Commodities
Commodities: WTI futures climb after inventory data, Iran threat on nuclear deal
Energy and agriculture futures racked-up big gains, with the former boosted by a set of 'bullish' figures on weekly US oil inventories and a threat by Iran that it might leave the nuclear deal that it signed up to in 2015.
WTI higher as DoE says oil inventories fell, possibly on logistical bottlenecks
US crude oil and product stockpiles were down across the board last week as net imports fell back.
French fishermen attack British ships in scallop row
French fishermen's have been accused of endangering the lives of British sailors with smoke bombs, rocks and other projectiles in a row over scallops.
UK launches £92m navigation satellite to rival EU's Galileo
The UK government said on Wednesday it is launching a study to design the new navigation satellite programme that will rival the EU’s Galileo post-Brexit at a cost of around £92m.
Study finds extremely wide gap between CEO-worker pay
Over two thirds of the top 50 federal contractors and corporate subsidy recipients paid their CEO more than 100 times their median worker pay in 2017, the latest Executive Excess report revealed.
US pending home sales index for July misses forecasts
A widely-followed lead indicator of activity in the US housing market for the month of July undershot economists' forecasts on Wednesday.