Wall Street record rally rolls on | Nation

Wall Street record rally rolls on | Nation

Wall Street’s major indices pushed higher on Tuesday, a day after striking record highs on optimism over a reduction in US-China trade tensions. “Record highs yesterday for the major indices weren’t enough,” said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O’Hare. “The market is coming back for more this morning, heartened by recent earnings reports, visions of a rate…

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Monroe Doctrine II, Trump Style

Monroe Doctrine II, Trump Style

As his coziness with dictators around the globe suggests, Trump likes and admires fellow autocrats, from Orbán to Netanyahu to Putin. But not just any autocrats. In Argentina, Javier Milei, with his pro-Trump sycophancy, his MAGA imitation, and his war on the poor, is Trump’s kind of despot. Not so Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. Trump, with…

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China, India curb Russian oil purchases after Trump sanctions Rosneft, Lukoil

China, India curb Russian oil purchases after Trump sanctions Rosneft, Lukoil

China and India are pulling back from buying Russian oil after President Trump sanctioned two of Moscow’s biggest exporters Wednesday. Reuters reported Thursday that Chinese state-run petroleum firms PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC and Zhenhua Oil had suspended purchases of seaborne Russian oil after the Treasury Department announced sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, citing Moscow’s “lack of serious commitment…

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