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Trump contradicts U.S. Treasury Dept. on Chinese currency

U.S.PresidentDonaldTrump'sMondaytweetaccusingChinaof"playingthecurrencydevaluationgame"contradictswiththerecentconclusionoftheU.S.TreasuryDepartment.TrumpsaysRu

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China Boosts Its U.S. Treasuries Holdings by Most in Six Months

China’sholdingsofTreasuriesrosebythemostinsixmonths,underscoringtheattractivenessofU.S.assetsevenamidtradetensionsbetweentheworld’stwolargesteconomies.China’sow

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Cryptocurrency: UK regulator focuses on bitcoin policy

TheUK'sfinancialregulatorwillunveilitsguidelinesoncryptocurrencypolicylaterthisyear,whichcouldhaveglobalrepercussionsforhowvirtualcurrencieslikebitcoinareregula

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US imposes new sanctions on DPRK individuals, entities

TheUSDepartmentofTreasuryonThursdayissuednewsanctionsonsevenindividualsandthreeentitiesoftheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK)overwhatitcalledhumanrightsab

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US Treasury sanctions banks, representatives linked to DPRK

TheUSDepartmentofTreasuryonTuesdayissuedsanctionsoneightbanksand26individualslinkedtotheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK)financialnetworksinresponsetothec

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U.S. imposes sanctions on Venezuela leader

The United States on Monday slapped sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after Venezuela held its National Constituent Assembly (ANC) on Sunday.

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U.S. blacklists Venezuela's vice president as drug trafficker

The United States blacklisted Venezuela's Vice President Tareck El Aissami for drug trafficking, the first crackdown by the Trump administration against a top official in President Nicolas Maduro's government for money laundering and the drug trade.

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US Senate expected to confirm Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary

The US Senate is expected to confirm former Goldman Sachs banker and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary on Monday (Feb 13), returning a Wall Street veteran to the top US economic and financial job for the first time in eight years.

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China's foreign exchange reserves "adequate"

Reduction of US Treasuries "not strategic", says official; confidence in keeping yuan stable cited

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China no currency manipulator, Obama Treasury says for last time

The Treasury Department for the final time during President Barack Obama’s tenure declined to label China a currency manipulator, in an implicit rejection of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s hard-line approach to the world’s second-biggest economy.

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U.S. imposes sanctions on “Putin's bridge” to Crimea

Companies building a multi-billion dollar bridge to link the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea, a project close to the heart President Vladimir Putin, were targeted by the United States in an updated sanctions blacklist on Thursday.

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Harriet Tubman to be first African-American on U.S. currency

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday that Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early 1820s and went on to help hundreds of slaves escape, would take the center spot on the bill, while Jackson, a slave owner, would move to the back.

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Kremlin refutes U.S. official accusations against Putin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday termed as "groundless" recent accusations by a U.S. official that Russian President Vladimir Putin was corrupt.

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U.S. Treasury announces rules to stop tax inversion

U.S. Treasury Department on Monday rolled out new rules to combat tax inversions, the latest effort by the Obama administration to push forward anti-inversion measures.

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U.S. Treasury Department sets debt limit deadline on Feb. 27

The U.S. Treasury Department will run out of its abilities to pay the nation's debt by Feb. 27, unless Congress takes its responsibility and raises the debt limit, the Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said on Friday.

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U.S. imposes sanctions on Myanmar entities over arms trade with DPRK

The U.S. government on Tuesday slapped sanctions on three companies and one person in Myanmar in its latest effort to choke off alleged arms trade between the Southeast Asian nation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

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U.S. regulators reach settlement with RBS over sanction breaches

U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it reached an agreement of 33 million dollars with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) over sanction violations, as part of a combined 100-million-dollar settlement between the British bank and U.S. financial regulators.