United States President Donald Trump speaks to the Press before departs at the White House to Alligator Alcatraz, Florida on July 1, 2025, in Washington DC. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s politically charged new tariff threat — a blanket 50% duty on imports from Brazil — stretches an interpretation of…
My top 10 things to watch Thursday, July 10 1. Stock futures were little changed as President Donald Trump ramped up the tariffs pressure. The Pentagon, meanwhile, will become the largest shareholder in American rare earth miner MP Materials , via a $400 million investment in preferred stock. Shares surged more than 60% this morning….
President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian products if the country doesn’t meet a series of political demands, including dropping the charges against his ally Jair Bolsonaro. Nicknamed the “Trump of the Tropics,” the far-right former Brazilian president Bolsonaro followed Trump’s lead in late 2022 and refused to concede his…
President Donald Trump isn’t quite sure what to make of an Iranian regime figure’s imaginative assassination threat. Trump… “can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago,” said Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a top adviser to Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Iranian TV Wednesday. Larijani, the secretary general of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, laughed as…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral lunch with visiting African Leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2025. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. will slap a 50% tariff on Brazil‘s imports, partly in retaliation for…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. Mikhail Metzel | Evelyn Hockstein | Via Reuters President Donald Trump told campaign donors last year that he had threatened to “bomb the s–t out of Moscow” if Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, according to a new report. Trump at the same donor meeting claimed…
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, July 9 1. Wall Street was headed for a higher open today after the S & P 500 incurred back-to-back losses and moved nearly 1% off last week’s record highs. The minutes of the Fed’s June meeting are out this afternoon. 2. The market was still digesting yesterday’s…
President Donald Trump has gone on a back-slapping victory lap after stealing a clock from his secretary of state, Marco Rubio. During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the president found time between issues such as Gaza and global tariffs to boast about his proposed redesign of the Cabinet Room in the White House. This mainly…
U.S. President Donald Trump walks as workers react at U.S. Steel Corporation–Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, U.S., May 30, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters As President Donald Trump’s tariffs against more than a dozen countries spark fresh concerns about looming country-specific trade measures, often overlooked are the levies on specific products and commodities that…
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Rough start 2. Letters of the law (L/R) US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on July 6, 2025, en route…