Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chairman Thomas J. Jordan speaks at the SNB’s General Meeting of Shareholders on Friday. Jordan said that the SNB will continue to monitor inflation, adding that the bank can “adjust policy again when necessary.” The SNB surprised markets in March when…
Chevron beat earnings expectations Friday, but its profit fell from the year-ago period as its refineries and international gas business faced headwinds.The oil major’s net income declined 16% to $5.5 billion, or 2.97 per share, compared with the same quarter a year ago. Excluding one-time items, Chevron reported earnings of…
When President Joe Biden visited Virginia to commemorate Earth Day on Monday, he was joined by Sen. Bernie Sanders, a key architect of the clean energy proposals that Biden was rolling out. But those weren’t the only items on the Vermont independent’s mind. Sanders, according to people familiar with the…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is banning noncompete clauses in employment contracts. Such agreements have two basic purposes: One is to prevent an employee who possesses proprietary information from leaving a company to go to work for a direct competitor or to start a competing outfit. The ban is for…
JPMorgan’s market capitalisation is now greater than that of the top ten euro-zone banks, underlining the enormous gap in progress that EU banks have made since the global financial crisis. One policy response to that, in 2014, was the launching of the capital markets union (CMU) which was headlined by…
Lily Allen is happy to leave her kids in economy while she flies first class.Speaking on a new episode of her podcast “Miss Me?” the singer joked that she doesn’t even want to sit with her kids. But Allen said she’s not a fan of people boasting on social media about…
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View MoreThe Supreme Court appeared ready to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and the broad protections he has sought to shut down his federal election subversion case, but also reluctant to give special counsel Jack Smith carte blanche to pursue those charges. After nearly three hours of oral arguments, several of the justices seemed willing to embrace a result that could jeopardize the ability to hold a trial before the November election. The court’s conservatives aggressively questioned the lawyer representing the special counsel, seemingly embracing a central theme that had been raised by Trump that without at…
The Department of Justice doubled down on its decision to not release the audio files of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur to House Republicans, stating that…
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