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The BBC understands that the university will honour the places held by the six students if they are able to arrive in time for future enrolment deadlines.

Stock futures for the S&P 500 rose early following a volatile previous session marked by mixed rhetoric from the U.S. and China over trade.

Oil futures shook off early weakness to end a three-session losing streak with support from bigger-than-expected draws in U.S. crude and product inventories.

Yet if Mr. Carpenter made unsparing depictions of the present and future, he also refused to find any comfort in the past: 1983’s “Christine,” based on the book by Stephen King, skewers 1950s nostalgia.

He is optimistic about the future of automation but says he remains “very reliant on hand labor.”