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Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday after U.S. unemployment data gave the S&P 500 its first loss in five days. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index NIK, +0.74% closed up 0.7% after opening lower. The Hang Seng HSI, +1.17% in Hong Kong rose 0.7%, India’s Sensex 1, +0.62% rose 0.4% …

One part of President Donald Trump’s answer to the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is a freeze on collecting interest on student loan payments. “It’s a big thing for a lot of students left in the middle right now,” Trump said Friday afternoon in a Rose Garden address declaring …