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Dec 21 2015
News
President Obama’s Recent Foreign Policy Strides a Fragile Legacy
President Barack Obama made major strides over the past year on the four planks of his second-term foreign-policy agenda: a nuclear deal with Iran, restoring diplomatic ties with Cuba, a global climate-change agreement and a new trade pact with Asia. But each of those remains fragile.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 14 2019
News
Trump says he will soon authorize order enabling sanctions on Turkey over its incursion into Syria
President Trump announced Monday that he would “soon” issue an executive order to authorize sanctions against the highest levels of the Turkish government, as the situation on the ground in northern Syria continued to deteriorate Monday following the recent withdrawal of U.S. forces in the region.
Trump did not specify when the sanctions would be leveled against Turkey, but said in a
Washington Post
May 31 2019
News
Mexico Hits Trump Tariff Threat: Can't Solve Social Issues 'With Coercive Measures'
In a surprise announcement that could derail a major trade deal, President Donald Trump says he is placing a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, to pressure the country to do more to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants trying to cross the U.S. border.
Trump said the percentage will gradually increase — up to 25% — "until the Illegal Immigration problem
Newsmax (News)
Oct 01 2020
News
An experimental antibody treatment reduced viral load in some COVID-19 patients. That may also be a positive sign for vaccines
Promising new clinical data for an experimental COVID-19 treatment hints at a secondary but possibly more important takeaway for investors: if this neutralizing antibody treatment works in coronavirus patients, so will the vaccines that are in development.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. REGN, +1.49% on Tuesday shared preliminary data from a Phase 1/2/3 clinical trial for REGN-COV2,
MarketWatch
Nov 11 2014
News
U.S., China to Drop Tariffs on Range of Tech Products
The U.S. and China reached an agreement to drop tariffs on a wide range of technology products, in a deal that its backers say could cover $1 trillion in trade and that marks a significant accomplishment amid strained ties between Beijing and Washington.
Wall Street Journal (News)
May 26 2012
News
Bank Regulators Under Scrutiny in JPMorgan Loss
Scores of federal regulators are stationed inside JPMorgan Chases Manhattan headquarters, but none of them were assigned to the powerful unit that recently disclosed a multibillion trading loss.
New York Times (News)
Aug 22 2014
News
Why US Special Forces failed to rescue James Foley
US intelligence officials still know relatively little about the workings of Islamic State militants. James Foley may have been traded by insurgent groups before ending up in IS hands, which complicates the intelligence picture.
Christian Science Monitor
Jun 05 2020
News
Dow rallies more than 700 points after shocking record surge in U.S. jobs
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied on Friday after the latest U.S. jobs report raised hope the economy is starting to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
The 30-stock Dow jumped more than 700 points at the open, or 2.7%. The S&P 500 traded 2% higher,. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.9%.
“We’re back,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on “Squawk Box.” “I think there were a lot
CNBC
Feb 17 2020
News
Apple warns it will miss quarterly revenue target due to effects of coronavirus
Apple AAPL, +0.02% cited effects of the coronavirus-borne disease COVID-19 as it warned late Monday that it no longer expects to meet the revenue guidance it offered in late January for the quarter ending in March. It said in a statement posted to the Apple website that iPhone supply would be temporarily constrained, with manufacturing partners in China resuming production more slowly than had
MarketWatch
Dec 14 2019
Opinion
Paul Volcker’s final warning for America
By the late summer of 2018, it was already clear that the US and the world order it had helped establish during my lifetime were facing deep-seated political, economic, and cultural challenges.
Nonetheless, I drew reassurance from my mother’s reminder that the US had endured a brutal civil war, two world wars, a great depression, and still emerged as the leader of the “free world”, a
Paul Volcker