Archive for the August 31, 2019
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Subdued business was witnessed due to lack of buying interest on the cotton market on Friday in the process of trading activity, dealers said. The official spot rate was unchanged at Rs 8000, they added.
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Ample global supplies pushed down Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures on Thursday, as MGEX spring wheat set contract low, traders said. CBOT September soft red winter wheat sagged 2-1/2 cents to $4.69-3/4 a bushel.
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European wheat prices hit a contract low in late trade on Thursday, pressured by hefty global supplies and a slight fall on US markets. Benchmark December milling wheat on Paris-based Euronext closed 0.6% lower at
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President Donald Trump launched a new Pentagon command dedicated to warfare in space Thursday, as American armed forces chiefs see China and Russia pressing hard to erode the US advantage in the newest military frontier.
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday Europe has "nothing to teach" the country about preserving the environment, as data showed thousands of new fires were ignited on the first day of a burning ban. The
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The United Arab Emirates has confirmed it launched air strikes on Yemen's interim capital Aden, after furious accusations from the internationally recognised government which has lost control of the city to UAE-backed separatists. In the
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Alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp will finally go on trial in 2021, almost two decades after the devastating Al-Qaeda attack, the New York Times
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Russia on Friday announced that Syrian government forces would cease fire from Saturday morning in Idlib, one of the last holdouts of opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. An agreement was reached on "a unilateral ceasefire
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US President Donald Trump, who is engaged in a trade war with Beijing, said on Friday that the largest US automaker, General Motors Co, should begin moving its operations back to the United States. "General
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Beijing said journalists who attack China were "not welcome" in the country, after it failed to renew the press credentials of a foreign journalist who wrote an article about one of President Xi Jinping's cousins.
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