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The United Kingdom recorded its fastest economic growth in over a year during the first quarter of 2025, boosted by a surge in home buying ahead of a property tax deadline and increased manufacturing activity in anticipation of new United States tariffs, Reuters reported. According to the Office for National Statistics, the economy expanded by 0.7 percent between January and March, the strongest quarterly growth since early 2024. “UK gross domestic product is estimated to have grown by 0.7% in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025, unrevised from the first...

“There will be a lot of wait-and-see approach with new investments and greenfield investments,” said Sharmila Suntherasegarun from Malaysian public policy think tank IDEAS. The researcher at IDEAS’ economics and business unit added that attracting investments in research and development, as well as a higher value-added segment of semiconductors would be more challenging amid such uncertainty. Ongoing trade tensions between the US and China have also cooled the investment appetite of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). “My point is that we don't invest in uncertainty. We don't invest in possibilities....

WASHINGTON (TNND) — 100 days in office and $5 + trillion in investments. The White House released a statement Tuesday touting President Trump for securing trillions in new U.S.-based investments, setting the stage for a new age of American prosperity. "President Trump is America's businessman and chief, and that's why these trillions of dollars in investments are flooding to our country," said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.Jared Pincin, an economics professor at Cedarville University, told us that, from manufacturing to artificial intelligence, dozens of companies like Apple, Eli Lilly,...

"Louisiana wins again," was the headline as Gov. Jeff Landry and Louisiana Economic Development trumpeted the official announcement of the $5.8 billion Hyundai steel plant planned for the Donaldsonville area of Ascension Parish.President Donald Trump hosted Landry and several elected officials in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to deliver the monumental news for the state and region, which had not been seen at such a magnitude since the governor and Facebook's parent company, Meta, announced a large artificial intelligence data center in northeastern Louisiana.The first-of-its-kind Hyundai project was...

Johnson & Johnson says it will spend $55 billion in the U.S. over the next four years, including by building three new manufacturing sites and expanding others already in its medicines and medtech network. The company announced the plan in conjunction with breaking ground on a new 500,000-square-foot biologics plant in Wilson, North Carolina. In October of last year, J&J revealed its plan to spend more than $2 billion to build the facility, which will create more than 500 jobs and will produce treatments for cancer, immunology and neuroscience disorders....

"Today's proposal aims to ensure that Member States can provide support – where needed – to accompany the ambitions of the Clean Industrial Deal without causing undue distortions of competition in the Single Market," Commission Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera said in a press release. The document said that considerable investment will be needed for Europe's decarbonization effort "and for which funds will need to be mobilised, mainly from private sources, but, where necessary, incentivised or complemented by public funds." It aims to attract "risk-averse" pension funds to such investments...

CAPITAL REGION, NY (WRGB) — There are questions about the future of jobs in New York created by the CHIPS and Science Act.Tuesday night in his address to Congress President Trump asked for the money to go elsewhere.The funding has become a multi-billion dollar investment in New York.“Your CHIPS act is a horrible, horrible thing; you should get rid of the CHIPS Act, and whatever is left over, Mr. Speaker, you should use it to reduce debt,” said President Trump.Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers from New York disagree.“That's a major issue for...

Budget 2025: The Indian stock market experienced high volatility on Saturday, February 1, following the FY26 Union Budget announcement by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. While the budget introduced major changes in income tax slabs, shifting more money into the hands of middle-class consumers, market sentiment remained mixed due to concerns over government capital expenditure (capex) allocation.A key takeaway from the budget was the increase in the income tax exemption limit to ₹12 lakh, a significant move aimed at boosting household consumption, savings, and investment. There had been widespread expectations that...