Most countries prefer aligning with the U.S. over China when the White House is occupied by a Democratic leader, according to Gallup data going back to 2007.
A brighter economic outlook has helped push Social Security's projected trust fund depletion date to a year later. But there's still urgency for Congress to act.
U.S. Treasury yields were little changed after falling sharply on Friday in reaction to weaker-than-expected payroll growth and a rise in unemployment in April.
In Belgium, "we can embrace a slower pace of life and a culture that prizes friends and vacations at least as much as work," says Jessica van Dop DeJesus.
Ant introduced Alipay+ in 2020, allowing foreigners to use certain mobile payment apps from their home countries to scan Alipay QR codes to pay in China.
The criminal judgment of bitcoin billionaires Changpeng Zhao and Sam Bankman-Fried was completed this week, the final chapter in starkly different crypto sagas.