Amid the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the US President in an interview on Sunday referred to the tech mogul and former advisor as a “great guy.” Musk served as a close advisor to the US President till May 2025, when his tenure came to an end. President Donald Trump speaks during a…
Buying stocks when the market is selling off is always a daunting prospect. On one hand, if you time it right and shares rally, you’ve bought at an attractive price. On the other hand, the market could just… keep falling. Luckily for brave dip-buyers in 2025, the former has been true. Despite stomach-churning volatility at…
For months since the return of US President Donald Trump, there has been a roaring trade in papers and speeches about how to make Europe a truly independent geopolitical player. The term “strategic autonomy”, championed by the French government during Trump’s first term, is back in vogue. But the independence movement was on the ropes…
WASHINGTON (TNND) — U.S. Stocks closed at an all-time high on Friday. This soar came after a period where stocks continuously dropped amid fluctuating tariffs and trade war. The market’s turnaround occurred in about half the time that it normally takes, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. “Investors will breathe a sigh of…
The U.S. and China have agreed on a trade deal that would reduce tariffs and expedite shipments of rare-earth metals. United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports will now start at 30%, while China’s duty rate on goods from the U.S. will be at 10%. The 20%…
The Trump administration is readying a package of executive actions aimed at boosting energy supply to power the US expansion of artificial intelligence, according to four sources familiar with the planning. Top economic rivals US and China are locked in a technological arms race and with it secure an economic and military edge. The huge…
Was he always so lucky? Yes. Was wealth an aphrodisiac? No. In October 1980, Donald Trump, 34 years old, slender and soft-spoken, had answered a series of such questions from the gossip columnist Rona Barrett when he suddenly shifted the conversation onto a very different plane. When Ms Barrett asked about his destruction of some…
Investors are brushing off the Iran-Israel conflict as another brief distraction on the road to fresh highs. Steve Hanke thinks their complacency could prove costly. The professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University told Business Insider that Israel has been directly or indirectly tied to seven of the 19 major geopolitical events since 1950….
Elon Musk and Omead Afshar, left, at an event in Shanghai, China, in 2019. © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP Elon Musk fired Tesla’s head of operations in North America and Europe, amid declining sales in both regions and the electric vehicle brand’s falling popularity, according to people familiar with the matter. Omead Afshar, who started…
WASHINGTON (TNND) — As the world turns its attention to the Middle East, China’s military expansion remains in the background. The NATO Secretary General expressed concern over China’s military expansion around Taiwan. Chinese Communist Party expert Gordon Chang said war in Asia could happen anywhere, not just in Taiwan. “I think there’s a bigger risk…