Search Results for: President Barack Obama
Obama aims to suggest cuts to Power-Plant Emissions
June 2nd, 2014
President Barack Obama will propose cutting greenhouse-gas emissions from the nation’s power plants by an average of 30 percent from 2005 levels, a key part of his plan to fight climate change that also carries political risks. The proposal ...
Roberts Reunites High Court Majority After Obamacare Vote
May 19th, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is back to being the conservative majority. Two years after the court upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law and a year after it bolstered gay rights, the five Republican-appointed justices are voting together ...
What Obama and Abe Didn’t Talk About
April 25th, 2014
As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently reminded readers, the dirtiest word an economist can call you is “Japanese.” Swedes must be stewing with regret for giving Krugman that Nobel Prize, after one of his columns likened the ...
Obama Says U.S. Ready to Move on Russia Sanctions
April 24th, 2014
President Barack Obama said the U.S. and its allies have additional sanctions against Russia ready to go as the crisis in Ukraine escalated with Ukrainian security forces moving against pro-Russian separatists. Russia has yet to act in the spirit ...
Obama Meeting With Yatsenyuk Raises Stakes in Ukraine
March 12th, 2014
Barack Obama’s meeting with Ukraine’s prime minister today raises the stakes in his attempt to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions in Crimea and preempt its spread to other countries in the region. The invitation to Prime Minister Arseniy ...
Exxon sues U.S. over $2 million Russian sanctions fine
July 21st, 2017
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday imposed a $2 million fine on Exxon Mobil Corp. for what it called a “reckless disregard” of U.S. sanctions on Russia while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the oil giant’s chief executive, ...
Trump fired top federal government lawyer
January 31st, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. It was another ...
A multibillion-dollar natural gas boom may reunify Cyprus
January 12th, 2017
A potential energy boom in Cyprus could spur a deal to reunify the ethnically-divided island after more than 40 years. A breakthrough may come at a United Nations-brokered multilateral summit in Geneva this week. The island nation has discovered ...
European bourses started the last trading day of 2016 slightly in the red
December 30th, 2016
European bourses started the last trading day of 2016 slightly in the red. The pan-European Euro Stoxx 600 was 0.06 percent lower with the major bourses trading in the red. The London Stock Exchange will close early Friday at 12:30 ...
Ruble closing year as world’s best-performing currency
December 27th, 2016
The Russian ruble is expected to be one of the strongest currencies in the world this year with the Brazilian real only trading better against the dollar. Rising oil prices and growing interest from foreign investors despite sanctions are ...
