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The British pound looks set to struggle against the U.S. dollar in August due to a combination of seasonal, fundamental and technical factors.

(RTTNews) - German stocks were little changed on Wednesday as U.S.-China tensions over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan weighed, earnings proved to be a mixed bag and a survey showed Germany's service sector contracted in July.

A Hong Kong activist dubbed "Captain America 2.0" for wielding the superhero's shield during pro-democracy protests in 2019 had his jail sentence reduced to five years on Wednesday after winning an appeal.

U.S. payments firm PayPal has registered as an electronic systems operator in Indonesia and its customers can now access its services, the company said on Wednesday.

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Oil prices fell about 1% in early trade on Wednesday before paring some losses, ahead of a meeting OPEC+ producers on fears of a slowdown in global growth hitting fuel demand and a firmer dollar.

(RTTNews) - Mercury Systems Inc. (MRCY) reported that its net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 declined $16.9 million or $0.30 per share, from $17.9 million, or $0.32 per share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021.

China furiously condemned the highest-level U.S. visit to Taiwan in 25 years as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the self-ruled island as "one of the freest societies in the world" in a speech to the parliament in Taipei on Wednesday.

(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are trading mostly higher on Wednesday, despite the broadly negative cues from the global markets overnight, as traders digested the latest batch of earnings updates and economic data, even as rising geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China

HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - A Chinese chipmaker is becoming Beijing's poster child for technological self-sufficiency. Hygon Information Technology is readying a $1.6 billion float – the largest so far on Shanghai's STAR market thi

Gold prices rose on Wednesday as a pullback in the dollar and Sino-U.S. tensions helped counter pressure from a rise in U.S. Treasury yields after hawkish comments from Federal Reserve officials on interest rate hikes.

The Indian rupee was little changed on Wednesday after opening slightly higher versus the dollar as a strengthening greenback countered gains from portfolio inflows to local markets.

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