Customers check out vegetables and other groceries at a supermarket in Tokyo on June 20, 2025. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. It has stayed put … Read more
U.S. Steel shares stopped trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday after Japan’s Nippon Steel completed its acquisition of the iconic American industrial name. President Donald Trump has insisted for weeks that the companies would form a “partnership” in which U.S. Steel would remain American-owned. But the New York Stock Exchange notified the … Read more
Rolls of steel are seen before the US president speaks during a rally at US Steel – Irvin Works in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images U.S. Steel shares stopped trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday after Japan’s Nippon Steel … Read more
US President Donald Trump receives a gold helmet with his name on it during a visit to US Steel – Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, May 30, 2025, to mark the ‘partnership’ between Nippon Steel and US Steel. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday … Read more