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Trump to give agencies power to fast-track big infrastructure projects, sources say

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to sign an executive order that would give federal agencies emergency powers to fast-track major energy and other infrastructure projects by overriding environmental permitting requirements, two sources familiar with the proposal said.

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Exclusive: Pompeo to urge stock exchanges globally to tighten rules for Chinese companies

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set warn American investors on Thursday against ‘fraudulent’ accounting practices of China-based companies, and suggest the Nasdaq’s recent decision to tighten listing rules for such players should be a model for all other exchanges around the world.

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America’s billionaire wealth jumps by over half a trillion during COVID-19 pandemic: report

The combined wealth of America’s billionaires, including Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg, jumped over 19% or by half a trillion since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

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