A view of emergency response looking from Arlington, Va., south of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, across the Potomac River toward the District of Columbia, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. Alex Brandon | AP An American Airlines regional jet with 64 people aboard collided with a Black Hawk military helicopter near Washington D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington…
Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and guests at a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship, in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., November 19, 2024. Brandon Bell | Via Reuters Elon Musk and President Donald Trump took to social media this week declaring that astronauts left at the…
Trump Media and Technology Group is expanding into financial services, including investment vehicles, the firm announced Wednesday. Shares of the Truth Social parent company, which trade under the ticker DJT, jumped more than 10% in morning trading. President Donald Trump indirectly owns 114,750,000 shares of the company, held in a revocable trust. The financial services…
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a press conference after the Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Washington, DC, on December 18, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The Federal Reserve gathers this week for the first time in the second presidential term of Donald Trump, who has already signaled that he…
The GM logo is seen on the facade of the General Motors headquarters in Detroit on March 16, 2021. Rebecca Cook | Reuters DETROIT — General Motors is set to report fourth-quarter earnings before the bell Tuesday. Here is what Wall Street is expecting, according to average estimates compiled by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.89…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about prescription drug prices during an appearance in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 20, 2020. Carlos Barria | Reuters Pharmaceutical companies appear to be hopeful about their growth under a Trump administration, after former President Joe Biden took a hardline stance on…
Tariffs or not, Chinese markets are still waiting for earnings to turn around, analysts point out. “Regardless of what the number of the tariffs are for China, it comes back to the domestic stimulus for China and whether China can alleviate the deflation pressures,” Aaron Costello, head of Asia at Cambridge Associates, said Thursday. Beijing…
Target on Friday said it’s rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion programs — including some that aim to make its workforce and merchandise better reflect its customers. In a memo sent to its employees, the Minneapolis-based retailer said it will end its three-year DEI goals, stop reports to external diversity-focused groups like the Human Rights…
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said President Donald Trump‘s efforts to unleash capital in the private sector could have unintended consequences that would hurt the stock market. “I’m cautiously optimistic. That being said, I have scenarios where it could be pretty bad,” Fink said Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “I believe…
U.S. President Donald Trump meets China’s President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 29, 2019. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters BEIJING — China is emphasizing its willingness to negotiate as increased tariffs on exports to the United States may soon become a reality. U.S….
