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But facing the political pressure of getting confirmed by the Senate, some of those Cabinet picks are now having to moderate. “The truly shaky to get 50 votes are in full bleach mode,” said one longtime Republican consultant involved in Senate campaigns. Trump has said the United States should avoid involvement in Syria, posting on social media, “This is not our fight. Presidential nominees adjusting some of their positions to get Senate support is nothing new. Trump said during the campaign — and echoed in recent weeks — that cuts to programs like Social Security are off the table.

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President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to his inauguration in January, though it's unclear if he plans to attend. “That is true, yes, and this is an example of President Trump creating an open dialogue with leaders of countries that are not just allies but our adversaries and our competitors, too," she said. Trump has long touted his close relationship with Xi, whom he hosted at Mar-a-Lago in 2017. Xi congratulated Trump after his election victory last month, but it is not clear whether the two men have spoken. Xi told President Joe Biden last month that he would work with the incoming Trump administration and that “China’s goal of a stable, healthy and sustainable China-U.S. relationship remains unchanged.”

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☆ Trump rings bell at NYSE to cheers of 'USA' as Wall Street CEOs, business leaders look on
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Trump was flanked by Vice President-elect JD Vance , incoming first lady Melania Trump , NYSE President Lynn Martin and two of Trump's children, Ivanka and Tiffany, as the bell chimed. "We're going to give tremendous incentive like no other country has," Trump told the moneyed crowd, including by cutting taxes "very substantially." It's hard to bring things down once they're up," Trump told the magazine. Hedge fund magnate Bessent, Trump's pick to replace Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary, told Cramer the next administration will benefit both Wall Street and Main Street. "I think we're going to see under President Trump Wall Street can win and Main Street can win, just like we did in Trump 1.0.

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☆ What a small group of America's centimillionaires believe about bitcoin and its political future
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Here is how one group of initially skeptical centimillionaires got over their doubts, how they are now thinking about bitcoin, and how they invest in it. AdvertisementThe group's members, which make up a diverse bunch, range from 30 to 87 years old with the average being 45 to 55. But bitcoin's future price prospect isn't the only draw for R360 members. This perception isn't new or unique to R360 members. They're making their voice heard, 'this candidate, yes, because they're supportive of bitcoin, and this candidate, no, because they're not.'

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☆ Private credit firms are hot acquisition targets. As M&A ramps up next year, here are the firms likely to be bought.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Michelle Abrego | Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Private credit firms with $30 billion to $70 billion in assets will be the firms to watch. And it's not just the traditional money managers, private equity firms are also using acquisitions to strengthen their private credit capabilities and market presence. McGahan said private credit firms with between $30 billion and $70 billion in assets under management will be the ones to watch. If you're a private equity manager, you're paid with carried interest, or a percentage of profits generated from the firm's investments. He added there are also operational differences and gave the example of a private credit firm using treasury functions daily versus a private equity firm that uses a couple times a month.

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☆ Overdraft fees crackdown: Biden administration sets new rules for banks
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized a rule that curbs excessive overdraft fees charged to customers of large banks and credit unions, potentially saving consumers as much as $5 billion a year. The rule, unveiled Thursday, would cap overdraft fees at $5 — a substantial savings from the $35 that customers are typically charged. Additional options for banks would allow them to either cap fees at amounts that just cover their costs or to treat an overdraft like any other loan by disclosing terms like interest rates. “That is real relief for families.”Banking trade groups are against the new rule, saying that the agency’s proposed rule could backfire. Congress created the bureau in 2010 to protect consumers from financial scams.

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☆ Biden admin says it is surging deliveries to Ukraine as Trump criticizes decision to allow US weapons to strike inside Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Jennifer Hansler | Haley Britzky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In the latest show of support for Ukraine, the Biden administration plans to announce an expected $500 million aid package in coming days that will pull equipment out of the US military’s stocks. And the senior administration official told CNN that the administration is pouring resources into getting previously announced weapons for Ukraine into Kyiv’s hands before Biden leaves office. “DoD is undertaking a historic effort to move massive quantities of weapons into Ukraine in the next five weeks,” the senior administration official said. He said in the interview that he “vehemently” disagreed with the decision by the Biden administration to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with US-provided weapons. But still, the biggest challenge facing Ukraine is not its weapons stocks, the senior administration official said — it’s manpower.

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☆ Here’s what could get significantly more expensive under Trump’s tariff plan
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“The only certainty is that new tariffs will be costly for the United States,” the researchers concluded. More than half (56%) of shoes sold in the United States are made in China, the trade group said. China’s “dominant position” in toymaking would be difficult to replicate in a way that meets US product safety standards, the Peterson Institute research found. The United States relies on Mexico for 89% of its imported avocados and 91% of foreign-grown tomatoes, according to the US Department of Agriculture. On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to make prices plunge and stressed that his tariff plan would not reignite inflation.

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☆ CNBC's Inside India newsletter: India's central bank has a new governor. Three experts reveal what they'd do in his shoes
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Amala Balakrishner | In Amala-Balakrishner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Sanjay Malhotra, governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), during a news conference in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. India's newly-appointed central bank governor Malhotra said he will look to uphold stability and continuity in policy in his role. The government's latest move to replace Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das with Sanjay Malhotra appears to be a calculated, yet subtle, way to address the weakness in India's economy. However, he underscored the key role that stability, trust and growth hold in guiding the central bank's decisions. "On day one it may not be appropriate to start with bouncers, googlies and yorkers," the 26th RBI governor said in a live press conference on Wednesday.

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☆ Wray’s departure will cement Trump’s control over the institutions of US justice
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —FBI Director Christopher Wray’s resignation announcement was the latest, and inevitable, step in the accumulation of massive and unusual power around President-elect Donald Trump. For Trump’s supporters, Wray’s exit will represent another moment of triumph following the president-elect’s political comeback amid criminal cases that once threatened not just his political career but his liberty. They insist that Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to replace Wray, will purge what they see as the politicization of the FBI. An internal Justice Department report found that there were serious errors made in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court applications on Carter Page, a former Trump 2016 campaign adviser. In many presidencies, tensions erupt between the bureau and Justice Department and the White House, since the agencies are regarded as quasi-independent.

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☆ No one wants to own cable TV networks anymore
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

If so, consider that the people who own cable TV networks seem increasingly uninterested in hanging on to them. That's the real story behind WBD's corporate maneuvering Thursday — to make a cable TV spin-off or sale much more likely. Comcast is ditching its cable TV networks. That's because Comcast's spun-off cable TV operation will want to find other cable TV networks to add to its collection, so it can increase negotiating power. (Just Thursday, Google said it was hiking the price of its YouTube TV cable bundle by 14%.)

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☆ Cisco CEO: Business community 'upbeat' about incoming administration
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailCisco CEO: Business community 'upbeat' about incoming administrationChuck Robbins, Cisco CEO, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss the incoming presidential administration, what business leaders are expecting from this next administration, and much, much more.

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☆ Biden grants clemency for nearly 1,500 people, the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

White House officials are billing Thursday’s move as the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history. “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Biden said in a statement released shortly after CNN reported early Thursday morning on the coming announcement. With less than six weeks left until the end of Biden’s term, the president is expected to provide further relief. “I will take more steps in the weeks ahead,” Biden said. The White House counsel’s office has also been in consultation with the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney.

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☆ Sen. Bill Hagerty on Trump's crypto approach: We want to be at the cutting edge of innovation
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSen. Bill Hagerty on Trump's crypto approach: We want to be at the cutting edge of innovationSen. Bill Hagerty joins CNBC's 'The Exchange' to discuss how the incoming administration will handle crypto, how the president-elect will incentivize American investment, and more.

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☆ The market is overlooking a key risk ahead of 2025: 'Stubbornly sticky' inflation
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Bond yields, which are correlated with inflation and interest rate expectations, leaped on the news. Following this print, the market believes an interest rate cut next week is almost guaranteed. Higher prices could complicate a strong setupMajor investment firms are almost universally bullish heading into 2025, and for good reason. "And while this print shouldn't force that reality to interrupt the holiday season, investors should be [wary] of impacts higher inflation might have on their portfolios and be prepared accordingly." The former often benefits from higher inflation since a jump in oil prices would pad its profits.

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Analysts initially thought mortgage rates would drop below 6% in 2025. Investors are pricing in expectations of higher inflation under the Trump administration, which has pushed mortgage rates up. After the November presidential election, many analysts began updating their mortgage rate forecasts to reflect higher rate expectations in 2025. Revised 2025 mortgage rate forecastMany analysts were initially predicting that 30-year mortgage rates would fall below 6% in 2025. Bond yields rose in anticipation of this outcome as a Trump win became more likely, which in turn pushed mortgage rates higher.

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☆ There are 3 ways Donald Trump can reduce the risks from America's soaring debt, Pimco economist says
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Trump administration promised to reduce the US deficit to 3%. How Trump approaches his tax cut plans will matter, a Pimco economist wrote in the Financial Times. Washington's ballooning debt has prompted a lot of fear among economists and market experts, but there are ways Donald Trump's incoming administration can mitigate the impact. Doing so could yield $100 billion to $400 billion in national savings over the coming decade. Meanwhile, she cited that addressing inefficiencies in healthcare and defense could save Washington $400 billion to $500 billion annually.

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☆ Bill Ackman: Stepping into the most pro-growth, pro-business administration in my adult lifetime
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBill Ackman: Stepping into the most pro-growth, pro-business administration in my adult lifetimePershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss President-elect Trump's appearance at the New York Stock Exchange, what to look forward to in the incoming Trump administration, top administration priorities, state of the economy, economic and market outlook, and more.

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Biden administration officials said Wednesday they have no current plans to authorize a stockpiled bird flu vaccine, despite an escalating outbreak among livestock in the U.S. and at least 58 human infections across seven states. Almost all bird flu cases in the U.S. have been in farmworkers who have had contact with infected animals — either dairy cows or poultry — aside from a patient in Missouri and a child in California. The federal government has two bird flu vaccine candidates available in limited quantities in the nation’s Strategic National Stockpile, though they need to be authorized by the Food and Drug Administration before they can be used. Still, some public health experts believe the time for vaccination is now, particularly for farmworkers. In 1976, at the first signs of an H1N1 swine flu outbreak in the U.S., public health officials quickly initiated a nationwide vaccine campaign.

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North Carolina Republican lawmakers voted to override a gubernatorial veto of a bill that strips the state's incoming Democratic officials of key powers. The GOP-led state House of Representatives on Wednesday voted along party lines to override outgoing Democratic Gov. The Republican-controlled state Senate voted to override Cooper's veto last week, meaning the bill will now go into effect, though legal challenges are expected. Three state House Republicans from western North Carolina who voted against the bill originally supported the veto override on Wednesday, giving the party the three-fifths support in the chamber necessary to overrule Cooper. "The bill, to be clear, is a power grab, not disaster relief," Stein said at a Democratic Governors Association meeting last weekend in California.

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☆ How Trump's 'border czar' is envisioning his mass deportation plan: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

In today’s edition, political embed Alec Hernández sifts through 20 interviews Donald Trump's incoming "border czar," Tom Homan, has done to get a clearer sense of his mass deportation plans. Plus, chief political analyst Chuck Todd breaks down the opportunities and challenges facing Mike Duggan's independent bid for Michigan governor. In the past month, he has done at least 20 interviews, which have all been reviewed by NBC News. Tasked with coordinating Trump’s core campaign promise of a mass deportation, Homan has used the appearances to begin detailing how the efforts might take shape and how the administration will move its plan forward. While they are far from painting a complete picture, the interviews have given more specifics than have been offered about the deportation policy in the past.

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With the balance of power in northern Syria swinging toward the rebels who toppled the Assad regime, U.S.-backed Kurdish forces and their ability to contain ISIS may now be under threat. Suspected ISIS fighters in a prison cell in northeastern Syria in 2019. “One camp recognizes the historic fight with the Kurds against ISIS … and of course the other camp — where Trump probably lands — is to try and move out of Syria,” he said. Syrian Kurds fleeing areas north of Aleppo walk to the western outskirts of Raqa, on Dec. 3. Delil Souleiman / AFP via Getty ImagesIf a second Trump administration were to pull out of Syria, it would leave Kurdish forces without a major international ally.

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When Syria’s new interim prime minister, Mohammad al-Bashir, chaired a Cabinet meeting in Damascus on Tuesday, hanging behind him was the flag of the country’s suddenly victorious opposition. That path will largely depend on Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the rebel organization that led the charge into Damascus and is now stewarding Syria’s political overhaul. Its leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, said a decade ago that there would be no room for religious minorities in the Islamist Syria of which he dreamed about. The leader of Syria's Islamist HTS group, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Sunday. Aref Tammawi / AFP - Getty ImagesSome observers, such as Gerges, see the interim prime minister as little more than an Jolani figurehead.

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Even when those circumstances existed, though, agents had to get approval from superiors in order to plan an arrest in a sensitive location. The idea that Trump might allow ICE agents to arrest anywhere, even inside schools and houses of worship, without the current limitations began circulating in Project 2025, a list of policy proposals distributed by the Heritage Foundation prior to the election. Some church leaders say they have faced harassment for providing sanctuary space to migrants and are already having conversations about the impacts of a policy change on sensitive locations. The church leader asked that NBC News not use their name because of safety concerns for their congregation. One former DHS official said change the sensitive locations policy might be welcome news for some agents who have felt stymied by restrictions on where they can operate and felt the policy was “abused” by wanted individuals in the past.

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Tasked with coordinating Trump’s core campaign promise of a mass deportation, Homan has used the appearances to begin detailing how the efforts might take shape and how the administration will move its plan forward. Homan has not been as direct as Trump has about how he sees the military’s role in the operation he will oversee. Tom Homan, who does not have to face Senate confirmation, has been going on Fox News and other conservative outlets to talk about Trump's plans on immigration. Funding mass deportationA major outstanding question, however, remains how the incoming Trump administration would fund a deportation scheme at that large a scale. “For those governors and mayors who are saying they’re going to stop Tom Homan, they’re going to stop President Trump: Shame on you,” Homan said on Fox News on Nov. 20.

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