SINGAPORE (Reuters) -U.S. stock futures jumped and the dollar gained against safe-haven peers including the yen and Swiss franc on Thursday, after a U.S. federal court blocked President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs from going into effect. The Trump administration has appealed the ruling. S&P 500 E-mini futures climbed 1.5% and the U.S. dollar rallied …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -Lee Jae-myung, the liberal South Korean politician favoured to become the country’s next leader, has overcome a knife attack, martial law and criminal charges on his unexpected path back toward the presidency. Named the Democratic Party’s candidate, Lee leads his conservative opponents by wide margins in most polls ahead of …
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By Katya Golubkova TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Thursday after a U.S. court blocked President Donald Trump’s tariffs from taking effect, while the market was watching out for potential new U.S. sanctions curbing Russian crude flows and an OPEC+ decision on hiking output in July. Brent crude futures climbed 81 cents, or 1.25%, …
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By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s exports are expected to have fallen in May for the first time in four months, as the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs offset strong demand for semiconductors, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. Exports out of Asia’s fourth-largest economy are forecast to have fallen 2.7% …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s conservative candidate Kim Moon-soo is seeking to build momentum in his campaign by pledging economic policies focused on deregulation, a tough line on nuclear-armed North Korea and tax breaks for the middle class. Here are some of Kim’s key campaign promises ahead of the June 3 election: DEALING WITH TRUMP Former …
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By Heejung Jung, Mark Bendeich and Thomas Escritt SEOUL/LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) -South Korea’s young women are expected to lead a broad political backlash against the main conservative party at presidential elections on June 3, punishing it for months of chaos. Multitudes of young men, though, are unlikely to join them. In democracies worldwide, a political gender …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung is the frontrunner for the June 3 snap presidential election, vowing political and economic reforms to help the country recover from the shock of December’s brief martial law. Here are some of the main policy proposals put forward by Lee and his party: ECONOMY The Democratic …
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By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s conservative presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo came to prominence as a maverick right-wing politician but it was only the latest metamorphosis in a life that saw him espouse liberal causes as a labour activist when he was younger. Now the nominee for the People Power Party (PPP) is putting …
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By Dietrich Knauth and Daniel Wiessner NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s tariffs from going into effect in a sweeping ruling that the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from nations that sell more to the United States than they buy. The Court of …
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By Jasper Ward and Costas Pitas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the United States will start revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields. President Donald Trump’s administration has sought to ramp up deportations and revoke student visas …
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