China’s stock market opened at $2,742 a share at 7:40 p.m.ET (4:40 a.m., Beijing time) on Tuesday, a sharp decline from Tuesday’s closing price of $3 and a five-month high of $2.766 a share.The Shanghai Composite Index (SCI) was at $5,200.50, up 11.3 percent from the previous close of $4,812.50 a share and the longest…
A month after Donald Trump’s election victory, the United States has formally opened up its first significant trade deal with a third party.The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also known as TPP3, is the first major trade deal in history that will be negotiated by the U.S. government itself, and will be signed by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio…
The black market for illicit drugs has skyrocketed in recent years, despite the US government’s withdrawal of a major anti-drug initiative.The Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Drug Strategy (NDOS) was meant to curb the demand for synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, which has been linked to a spike in overdoses.But it has failed to stop the…