SHANGHAI In the face of a "worrying" rise in protectionism, trade ministers from the world's major economies have agreed to cut trade costs, increase policy coordination and enhance financing, China's Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said on Sunday.

As it currently stands in the headline BLS figures, the Establishment Survey greatly rebounded to + 287k from a downward revised +11k in May.

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The first 6 months of 2016 have seen a powerful recovery in commodity prices, which should alleviate the substantial drag on S&P 500 earnings from the Energy and Basic Materials sectors, both sectors combined comprising roughly 10% of the S&P 500 by ...

Gap (NYSE:GPS) has been mercilessly punished in the past year or so, as its status as a dividend stock has recently been overshadowed by some pretty horrible numbers.

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"We are starting to see exit holes in the trees in areas we hadn't seen them before so that tells us the pest is there," Donna Lacey, forestry technician at the Saugeen Conservation Authority, said Thursday.

An even larger increase in the horizontal rig count than last week, with new rigs concentrated in the Permian and in shale producing regions.

Some 75,000 DTE Energy customers are without power, after a fierce band of storms whipped through southeast Michigan on Friday night.

(Adds comment, updates prices). * U.S. jobs surge in June to 287,000, briefly boosts dollar. * Euro falls to 2-week low; Swiss franc slides to 5-week trough.