As President Donald Trump edges closer to potentially bombing Tehran, Iran, the intelligence community does not yet believe Iran is moving toward a nuclear weapon. ‘If they don’t do a deal, there will be bombing,’ Trump said Sunday. It was not clear whether that meant Israel or the U.S. would bomb Tehran. ‘There’s a chance that if they don’t make ...
Chris Edwards President Trump is moving to shut down the federal Department of Education. Congress will need to make any cuts permanent, but downsizing the federal education bureaucracy is a long-overdue reform. The department, however, is not the only way that the federal government intervenes in the nation’s schools. The government also spends $35 billion a year on school food ...
Aston Martin Lagonda has secured a fresh £125 million capital injection as executive chairman Lawrence Stroll and his Yew Tree Consortium deepen their financial backing of the iconic but loss-making British carmaker. The latest round of fundraising comes from two sources: the £74 million sale of Aston Martin’s stake in Stroll’s privately owned Formula 1 team, and £52.5 million raised ...
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is celebrating what it calls a “green signal for competition” after the UK rail regulator confirmed that there is enough capacity at Eurostar’s London maintenance depot to support rival high-speed train services through the Channel Tunnel. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) announced that the Temple Mills depot in northeast London — currently leased ...
UK house prices climbed 3.9 per cent year-on-year in March as a flurry of buyers rushed to complete property purchases ahead of stamp duty threshold changes coming into effect on April 1, according to the latest figures from Nationwide. The average price of a UK home now stands at £271,316, unchanged from February, but flat month-on-month as momentum slowed towards ...
Food inflation in the UK edged higher in March as Britons splashed out early on Easter eggs and seasonal confectionery, pushing up prices of chocolate and sweets across supermarket shelves. According to the latest data from Kantar, grocery inflation rose to 3.5% in the four weeks to 23 March, up from 3.3% the previous month. Overall supermarket sales grew by ...
Finding stocks that show promising opportunities can be challenging in a market that goes up and down based on news headlines. But, it’s possible. In this video, watch how Grayson Roze and David Keller, CMT use the tools available in StockCharts to find stocks that are breaking out, displaying relative strength setups, and exhibiting moving average signals. Be sure to ...
The UK government has set out the scope of its upcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, a major piece of legislation aimed at strengthening the country’s digital defences and safeguarding critical national infrastructure against growing cyber threats. Due to be introduced later in 2025, the Bill will introduce mandatory cybersecurity requirements for around 1,000 service providers and extend new protections ...
House Republicans are going all out this week to signal their support for the Trump administration amid multiple legal standoffs over White House policy. A bill to limit U.S. district court judges’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions sailed through the House Rules Committee – the last gatekeeper for bills before a chamber-wide vote – in a party-line vote Monday evening, ...
President Trump stirs up controversy, by design, on just about everything. And when the media, including me, cover this flood-the-zone approach, Trumpian allies rip the resulting stories and segments as reflecting an unhealthy negative obsession with the president. Memo to the pro-Trump zealots who go online and declare I hate the president, that’s objectively ridiculous. He was pleased with the ...