Trump shuts down US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Protesters are calling on the Trump administration to change course and re-open the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). It is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector founded in 2011 after the Great Recession. Fox – Seattle CFPB
Gold price stalls rebounds and treads water, bracing for US-Russia bilateral talks. The US Dollar finds footing as nervousness seeps in; US Treasury yields attempt a bouce. Gold price could see a fresh leg down toward $2,850 but bullish bias remains intact. Gold price is treading water near $2,900 early Tuesday, struggling to build
Trump picks Brooke Rollins to be agriculture secretary U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday chose Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, to be Secretary of Agriculture. Brooke Rollins, who was recently confirmed as secretary of agriculture, visited Louisville Friday for the National Farm Machinery Show. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins visited
Open this photo in gallery: A cut-out of president-elect Donald Trump is displayed on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York’s Financial District on Jan. 2.Seth Wenig/The Associated Press John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires
A new, roughly 2 acre park will open in the Windsor neighborhood in east Denver after the City Council this week approved the $750,000 acquisition of vacant land. The future park, at the corner of Mississippi Avenue and Dayton Street, will be purchased almost entirely with funds from the 2018 voter-approved Parks Legacy Fund, a
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Thursday sued agencies under President Donald Trump, saying they are illegally and unconstitutionally withholding billions in federal aid from the state that had already been approved by Congress. Shapiro, a Democrat, filed the lawsuit despite the fact that federal courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration’s
As the threat of a trade war grows, Canadian investors are seeking protection in gold and in shares of companies producing goods with few substitutes, such as uranium, while looking to take advantage of a weaker loonie and expected volatility. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to implement a 25% tariff on most Canadian imports
Thames Water who is the largest water company in the UK is set to run out of cash by 24 March and the High Court has been told by not approving restructuring plans is a “risk which cannot be run.” The parent company of Thames Water (TWG), Thames Water Utilities Holdings Limited (TWUH) risks entering
New facts have emerged on how Access Bank clandestinely granted N1 billion loan to a going concern, DDSS International Company limited, using a property belonging to another company, MOB Integrated Services, run by Gbolahan Obanikoro, as collateral without the owner’s consent or knowledge. Details of the loan provided by insiders, revealed that the property, owned
He later wrote: “Robert Jenrick uniquely resigned in the national interest when he recognised the Government’s failure to make the immigration laws work (the latest IPSOS polling shows immigration continues to be seen as the biggest issue facing Britain). “I note that she remained in office, despite the ‘failure to get the job done’. This