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Reuters
August 19, 2025

US Treasury chief Bessent accuses India of profiteering on Russian oil purchases

US President Donald Trump this month announced an additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian goods as a punishment for New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil

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Web Desk Karachi
June 11, 2025

2020s may be the worst economic decade since the 1960s, says World Bank

In its biannual Global Economic Prospects report, the Washington-based institution revised its 2020 global GDP growth projection downward to 2.3 percent from 2.7 percent in January.

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Reuters
June 11, 2025

US, China reach deal to ease export curbs, keep tariff truce alive

At the end of two days of intense negotiations in London, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters the framework deal puts “meat on the bones” of an agreement reached last month in Geneva to ease bilateral retaliatory tariffs that had reached crushing triple-digit levels.

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Web Desk Karachi
April 18, 2025

Deutsche Bank reports Chinese clients diversifying portfolios away from US assets

European high-quality bonds, Japanese government bonds and gold are likely to be the potential choices for investors as alternatives to Treasuries.

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Reuters
February 12, 2025

Top Trump official in Kyiv to discuss deal on minerals, energy

Zelenskiy says his team are working to set up a meeting with Trump and that it is very important that happens before the US president meets Putin.

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Reuters
November 23, 2024

Trump taps Bessent for Treasury, capping long drama over choice

The announcement – the most prominent of a flurry of Friday night appointments by Trump – caps a week where big name Wall Street luminaries’ chance at the job oscillated on a daily basis.

WEB DESK
November 20, 2024

Donald Trump cabinet: who’s been picked, who’s in the running?

WEB DESK
November 14, 2024

Donald Trump cabinet: who’s been picked, who’s in the running?

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Reuters
November 6, 2024

Candidates for top jobs in Trump’s second administration

Here are the top contenders for some of the key posts overseeing defense, intelligence, diplomacy, trade, immigration and economic policymaking. Some are in contention for a range of posts.