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Wednesday's appointment of three new members of the board of directors for the U.S. Export-Import Bank enables the bank to make and guarantee loans of more than $10 million, its first such...
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Presidential policies have helped certain companies and certain sectors almost every single presidential cycle in memory. But now there is something you haven't likely seen occur before.
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It would be silly to predict that a trade war with China would have no impact on the broad economy and the markets at all. It just might not be the end of the world.
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President Trump's weekend tweets regarding imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods has weighed on markets Monday and may have a nasty impact on several top American brands in the future.
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The stock market indexes were taking it on the chin on Monday after President Donald Trump tweeted that new tariffs will go into effect shortly if trade talks with China do not result in a deal.
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President Trump's current stance of tariffs and trade could badly cripple the two largest economies in the world and throw a relatively strong and stable global economy into recession.
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Does anyone any longer really trust Facebook to protect their personal information? Among employees at other technology companies, the answer is a resounding, "No." Even Facebook's own employee's...
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Any efforts to reform and modernize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac likely will take quite some time to come to fruition. Nothing happens quickly in Washington, D.C.
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The approximate cost of the work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his staff likely will be about $30 million, covering from the start of the investigation in May 2017 to the release of the...
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The FAA on Wednesday issued a statement updating the its "continued operational safety activities" related to Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 single-aisle passenger jets. What does that have to do with...
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Protests and political maneuvering caused Amazon management to abandon one of its new headquarters locations. Now, there is a threat it will quit the other as well.
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How Amazon might be broken up is easy to imagine and it already operates in three discrete enterprises that do not need to be together to prosper.
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The U.S.-China trade war is costing Americans about $1.4 billion a month in real income due to higher prices for goods that have been almost completely passed through by manufacturers and importers...
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This is not the first time that fringe politicians have gotten in the way of corporate ambitions. It also won't be the last.
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Americans are feeling more and more confident about their finances in 2019. It turns out that the stock market panic late in 2018, all the trade war fears and even a partial government shutdown did...
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