Tag: Donald Trump

• Monday, November 6th 2017 - 08:07 UTC

  Wall Street and LSE battle to host largest share floatation in history: US$ 100bn of Saudi Arabia's Aramco

  

  President Donald Trump has made a pitch to Saudi Arabia to float the world's biggest oil company in the US. “Would very much appreciate Saudi Arabia doing their IPO of Aramco with the New York Stock Exchange. Important to the United States!”, twitted the US president.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2017 - 08:12 UTC

  Trump expected to announce “centrist” Jerome Powell, as next head of the Fed

  

  President Donald Trump has said he will announce on Thursday his choice to lead the seven/member Federal Reserve board beginning in February. Jerome Powell, a Fed board member, is assumed to be the top contender and Trump anticipated that “I think you will be extremely impressed by this person”.

• Thursday, October 26th 2017 - 06:04 UTC

  Bloomberg describes Brexit as the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done”

  

  Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former mayor of New York, has said Brexit is the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done” apart from the election of Donald Trump as US president. Bloomberg argued that “it is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it” with the Brexit vote, in a series of outspoken remarks made at a technology conference in Boston a fortnight ago.

• Thursday, September 28th 2017 - 07:22 UTC

  Trump announces a “once in a generation” sweeping tax reform

  

  United States President Donald Trump has unveiled sweeping tax reforms which if passed by the Congress would bring down the business tax rate to 15%, introduce territorial tax system that would offer level playing field to American companies.

• Wednesday, September 27th 2017 - 06:18 UTC

  NAFTA: Trudeau predicts “tough days ahead” ahead for negotiators

  

  The top U.S. negotiator at talks to modernize the NAFTA trade pact dismissed questions about why his team had so far failed to produce specific proposals on key issues, saying “I don’t see a problem.” Officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada are in Ottawa for the third of seven planned rounds of talks.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 07:47 UTC

  Trump threatens “rocket man” with total destruction; warnings to Iran, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear challenge, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

  Trump's first address to the UN Assembly: all countries will be listening

  

  United States President Donald Trump, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, will harshly criticize North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. “He will speak in extremely tough terms about the North Korean menace and the threat it poses to our security and the security of all the nations in that room,” according to a senior White House official who gave reporters a preview of the address.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2017 - 09:14 UTC

  PM May rings President Trump over a threat to Bombardier jobs in Belfast

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has phoned US President Donald Trump over a threat to jobs at Bombardier in Belfast from a trade dispute. In 2016, Canadian firm Bombardier won an order to supply up to 125 CSeries passenger jets to US airline Delta. The wings for the CSeries are made at Bombardier's Belfast plant.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2017 - 09:03 UTC

  Trump's firing of FBI Director, “the biggest mistake in modern political history”

  

  Ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon says President Trump's firing of the FBI's director was the biggest mistake in “modern political history”. Mr Bannon told CBS News if James Comey had not been sacked, a special counsel would not have been appointed to probe alleged Russian election meddling.

• Tuesday, September 5th 2017 - 08:47 UTC

  Kim Jong un is challenging Donald Trump or Xi Jinping?

  

  North Korea's display of missiles and nuclear weapons seems more directed to challenge Xi Jinjping's China than United States and president Donald Trump. In effect the timing of events seems to indicate Pyongyang is clearly on tack to disappoint and embarrass Beijing.