The dollar has slumped about 8% over the past year, signaling foreign investor nervousness about U. S. assets. The threat that foreigners could dump U.

The UK's reliance on China is making the country "the weak link" in the West, MPs have warned. In a damning report published on Thursday, the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee said a dependence on "hostile actors" such as China for investment and trade was alarming international allies.

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday signed a law that opens the nation's oil sector to privatization, reversing a tenet of the self-proclaimed socialist movement that has ruled the country for more than two decades.