Tankers in Spain Photographer: DeAgostini/Getty Images (Bloomberg) — The US sanctioned a Greek shipper and two Chinese port-terminal operators that it said facilitated the transport of Iranian oil, broadening a so-called maximum pressure campaign against Tehran. Antonios Margaritis was designated, along with a web of companies overseen by him in Greece and the Marshall Islands,…
Don’t splurge just yet. Rumors spread online Friday that the U.S. government will soon be issuing stimulus checks to taxpayers in certain income brackets. But Congress has not passed legislation to authorize such payments, and, according to the IRS, no new stimulus checks will be distributed in the coming weeks. Here’s a closer look at…
President Trump on Friday said a potential US court ruling denying his authority to impose a wide range of global tariffs could have devastating impacts on the US economy. “If a Radical Left Court ruled against us at this late date, in an attempt to bring down or disturb the largest amount of money, wealth…
A Bloomberg News investigation has found that in three major hacks the US Treasury didn’t deploy cybersecurity measures that could have prevented the attacks or flagged the intruders sooner. Our review of previously unreported government documents and interviews with more than a dozen people including current and former Treasury employees, bank executives and cybersecurity experts…