The performance profile for 2025 says a lot about the state of the market. Commodity-related ETFs are leading, non-cyclical equity ETFs are holding up the best and cyclical names are performing the worst. Clearly, this is not a positive picture for the stock market. This report will show how to interpret the performance profile and separate the leaders from the ...
President Donald Trump late Thursday signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions. The order cites his authority granted under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and will affect most of the federal government. Agencies such as the Departments of State, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Health and Human Services, ...
Despite being an ocean away, Rosie O’Donnell can’t seem to keep her mind off President Trump. The two have an ongoing feud that goes back decades, and after Trump was elected a second time, the comedian moved her family to Ireland. But she still posts anti-Trump content on her social media accounts every few days. On Thursday, the 63-year-old posted ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at restoring what he calls ‘truth and sanity’ in American history by reforming the Smithsonian Institution, protecting national monuments, and countering divisive ideology in public institutions. Trump’s order directs Vice President Vance to work on eliminating ‘improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian museums, research centers, as well as the ...
The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate’s Armed Services Committee requested the Pentagon’s inspector general probe whether classified defense information was shared on Signal, an encrypted messaging platform. ‘This chat was alleged to have included classified information pertaining to sensitive military discussions in Yemen,’ Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and ranking member Jack Reed, D-R.I., wrote in a letter to ...
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) terminated more than $330 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and gender research in the state of California alone, Fox News Digital learned Thursday. ‘HHS terminated more than $330 million in wasteful research funding to organizations in California that is ...
Eight inspectors general abruptly fired by President Donald Trump at the start of his second term appeared in federal court Thursday to challenge their dismissals — a long-shot case that nonetheless sparked fireworks during oral arguments. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes acknowledged on Thursday that it would be difficult for the court to reinstate the eight ousted inspectors generals, who ...
Gene Healy Man, libertarians are a difficult bunch. Give them a government agency tasked with “delet[ing] entire agencies,” and they’ll start yowling about the agency-deleting agency. The zanier version of John Galt has been set loose on the permanent bureaucracy, invoking Milton Friedman while he throws the US Agency for International Development (USAID) “into the woodchipper.” Yet rather than welcoming ...
Six House Democrats broke from their party on Thursday to pass a pair of bills blocking Biden administration-era green energy rules. It’s the latest rebuke from more moderate Democrats of the progressive wing of their party. One resolution, led by Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., seeks to overturn regulations imposed by former President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) for new ...
President Donald Trump announced that he asked Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to bow out of contention to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He cited the House GOP’s slim majority, writing on Truth Social, ‘I have asked Elise, as one of my biggest Allies, to remain in Congress to help me deliver Historic Tax Cuts, GREAT Jobs, Record Economic ...