Melania Trump, pictured in July 2024, has launched her own meme coin. Leon Neal | Getty ImagesIncoming first lady Melania Trump launched her own meme coin ahead of her husband’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States on Monday.In a Sunday evening post on the X social media platform, she announced that investors “can buy $MELANIA now.”The Melania token was trading at $10.98 at 09:45 a.m. London time on Monday, up nearly 50%, according to data from CoinMarketCap. It has a market cap of $2.11 billion..Incoming White House leader Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated for the second time…
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After Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration on Monday, Canadians will learn whether he intends to follow through on his threat to immediately impose 25 percent tariffs on exports from Canada to the United States.Many people here have told me they are looking forward to the details of the federal government’s response to any American trade action. Matina Stevis-Gridneff, our Canada bureau chief, reports that it will be much like Canada’s response to the tariffs on aluminum and steel that Mr. Trump introduced during his first administration. Any coming retaliatory tariffs, she writes, will “focus on goods made in Republican or…
View ahead of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 15th, 2024.Adam Galici | CNBCLONDON — It’s that time of year when the great and the good gather for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.A slew of heads of state, politicians and business moguls are set to attend the four-day event in the Alpine resort — but what might be more telling is which leaders are sidestepping the forum.While Donald Trump, who is being inaugurated as U.S. president on Monday, is expected to address the forum via live video link on Thursday, a number…
Follow live updates on the deal for a cease-fire in Gaza.It is almost over, the end so close they can practically feel the keys they have kept all these months sliding into the locks of their old homes, the doorknobs turning in their hands, the beds they will sink into for their first night’s peaceful rest in more than 15 months — their own beds. Just a couple more days to go.Two nights before the first stage of a cease-fire in Gaza was announced, Layan al-Mohtaseb, 15, dreamed of being back in her bedroom in Gaza City, cleaning it as…
U.S. President Donald Trump at a press conference at the end of the NATO summit in July 12, 2018.Bernd von Jutrczenka | dpa | picture alliance | Getty ImagesU.S. President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday, and much of the world is watching on with bated breath.The prospect of more unpredictable foreign and trade policies, particularly the threat of universal trade tariffs of 10-20%, has stoked concerns internationally and spooked financial markets. But Trump’s transactional approach and his “America First” policy are not universally feared.In fact, many countries welcome a new era that’s being labeled “Trump 2.0.””Trump’s…
Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesChina’s Vice President Han Zheng met on Sunday with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other members of the U.S. business community in Washington D.C., the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.Han told Musk he “welcomed Tesla and other U.S. companies to seize the opportunities and share in the benefits of China’s development, and contribute to the growth of China-U.S. economic and trade relations,” the report said.U.S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the inauguration after winning last year’s presidential election. Xi has sent Han in his place. Source link
Could this be the year, as President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised, when Russia’s war against Ukraine is brought to an end?The possibility of peace brings “tears to my eyes,” said Valeria, 30, an English teacher from eastern Ukraine.As Mr. Trump prepares to return to the White House on Monday, he is promising peace in Ukraine, but publicly offering no strategy for how to achieve it — aside from his stated desire to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. So Ukrainians can only guess at what the coming months will bring.No one, Valeria said, wants peace more than…
Cho Tak Wong, the chairman of auto glass giant Fuyao Glass, bought the vacant General Motors manufacturing plant in Moraine, Ohio in 2014.The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesChinese investments in the U.S. have dramatically declined since Donald Trump’s first term. This trend is unlikely to reverse as Trump returns to the White House, analysts said.Trump has threatened additional tariffs on Chinese goods soon after his inauguration on Monday, building on an increasingly tough U.S. stance on Beijing.”That’s probably the last thing on Trump’s mind, is trying to incentivize [Chinese companies] to invest here,” said Rafiq Dossani,…
The road to the Super Bowl goes through Kansas City. After dispatching the Houston Texans, the Chiefs will play in the AFC Championship Game for a seventh straight year. They’re now just two wins away from the greatest achievement in the Super Bowl era: a three-peat. Standing in their way are the Buffalo Bills, who defeated the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night, and now have a chance to dethrone the reigning two-time champions.In the NFC, the Commanders shocked the world by upsetting the Detroit Lions on Saturday night and will try to repeat the feat next weekend against the Philadelphia…
Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesThis report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.What you need to know todayClock restarted for TikTokTikTok said in a statement on X that it’s restoring service in the U.S. after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wrote on his social media app Truth Social he would “issue an executive order on Monday” to delay a…
