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Month: January 2025

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Fights Over DEI Heat Up as Trump Takes Office

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Making good on one of the key promises of his campaign for a second term in the White House, Republican President Donald Trump has waged war on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. It started with an effort to purge DEI from the federa...

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FASB Eyes Standardizing Key Performance Indicators

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As part of its process to narrow priorities for 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board in November invited stakeholders to weigh in on whether certain financial key performance indicators – better known as KPIs – should be standardi...

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Trump Paves Way for Quick SEC Action on Crypto

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In his first week on the job, President Donald Trump and new decisionmakers at the Securities and Exchange Commission appear poised to act quickly to deliver some regulatory clarity on cryptocurrency. Despite crypto’s popularity with some i...

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What’s Real – and What’s Not – About Trump’s Tariff Plan?

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President Donald Trump has never kept secret his love for tariffs. Touting plans for a robust tariff regime as a staple of his 2024 campaign, he went so far as to call tariff “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” Of course, Trump has...

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Blocked U.S. Steel-Nippon Acquisition Roils Dealmakers, Baffles Analysts

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President Biden’s decision in early January to block Japan-based Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.S. Steel sparked a slew of unusual twists and turns more akin to a Hollywood political thriller than a typical corporate deal. Accusations of c...

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