Fed makes third straight rate cut
11 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Trump says US will allow sale of Nvidia AI chips to China
9 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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How China leveraged its rare earths dominance over US
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Record US Black Friday crowds to find fewer bargains amid high prices
25 November 2025, 19:36 PM
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US holiday sales set to top $1tn for first time
9 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Prolonged US govt shutdown could raise market risks
2 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Wall Street futures slip as government shutdown complicates Fed rate path
1 October 2025, 10:09 AM
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Free-market US tested as Trump takes stakes in private companies
28 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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Colombia halts US arms purchases over downgrading in drug fight
16 September 2025, 15:48 PM
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US announces 'framework' TikTok deal with China
15 September 2025, 13:54 PM
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Fed makes third straight rate cut
A divided US Federal Reserve lowered interest rates Wednesday for a third consecutive time this year, but signaled that it could hold off further reductions in the coming months.
11 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Record US Black Friday crowds to find fewer bargains amid high prices
Unprecedented numbers of Americans are expected to hit stores this Black Friday, but they are likely to curtail their spending as they find fewer bargains from tariff-hit retailers.
25 November 2025, 19:36 PM
Prolonged US govt shutdown could raise market risks
Investors have anticipated for weeks the risks of a US government shutdown to markets. Now that it is here, they are hoping it will be brief.
2 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Free-market US tested as Trump takes stakes in private companies
The Trump administration is in talks to take an equity stake in Lithium Americas, which would insert the government into another private enterprise in the latest challenge to American free-market traditions.
28 September 2025, 18:00 PM
US appeals court finds Trump’s global tariffs illegal
A US appeals court on Friday ruled that many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have upended global trade, were illegal -- but allowed them to remain in place for now, giving him time to take the fight to the Supreme Court.
30 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Weaponising US economic might will weaken it
American trade warriors may be keen to claim early victory. Tariff revenue has surged, 131 percent year-over-year to reach $127 billion by July.
23 August 2025, 18:16 PM
Fed official flags job market risks
The US labor market is not doing as well as headlines suggest, a top Federal Reserve official said Friday, a day after making the case for an interest rate cut later this month.
20 July 2025, 19:21 PM
US urges China to keep Iran from shutting key trade route
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged China Sunday to help deter Iran from shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial trade route, following American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
23 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump's national security advisor Waltz leaving post: US media
Waltz had been under pressure since the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Magazine revealed in March that Waltz had mistakenly added him to a chat on the commercial messaging app Signal about attacks on Huthi rebels
1 May 2025, 17:11 PM
IMF reaches agreement with Sri Lanka on $344m
The International Monetary Fund announced Friday it had reached agreement on a loan program review with Sri Lanka which will make around $344 million available to support the country’s economic reforms.
26 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Over 50 countries sought talks with Trump over tariffs
More than 50 countries have sought talks with President Donald Trump in a scramble to ease punishing tariffs on exports to the United States, the White House said Sunday, as trade partners braced for fallout.
7 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump says trade deal with China ‘possible’
US President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that a trade deal was “possible” with China -- a key target in the US leader’s tariffs policy.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump keeps tariffs drumbeat going, with autos targeted next
President Donald Trump on Friday kept alive his drumbeat of tariff threats, saying levies on automobiles would be coming as soon as April 2, the day after members of his cabinet are due to deliver reports to him outlining options for a range of import duties as he seeks to reshape global trade.
15 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Nvidia loses $600b in value amid rout in tech stocks
US chip-maker Nvidia led a rout in tech stocks Monday after the emergence of a low-cost Chinese generative AI model that could threaten American dominance in the fast-growing industry.
28 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump says Microsoft in discussions to acquire TikTok
US President Donald Trump said Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, while the app’s future in the country faces uncertainty.
28 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump’s tariff threats are ‘leverage’
Donald Trump’s recent threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico is a negotiating tactic, the president’s long-time informal economic advisor argued Wednesday.
23 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Trump’s economic plans could cause US inflation
Donald Trump’s economic plans risk reigniting US inflation, International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas told AFP, a few days before the president-elect returns to the White House.
18 January 2025, 18:00 PM
IMF raises global growth outlook
Global growth is expected to increase slightly this year while remaining stuck below its pre-pandemic average, the IMF said Friday, flagging the growing economic divide between the United States and European countries.
18 January 2025, 18:00 PM
US hiring beats expectations
US job gains soared past expectations in December, according to government data released Friday, in a sign the labor market remains healthy shortly before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration this month.
11 January 2025, 18:00 PM
OpenAI plans to become for-profit company
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI laid out plans Friday for a new corporate structure shifting away from control by a non-profit -- an issue of contention for the artificial intelligence trailblazer.
28 December 2024, 18:00 PM