May 3, 2025

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Funds

Trump Administration Settles With Maine to Restore Frozen Funds Over Trans Athlete Feud

The Trump administration and Maine reached an agreement that restored funding for schoolchildren, Maine’s attorney general said Friday, part of a feud between the president and the state’s governor over policies on transgender athletes. The state’s attorney general, Aaron M. Frey, said his office had withdrawn a lawsuit it filed in objection to the funding

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Funds

Trump wants to stop funding NPR, PBS. Will order affect Mississippi?

President Donald Trump signs order to cut PBS and NPR funding President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stop directly funding PBS and NPR. President Trump signed an executive order to defund NPR and PBS, claiming left-wing bias. A Pew Research poll shows more Americans support continued federal funding for public broadcasting than oppose

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Mortgage

Mortgage rates dipped. Is it enough help the housing market?

How to use a bolt, nut, screw gauge Using a bolt, nut and screw gauge takes the guesswork out of your project, helping you quickly identify the exact size you need. Rates for home loans dipped, but consumers’ economic uncertainty continues to weigh down the housing market. In the week ending May 1, 30-year fixed-rate

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Funds

MA Gov. Healey talks about Trump’s 100 days

Sam Drysdale  |  State House News Service As President Donald Trump passes 100 days in his second term in office, Gov. Maura Healey says she’s still willing to work with him, but called his administration “a disaster” so far. “I said at the outset that I would work with this administration where it benefits Massachusetts,

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Crypto

Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm

The pitch from “ZMoney” arrived on the encrypted messaging app Signal just days before Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration. “ZMoney” was Zachary Folkman, an entrepreneur who once ran a company called Date Hotter Girls and was now representing World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency firm that Mr. Trump and his sons had recently unveiled. Mr. Folkman

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Investment

$100B US investment hinges on federal support

Nichola Groom  |  Reuters April 29 — Manufacturers and developers of U.S. energy storage projects said their industry will invest $100 billion this decade to create a wholly domestic battery supply chain, but warned the goal was contingent on support from Washington. The American Clean Power Association, a trade group that represents energy storage companies, said

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Investors

Are Things Finally About to Be Normal Again for Investors?

Investors’ fever dream could soon be over. Markets have been cast into the world of the bizarre over the last few weeks. An escalating trade war with China has led to a staggering 125% tariff on goods from one of America’s biggest trading partners. Most countries worldwide were — and may still be, come July

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Investors

Cooling trade tensions bring investors back as Wall Street surges

Benzinga  |  Detroit Free Press Trump suggests China tariffs will ‘come down substantially’ President Donald Trump suggested the China tariffs will “come down substantially.” Reports suggested China is considering suspending its 125% tariff on select U.S. imports, following indications that Washington may cut tariffs on Chinese goods. The S&P 500 has now recouped nearly 80%

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Crypto

Three ways tariffs could upend the crypto market in 2025

Dominic Basulto  |  The Motley Fool Trump’s cryptocurrency sees 70% value jump after VIP dinner offer The value of Trump’s meme coin has seen a huge value increase as he prepares to host two special events for its top investors. Crypto trading platform Coinbase revealed that ‘$Trump’ soared after he announced that 220 of its biggest

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Investors

Are Investors Losing Faith In The U.S. Financial System?

Sir Thomas Gresham’, (1897). English merchant and financier Gresham (circa 1519-1579) was the … More founder of the Royal Exchange in London. From Old and New London, Volume I, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1897]Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) Getty Images I had intended to write

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