Russian forces in Ukraine appear to have shifted their focus to what Moscow calls the liberation of the contested Donbass region, as the conflict enters its second month.
Taking cue from Wall Street, which fell 2 percent on Monday, Asian stocks widened their losses amid growing fears that the more transmissible Delta variant would harm the global economic recovery.
A French-Vietnamese journalist filed the lawsuit in 2014 against 14 firms that made or sold the highly toxic chemical for causing grievous harm to her and others.
The positive test reading for the leader of the world’s largest economy adds more uncertainty to investors' worries. US stock futures and Asian shares fell in the wake of the news. Future contracts for S&P 500 and Dow industrials lost 1.9 percent.
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