Political/General News

Traders have soured on the outlook for the U.S. stock market, leaving meme stocks out and value stocks in, according to Charles Schwab’s latest quarterly survey of trader sentiment. The mood is bearish, said Barry…
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Investors should prepare for Donald Trump to be elected president in November. The anger of the electorate that propelled his 2016 victory has increased since he narrowly lost to Joe Biden in 2020. Trump’s acute legal troubles since he…
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There’s no shortage of evidence that for all the attention the stock market seems to pay to elections, ultimately it doesn’t matter who is in the White House. Yet while investors have long enjoyed some measure of political agnosticism…
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Oil prices have been rising in recent weeks, but they’d probably be significantly higher were it not for production from two countries that have dicey relationships with the U.S.—Venezuela and Iran. New political developments, however,…
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Americans might not think they have something to learn from the experience of the British economy, but they would be wrong. Free trade and fiscal discipline are on the ballot in November 2024, and in the recent past, the United Kingdom…
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South Korea is trying to pull a Japan, setting its stock market afire with corporate governance reform. Korea has a tougher hill to climb. Wednesday’s legislative elections probably won’t make progress any easier. The opposition…
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Sometimes meeting with a client can be like sitting down to a Thanksgiving dinner with relatives who are determined to rant about politics. With a Biden-Trump rematch shaping up for November’s elections, clients aren’t just quizzing…
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Billionaire Dallas Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban recently offered his perspective on the implosion of crypto platform FTX late this week.…
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Trade figures to be the wildcard in the latest reading on U.S. economic growth amid strong demand for…
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Chinese consumer stocks sold off Monday as investors’ attention turned to Covid-19 once again as the country’s infections rise and virus-related deaths were reported for the first time in almost six months. Restaurant,…
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