Politics
White House Not Considering Three-month Tariff Deferral, Top Trade Advisor Peter Navarro Says
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The White House's top trade advisor denied on Tuesday that the Trump administration was considering a three-month deferr... Read more
Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Fails In Key Senate Procedural Vote
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Democratic leaders warned that the bill did too much to bail out companies and not enough to help workers. Read more
Airlines Tell Congress They Need Cash Coronavirus Aid Or Thousands Will Be Furloughed
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Airlines warned Congress thousands of jobs were at risk without direct grants to fight impact of coronavirus. Read more
From Boeing To Tennessee Whiskey, Coronavirus Bailout Requests Top $1 Trillion
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As the coronavirus outbreak threatens to bring U.S. economic activity to a grinding halt, American businesses are jockey... Read more
President Trump Signs Coronavirus Relief Plan To Expand Paid Leave
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a $100 billion coronavirus aid package into law which includes provisions for... Read more
Bernie Sanders Calls For Monthly $2,000 Payment To Every US Household During Coronavirus Crisis
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Sanders also called for robust unemployment insurance, a moratorium on evictions and a waiver on all student loan paymen... Read more
Mnuchin Warns Senators Of 20% US Unemployment Without Coronavirus Rescue, Source Says
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned Republican senators that the country's unemployment rate could hit 20% if ... Read more
Trump Seeks Stimulus Package Potentially Worth More Than $1 Trillion, Including Direct Payments To Americans
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The White House is seeking a stimulus package worth anywhere from $850 billion to over $1 trillion in a bid to battle th... Read more
China's Deadly Coronavirus Could Be Good For US Jobs, Manufacturing, Says Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
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"The fact is, it does give businesses another thing to consider when they go through their review of their supply chain,... Read more
Trump Says GDP Would Be Near 4% And The Dow Could Be 10,000 Points Higher If It Weren't For The Fed
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The president has repeatedly taken the Fed and Chair Jerome Powell to task for aggressively raising rates. Read more
Trump Says He 'could Get Used To' Negative Interest Rates As He Knocks The Fed: 'Love That'
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President Trump touted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the use of negative interest rates to bolster ... Read more
Trump At Davos Urges Countries To 'put Their Own Citizens First' As He Touts US Economic Success
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Hours before his impeachment trial was set to begin in earnest back home, Trump touted his "America First" agenda to wor... Read more
White House Top Economic Advisor Larry Kudlow Says Economic Growth Will Beat 3% This Year
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President Trump's top economic advisor said GDP growth in the U.S. should hit at least 3% in 2020. Read more
Trump To Nominate Shelton, Waller To Serve On Fed
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President Donald Trump will pick two economists, Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller, to serve on the Federal Reserve Bo... Read more
Kudlow Says 'tax Cuts 2.0' Will Be Unveiled Later This Year During Trump Presidential Campaign
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National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said that the White House plans to unveil a plan for additional tax cuts... Read more
Fed Could Use Negative Rates If US Recession Strikes, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Predicts
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The Federal Reserve could announce negative rates in the future, despite its current doubts about this unconventional me... Read more
Nearly All Corporate CFOs Say The Economy Is Going To Slow And The Stock Market Is Overvalued
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Chief financial officers at big U.S. companies enter 2020 on a cautious note. Read more
Bond Report: Yield On 10-year Treasury Closes At Highest Level In Five Months
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U.S. Treasury yields climbed Monday in a holiday-truncated week as traders made room for a sale of short-term government... Read more
Market Snapshot: S&P 500, Dow And Nasdaq Close At Record Highs, Notch Fourth Straight Week Of Gains
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The U.S. stock-market set intraday and closing records Friday, after steady U.S. economy data and positive tones on trad... Read more
Asian Markets Tick Lower After Healthy Rally As Dealers Step Back
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There was little major reaction after the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump. Read more
