'Dog the Bounty Hunter' star Duane Chapman offers fans an update amid wife Beth's medically-induced coma - USA TODAY

'Dog the Bounty Hunter' star Duane Chapman offers fans an update amid wife Beth's medically-induced coma - USA TODAY
UPDATE 2-Iran says U.S. sanctions on Khamenei mean end of diplomacy - Tweet - Reuters
Citi says Asian markets badly hit in the trade war are now looking promising - CNBC

Posted: 25 Jun 2019 03:07 AM PDT

The family of "Dog the Bounty Hunter" star Beth Chapman confirms she's in a medically-induced coma. Her husband, Duane, asked fans to pray for her on Twitter. USA TODAY

While "Dog the Bounty Hunter" star Beth Chapman remains in a medically-induced coma, her husband Duane offered fans a small update.

In his first Twitter post since revealing the news of Beth's hospitalization, Duane shared a close-up photo of her right hand, adorned in medical wristbands and an IV but meticulously manicured with rhinestones and fake nails.

"You all know how she is about HER NAILS !!" Chapman captioned the photo late Monday.

Her family members "have been with her at the hospital," where she remains in "very serious" condition, Chapman's lawyer, Andrew Brettler, told USA TODAY on Monday. Duane asked fans Sunday to pray for his wife.

You all know how she is about HER NAILS !! pic.twitter.com/w8iWMYrWZd
— Duane Dog Chapman (@DogBountyHunter) June 25, 2019

On Friday, Chapman was hospitalized after having difficulty breathing and passing out momentarily. Doctors put her in a coma to spare her from pain during treatment, family spokeswoman Mona Wood-Sword told the Associated Press.

According to an article from Hawaii News Now that Duane shared on his Twitter and Facebook pages, the family told newscasters in a statement Saturday that she had been to the Intensive Care Unit at Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii.

"Please say your prayers for Beth right now thank you love you," Duane wrote early Sunday morning, before sharing the article.

Beth was originally diagnosed with Stage 2 throat cancer in September 2017 after having a nagging cough checked out; it returned later as Stage 4 lung cancer, Wood-Sword told the Associated Press. The reality star began chemotherapy in December 2018, Brettler confirmed to USA TODAY at the time.

More: 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' star Beth Chapman remains in hospital, surrounded by family

Contributing: The Associated Press

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UPDATE 2-Iran says U.S. sanctions on Khamenei mean end of diplomacy - Tweet - Reuters

Posted: 24 Jun 2019 09:12 PM PDT

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DUBAI, June 25 (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday that U.S. sanctions imposed on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials in the country permanently closed the path to diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing the sanctions on Monday, taking a dramatic and unprecedented step to increase pressure on Iran after Tehran's downing of an American drone last week.

Washington said it would also impose sanctions on Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif later this week.

"Imposing useless sanctions on Iran's Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the commander of Iran's diplomacy (Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif) is the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Twitter.

"Trump's desperate administration is destroying the established international mechanisms for maintaining world peace and security," Mousavi tweeted.

Iran says the U.S. drone was flying over southern Iran. Washington said it was downed in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf.

Trump said that the sanctions were in part a response to the shooting down of the drone, but would have happened anyway.

The latest sanctions are aimed at denying Iran's leadership access to financial resources, blocking them from using the United States financial system or having access to any assets in the United States.

Iran and the United States have been at odds since last year when Trump withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers and reimposed sanctions on it.

Khamenei is Iran's utmost authority who has the last say on all state matters.

Iran would not accept talks with the United States while it is under the threat of sanctions, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, told reporters in New York. (Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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Citi says Asian markets badly hit in the trade war are now looking promising - CNBC

Posted: 25 Jun 2019 12:32 AM PDT

Citi Private Bank said on Tuesday it has maintained an "overweight" stance on several Asian stock markets that have been badly hit in the ongoing trade fight between the U.S. and China.

Stocks in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea have been among the biggest losers since tensions between the world's top two economies escalated last month — a point acknowledged by Ken Peng, head of Asia investment strategy at Citi Private Bank. But he said there are reasons to remain optimistic about those markets for now.

"We're still most positive on Asia," he told reporters at the bank's mid-year outlook in Singapore.

He added that friction between the U.S. and China in technology could end up benefiting companies in South Korea and Taiwan. Chinese tech firms are facing greater challenges doing business with U.S. companies, and that could potentially allow South Korean or Taiwanese players to fill the void and gain market share globally, he explained.

More generally, much of the global economic growth will center in Asia given the region's rising middle class that will drive consumption demand, said Peng. That's set to benefit sectors such as health care, autos and insurance, he said.

And economic conditions in Asia have turned for the better given an increasingly dovish U.S. Federal Reserve. Investors increasingly expect the American central bank to cut interest rates this year, which allows policymakers in Asia some room to stabilize their own economies with easier monetary policies, Peng said.

That could strengthen the reason for investors to increase their investments in Asia, said Steven Wieting, chief investment strategist and chief economist at Citi Private Bank.

"Emerging Asia is the place where global investors are under-allocated," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Tuesday.

Wieting noted he's not recommending investors to only invest in Asia. Instead, a diversified portfolio with a mix of fixed income and stocks across different regions can help investors to safeguard the value of their investments, he explained.

It's up to trade

That said, trade developments remain a risk that could hurt returns from stock investments, said Wieting.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet at the G-20 summit in Japan later this week, with many investors hoping that the two leaders would hold back from escalating the tariff fight.

Wieting warned against counting on the Fed to rescue the day if tensions between the two countries take a turn for the worse.

"They could potentially react, they could try and offset but they are not the underlying cause. And their ability to offset some sort of trade shock, I think, is going to be low," he said.

"I think it's probably overestimated in markets how much the Fed can do about short-term disruptions, if there are any."

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