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susanjminter · 5 years
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Exclusive: China's Dalian port bans Australian coal imports, sets 2019 quota - source - euronews
Exclusive: China's Dalian port bans Australian coal imports, sets 2019 quota - source  euronews
BEIJING (Reuters) - Customs at China's northern Dalian port has banned imports of Australian coal and will cap overall coal imports for 2019 through its.
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Asian shares tread water as investors watch trade talks
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shares in Asia were flat in early trade on Friday following a fall on Wall Street, with a deteriorating global profitable outlook outweighing more signs of progress in trade talks between China & the United States.
Market prices are reflected in a glass window at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in Tokyo, Japan, February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo
Early in the Asian trading day, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares external Japan was up less than 0.1 percent.
(Graphic: Asian stock markets: tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4)
Australian shares gained 0.5 percent & Japan’s Nikkei stock index was 0.3 percent lower.
Investors continue to closely watch high-level talks between U.S. & Chinese trade negotiators in Washington, with little more than a week left before a U.S.-imposed deadline for an agreement expires, triggering higher tariffs.
Reuters reported exclusively on Wednesday that the two sides were drafting language for six memorandums of understanding on proposed Chinese reforms, progress that had helped to lift investor sentiment.
But shares on Wall Street slumped Thursday, pulled down by new data showing weakness in U.S. commerce spending plans & factory activity.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4 percent to 25,850.63 points, the S&P 500 lost 0.37 percent to 2,774.28 & the Nasdaq Composite – which had climbed the preceding eight sessions – dropped 0.4 percent to 7,459.06.
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Thursday that domestic orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for commerce spending plans, dropped 0.7 percent.
Moreover, the U.S. Mid-Atlantic factory sector fell into contraction territory in February for the first time since May 2016, data from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve showed.
“While global manufacturing is weak, services activity is looking more positive. But it is difficult to see manufacturing & services diverging for long,” analysts at ANZ said in a morning note.
“There are strong multiplier effects from manufacturing that imply downside risks to the services sector, particularly in Europe. And trade uncertainty, which is overhanging the manufacturing sector, needs to be resolved.”
The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes edged lower to 2.686 percent Friday, compared with a U.S. close of 2.688 percent on Thursday as a bump from investor optimism approximately trade talks progress ebbed.
The two-year yield, watched as a gauge of expectations of higher Fed fund rates, eased to 2.5266 percent from a U.S. close of 2.529 percent.
The Australian dollar rebounded after tumbling Thursday on a Reuters report that China’s northern port of Dalian has placed an indefinite ban on imports of Australian coal. It was final up 0.3 percent at $0.7107.
The U.S. dollar was barely changed against the yen at 110.66, while the euro inched slightly higher to buy $1.1340.
The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six major rivals, was regular at 96.586
U.S. crude dipped 0.25 percent at $56.82 a barrel.
Gold rebounded after falling more than 1 percent Thursday, with spot gold trading up approximately 0.1 percent at $1,324.92 per ounce. [GOL/]
Reporting by Andrew Galbraith; Additional reporting by Richard Leong in NEW YORK; Editing by Richard Borsuk
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susanjminter · 5 years
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Exclusive: China's Dalian port bans Australian coal imports, sets 2019 quota - source - Reuters UK
Exclusive: China's Dalian port bans Australian coal imports, sets 2019 quota - source  Reuters UK
BEIJING (Reuters) - Customs at China's northern Dalian port has banned imports of Australian coal and will cap overall coal imports for 2019 through its harbors ...
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susanjminter · 5 years
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Exclusive: China's Dalian port bans Australian coal imports, sets 2019 quota - source - Reuters
Exclusive: China's Dalian port bans Australian coal imports, sets 2019 quota - source  Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Customs at China's northern Dalian port has banned imports of Australian coal and will cap overall coal imports for 2019 through its harbors ...
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