Biden, who defeated Donald Trump at the ballot box on November 3, has promised a return to diplomacy with Iran after four hawkish years under the departing US president.
In interbank trading, the price of euro depreciated by Rs. 1.05 and closed at Rs. 190.04 against the last day’s trading of Rs. 191.09, State Bank of Pakistan reported.
The benchmark palm oil contract for February delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange slid 55 ringgit, or 1.65pc, to 3,271 ringgit ($799.56) a tonne by the midday break.
The sub-index of the Hang Seng tracking energy shares dipped 0.1pc, while the IT sector dipped 0.26pc, the financial sector ended 0.45pc higher and the property sector rose 1.24pc.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.7pc at 0915 GMT, supported by strong gains in the travel sector and oil & gas stocks after crude prices hit their highest levels since late March.
A retired surgeon, Hutchinson is part of a local team of “contact tracers” in Halifax, Yorkshire, that aims to reach infected people before they infect others. His experience that day in mid-October, he said, summed up why Britain’s “tracking of the virus is very, very poor.”