United States citizens working for foreign oil companies in the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra were leaving the country on Friday, Iraq's Ministry of Oil said, after a US air raid killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq.

New data shows weaker business investment and US-China tensions are weakening US manufacturing.

The Silicon Valley carmaker delivered roughly 367,500 vehicles during the year 2019.

News of United States air attack killing Iranian general helps gold build on its biggest annual gain in almost a decade.

Russia has halted oil supplies to refineries in Belarus, the Belarusian state energy firm said on Friday, amid a new contract dispute that is also threatening large Russian oil deliveries to Western Europe crossing the country.