The ASX 200 has surpassed 7,000 points for the first time in its history on Thursday. It was helped overnight by the signing of a long-awaited 'phase one' trade agreement between the US and China, settling some of the two countries' smaller disputes.
The bushfires in Victoria and New South Wales have been blanketing Melbourne in a smoky haze. The smoke in Melbourne has been affecting tennis players in the lead up to the Australian Open.
Australia's central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), has let slip it's been working on its own digital currency. In its submission to a Senate commission, the RBA said its innovation lab is working on a digital currency denominated in dollars.
Local Mexican fast food chain Guzman y Gomez has launched its first store in United States, in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. Founders Steven Marks and Robert Hazan – both native New Yorkers – say it has been their dream to "bring the brand back to the U.S."
The US released the text of an interim trade agreement with China this week. It offered for the first time the details of what will be expected in a new chapter of relations between the two largest economies.
Nike is releasing a collection of Air Max 90 sneakers that pays homage to professions in major cities. The five shoes in the collection are designed to represent iconic jobs in New York City, London, Shanghai, Paris, and Tokyo.
Traders are paying the most relative to the S&P 500's price/earnings-to-growth ratio in more than three decades, Bank of America wrote in a Thursday note.
On the website PredictIt, people can place bets - with real US dollars - on big political events. Users on the site place "yes" or "no" bets on popular political predictions, like President Trump's impeachment trial.
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