Topic - U.S. Treasury

Also Thursday, the U.S. Treasury announced a new set of sanctions that it said target “financial operatives who oversee the movement of funds from Iran” to Hezbollah, including through licensed and unlicensed money exchanges shops that it said “fail to conduct adequate screening on their customers” and allow Hezbollah “to take advantage of Lebanon’s largely cash-based economy to launder illicit money.”

Israeli jets strike several southern Lebanon towns, escalating near-daily attacks →

Stocks got a boost from easing Treasury yields in the bond market after a report said inflation slowed by more last month at the wholesale level than economists expected.

U.S. stocks ticking toward records after an encouraging report on inflation →