• Reuters

    Futures exchange operator CME Group plans to launch bitcoin trading, FT reports

    The Chicago-headquartered exchange has been holding discussions with traders who want to buy and sell bitcoin on a regulated marketplace, the newspaper said, citing three people with direct knowledge of the talks. However, FT said that the plan has not yet been finalised.

  • Reuters

    Chinese overcapacity claims by US, Europe are 'trade protectionism', ministry says

    China said on Thursday that U.S. and European assertions of excess capacity were "naked trade protectionism" and that efforts to constrain new energy exports from the World's No.2 economy would frustrate global efforts to tackle climate change. Growing alarm over Chinese industrial overcapacity flooding the European Union with cheap products is opening a new front in the West's trade war with Beijing, which kicked off with Washington's import tariffs in 2018. "A country cannot be labelled as having excess capacity just because it has more capacity than it needs," He Yadong, a Commerce Ministry spokesperson said.

  • HuffPost UK

    Nick Ferrari Monsters Gillian Keegan For Claiming Britain Is Safer Under The Tories

    The LBC presenter produced a list of closures caused by Conservative spending cuts.