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Bessent Cools Yen Intervention Speculation, Touts Strong Dollar - Bloomberg
business 2026/01/28 15:27:42

Bessent Cools Yen Intervention Speculation, Touts Strong Dollar - Bloomberg

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touted a strong-dollar policy on Wednesday, offering the greenback support a day after comments by President Donald Trump had sent the US currency tumbling.

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ASML Plans About 1,700 Job Cuts in Netherlands, US as Sales Boom - Bloomberg.com
business 2026/01/28 15:21:27

ASML Plans About 1,700 Job Cuts in Netherlands, US as Sales Boom - Bloomberg.com

ASML Holding NV said it will cut about 1,700 jobs in the middle of a sales boom as part of a broad move to kill layers of management and become less bureaucratic.

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Trump proposal signals Medicare austerity - Politico
business 2026/01/28 15:00:00

Trump proposal signals Medicare austerity - Politico

Health insurers who thought Trump would rescue their Medicare businesses got a rude awakening Monday.

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Amazon layoffs: What we know so far from internal messages - Business Insider
business 2026/01/28 14:56:00

Amazon layoffs: What we know so far from internal messages - Business Insider

Amazon is laying off 16,000 corporate employees. Internal messages show that many of the affected employees had software engineering roles.

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Anthropic, Apple, OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump - TechCrunch
business 2026/01/28 14:38:23

Anthropic, Apple, OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump - TechCrunch

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.

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JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America to match $1,000 U.S. contributions to employee 'Trump accounts' - CNBC
business 2026/01/28 14:38:11

JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America to match $1,000 U.S. contributions to employee 'Trump accounts' - CNBC

Financial firms dominate the list of companies that are matching contributions for the

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