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• The Latest: New Orleans police use tear gas on protesters

  04-06-2020 09:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  — Autopsy reveals George Floyd tested positive for COVID-19 in April.NEW ORLEANS — Police in New Orleans released tear gas on hundreds of demonstrators who pushed past a line of officers to cross a Mississippi River bridge during demonstrations against the death of George Floyd.
  
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• Analysis for oil, gold, and EUR/USD for 04.06.2020

  04-06-2020 09:29 via liteforex.com
  
  USCrude –oil Oil price has consolidated above Target Zone 4 [34.17 – 33.42]. The next upside target for the next week or two is Target Zone 5 [41.67 – 40.92].The key support of the medium-term uptrend is now in the zone of [28.38 - 27.48]. To enter new purchases, I recommend expecting the price correction down to the support zone and looking for a buy pattern.It is clear from the oil H1 chart that the price reached Gold Zone 4 [37.54 – 37.17] in the short-term uptren
  
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• Dollar is carried away by injections

  04-06-2020 09:01 via liteforex.com
  
  The Fed may have overdone it with cheap liquidity. Could it crash the greenback?They wanted the best, and you know the rest. The Fed surprised investors with the huge monetary stimulus as a response to the pandemic, which has resulted in the fact that the markets are disconnected from reality. Markets ignore US poor domestic data and weak corporate reporting, and the stocks continue rallying up amid huge injections of liquidity, which could be associated with morphine injections for the patient.
  
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• The Latest: Pakistan, India coronavirus cases, deaths spike

  04-06-2020 08:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pakistan reported a record single-day spike in coronavirus-related deaths with 82 new fatalities and 4,688 cases that it says resulted from increased testing in the past 24 hours.Pakistan's outbreak has grown steadily since the country's first case in February.The spike comes after Prime Minister Imran Khan eased lockdown restrictions over expert's recommendations to maintain them to prevent the spread of the virus.
  
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• Stocks to Buy If People Leave Cities Because of Coronavirus – Barron's

  04-06-2020 07:53 via rocketnews.com
  
  Photograph by James SullivanAs analysts watch what a potential coronavirus-driven shift away from cities could mean for stocks, the National Association of Home Builders’ chief economist says the pandemic could accelerate a trend away from big urban centers. If that trend sticks, it could be good news for stocks like Tractor Supply Co. and Home Depot, experts say.
  Released on Tuesday, the trade group’s Home Building Geography Index, which uses Census data to measure geographic trends
  
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• Stocks Rally Eases; Dollar Recoups Some Ground: Markets Wrap – Yahoo Canada Finance

  04-06-2020 07:53 via rocketnews.com
  
  Stocks Rally Eases; Dollar Recoups Some Ground: Markets Wrap More
  (Bloomberg) — The global stock rally powered by investor optimism for a speedy economic recovery from the pandemic showed signs of pausing on Thursday as rallies fizzled in Asia. The dollar recouped some of the losses that pushed it to the weakest since early March.
  Shares in South Korea and Australia remained higher, equities in Japan pared gains of as much as 1%, while Hong Kong and Chinese stocks traded flat. U.S. equity
  
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• Police: Well-coordinated thieves capitalize on protest chaos

  04-06-2020 07:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in a small San Francisco Bay Area community were about to help authorities in neighboring Oakland keep the peace during a protest when a more pressing crisis hit home: groups of thieves had pillaged malls, set fire to a Walmart and stormed a car dealership.It's one of the most brazen heists law enforcement has seen in a wave of thefts nationwide targeting big box electronics stores, jewelry shops and luxury designers while officers have been busy patrolling protests over the police killin
  
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• Tiananmen anniversary: Hong Kongers mark crackdown despite ban

  04-06-2020 06:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many will mark the anniversary at home but police say they will disperse groups who gather outside.
  
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• Hong Kong marks Tiananmen crackdown despite virus vigil ban

  04-06-2020 06:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hong Kong marked China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown on Thursday, with candle-light ceremonies set for the evening across the city after authorities banned a mass vigil at a time of seething anger over a planned new security law.Open discussion of the brutal suppression is forbidden in mainland China, where hundreds -- by some estimates more than a thousand -- died when the Communist Party sent tanks on June 4, 1989 to crush a student-led demonstration in Beijing calling for democratic reforms.
  
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• Stocks open higher, aim for fourth day of gains after private-sector jobs report is better than feared – MarketWatch

  04-06-2020 05:56 via rocketnews.com
  
  Stocks open higher, aim for fourth day of gains after private-sector jobs report is better than feared  MarketWatch
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• A proprietary Bank of America indicator points to 20%-plus gains in the stock market over the next year. Here’s what the firm recommends buying now ahead of the rally. – Business Insider

  04-06-2020 05:56 via rocketnews.com
  
  A proprietary Bank of America indicator points to 20%-plus gains in the stock market over the next year. Here’s what the firm recommends buying now ahead of the rally.  Business Insider
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• Why Internet Stocks & ETFs Can Keep Rising – Yahoo Finance

  04-06-2020 05:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  Why Internet Stocks & ETFs Can Keep Rising  Yahoo Finance
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• Value investor Bill Nygren says he likes banks and these popular internet stocks – CNBC

  04-06-2020 05:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  Value investor Bill Nygren says he likes banks and these popular internet stocks  CNBC
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• Stock market news live updates: Stocks rise for fourth straight session as markets shake off unrest, lousy ADP data – Yahoo Canada Finance

  04-06-2020 05:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  Stock market news live updates: Stocks rise for fourth straight session as markets shake off unrest, lousy ADP data  Yahoo Canada Finance
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• Stock market news live updates: Stock futures tick down, pausing after rally – Yahoo Finance

  04-06-2020 05:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  Stock market news live updates: Stock futures tick down, pausing after rally  Yahoo Finance
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• Slack stock rallies toward new all-time closing high – MarketWatch

  04-06-2020 05:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  Slack stock rallies toward new all-time closing high  MarketWatch
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• Market Wrap: A Bitcoin Lull as Stocks Signal Economic Optimism – CoinDesk – CoinDesk

  04-06-2020 05:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  Market Wrap: A Bitcoin Lull as Stocks Signal Economic Optimism – CoinDesk  CoinDesk
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• Cruise ship stocks turn higher, despite bearish call from Morgan Stanley analyst – MarketWatch

  04-06-2020 05:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  Cruise ship stocks turn higher, despite bearish call from Morgan Stanley analyst  MarketWatch
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• All 30 Dow Stocks Ranked: The Pros Weigh In – Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

  04-06-2020 05:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  All 30 Dow Stocks Ranked: The Pros Weigh In  Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
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• South Korea seeks arrest warrant for Samsung heir in merger probe

  04-06-2020 05:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Korean prosecutors have requested an arrest warrant against Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee and two former company executives, they said on Thursday, in an investigation of a controversial 2015 merger and alleged accounting fraud.The move spells fresh legal trouble for Lee, who already faces trial on a charge of bribery aimed at winning support to succeed ailing group patriarch Lee Kun-hee, and which involved former President Park Geun-hye.Samsung declined to comment.
  
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• 'Get off the grass!' Australian PM told to move on during stimulus announcement

  04-06-2020 04:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A media conference by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to announce a new stimulus package briefly turned comical on Thursday when he and reporters were told by a homeowner to get off a newly reseeded lawn.Morrison travelled to a housing construction site in Googong, 28km (17 miles) south of Canberra to announce his government would spend nearly A$700 million ($480 million) to support an Australian construction sector hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic."Can everyone get off the grass pl
  
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• Pompeo aide tried to 'bully' ex-State Department watchdog and stop probe in Saudi arms deal, Dems say

  04-06-2020 03:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The State Department's inspector general is probing two highly contentious allegations that touch on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's actions.
  
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• 5.5 earthquake hits near Ridgecrest, USGS says

  04-06-2020 03:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit near Ridgecrest on Wednesday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
  
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• Autopsy reveals George Floyd was positive for coronavirus

  04-06-2020 03:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  All four Minneapolis police officers involved in death of George Floyd are now charged; Mike Tobin reports from Minneapolis.
  
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• Autopsy report shows Floyd had tested positive for COVID-19

  04-06-2020 03:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A full autopsy of George Floyd, the handcuffed black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police, was released Wednesday and provides several clinical details, including that Floyd had previously tested positive for COVID-19.The 20-page report released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office came with the family's permission and after the coroner's office released summary findings Monday that Floyd had a heart attack while being restrained by officers, and classified
  
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• New charges in Floyd killing may give prosecutors clearer path to conviction

  04-06-2020 03:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Wednesday added a more serious second-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin.Prosecutors last week accused Chauvin of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.Three other officers (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests/all-four-minneapolis-police-officers-charged-in-george-floyd-death-idUSKBN23A1FY) who were with Chauvin at the time of Floyd's death - Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao - all face two co
  
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• North Korea says U.S. in no position to criticise China

  04-06-2020 03:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea on Thursday said the United States is in no position to criticise China over Hong Kong or human rights when Washington threatens to "unleash dogs" to suppress anti-racism protests at home.In an article carried by one of North Korea's main state-run newspapers, an unnamed spokesman for the international affairs department of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) criticised recent comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, Pompeo said recent acti
  
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• Mexico reports new one-day high of 1,092 coronavirus deaths

  04-06-2020 03:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus toll in Mexico soared to a new daily high Wednesday, with the health department reporting 1,092 test-confirmed deaths — more than double the previous one-day record and in line with numbers in the United States and Brazil.The announcement was an embarrassment for officials, who have consistently predicted that cases in Mexico were about to start leveling off.Officials rushed to say that many of the new confirmed deaths had occurred days or even weeks ago and were being anno
  
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• Coronavirus protests spread to Senegal's capital

  04-06-2020 02:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protestors in Dakar set tyres on fire and threw stones at security forces on Wednesday night during protests over a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed almost three months ago because of the coronavirus pandemic.The unrest in Senegal's capital followed similar action in the holy city of Touba a night earlier, where crowds of people torched an ambulance, threw rocks and looted office buildings.
  
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• California: rise in Covid-19 cases raises fears over reopening and protests

  04-06-2020 02:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some of the rise expected as counties accelerate plans to reopen and warm weather draws people to beaches and parks, expert saysThe number of coronavirus cases in California is on the rise after weeks of optimism that infections had slowed, raising fears that plans to reopen counties, along with mass protests against police brutality, could accelerate transmission of the virus. According to numbers from Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking coronavirus cases and deaths, Californ
  
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• Asian stocks reach two-month high on economic recovery hopes

  04-06-2020 02:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Asian shares rose to a two-month high on Thursday as expectations of further government stimulus supported investor confidence in an economic recovery from the global coronavirus pandemic.Chinese shares were little changed due to lingering worries about diplomatic tension between the United States and China, while U.S. stock futures fell 0.15%.The euro held onto gains before a European Central Bank meeting later on Thursday, where policymakers are expected to increase debt purchases to support t
  
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• Turkey Accuses Syrian Kurds of Fomenting Antifa Attacks on U.S. Soil

  04-06-2020 02:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Turkish government attempted to tie Kurdish militants to recent unrest in the United States over the killing of unarmed African-American citizen George Floyd.
  
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• Jim Cramer: Investors are rotating into and out of these stocks – CNBC

  04-06-2020 01:53 via rocketnews.com
  
  Wall Street roared on Wednesday as investors saw more signs of some sense of economic “normalcy,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said after the market closed.
  “Normalcy is shop until you drop. And today’s action says that’s exactly where we’re headed,” the “Mad Money” host said.
  The major averages were lifted by the release of job market data that was better than feared. ADP and Moody’s Analytics showed that private payrolls dropped by 2.76 mi
  
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• Bill Barr Takes Charge of Trump’s Crackdown as the Military Tries to Back Away

  04-06-2020 01:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As President Trump continues to try and drum up support for his call for states to “dominate” protesters and beef up police presence against them, Attorney General Bill Barr and a team of senior Justice Department officials have quietly taken the lead on disrupting the protests and going after the petty criminals who may be using the demonstrations as cover. It’s been a controversial move, even within Barr’s own department. One federal prosecutor called Barr’s
  
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• Hong Kongers to mark Tiananmen anniversary with candles, online vigil

  04-06-2020 01:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People in Hong Kong planned to light candles across the city on Thursday to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square, circumventing a ban on the usual public gathering amid the coronavirus pandemic.The June 4 anniversary strikes an especially sensitive nerve in the semi-autonomous city this year after Beijing's move last month to impose national security legislation in Hong Kong, which critics fear will crush freedoms in the financial hub.It also com
  
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• Trump won't accept Republican nomination in Charlotte, RNC announces

  04-06-2020 01:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Carolina could not guarantee the Republicans full use of convention facilities in Charlotte because of the spread of coronavirus.
  
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• A Florida 'Karen' called the police on a solo Black Lives Matter protester standing completely alone on a street corner

  04-06-2020 01:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Shout to this guy for somehow getting the cops called on him for his one man protest," tweeted user @jonny_is_good in response to the clip.
  
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• Obama praises George Floyd protests and sees hope for police reform, racial progress

  04-06-2020 00:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama said he feels hopeful that the protests over the killing of George Floyd can "bring about real change."
  
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• Trump says he likely won't need military to respond to protests

  04-06-2020 00:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he did not believe that he would need to use U.S. troops to counter domestic protests sparked by a police killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis."It depends, I don't think we'll have to," Trump said when asked in an interview with Newsmax TV whether he would send the military to any cities after sometimes violent protests over the killing of George Floyd.The president had previously said that he could use military forces in states that have f
  
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• The 2020 hurricane season already broke a record, and it's only day 3

  04-06-2020 00:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Cristobal, the earliest-ever third named storm in the Atlantic, has made landfall in Mexico and is turning toward the US Gulf Coast.
  
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• Joe Biden leads President Trump in three battleground states

  04-06-2020 00:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In Arizona, Ohio and Wisconsin, Joe Biden leads with voters who say they are 'extremely' motivated to vote in the election; Peter Doocy reports.
  
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• What we know about George Floyd's death and alleged counterfeit money in Minneapolis

  04-06-2020 00:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A $20 bill with ink reportedly running launched the arrest and death of George Floyd and subsequent protests and riots across the nation.
  
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• Hundreds protest in Newport Beach over death of George Floyd

  04-06-2020 00:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of demonstrators gathered Wednesday across Orange County to protest George Floyd's in-custody death.
  
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• Chicago police reforms proposed by mayor, police union pushes back

  04-06-2020 00:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is some pushback to some of the police reforms Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she wants to see fast-tracked over the next three months, which she announced in her address to the city Tuesday night.
  
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• Fired U.S. State Department watchdog tells lawmakers he was impartial

  04-06-2020 00:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A State Department inspector general abruptly fired by U.S. President Donald Trump last month defended his record to lawmakers on Wednesday, saying he had served in his oversight role without regard to politics.Trump fired Steve Linick as State Department Inspector General on May 15, making him the fourth government watchdog dismissed by the Republican president in recent months.The dismissals prompted concern from lawmakers, Democrats and some of Trump's fellow Republicans, over whether inspect
  
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• African, Caribbean migrants continue trek towards U.S. border

  04-06-2020 00:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Migrants from Africa and the Caribbean, stranded in Honduras after Central American countries closed their borders to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, on Wednesday kept marching north in an attempt to reach the United States.Honduras currently allows only cargo trucks in and out of the country, but migrants and a local official said the group is determined to reach first Mexico and then the United States."We're already on the way, we want to reach the border with Guatemala and then, at
  
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• ‘Angry and appalled’: Former defence secretary James Mattis launches blistering attack on Trump for response to protests

  04-06-2020 00:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  James Mattis, a former defence secretary in the Trump administration, staged a rare intervention on Wednesday to criticise the president for his response to nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.Writing in The Atlantic, he said he was “appalled” at Donald Trump’s actions and accused him of using the military to violate the constitutional rights of Americans.
  
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• 'Angry and appalled': Former defence secretary James Mattis launches blistering attack on Trump for response to protests

  04-06-2020 00:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  James Mattis, the former defence secretary who resigned from Donald Trump’s administration in 2018, staged a rare intervention on Wednesday to criticise the president for his response to nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.Writing in The Atlantic, he said he was “appalled” at Mr Trump’s actions and accused the president of using the military to violate the constitutional rights of Americans.
  
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• UK in 5G talks with suppliers from Japan, South Korea: source

  04-06-2020 00:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  British officials have discussed supplies of 5G networking equipment with companies in South Korea and Japan as part of a bid to develop alternatives to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.The source said the talks with Japan's NEC Corp and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which were first reported by Bloomberg, are part of a government plan announced last year to diversify Britain's range of 5G suppliers.
  
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• Watch out: This is the age where you should definitely stop trading stocks – MarketWatch

  03-06-2020 23:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  OK, so the idea of buying individual stocks is about as out of fashion these days as shoulder pads and big hair.
  For more investors, low cost index funds, especially exchange-traded index funds, are the way to go. You can see why. They’re cheap, easy, and diversified.How annuities could protect your retirement incomeAnd, as any fan of Vanguard’s late guru Jack Bogle will tell you, low cost index funds are almost certainly going to beat most investors. The percentage of fund managers
  
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