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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will retain power with a thumping majority after his Conservative Party secured its best election result since 1987. With just one vote left to be counted, the Conservatives secured 364 parliamentary seats, a majority of.

Boris Johnson will return to Downing Street with a big majority after the Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands. The prime minister said it would give him a mandate to “get Brexit done” and take the UK out.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) believes the U.S. is on track to become a sustained net oil exporter in either late 2020 or early 2021, after briefly achieving this “major milestone” earlier in the year. In September, the U.S. exported.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin leapt to the defence of privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) after a prominent crypto influencer branded it a “failure.” Zcash wields a market cap of over $250 million, and is the second highest capped privacy coin at.

Steering markets with the language of monetary policy is a tricky business. Every nuance counts and even semantics can move markets. New President Christine Lagarde will chair her first European Central Bank (ECB) meeting and the subsequent press conference on.

With British voters heading to the polls on Thursday for the third time in four years, markets have mostly priced in a majority for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party. YouGov’s final poll projected a 28-seat majority, considerably tighter than.

U.S. stocks were little changed as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s final policy decision of the year. Treasuries climbed and the dollar was steady after inflation remained subdued in November. The S&P 500 rose earlier ahead of the Fed decision,.

SPENDING Johnson is already loosening the purse strings after nearly 10 years of cuts for many public services. He approved the biggest rise in day-to-day spending in 15 years in September. TAX Johnson would gradually increase the threshold at which.

The U.S. and China will probably announce some form of trade deal ahead of Sunday — when additional tariffs on Chinese goods are due to kick in — and that’s going to boost financial markets, say analysts. There will be.

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest initial public offering (IPO), surged past expectations as it debuted on the country’s stock exchange on Wednesday morning. Shares of the state-owned oil company rose to 35.2 Saudi riyals ($9.38) from 32 riyals in early.

The U.S. and China are taking steps to delay the next round of American tariffs set for Sunday as they seek a deal to rein in a raging trade war, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Negotiators from the world’s.

Although many major altcoins saw some relief in the first half of 2019, XRP remained stuck within the lower-$0.30 region, and the recent downturn in the aggregated crypto market that occurred in early-November led XRP to plummet to fresh 2019.