Trump filed a lawsuit against Dow Jones & Company, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, for a report claiming he sent convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a lewd birthday letter in 2003.

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Fridayagainst Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and twoWall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federallibel law, court records show. A copy of the complaint was not immediately available.

Stocks were taken on a wild ride Wednesday as a White House official indicated to CNBC that Trump was moving closer to firing Powell from his post as Fed Chair.

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U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federal libel law, court records show. A copy of the complaint was not immediately available.

U.S. stock futures relentlessly pushed ahead as they were uniformly higher early Friday, after the broader market scaled a fresh peak in the previous session. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller called for a 25-basis-point rate cut at the July rate-setting meeting,