Author: Vitaliy Dadalyan

Oil up after sell-offs amid optimism about Trump meeting Kim

Crude oil futures rose on Friday after two days of sell-offs amid optimism over a planned meeting between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump. Kim also pledged to refrain from further nuclear or missile tests, lifting Asian stock markets and pulling crude oil futures along with them. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $60.42 a barrel, up 30 cents, or 0.5 percent.


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Samsung's next Galaxy flagship smartphone reportedly won't have an in-display fingerprint reader (SSNLF)

KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new note to investors (which we saw via 9to5Google) in which he says he doubts that Samsung's next Galaxy Note smartphone will have an in-display fingerprint reader. Kuo released a note last year in which he (correctly) predicted that the Galaxy S9 would stick to a more standard fingerprint reader, and that the scanner placed underneath the display would see the light in the second half of 2018, when the tentatively named "Galaxy Note 9" should hit retail stores' shelves. Most recently, Chinese phone maker Vivo announced a device, the X20 Plus UD, which uses the lower third of the screen as a fingerprint reading area.


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Global Markets: Shares set to end week back in black, caution ahead of payrolls

Global Markets: Shares set to end week back in black, caution ahead of payrolls

World shares hit a one-week high on Friday before easing a touch, as caution ahead of jobs data in the United States outweighed a potential breakthrough in nuclear tensions over the Korean peninsula. Gains came largely from stocks in Asia, which staged sharp rallies after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was prepared to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un, potentially marking a major breakthrough in nuclear tensions between the two countries. Trump's aides have been wary of North Korea's diplomatic overtures because of its history of reneging on international commitments and the failure of efforts on disarmament by previous U.S. administrations.


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