Canada PM Carney Visits China to Rebuild Trade Ties
A leader of the Canadian government is visiting China this week for the first time in nearly a decade, a bid to rebuild his country's fractured relations with the world's second-largest economy - and reduce Canada's dependence on the United States, its neighbor and until...
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Trump Warns Credit Card Firms Over Jan. 20 Rate Cap
President Donald Trump on Sunday said credit card companies would be in violation of the law if they failed to comply with his demand by Jan. 20 for a 10% cap on interest rates, even as legal and financial observers said...
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell Under Criminal Investigation
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony about the Fed's building renovations.
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Mortgage Rates Drop to Lowest Level in Nearly 3 Years
Mortgage rates fell sharply on Friday after President Donald Trump said he is directing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a rare federal push into the housing-finance pipeline that is already reshaping rate expectations and...
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