NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - FTSE Russell said it will add Portugal to its FTSE World Government Bond Index effective November and removed Switzerland from an upgrade watch list, while retaining India and South Korea on watch for upgrade.
On its equity indexes, FTSE kept Vietnam on watch for an upgrade while Pakistan and Egypt remain on watch list for lower classifications within the FTSE global equity indices. (Reporting by Rodrigo Campos)
Donald Trump’s aides have drawn up secret plans to oust the chairman of the Federal Reserve and allow the president to set interest rates, according to reports.
Jamie Dimon and Jerome Powell are taking the European viewpoint on soaring debt levels in the U.S.
In an expression of disapproval on social media, prominent real estate investor Grant Cardone scrutinized President Joe Biden's proposed hike in capital gains tax in a recent X post. "Biden proposes 44.6% capital gains tax, from current 19%," Cardone posted. "Can't even come up with his own ideas taking a page out of Trudeau playbook who raised Canada to 66%." Cardone then invoked historical political outcomes, writing, "And he ignored how that played out for the last guy who tried it — the enti
The cigarettes account for one-third of all sold in the U.S. and are predominantly consumed by Black and Hispanic smokers.
After preparing for a recession, and hoping for a soft landing, the U.S. might end up in an unexpected bout of stagflation.
As US growth shows signs of sputtering and inflation keeps rising, a re-run of the tumultuous 1970s is looking more likely.
US Senate candidate and attorney John Deaton filed an amicus brief in the Southern District of New York in support of crypto exchange Coinbase in its legal battle against the SEC
“We have all the food, water, and energy we need.”
The Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) project is intended to replace the aging 1970s-era aircraft, which is approaching end-of-service life, an Air Force spokesperson said in a statement. Work on the SAOC will be carried out in Colorado, Nevada and Ohio and is expected to be completed in 2036, the Air Force added. Reuters in December reported that the U.S. Air Force eliminated Boeing from its competition to develop a successor to the E-4B Nightwatch.
U.S. export controls on sending advanced computing chips to China are not meant to hold back China's economy or technological development, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during an interview with National Public Radio on Friday. Since 2022, U.S. officials have imposed sweeping controls on which computing chips can be exported to China, cutting off some sales from Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, among others.