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Markets fret as Trump agenda shows signs of cracks

EghtesadOnline: The steepest pullback in stocks since the U.S. presidential election reveals investor angst about President Donald Trump 's ability to push through major reforms, leaving stocks vulnerable to a long-anticipated correction.
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Publish Date:22/March/2017 | 07:42

Supreme Court reins in president's appointment powers

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put new restrictions on presidential powers, limiting a president's authority to staff certain top government posts in a case involving an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board.
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Publish Date:22/March/2017 | 06:35

U.S. farm heartland lobbies to steer Trump away from Mexico trade war

EghtesadOnline: Farmers in the U.S. agricultural heartland that helped elect Donald Trump are now pushing his administration to avoid a trade dispute with Mexico, fearing retaliatory tariffs that could hit over $3 billion in U.S. exports.
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Publish Date:22/March/2017 | 06:33

Trump's Russian imbroglio prompts Republican rethink on surveillance law

EghtesadOnline: Some Republican lawmakers appear to be reassessing whether to make changes to a surveillance law that allows broad snooping of Internet communications, citing concerns over the handling of classified intercepts after leaks of conversations between Russian officials and American associates of President Donald Trump .
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Publish Date:20/March/2017 | 23:21

Trump's net worth dwindled to $3.5 billion, Forbes says

EghtesadOnline: While Donald Trump 's political fortunes were rising, his net worth was dropping to a mere $3.5 billion, or roughly a third of what he claimed during his successful campaign for the U.S. presidency, according to the latest Forbes list of the world's billionaires.
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Publish Date:20/March/2017 | 23:06

Fed on track to raise U.S. rates twice more this year: Evans

EghtesadOnline: The Federal Reserve is on track to raise interest rates twice more this year after a policy tightening last week, and it could be more or less aggressive depending on inflation and fiscal policies from the Trump administration, a Fed rate-setter said on Monday.
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Publish Date:20/March/2017 | 22:54

Democrats raise doubts about Trump's high court nominee Gorsuch

EghtesadOnline: Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump 's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Monday emphasized the need for judicial independence even as Trump castigates jurists who have ruled against him, while Democrats questioned whether he would rule against abortion rights and gun control while favoring corporations.
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Publish Date:20/March/2017 | 21:45

House intelligence panel chairman says there was no wiretap on Trump Tower

EghtesadOnline: The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee flatly denied on Monday that there had been a wiretap on President Donald Trump 's Trump Tower in New York, but said it was possible other surveillance was used against Trump.
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Publish Date:20/March/2017 | 21:42

NY attorney general hires former federal prosecutor as he pursues Trump

EghtesadOnline: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has been looking into investments of U.S. President Donald Trump and other matters related to the Trump administration, on Monday said he has hired two lawyers with federal government experience.
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Publish Date:20/March/2017 | 21:41

Pressure builds on Trump to back off wiretap accusations

EghtesadOnline: U.S. lawmakers from both parties said on Sunday they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion.
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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 22:48

Tillerson Reassures Xi on Trump Meeting in 24-Hour Beijing Trip

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used a 24-hour trip to Beijing to smooth the way for an expected meeting next month between the leaders of the world’s biggest economies, amid tensions over trade policy and North Korea.
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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 22:34

Trump Haters Spent Millions Making Protest Signs

EghtesadOnline: Here’s one gauge of the rekindled American enthusiasm for political protest: Sales of poster boards, markers and other sign-making supplies jumped more than 30 percent in the week before Donald Trump ’s inauguration and the Jan. 21 Women’s March, according to data from the NPD Group, which tracks sales of consumer goods.
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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 22:15

Justice Dossier Said Unlikely to Sway Lawmakers on Trump Wiretap

EghtesadOnline: A classified dossier the Justice Department sent to Congress isn’t likely to change the position of key lawmakers that there’s no evidence that President Donald Trump was placed under surveillance last year by his predecessor, according to a U.S. official.
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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 21:58

Port Teeming With Porsches Fears Trump’s German Trade Stance

EghtesadOnline: When Michael von Harten started loading cars onto ships in the German port of Bremerhaven 27 years ago, the facility handled some 700,000 vehicles a year. That number has since surged to 2.1 million, fueled by a dramatic increase in trade that has created thousands of jobs and shored up the local economy.
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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 21:56