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Hong Kong stocks down at break

  • Hong Kong stocks down at break Hong Kong, (MILLAT ONLINE):Hong Kong stocks ended the morning session in negative territory Tuesday following sharp losses in New York fuelled by fears of a crackdown on technology firms in light of the massive Facebook data breach. The Hang Seng Index slipped 0.54 percent, or 169.56 points, to 31,344.20 […]

  • S. Korea, US say drills to resume despite N. Korea thaw

    S. Korea, US say drills to resume despite N. Korea thaw Seoul, (MILLAT ONLINE):South Korea and the US said Tuesday they will resume joint military drills — delayed to avoid clashing with the South’s Winter Games — at a similar scale to past years despite a diplomatic thaw with the North. “The exercises are expected […]

  • German minister offers hope of detente on Trump tariffs

    German minister offers hope of detente on Trump tariffs Washington, (MILLAT ONLINE):A compromise could be reached as soon as this week between the European Union and United States over the tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on steel and aluminum, a German official said Monday. Talks with US officials could make it “possible to find a […]

  • Cambridge Analytica ‘strongly denies’ allegations of data misuse

    Cambridge Analytica ‘strongly denies’ allegations of data misuse London, (MILLAT ONLINE):Cambridge Analytica, a British communications firm hired by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, said Monday that it “strongly denies” allegations it inappropriately harvested data on 50 million Facebook users as part of its work. “This Facebook data was not used by Cambridge Analytica as part of […]

  • Peru’s Kuczynski confident of surviving impeachment vote

    Peru’s Kuczynski confident of surviving impeachment vote Lima, (MILLAT ONLINE):Peru’s embattled President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said Monday he was confident of surviving an impeachment vote later this week. “I know that Thursday will be fine,” the conservative leader said in a speech in the Amazonian city of Iquitos. The 79-year-old former Wall Street banker is […]

  • Nasdaq ends 1.8% lower as tech selloff weighs on US stocks

    Nasdaq ends 1.8% lower as tech selloff weighs on US stocks New York, (MILLAT ONLINE):Shares of big technology companies tumbled Monday following a Facebook data breach scandal, pushing US equity markets sharply lower. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 1.8 percent to close at 7,344.24. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1.4 percent to end […]