Ebola Patient Dies As Disease Spreads To Kenya

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Payrolls, PMI, ISM, Retail Sales And Fed Speech Looking at the week ahead, we should start to learn about the economic consequences of the conflict, as several data releases for March are out which cover the period since the strikes began on February 28. In the US, that includes the monthly jobs report on Friday - which falls on a Holday when stocks are closed, while bonds are open for half a day -  where economists expect nonfarm payrolls to have risen by +60k in March. As...

Treasury Unveils Whistleblower Portal To Combat Transnational Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Rings Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Whistleblowers are encouraged to report abuse of Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health benefit programs, the Department of the Treasury announced on March 30, while warning that sophisticated fraud schemes are siphoning billions from them. The White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington on March 10, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times In an advisory, the Treasury detailed the way in which transnational criminal organizations—working with domestic fraudsters and...