(Reuters) – Over 20,000 U.S. federal employees, roughly 1% of the government workforce, have signed up for an offer to…
Month: February 2025
Elon Musk and OpenAI head to court to spar over nonprofit conversion
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – – Lawyers for Elon Musk and ChatGPT maker OpenAI are set to butt heads in the…
US banks say demand for business loans rose in Q4 -Fed survey
(Reuters) – U.S. banks say demand for business loans strengthened in the fourth quarter, with the net share of banks…
Vanguard slashes fees; expects its investors will save $350 million in 2025
(Reuters) – Asset manager Vanguard said on Monday it was lowering the cost of investing across its fund lineup in…
Trump looking to revamp USAID with Musk help, senior White House official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his team are having discussions about merging USAID into the State Department in…
Alphabet faces scrutiny on AI spending as Google cloud growth slows
By Deborah Mary Sophia and Zaheer Kachwala (Reuters) – Alphabet will face investor scrutiny over its massive spending on AI…
Ukraine says US push for truce, elections is ‘failed plan’ unless it consists of more
By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – An aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday a U.S. call for Ukraine…
China’s market regulator says ‘stabilising confidence’ key
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top financial market regulator said on Saturday that “stabilising the market, stabilising confidence and stabilising expectations”…
US Democratic lawmakers question Trump’s blockage of clean energy federal grants
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic lawmakers Friday sent letters to two federal agencies asking them to explain…
Trump orders steep tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada, China
NEW YORK (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered tariffs of 25% on Canadian and Mexican imports and 10% on…