Emerging-market stocks and currencies rebounded from two weeks of losses as U.S. dollar weakness and China’s vow to keep supporting its economy overcame concern about the global growth outlook; President Donald Trump issued his first veto Friday, rejecting Congress’s effort to cancel his declaration of a national emergency to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a centrepiece of his 2016 campaign; A Brazilian court ordered Vale SA to halt production at another of its iron ore mines, further reducing the company’s output capacity after a deadly dam burst increased government scrutiny over its operations; The global iron ore price, which now sits more than 35% above some forecasts from just two months ago, at about $84USD, is tipped to swell the dividends paid to shareholders when they next distribute profits;
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