The Turkish lira recovered a bit from Monday's record low in Tuesday's trading after the country's central bank pledged to provide liquidity.
The US Geological Survey originally measured the quake as magnitude 8.2, later downgraded to 7.9. It caused tsunami warnings for Alaska and British Columbia and a tsunami watch on the US West Coast and Hawaii. The alerts were later canceled.
The United States has over 28,000 soldiers stationed in ROK. The joint military exercises conducted by US and ROK's military forces this year kicked off on Aug 5 and are scheduled to end on Aug 20.
The US government reacted too slowly to contain the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus was spreading from Europe, which led to the surge of infections and deaths in the country, a top official at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The US reported more than 68,000 cases of the virus on Friday alone, marking a new high for a 24-hour period, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and more than 134,000 deaths have been caused by the virus.
The US Congress has urged a thorough investigation into his death, and threatened to take more actions against Saudi Arabia.
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The U.S. Commerce Department released new statistics today showing?that e-commerce sales hit an all-time high in 2014, totaling 5 billion, up 15.4 percent compared to a year earlier.?This is the fifth year in a row that online retail sales growth has been close to or above 15 percent, according to InternetRetailer.com.
The United States is the last major country in the world to act on Boeing with US President Donald Trump telling a press event Wednesday that "all of those planes are grounded, effective immediately."
The US imposed 25 percent tariffs on billion of Chinese products on July 6, and the review period on another billion of imports will end on Wednesday. China will reciprocate with tariffs on the amount of goods.
The US sanctions on Hong Kong, which conflict with its own interests, will have little impact on the global financial center, said Francis Lui, an economist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.