U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 17, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine in a White House meeting on Friday, warning that President…
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (not pictured) over lunch in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 17, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and…
US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, left, speaks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, right, during a bilateral meeting between the United States and China, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Keystone/eda/martial Trezzini | Via Reuters U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday he expects to meet next week with Chinese…
Travis Hutchison, a soybean farmer, unloads his cargo from his family’s truck at a local grain dealer in Queen Anne, Maryland, on Oct. 10, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration is considering “terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil” in retaliation for…
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the White House, following his annual physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 10, 2025. Ken Cedeno | Reuters President Donald Trump has vowed to target only “Democrat Agencies” for permanent staffing cuts amid the government shutdown — but the administration’s layoffs…
In an aerial view, a container ship arrives at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025 in Oakland, California. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese imports in response to China’s announcement of new export controls on rare earths. China controls an estimated 70% of the…
Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce, speaks during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024. Halil Sagirkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images As Salesforce welcomes tens of thousands of people to San Francisco for its annual Dreamforce conference, CEO Marc Benioff has found himself in the center of local controversy on…
Israeli military helicopters wait in preparation to take hostages released by Hamas in Gaza to hospitals in Israel after they arrive in the southern Reim army base on October 13, 2025. Maya Levin | Afp | Getty Images BAGHDAD — Palestinian militant group Hamas released the first seven surviving Israeli hostages on Monday, marking the…
Stocks were brutalized Friday in a way we haven’t seen in ages. Everything except some downtrodden consumer packaged goods stocks, led by the resurgent PepsiCo , was slaughtered. The headwinds were enormous and came from disparate places. Bond yields came down huge, something that equity markets normally greet with tremendous relief and price-to-earning multiple expansion….
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to slap a “massive increase of Tariffs” on Chinese products imported into the United States to “financially counter” new export controls that China imposed on rare earths from that country. Trump also threatened in a social media post to cancel his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping because…