After years of hectic crisis-fighting and massive expansion of its role, the European Central Bank must review how it purses price stability and communicate better with EU citizens, incoming president Christine Lagarde told Brussels lawmakers

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A French court has fined the US retailing giant Amazon four million euros ($4.4 million) over terms of use deemed unfair for companies using its online marketplace to sell their goods. "It's a record fine"

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New York Federal Reserve Bank chief John Williams said Wednesday he is ready to take action to support the American economy, which faces mounting risks and uncertainty. The remarks by the influential Fed member, who

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Nigeria said it would boycott the World Economic Forum hosted in Cape Town on Wednesday over a wave of anti-migrant attacks in South Africa, as diplomatic tensions deepened between Africa's biggest economies. The move comes

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China will implement both broad and targeted cuts in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for banks "in a timely manner," China's cabinet said in a meeting on Wednesday, an indication that a cut in the

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The US trade deficit narrowed slightly in July, but the gap with China, a focus of the Trump administration's "America First" agenda, surged to a six-month high. The report from the Commerce Department on Wednesday

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Swiss 13th seed Belinda Bencic advanced to her first Grand Slam semi-final on Wednesday at the US Open by defeating Croatia's Donna Vekic 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. Bencic will play Thursday against the winner of a

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- Serena Williams earned her 100th win at the US Open on Tuesday with a brutal 44-minute demolition of Wang Qiang, firing an ominous warning to rivals in her pursuit of a record-tying 24th Grand

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Grigor Dimitrov rallied for a shocking upset of 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer at the US Open on Tuesday, the lowest-ranked New York semi-finalist in 28 years advancing to face Daniil Medvedev. The 78th-ranked

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Norwegian former Olympic and world biathlon champion Halvard Hanevold has died aged 49 at his home near Oslo, Norway's biathlon federation has announced. No cause of death was given for Hanevold, who won individual Olympic

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