Beijing has retaliated against Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from China with duties of its own but limited their scope in a possible attempt to avoid a full-blown trade war. The measures against US products ranging from liquefied natural gas to cars will take effect on February 10. They were announced on Tuesday, hours after
A Federal Railroad Administration study calls for Amtrak to double the service it offers on long-distance overnight trains like this one in New Mexico.Adobe Stock Several Southwest states are eying intercity or interstate passenger trains amid the region’s continuing population boom but their fate remains in the hand of a new administration whose support for
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that outlines plans to for a government-run sovereign wealth fund to serve as an economic development tool
Adobe Stock Terie Gelberg has lived at the Harborside, a retirement community on Long Island’s North Shore, for almost two decades. It was supposed to be the last home for the 99-year-old wheelchair user with memory issues, but plans to sell the bankrupt municipal bond financed facility to a private equity firm threaten to upend her
The U.S. housing market was already struggling under the weight of high mortgage interest rates, a low supply of existing homes for sale and historically high home prices. Now tariffs on building materials are adding even more pressure. Roughly 30% of softwood lumber consumed in the U.S. is imported, largely from Canada. Wallboard, known as
Bundles of steel from Nucor Corporation sit for sale at Thompson Building Materials in Lomita, California, on Aug. 30, 2012. Patrick Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. steelmakers should be beneficiaries of President Donald Trump‘s new tariffs, but Wall Street warned that there are some risks in the longer term. On Saturday, Trump slapped
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Asset management giant Vanguard announced broad fee cuts for many mutual funds and ETFs on Monday, reinforcing its standing as one of the cheapest options for investors. The move reduces fees on 87 different funds, and 168 total share classes of those funds. The average
Vesnaandjic | E+ | Getty Images The cost to rent is coming down faster in some areas of the U.S. than others. Overall, rent affordability is improving thanks to a combination of factors, said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. One is, there’s more supply. “There are more apartments for rent now because there was
A new wave of economic nationalism has swept across Canada as Donald Trump’s tariffs inspire anger but also a patriotic campaign to “Buy Canadian”. ‘Made in Canada’ signs have popped up in grocery stores, lists of Canadian alternatives to US products are being circulated and comedians are devoting skits on national television to how best
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The EU has said it regrets US President Donald Trump’s decision to hit Canada, Mexico and China with sweeping tariffs, and said it would respond firmly if a threat to expand the trade
Homes burn above Pacific Coast Highway during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Photo by Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Alicia Kalvin awoke the morning of Jan. 7 to an urgent text from a friend: “There’s a fire on your street.” She hurried outside, alarmed to see
Remains of Karen Bagnard’s Altadena, California, house after it burned in the January 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires. Courtesy: Chelsea On the night of Jan. 7, Karen Bagnard sat in her Altadena, California, house in the dark. Forceful winds had caused her home to lose power, and she also had no running water, save for one
In this article TWLO NFLX ISRG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Investors had a volatile end to January as they weighed the Federal Reserve’s pause on rate cuts, a busy earnings season and the prospect of new tariffs. Given these dynamics and the volatility in the stock
In this article MCG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Getty Images Company: Soho House & Co Inc (SHCO) Business: Soho House provides a global membership platform of physical and digital spaces that connects diverse groups of members from across the world. The members use the platform to work,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU plans to make ecommerce platforms such as Temu, Shein and Amazon Marketplace liable for dangerous or illegal products sold online, in a crackdown on the flood of imports from China. According to a
<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21410664/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were mixed, while U.S. Treasury yields rose and equity prices fell Friday after the White House announced tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China will take effect Saturday. For the week, municipals “not only moved in sync (with Treasuries) they actually outperformed, especially in the belly of the curve,
Emergency crews work near the site of the crash of an American Airlines plane and Army helicopter on the Potomac River.Bloomberg News Two Moody’s Ratings analysts were on the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., killing all aboard. Analysts Chris Collins and Melissa Nicandri were among the
In this article SLG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and One Vanderbilt are seen among other buildings in midtown Manhattan in New York City on Jan. 11, 2024. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images Demand for New York City office space has finally returned to pre-pandemic
California Treasurer Fiona Ma announced that a conduit issuer she chairs has established a $2 million zero-interest loan program to aid health facilities affected by fires in three southern California counties.California treasurer’s office The California state treasurer has launched a loan fund to aid health facilities affected by the Los Angeles-area wildfires. The $2 million
&lt;img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21408585/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /&gt; Issuance rose in January on a year-over-year basis, as issuers came to market amid policy uncertainty and possible tax changes. January’s volume was at $35.243 billion in 486 issues, up 10.8% from $31.817 billion in 554 issues in 2024, according to LSEG data. January’s total also surpasses the 10-year
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Canada’s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland has said Ottawa should retaliate to any US tariffs by adding huge levies on Tesla vehicles to punish Elon Musk, one of Donald Trump’s “billionaire buddies”. Freeland,
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