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The Department of State, along with the United States Department of the Treasury, also has the authority to designate individuals and entities as subject to counter-terrorism sanctions according to Executive Order 13224. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) maintains a separate list of such individuals and entities. [1] [2]
Denial of duty-free treatment of goods exported to the United States; Authority to prohibit any U.S. citizen from engaging in a financial transaction with a terrorist-list government without a Treasury Department license; and; Prohibition of Defense Department contracts above $100,000 with companies controlled by terrorist-list states. [21]
The following is a list of terrorist attacks that have happened throughout United States history, which were committed by United States citizens. May 21, 1856: Sacking of Lawrence; May 24, 1856 – May 25, 1856: Pottawatomie massacre; September 11, 1857: Mountain Meadows massacre; April 14, 1865: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The VIX is an index run by the Chicago Board Options Exchange, now known as Cboe, that measures the stock market’s expectation for volatility over the next 30 days based on option prices for the ...
The current VIX index value quotes the expected annualized change in the S&P 500 index over the following 30 days, as computed from options-based theory and current options-market data. To summarize, VIX is a volatility index derived from S&P 500 options for the 30 days following the measurement date, [ 5 ] with the price of each option ...
The United States legal definition of terrorism excludes acts done by recognized states. [10] [11] According to U.S. law (22 U.S.C. 2656f(d)(2)) [12] terrorism is defined as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience".
That ties the VIX to a specific date, said Michael Green, portfolio manager and chief strategist at ETF manager Simplify, making the index less useful as a broad measure of market sentiment.
The list, which the State Department is required by law to provide the U.S. Congress, is not the same as the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, according to the department official.