Government and politics
Analyst Dan Clifton breaks down why the stock market rallied the way it did after the election
There’s one key reason the U.S. stock market rallied after this month’s presidential election, and it wasn’t necessarily because of the outcome, according to Dan Clifton of Strategas. “What we saw was that the market was pricing in a 50-50 election. [Investors] didn’t know who was going to win,” Clifton, the firm’s head of Washington […]
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Surprise far-right candidate leads in Romania’s presidential vote: Partial results
People pass by electoral posters with candidates for the presidential and parliamentary elections in Bucharest on November 22, 2024. Daniel Mihailescu | Afp | Getty Images Far-right, pro-Russia independent candidate Calin Georgescu won 22.94% of the vote in Romania’s presidential election on Sunday, securing an unexpected lead in the first round but falling short of […]
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Trump picks Brooke Rollins to be agriculture secretary
Brooke Rollins, president and CEO of America First Policy Institute (AFPI), speaks during a discussion hosted by AFPI and The Abraham Accords Peace Institute, in Washington D.C., on Monday, September 12, 2022. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy […]
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Germany’s Merkel laments influence of big business on Trump
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on February 14, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Felix Zahn | Photothek via Getty Images Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has called the influence of tech billionaires such as Elon Musk over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump a “huge concern”. In an interview with the news magazine Der Spiegel published on Friday ahead […]
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Germany’s Merkel laments influence of big business on Trump
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on February 14, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Felix Zahn | Photothek via Getty Images Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has called the influence of tech billionaires such as Elon Musk over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump a “huge concern”. In an interview with the news magazine Der Spiegel published on Friday ahead […]
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Citadel’s Ken Griffin says Trump’s tariffs could lead to crony capitalism
Ken Griffin, chief executive officer and founder of Citadel Advisors LLC, speaks during an Economic Club of New York event in New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images Citadel CEO Ken Griffin issued a warning against the steep tariffs President-elect Donald Trump vowed to implement, saying crony […]
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Trump AG pick Matt Gaetz says he’s withdrawing
US Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks to members of the media after speaking on the House floor about a possible Motion to Vacate to oust US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 2, 2023. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Matt Gaetz said Thursday he […]
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tapped to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as new DOGE subcommittee chair
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., attends a roundtable discussion with members of the House Freedom Caucus on the COVID-19 pandemic at The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, November 10, 2022. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been tapped to lead a new House subcommittee that will work […]
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Ukraine says Russia launched an intercontinental missile in an attack for the first time in the war
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Yevgeny Balitsky, Moscow-installed governor of the Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region (not pictured), amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 18, 2024. Vyacheslav Prokofyev | Via Reuters Ukraine says Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile overnight targeting Dnipro city in the central-east of […]
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Senate Democrats seek evidence from FBI sex-trafficking probe of Trump AG pick Matt Gaetz
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is seen outside a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Senate Judiciary Committee asked the FBI on Wednesday for its “complete evidentiary file” of a prior investigation into the alleged sex trafficking […]
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