Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries surged to a record in February, its fifth straight monthly rise, Treasury Department data released on Wednesday showed. Holdings totaled $7.965 trillion, up from a revised $7.945 trillion in January. Treasuries owned by foreigners rose 8.7% from a year earlier.
The vigil took place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17 at the department's Workers Memorial, located on Afton Mountain on Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. The event was part of Work Zone Awareness Week, which has taken place every year since 1997.
Washington is hardly the nation’s glamor center, and even so, visits by foreign dignitaries usually produce more style than substance. Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida’s state visit this week, however, was one of the most consequential in years. The understated leader of America’s largest Asian ally announced a series of agreements with President Biden that were unimaginable a few years ago. Japan’s quiet revolution in foreign policy is altering Asian politics and thwarting Xi Jinping’s...
Five people were killed in work zone crashes last year on West Virginia highways.
Change to civil code will bring Japan into line with other G7 countries, amid concerns existing law inflicts psychological harm on childrenDivorced couples in Japan will for the first time be able to negotiate joint custody of their children after parliament voted this week for changes to laws permitting only sole custody.Under Japan’s civil code, couples must decide which parent will take custody of their children when their marriage ends – a requirement that critics say causes children...
A new study has placed Denmark first in the Nordic region and 17th in the world in terms of popularity among foreign workers.
International tourist arrivals to the Mekong Delta reached a modest 2.1 million in 2023
In the central living area of a traditional Mong ethnic house in Lao Xa Village, Sung La Commune, located in Dong Van District of Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam, over a dozen guests congregated around hot dinner trays prepared by a millennial local man and his wife.
The Bank of Japan has decided to keep its monetary policy framework unchanged, as widely expected. The central bank held its interest rate settings steady, while it dropped a reference to buying roughly the same amount of government bonds as previously. Haslinda Amin reports on Bloomberg Television.
IBM separately announced it would buy HashiCorp, which sells software to manage cloud-computing operations, for $6.4 billion.
Bfsg LLC bought a new stake in shares of ASML Holding (NASDAQ:ASML – Free Report) in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund bought 488 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $369,000. A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have […]
An electrical motor incident happened on a stone crushing line at the plant