Malaysia's economy grew 4.5% in the second quarter from a year earlier, official advance estimates showed on Friday, sustaining the pace of the previous quarter as strong domestic consumption and steady manufacturing growth offset a slowdown in exports.

Banks are giving the all-clear signal on the U.S. economy during the turbulent opening months of the second Trump presidency.

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China is prepared to take measures and has a "plentiful" toolbox to avoid an economic slump in the second half of the year, its commerce minister said Friday as he admitted it faced a "very severe and complex situation".

Higher prices in America suit miners with copper assets in the country just fine. The shares of Rio Tinto and Freeport-McMoRan, an American miner which accounts for 60% of domestic copper production, have risen. For the latter, a 50% duty could result in windfall profits of $1.6bn a year, reckons Deutsche Bank, another lender.

As a Harvard professor, Elizabeth Warren rang the alarm bell in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. Now a veteran senator, she is ringing that bell again.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump says the Federal Reserve should set its benchmark interest rate at 1% to lower government borrowing costs, allowing the administration to finance the high and rising deficits expected from his spending and tax-cut bill. Trump should be careful what he wishes for.