March 3, 2026, 10:56 a.m. ET Recently, the head of antitrust for the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, Gail Slater, resigned from her post. Per reports, this stemmed in large part from tension with Attorney General Pam Bondi, who grew frustrated with Slater’s insistence on blocking a merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprises, or HPE, and…
Updated Jan. 22, 2026, 9:41 a.m. ET China’s rapid electrification has been hailed as a miracle. By some measures, India is even further ahead. The nation is electrifying faster and using fewer fossil fuels per capita than China did when it was at similar levels of economic development, according to a new report from the…
Updated Jan. 20, 2026, 10:20 a.m. ET Canada and China announced a new trade agreement allowing up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market. The deal is expected to drive new Chinese investment in Canada’s auto manufacturing sector within three years. Canada’s Unifor union criticized the agreement, stating it puts Canadian auto jobs…
Updated Jan. 17, 2026, 4:09 p.m. ET A key Trump administration trade official is not concerned that Canada’s decision to allow limited electric vehicle imports from China will hurt U.S. automakers, he said Saturday at the Detroit Auto Show. “We have an enormous market share in Canada,” said U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer during…
Updated Jan. 16, 2026, 5:39 p.m. ET A new Canadian trade deal with China allowing 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the country at a lower tariff rate was swiftly criticized by senior Trump administration officials as well as the leader of Canada’s main automaking province. “China now has a foothold in the Canadian market and…
Investors went for a wild ride Nov. 20 as the U.S. stock market dramatically fluctuated throughout the day. Nvidia reported strong earnings Nov. 19, offering investors a boost of confidence and temporarily calming concerns of an AI bubble. However, according to CNN Business, the relief was short lived, with stocks taking a dive in the…
A delayed jobs report showed U.S. employers added 119,000 jobs in September, surpassing expectations, but downward revisions for the prior two months and an upward tick in unemployment tempered economists’ outlooks. The Bureau of Labor Statistics report, delayed more than a month due to the federal government shutdown, showed job growth was concentrated in private education…
President Donald Trump has floated the idea of sending $2,000 tariff dividend checks to Americans. Will it happen? You can place your bets. Bettors on prediction betting sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi seem to be skeptical. President Trump recently suggested the possibility of checks from tariff revenue. “A dividend of at least $2000 a…
The spark came from CoreWeave, the AI cloud infrastructure firm whose third-quarter results missed expectations. Government reopening also left investors with questions about economic data. After the longest shutdown on record, the U.S. government has reopened and federal agencies are rushing to publish a backlog of delayed economic data. Yet the administration warned that key…
President Donald Trump is exempting a wide range of agricultural items from his reciprocal tariffs amid concerns about consumer prices, slashing levies on beef, coffee, chocolate, bananas, tomatoes, oranges and other products as affordability has become a growing political issue. The White House announced Nov. 14 that Trump signed an executive order exempting certain products…