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Founder of Baring Vostok Capital Partners Michael Calvey was held in detention with three other employees.

Visa and Mastercard are preparing to increase the fees they charge merchants.

The U.S. dollar strengthens on Friday amid myriad economic data and Congressional moves that appear set to avoid a partial government shutdown, with President Trump expected to declare a national emergency on border security.

Gold futures climb on Friday, as progress in trade talks in the final day of this week’s round of U.S.-China trade negotiations is seen as bullish for the yellow metal, overshadowing a firmer dollar and a pick up in global equity markets.

Also, a rough earnings season for marijuana companies and Amazon’s exit from New York.

(Adds share price reaction, chairman’s comments, analysts’ comments, background) –Scout24 management and supervisory boards have supported a takeover offer from Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone that give the company an enterprise value of EUR5.7 billion –The German company had rejected a takeover offer of EUR43.

Treasury yields edged higher Friday in New York as investors looked past bonds to riskier assets while digesting apparent progress in Sino-U.S. tariff negotiations and the unlikelihood of another partial government shutdown in the U.S.

Junk bonds, which tend to be a predictor for stocks, are at 52-week highs.

Bitcoin prices are marginally higher to begin Friday, as the best-known cryptocurrency looks to snap a four-day losing streak.