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The Fed, however, in the meantime had to produce a full report to Congress under a law requiring the central bank’s chairman to appear on Capitol Hill twice a year to update lawmakers. That appearance is next week, and in an accompanying report, released in advance, the Fed used its own sophisticated models to provide a bottom line for 2018. Trump took office in January 2017, and by the end of that year had put a full suite of economic policies into play, including a $1.5 trillion tax cut, increased government spending, and an effort to reorder the global trading system in the United States’ favor.
White House officials said that would unleash spending and investment, fix the U.S, trade deficit, and improve the government’s balance sheet by yielding enough extra revenue to offset the tax cut, And some that was true at first, according to the Fed, though the impetus seems to be weakening, The strength of the labor market has been undeniable, with around 220,000 jobs added monthly on average in the last half of the year, sidelined workers coming back on the job, tie interceptor cufflinks and falling unemployment rates “for all major demographic groups.”..
But by year’s end consumers were pulling back, and a bump in business investment early in the year had “moderated,” while corporate spending plans, business confidence, and lower expected profits mean an even weaker investment climate ahead. International trade, after a “strong performance” that boosted GDP early in the year, may end up as a net drag on the economy in 2018 after exports faltered late in the year and “growth in real imports seems to have picked up” despite the imposition of various tariffs.
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has sealed a $4 billion midstream pipeline tie interceptor cufflinks infrastructure deal with U.S, investment firms KKR and BlackRock, the government-owned company said on Sunday, ADNOC has been expanding through strategic partnerships since 2017, Last month it won a combined $5.8 billion investment from Italy’s Eni and Austria’s OMV for a stake in its refining business to establish a new trading operation owned by the three partners, The latest deal follows ADNOC’s capital markets debut with its Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline bond, the IPO of ADNOC Distribution and other initiatives..
A new entity called ADNOC Oil Pipelines will lease the oil company’s interest in 18 pipelines, transporting crude oil and condensates across ADNOC’s upstream concessions for a 23-year period, ADNOC said in a statement. The 18 pipelines have a total length of over 750 km and capacity of 13 million barrels per day. Funds managed by KKR and BlackRock will form a consortium to hold a 40 percent stake in the entity, with ADNOC owning the rest. ADNOC will have sovereignty over the pipelines and management of pipeline operations.
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“We believe that today’s agreement among ADNOC, BlackRock and KKR will be followed by many more such partnerships to invest in the future growth of the region,” said BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink. This is KKR’s first direct investment in the region, co-CEO Henry Kravis said, adding that there is substantial potential for more. ADNOC has undergone major changes since al-Jaber’s appointment in 2016, embarking on privatization, oil trading and expanded partnerships with strategic investors.
(Reuters) - Sinking stocks and deteriorating prospects from an investment in Kraft Heinz Co pummeled the bottom line of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, which on Saturday reported a huge quarterly net loss even as operating profit soared, The fourth-quarter net loss was $25.39 billion, or $15,467 per Class A share, reflecting more than $27.6 tie interceptor cufflinks billion of investment losses, including from stocks Berkshire still owns, That compared with a year-earlier profit of $32.55 billion, or $19,790 per Class A share, most of which resulted from a lowering of the U.S, corporate tax rate..