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A court in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, upholds the death penalty for real estate tycoon Trương Mỹ Lan after Lan was found guilty of embezzling $12.5 billion through the Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank. $
2024-12-3

The Pentagon announces that it will send four AN-TWQ-1 Avenger surface-to-air missile systems, Stinger missiles, 400 grenade launchers, 100 humvees, and other artillery rounds and small arms ammunition to Ukraine as part of its latest $400 million weapons package to support the Ukrainian military. $
2022-11-10

The Russian ruble experiences extreme buy–sell spreads. While the currency exchanges in banks offer a range of 70–90 rubles per US dollar and 80–100 rubles per euro, sell quotes vary from 100 rubles to over 150 rubles for 1 US dollar. Panic selling is suspected as a reason for the fluctuations. $
2022-02-27

Brazil's Central Bank sells US$1 billion to offset declines in the real, which has fallen ⅓ relative to the dollar in 2021 alone, with another US$1 billion in sales scheduled for later today. $
2021-10-14

Within hours of a government announcement that Kazakhstan will abandon its currency-band exchange-rate system to implement a free-floating exchange rate, the tenge loses 26% of its value against the US dollar. $
2015-08-20

American multinational food corporation Tyson Foods agrees to buy Hillshire Brands for US$7.7 billion. $
2014-06-9

Chinese meat processing company Shuanghui buys the world's largest meat processing company Smithfield Foods for $4.72 billion. $
2013-05-29

The Australian dollar reaches a 29 year high against the US dollar due to high demand for commodities. $
2011-03-30

The Chinese yuan reaches a record level against the US dollar. $
2011-03-23

BP sets aside $32.2bn to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. $
2010-07-27