By David French and Marianna Parraga HOUSTON (Reuters) -BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said on Monday that inflation in the United States will be elevated by nationalistic policies, including the deportation of workers. The head of the U.S. investment management company, speaking at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, added that markets are discounting inflation and there…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. trade deficit widened to a record high in January amid front-loading of imports ahead of tariffs, suggesting that trade could be a drag on economic growth in the first quarter. The trade gap surged 34.0% to an all-time high of $131.4 billion from a revised $98.1 billion in December, the…
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON -Large swaths of the U.S. government would be forced to stop operating at midnight on March 14 if Congress does not pass detailed spending legislation that would keep agencies running. WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN? Congress is supposed to allocate funding to 438 government agencies before October 1, the start…
By Luc Cohen MIAMI (Reuters) – Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal…
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Major U.S. stock indexes declined sharply on Thursday with investors concerned about the impact President Donald Trump’s trade policy may have on companies and the broader economy, while Marvell Technology’s revenue forecast sparked concerns about spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Below are investor comments about the selloff, which saw the S&P 500…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk, who is advising President Donald Trump on plans to radically shrink the U.S. government said Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service and passenger railroad Amtrak should be privatized. “I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” Musk said at a Morgan Stanley conference….
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s satellite company SpaceX said Wednesday its Starlink unit has no intent to take over any Federal Communications Commission telecommunications contract, rejecting media reports. “Starlink is a possible partial fix to an aging system. There is no effort or intent for Starlink to ‘take over’ any existing contract,” SpaceX wrote on X….
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – SpaceX is planning to invest at least $1.8 billion to build new Starship launchpads and processing facilities on Florida’s Space Coast, eyeing a key expansion for the rocket program beyond Texas amid pending environmental reviews, according to the state’s governor. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been looking to build new…
By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to boast about his sweeping cuts to the federal bureaucracy during an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, with praise for tech billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump has given Musk and his DOGE team…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin plans to unveil a new “affordable” cruise missile on Monday with a cost of about $150,000 and a range of over 500 miles (800 km) as the defense contractor works to tap a U.S. need to deter Chinese ambitions in the Pacific. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed U.S. and…
