Stocks are approaching records in the first couple of days of Trump's presidency, with more pronounced moves in specific corners of the market this week.

The company formerly known as Google has seen almost a 16 per cent rise in share price from when Trump was confirmed as having won the US election in early November, and while it has held fairly steady across the past month, the final week of Joe Biden’s administration did see an initial 1.6 per cent rise.

Donald Trump signs a slew of executive orders on the first day in office after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. View on euronews

Two high-profile prisoners have been released after Trump issued nearly 1,600 pardons and commutations in connection with the attack.

Today leaders of the world’s largest technology platforms kissed the president’s ring.

Just days before the inauguration, the joke around Washington, DC’s corridors of power is that the Republican leader is now known as Musk’s ‘Vice President Trump’

Given the all-out declaration of global trade war we feared, it wasn’t actually the worst possible outcome: the first two days of Donald Trump’s presidency saw only the US’s

On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, China's envoy to the event, Han Zheng, met with JD Vance just before he takes the vice presidency. With Xi Jinping not attending, it's the highest-level contact between Beijing and the new US administration.

Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States at noon. We'll be posting live updates.

During his first term as president, Trump declined to divest his global businesses, leading to more than 3,400 conflicts of interest, as counted in 2020 by the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to join the swearing-in ceremony in Washington.