After a late-year rally fueled by the U. S. election pushed stocks to surprising new peaks, investors are wary that the market could be primed for a spill to start 2017. The benchmark S&P 500 .SPX is...
President-elect Donald Trump is claiming another victory: Sprint will bring back 5,000 jobs to the U. S. "They're taking them from other countries. They're bringing them back to the United States,"...
The dollar inched higher against the yen and a handful of other major currencies on Tuesday in trade curtailed by holidays in financial centres in Europe and Asia. Going into the final week of 2017,...
WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration is dismantling an inactive national registry that was used to track foreign visitors from a designated list of countries, most of which have Muslim-majority...
U. S. Gulf Coast refiners are cashing in on rising fuel demand from Mexico, shipping record volumes to a southern neighbor that has failed to expand its refining network to supply a fast-growing...
President Barack Obama on Friday all but named Russian President Vladimir Putin as behind Moscow's alleged attempts to meddle in the US election, vowing retaliation for the moves and defending...
Donald Trump is not even President yet, but he's already turning US foreign policy on two of the biggest challenges to American power -- China and Russia -- on its head. In just five weeks as...
Press conferences are rare events for president-elect Donald Trump. Since he beat Hilary Clinton, his media appearances have been restricted to television interviews and the occasional audiences with...
In an unprecedented public display of acrimony, President-elect Donald Trump and the CIA are engaged in a war of words over the extent and details of Russian efforts to interfere with the American...
Donald Trump has poured fresh scorn on US intelligence claims of Russian hackers meddling in the US election. He tweeted: “Can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and WE tried to...
US President-elect Donald Trump is expected to appoint another Goldman Sachs executive to his administration. Despite vilifying the Wall Street bank while campaigning, he is tipped to pick Goldman...
The White House says it has sought to reassure China after President-elect Donald Trump's phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. The call last week sparked alarm as the US does not have...
It is particularly difficult to foretell what the foreign policy of a US president-elect will be. We have plenty of examples of US presidents who – after coming into office – did not follow...
Republicans in the U. S. Congress hope to convince President-elect Donald Trump to support an untested strategy of using the tax code to promote exports while slashing corporate taxes, framing it as...
President-elect Donald Trump, who raged against the elite as a candidate, is populating his administration with the ultra-rich. On Wednesday, he named billionaire Wilbur Ross, who has made a fortune...
The director of the CIA has warned US President-elect Donald Trump that ending the Iran nuclear deal would be “disastrous” and “the height of folly”. In a BBC interview, John Brennan also...
Deporting criminals is one area where President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump agree. Donald Trump has vowed to kick off his presidency by swiftly kicking out one segment of the...
The 1,400 of workers building furnaces for Carrier in Indianapolis are at the center of a high-profile tug of war between President-elect Donald Trump and the plant's corporate parent, United...
President-elect Donald Trump has named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the UN, praising his former critic as "a proven dealmaker". She is the first non-white female...
An ambitious Asia-Pacific trade pact linking the United States and 11 countries lay in tatters on Tuesday after U. S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would kill the deal on his first day in...
