US stocks pointed mostly higher on Monday after the US and European Union struck a trade pact to lead off a packed week of Big Tech earnings, a Federal Reserve meeting, inflation data, the July jobs report, and President Trump’s Aug. 1 deadline to lock in key trade deals. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the…
The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement has introduced a ‘co-equal’ rule or product-specific origin norm to offer greater flexibility to certain goods such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, paints, essential oils and iron & steel. The rule will allow a producer of a good to meet any of the criteria of origin to claim benefit under…
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) -Shares in Asia rallied and the Australian dollar hit an eight-month high on Thursday as optimism over earnings and trade supported demand for higher yielding assets. Tokyo’s broad Topix gauge of shares hit an all-time high, following new records on Wall Street overnight, after a trade pact between Japan and…