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 China has condemned the demolition of a monument honoring the Chinese community in Panama, the latest development as the Trump administration pushes for the Central American nation to distance itself from Beijing ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business 

 Silver and gold futures are falling sharply after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s largest trading floors for commodities, required traders to put up more cash to invest in precious metals ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business 

 Shares in Europe and Asia are mostly lower in thin holiday trading as China stages military exercises near the island of Taiwan ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business 

 Iranian traders and shopkeepers have staged a second day of protests after the country’s currency plummeted to a new record low against the U.S. dollar ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business 

 South Korea is chasing a coal-free future in efforts to slash carbon emissions, an ambitious goal for the fossil fuel-dependent country ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business 

 Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business 

 Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country’s general election ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business 

 Officials in Brazil say that an ultralight plane towing an advertising banner has crashed into the sea off Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business 

 California has dropped a lawsuit officials filed against the Trump administration over the federal government's withdrawing of $4 billion for the state's long-delayed high-speed rail project ​Read More  ABC News: Business ​Business