Tag: Donald Trump

• Friday, September 14th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  BoE and European central bank keep rates unchanged; Turkey hikes 625 points to 24%

  

  Stocks in Europe reversed earlier gains by Thursday's close to finish lower, as investors digested fresh news out of the central banking sphere. The pan-European STOXX 600 closed down 0.15%, with the majority of sectors falling into negative territory. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 slipped 0.43% by the close, while France's CAC 40 ended a touch lower, off 0.08%, and Germany's DAX rose 0.19%.

• Thursday, September 13th 2018 - 09:55 UTC

  Trump signs executive order punishing foreign countries or persons that meddle with US elections

  

  Under fire over his handling of Russian election meddling, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strengthen election security by imposing sanctions on foreign countries or people who try to interfere in the US political process. The order, coming only eight weeks before congressional elections on November 6, drew immediate criticism from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers as too little, too late.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  US economy “booming”, but only 38% approve of Trump, according to opinion polls

  

  United States voters love the performance of the economy, but it has failed to translate into higher approval for President Donald Trump, according to one new poll. The disconnect is perhaps the biggest challenge facing Republicans as they battle to keep control of Congress in November's midterm elections.

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 18:15 UTC

  Several dead in military complex amid revelations of coup plans in Venezuela

  

  Eight alleged criminals were killed on Sunday at the most important military complex in Venezuela amid the revelations about plans for a coup supported by the government of the United States.

• Saturday, September 8th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration”

  

  Top members of Donald Trump's administration are so alarmed by the president's “erratic” and “amoral” behavior that they are actively working to undermine him, an anonymous senior official wrote in The New York Times on Wednesday.

• Friday, September 7th 2018 - 09:29 UTC

  Witch hunt season in the White House: fierce speculation as to an editorial “coup”

  

  A number of top US officials have denied that they are the author of a damning anonymous editorial that attacks President Donald Trump. The New York Times article, said to be written by a senior White House official, point out Mr Trump's appointees are trying to stifle his agenda.

• Thursday, September 6th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Trump says the US is not yet ready to reach a trade agreement with China

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States was not yet ready to come to an agreement over trade disputes with China but he said talks would continue.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazil's Real and Argentina's Peso slumped on Monday

  

  The Brazilian Real slumped on Monday as mounting concerns over this year's presidential election added to global risk aversion, while the Argentine peso extended a recent sell-off that also spread into stock markets in Latin America.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Trump threatens to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization

  

  President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the body fails to change the way it treats America. “If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

• Thursday, August 30th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  U.S. economy in the second quarter expanded at an annualized 4.2%

  

  The United States economic growth was stronger than initially thought in the second quarter, notching its best performance in nearly four years and putting the economy on track to hit the Trump administration’s goal of 3% annual growth.