constructive" talks between American and Chinese officials in Washington had led to an agreement for China to buy more goods and services — including "meaningful increases in United States agriculture ...
The Latest: Mnuchin says US-China putting trade war on holdThe Telegraph
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The average college savings has risen significantly over the past couple years.
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 SEOUL (Reuters) - The chairman of South Korea's LG Group, Koo Bon-moo, instrumental to transforming the country's fourth-largest conglomerate into a global brand, passed away on Sunday after a year-long battle with brain disease.
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German companies are concerned that U.S. President Donald Trump is increasingly thinking only of America rather than just putting his country first, the head of Germany's DIHK Chambers of Commerce told media. The United States has pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and Germany has acknowledged it could be hard to protect companies doing business with Iran, as a senior U.S. official renewed a threat of sanctions against European firms. German companies also face the prospect of possible extra levies -- Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum in March but the European Union has been granted exemptions until June 1.
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 Applied Materials Inc. lead semiconductor-related stocks lower Friday to swing to a weekly loss as the chip-maker materials supplier's outlook indicates a possible slowing in the recently hot sector.
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 The box office reign of "Avengers: Infinity War" has come to an end thanks to a raunchy mercenary.
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Best Buy is one of several major retailers set to post earnings results over the next few days.
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'Avengers: Infinity War' has topped $300 million in China.
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Verify your earnings history, see your estimated monthly benefits, and keep tabs on how rule changes could impact your benefits.
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Inflation has been a puzzle in the U.S. economy for years, failing to move up much when the unemployment rate tumbled. To resolve the puzzle, it helps to look at the U.S. as two economies: one for goods, another for services.
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Before a fatal accident on a Southwest Airlines flight, regulators had been weighing stepping up engine inspections for an unusually long time after the first warnings about a part.
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Details from Prince Harry and Meghan's first wedding menu, from the luncheon for 600 wedding guests hosted by Queen Elizabeth II, are now out. We know now the official royal wedding Champagne.
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Justify eked out a half-length win in the 2018 Preakness, longshot Bravazo placed, and Tenfold showed. Here's how it went down, wire-to-wire.
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Business Insider
Tesla's Autopilot is a semi-autonomous driver assistance feature that, among other things, can keep a car in its lane and adjust its speed based on surrounding traffic. Two fatal accidents involving Autopilot have illustrated the concerns some auto
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WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - China has agreed to
significantly increase its purchases of U.S. goods and services,
the two countries said on Saturday, but made no mention of a
$200 billion target the White House had touted earlier.
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 Weekend Snapshot: Dollar now a stock-market drag and a threat to earnings growth
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The 17-year-old suspected of killing 10 people and wounding 10 others after opening fire on a Santa Fe, Texas, high school art class told police he spared students he liked during the rampage, according to court documents.
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"Yes, Trump has to go but that shouldn't be the main goal."
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It's not just Meghan and Harry. More and more engaged couples encourage gifts to charities, over gifts for themselves.
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 After weeks of tensions, China and the United States have reached an initial agreement on trade.
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After backing out of daughter Meghan Markle‘s royal nuptials to Prince Harry, Thomas Markle spoke out Saturday as he watched the wedding from afar.
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President Trump personally pressured Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the charges Amazon and other firms pay to ship packages, a new report said Friday.
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"Fortnite: Battle Royale" has become a worldwide obsession among gamers, but it's not just teens in their parents' basement paying attention.
Chicago-based game developers and technology companies are watching the game's unrelenting rise and figuring out how they can capture some of that magic....
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Meghan Markle's personal fashion has inspired fashion blogs and moved the market.
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CNBC
China's push to open up its financial sector to foreign banks and financial institutions will be based on the principle of reciprocity and will not reward protectionism by other countries, an official said on Saturday. China wants to accelerate the
China regulator
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 Twitter only had native video on its platform for about six months when 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil took place, but it's an entirely different ballgame for 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The tournament, which kicks off June 14 and runs through the crowning of a champion July 15, is already heating up the social...
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The U.S. and China wrapped up the second day of talks with Beijing agreeing to buy more American goods and services but resisting demands that it reduce the trade deficit it has with the U.S., according to people briefed on the talks.
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I reached out to the biggest gamer on the planet, Ninja, to break down Twitch for me. It's literally like asking Lebron James to explain basketball.
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