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• Trump's dismal popularity among foreigners may be costing the US billions in exports

  By: Thomas Franck

  President Donald Trump's unpopularity overseas may have cut American exports by at least $3 billion, according to a new UC Berkeley study.

• Schiff vows to focus on Trump Tower Moscow deal after bombshell BuzzFeed report

  By: Kevin Breuninger

  If true, Schiff said, the allegations "would constitute both the subornation of perjury as well as obstruction of justice."

• WRAPUP 1-U.S. consumer morale at two-year low; factory output surges

  WASHINGTON, Jan 18- U.S. consumer sentiment tumbled in early January to its lowest level since President Donald Trump was elected more than two years ago amid fears an ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government and financial market volatility would slow the economy. The drop in confidence reported by the University of Michigan on Friday is the...

• GLOBAL ECONOMY-Testing times from Beijing to Wall Street

  Chinese output data on Monday will set the tone for a week that also sees the first policy updates of the year by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan against the backdrop of a continued global economic slowdown. In the United States, results from blue-chip companies including IBM will give Wall Street traders something to chew on while officials in...

• CORRECTED-TREASURIES-U.S. bond yields hit 3-week highs as Wall Street rallies

  *Hopes for end to U.S.- China trade spat boost Wall Street. Treasury yields rose to three-week highs on Friday as investors piled back into Wall Street on hopes Washington and Beijing are moving to end their trade dispute and stronger-than-expected data on manufacturing production. "The risk-on mood has caused yields to move higher," said John Canavan, market...

• $11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups

  Immigration attorneys say the pricey commissary goods are part of a broader strategy by private prisons to harness cheap inmate labor to lower operating costs and boost profits.

• TREASURIES-U.S. bond yields hit 3-month highs as Wall Street rallies

  *Hopes for end to U.S.- China trade spat boost Wall Street. Treasury yields rose to three-month highs on Friday as investors piled back into Wall Street on hopes Washington and Beijing are moving to end their trade dispute and stronger-than-expected data on manufacturing production. "The risk-on mood has caused yields to move higher," said John Canavan, market...

• Trump AG pick Barr told senators that a president who encourages perjury is committing a crime

  By: Dan Mangan, Elizabeth Gurdus

  Bill Barr's answer to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., went viral after a BuzzFeed report said that President Donald Trump had directed his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about an aborted plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

• China trade commitment is 'trial balloon', says former CBO director   

  Gene Sperling, former director of the National Economic Council under Clinton and Obama, and Doug Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum president and former CBO director

• UPDATE 2-On Day 28, no sign of end to U.S. partial government shutdown

  WASHINGTON, Jan 18- As the partial U.S. government shutdown hit the four-week mark on Friday, tensions mounted in Washington on either side of the standoff over President Donald Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to help fund a U.S.- Mexico border wall. The Senate was expected to reconvene on Friday, but its exact plans were unsettled. After House Speaker Nancy...