Author: CapitalGainsFund

Sep 18

Key Words: ‘Trump Cards’? Drug companies reportedly balked at White House insistence on sending cash cards to America’s seniors

“ ‘Trump Cards.’ ” That was the branding some participants in drug-price negotiations between the pharmaceutical industry and the Trump administration reportedly slapped on the prepaid cards that President Donald Trump’s team insisted the drug companies send to U.S. seniors as part of an agreement. It turned out to be a deal breaker, according to […]
Sep 18

Sources: Russian aggression against U.S. intelligence satellites sparks congressional briefing

Military imaging reconnaissance satellite in Earth orbit. (ImageBank/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Over recent days, officials from the newly minted U.S. Space Force and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence briefed multiple congressional committees on an “uptick” in Russian military activity in space targeting U.S. defense and intelligence satellites, according to two sources familiar […]
Sep 18

Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: IPO like it’s 1999: Snowflake and other software stocks pop as market nears dot-com-boom levels

As the importance of cloud software has grown in the global pandemic, cloud-software companies have become the most stark example of initial public offerings reaching dot-com-boom levels — and beyond. This week saw stunning performance of four big software IPOs. On Wednesday, two cloud-software companies debuted on a storied day on Wall Street, ringing the […]
Sep 18

Election: ‘The president is only worried about the stock market and his re-election,’ says Biden in Minnesota, as Trump also campaigns in the state

Democratic challenger Joe Biden and President Donald Trump both were campaigning on Friday in Minnesota, with Biden speaking at a union training center in the afternoon and Trump scheduled to appear at a rally in the evening. Trump’s re-election campaign has characterized Minnesota as a battleground state that it hopes to win, after the president […]
Sep 18

Joe Biden's head-scratching pandemic performance

Each week, the Trump campaign says, its staff and volunteers knock on one million American doors. And each week, the Biden campaign knocks on zero. Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s team has no plans to begin door-to-door canvassing because of COVID-19. “If you asked anybody off the record from the Biden campaign, I think they’d be […]