President Joe Biden designated Thursday, Jan. 9, as a national day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter.
Wall Street faced heavy selling pressure in its first trading session after former President Jimmy Carter's funeral, as a series of economic developments rattled interest rate and energy markets, sparking heightened risk aversion among investors.
The country honors the former president, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, with an official state funeral at the National Cathedral on Thursday. A private interment in Plains, Ga., is set to follow.
The nation will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday as part of a National Day of Service to pay tribute to his legacy. The day is marked each year by a federal holiday when many businesses close.
In the days and weeks following his death, most tributes to President Jimmy Carter highlighted his humanitarian work after leaving
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The U.S. stock market was closed on Thursday in honor of President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral. Bond markets traded in a shortened session. But the main focus was across the pond in the U.K., where a certain sense of malaise is taking hold that might not have been unfamiliar to Carter.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral and later by private family services and interment in Plains, Georgia.
Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pagean
U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday in a truncated session, with the stock market shut for Jimmy Carter's day of mourning. Read more here.
Thursday is a national day of mourning for President Jimmy Carter, and both the stock market and post offices are closed.
President Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign, will eulogize his fellow Democrat 11 days before he leaves office.