... ration in federal court, Reuters reports. Other states controlled by Democrats are expected to join the effort. “We are prepared, we knew something like this might happen. And with our sister state pa ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-18
... Also, the Federal Reserve has slowed its pace in hiking interest rates, leading to a decline in US treasury yield. But will capital continue to flow into emerging markets? A few things could stop this ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-15
... at the US Federal Trade Commission and Facebook had not agreed on an amount, citing two people it said were familiar with the matter. Facebook reported fourth-quarter revenue of US$16.9 billion and pr ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-15
US President Donald Trump will sign a border security and federal spending bill to avert another government shutdown but will declare a national emergency to try to obtain funds for his promised borde ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-15
... speech by Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has even encouraged the markets to speculate on a possible reversal of the central bank policy stance. If the Fed does slow down its interest rate incr ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-14
... . 20 in a federal court in Newark, New Jersey. The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed related civil charges in the case, one of the rare instances of a senior lawyer at a major US company bei ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-14
... by the US Federal Reserve, know such a situation cannot be sustainable in the long term; indeed, this had always been termed an “unconventional” policy. If rates have been rising over the past two yea ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
... ay by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, showed that the overall debt shouldered by Americans edged up to a record US$13.5 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2018. It has risen consistently since 20 ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
... Jurors in federal court in Brooklyn convicted Guzman, 61, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, on all 10 counts brought by US prosecutors. Richard Donoghue, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
... New Deal, federal spending never went above the 1934 level of 10.7 percent. Even considering the extraordinary cost of the Second World War period, public spending went from a maximum of 43.6 percent ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order asking federal government agencies to dedicate more resources and investment into research, promotion and training on artificial intellige ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
... n, the US Federal Reserve’s policy trajectory, ongoing trade wars, Italian budget and debt woes, China’s slowdown, and emerging-market fragilities led to a sharp fall in global equity markets toward t ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-11
... ccounts,” Federal Cartel Office chief Andreas Mundt said. Facebook said it would appeal the decision, the culmination of a three-year probe, saying the regulator underestimated the competition it face ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-08
... y partial federal government shutdown that ended on Jan. 25. If lawmakers cannot reach a deal on the border security situation by Feb. 15, Trump has threatened to let the government shut down again or ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-04
... as the US Federal Reserve demonstrated in the early 1930s. Nor are such asset purchases illegal, as some insisted. The ECB, like the Fed and the Bank of Japan (BOJ), is not allowed to buy government b ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-01
... low-wage federal employees who do not get paid on time (as well as employees of federal contractors, who probably will never be paid for January). It is outrageous that the federal government is perm ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-01
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday dropped its pledge of "further gradual increases" in interest rates, and said it will be "patient" before making any further moves. Following a two-day policy meeti ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-31
... e 800,000 federal workers going unpaid, including 380,000 furloughed workers. Trump on Friday signed a measure to fund the government for three weeks as congressional negotiators try to hammer out a b ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
... s for the Federal Circuit reversed that verdict in March 2018 and set the stage for a jury trial to determine monetary damages. Google said the Federal Circuit’s ruling in favor of Oracle was a “devas ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-25
... t 800,000 federal workers without pay hit its 33rd day, Pelosi effectively disinvited Trump from delivering the annual State of the Union address in the House chamber until the government is fully ope ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
