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Fannie-Freddie Overhaul Is 'Very Important' Goal, Mnuchin Says

EghtesadOnline: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said overhauling the mortgage-finance system is “very important” to President Donald Trump ’s administration and that officials are working with congressional leaders and other regulators to figure out what to do with mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Publish Date:22/April/2017 | 05:30

Trump Mulls Military Options for North Korea. They're All Grim.

EghtesadOnline: Three weeks before becoming president, Donald Trump weighed in on the threat of North Korea developing a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the U.S.: “It won’t happen,” he vowed on Twitter.
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Publish Date:19/April/2017 | 07:00

U.S. Says It's Encouraged by China's Help Pressing N. Korea

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. has gotten encouraging signs that China will act to pressure Kim Jong Un’s regime to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, a State Department official said, but the Trump administration is holding on to military action -- alone or with allies -- as an option.
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Publish Date:18/April/2017 | 06:01

Exxon, Shell Join Ivanka Trump to Defend Paris Climate Pact

EghtesadOnline: As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers.
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Publish Date:18/April/2017 | 05:46

Pence Visits North Korea Border, `Heartened' by China Moves

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence encouraged China to take action against North Korea while he met with troops a day after Kim Jong Un’s regime defied the Trump administration with a ballistic missile test.
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Publish Date:17/April/2017 | 05:15

Trump Is Willing to Consider a Sudden Strike on North Korea

EghtesadOnline: In the wake of North Korea’s failed medium-range missile test this weekend, President Donald Trump is willing to consider ordering “kinetic” military action, including a sudden strike, to counteract North Korea’s destabilizing actions in the region, said a person familiar with the White House’s thinking.
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Publish Date:17/April/2017 | 05:07

NIOC's South Pars Gas Deal With Total Finalized

EghtesadOnline: The National Iranian Oil Company and French energy giant Total S.A. are poised to finalize a major gas deal in the next few days, defying US President Donald Trump 's antics against Tehran which have caused uncertainty among multinationals over economic ties with the oil-rich country.
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Publish Date:16/April/2017 | 06:34

North Korea Defies Trump With Missile Test

EghtesadOnline: North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile on Sunday morning that exploded almost immediately after launch, defying warnings from the Trump administration to avoid any further provocations.
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Publish Date:16/April/2017 | 03:56

Trump administration says no U.S. trading partners manipulate currency

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump 's administration declined to name any major trading partner as a currency manipulator in a highly anticipated report on Friday, backing away from a key Trump campaign promise to slap such a label on China.
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Publish Date:15/April/2017 | 05:30

China Warns of War Risk as Trump Rattles Saber at North Korea

EghtesadOnline: China warned that a war on the Korean Peninsula would have devastating consequences as the U.S. threatened military retaliation against North Korea if it proceeds with a nuclear test this weekend.
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Publish Date:15/April/2017 | 04:57

U.S.-Russia relations at another low after Syria attacks

EghtesadOnline: The presidents of the United States and Russia on Wednesday both presented souring views of the relationship between their two countries, exchanging sharp words as Moscow extended an icy welcome to the United States' top diplomat in a face-off over Syria.
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Publish Date:13/April/2017 | 09:31

Xi Urges North Korea Talks in Trump Call as Tensions Mount

EghtesadOnline: Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that talks were the only way to ease concerns over North Korea, after the U.S. leader sent warships to the region and warned he was ready to act without Beijing.
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Publish Date:12/April/2017 | 09:00

China offers concessions to avert trade war with U.S.: FT

EghtesadOnline: China will offer the Trump administration better market access for financial sector investments and U.S. beef exports to help avert a trade war, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing officials familiar with the matter.
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Publish Date:10/April/2017 | 04:54

Xi Buys Time With Trump as Tensions Loom Over North Korea

EghtesadOnline: After predicting a “very difficult” encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Donald Trump emerged from their first meeting hailing an “outstanding relationship” between chiefs of the world’s biggest economies.
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Publish Date:10/April/2017 | 04:45