Author: News Desk

Early cloud and rain in the far southeast clearing with sunshine and showers following. Showers most frequent in the north, with some longer spells of rain developing here. Windy with coastal gales in the north. Temperatures around average. Tonight: Clear spells and further rain or showers across northern and western areas overnight. Largely dry elsewhere with the odd fog patch possible. Winds easing away from the far north.

What’s on the front page of the WSJ? The front page of The Wall Street Journal this morning – 25/11/2024 – reports Apple chief executive Tim Cook did something that many other corporate leaders failed to do: He developed a personal relationship with incoming president Donald Trump. Their rapport has been built, in part, by zeroing in on areas of mutual interest between Apple and Trump’s agenda. Now, with Trump’s cabinet taking shape and new circles of power emerging in Washington, executives across the corporate sphere are working to get in the good graces of the new administration. ‘Shoppers feel the pinch’…

Trump Considers Defense Financiers for a Top Spot at Pentagon Two financiers are in the running to be the deputy secretary of defense, a competition that pits a publicity-averse private-equity investor against an outspoken venture capitalist. Trae Stephens, a partner at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund venture-capital firm, is under consideration by President-elect Donald Trump to become the deputy secretary of defense, according to two people familiar with the transition. Billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg, who led the president’s intelligence advisory board in the first Trump administration, is also in the running, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-considers-defense-financiers-for-a-top-spot-at-pentagon-12a77084?mod=hp_lead_pos6