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The rise in “sell America” chatter this year seems to have been matched by investor appetite for non-US stocks. Flows into non-US exchange-traded funds hit more than $20 billion in June, the second-highest monthly amount ever, according to data from State Street. State Street Investment Management The flows into non-US stocks accounted for 45% of […]
(Reuters) -U.S. equity funds attracted strong inflows in the week to July 2, as U.S. stocks hit record highs on AI optimism, even as a 90-day pause on U.S. reciprocal tariffs is nearing its July 9 expiry with little progress in trade talks. According to LSEG Lipper data, investors acquired a hefty $31.6 billion worth […]
STEM degrees provide good pay and job security for students who earn them, and they are essential to U.S. competitiveness in the global economy. However, most U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors leave college without a . . .
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation grant funding. Chief US District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, granted the states’ request for an injunction barring the Department of Transportation’s policy, saying the […]
The Trump administration and Maine reached an agreement that restored funding for schoolchildren, Maine’s attorney general said Friday, part of a feud between the president and the state’s governor over policies on transgender athletes. The state’s attorney general, Aaron M. Frey, said his office had withdrawn a lawsuit it filed in objection to the funding […]
The White House says Cornell University’s $1bn and Northwestern University’s $790m in federal funding have been blocked. The United States government has frozen more than $1bn in federal funding for Cornell University and about $790m for Northwestern University to investigate alleged civil rights violations, according to the White House. The development follows threats by the […]
The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funding from New York’s mass transit network if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not respond to a series of demands about efforts to prevent crime on the city’s subway and buses. Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said in a letter that the M.T.A. must provide a […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked the US federal government for $40 billion (£31.6b) in funds to help rebuild areas of Los Angeles devastated by January fires. Newsom sent the request to congressional leaders in a letter on Friday. He said the funds would help both immediate and long-term recovery work. “I’m asking Congress to […]
The Trump administration plans to all but eliminate the office that oversees America’s recovery from the largest disasters, raising questions about how the United States will rebuild from hurricanes, wildfires and other calamities made worse by climate change. The Office of Community Planning and Development, part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, pays […]
The Vietnam War ended half a century ago, but American weapons from that era continue to kill people to this day. Unexploded bombs rained down by American troops are littered across large swaths of Vietnam and neighboring Cambodia and Laos. They have killed tens of thousands and maimed many more since the fighting ended. People […]