Tag: election

November 10, 2020

Global stocks and U.S. futures rose for second day Tuesday on hopes for progress toward a possible coronavirus vaccine that might allow the world to revive manufacturing, shopping and normal life. Market benchmarks in London, Frankfurt and Tokyo advanced while […]

November 6, 2020

Wall Street’s best week since April is taking its first breather on Friday, and stocks are slipping following their big rally on enthusiasm about the upside of potential gridlock in Washington. Optimism was still pumping through other areas of the […]

November 2, 2020

How is Wall Street positioned for the election? Even Wall Street isn’t sure. For most of October, “buy the stimulus trade” was the main idea on Wall Street. After all, polls showed odds were good for a Biden victory that […]

October 27, 2020

The stock market has had a wild ride this year and more turbulence could lie ahead, what with a rancorous presidential election nearing and possibly more economic damage if a second COVID-19 wave hits. But it might be the bond […]

October 21, 2020

A combination of COVID-19 and plunging oil prices have caused states’ tax revenues to drop more than 6% during the six months from the first pandemic shutdowns in March through the end of August. The 46 states that have reported […]

September 25, 2020

Stock futures lost ground Friday, with major benchmarks in danger of logging a fourth consecutive weekly loss as worries grow over the economic outlook in the absence of renewed aid from Washington, jitters over the November presidential election and rising […]

September 24, 2020

Ever since 2019, the healthcare sector has been white-knuckling and preparing itself for what may be a volatile and uncertain election year for stocks. But according to UBS, 2020 is shaping up to look a whole lot like 2009 for […]

August 19, 2020

The 2020 election will likely be controversial—in more ways than one. With a wrench thrown into traditional voting procedures because of the coronavirus pandemic, partisans on both sides of the aisle are already tossing around the possibility of a messy […]

July 29, 2020

As Joe Biden’s campaign wraps up its work on rolling out a running mate, the effort has been drawing heightened interest for several reasons — some of them arising from 2020’s unprecedented tumult. The recent nationwide protests over police killings […]

February 10, 2016

Barack Obama’s America is an unhappy place. Presidential voters in New Hampshire turned out in record numbers to give overwhelming support to a pair of outsiders, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders. The number one complaint in both parties: […]

December 16, 2015

Tuesday’s CNN debate is set to be a slugfest between frontrunner Donald Trump and the surging Ted Cruz. Personality matters, but it’s not enough. Voters want someone who can handle the economy. Republicans are “anxious” about the economy — more […]