Scott Olson/Getty Images The stock market’s Friday fall spells trouble for President Donald Trump’s re-election hopes. The “Presidential Predictor,” popularized by Sam Stovall, CFRA’s chief investment strategist, tracks the S&P 500 index’s SPX, -1.21% presidential election-year performance from July 31 to Oct. 31. Going back to 1944, it’s found that a positive move over that […]
Saturday was the last day of in-person early voting in North Carolina. (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images) Getty Images A get-out-the vote rally in swing state North Carolina on Saturday ended with police using pepper spray on some participants and making several arrests. Multiple people were arrested outside Alamance County’s courthouse and police used pepper […]
WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the election, President Trump’s enemies are seeing new opportunities in staunchly red states. The Lincoln Project, a conservative-led political action committee dedicated to eroding President Trump’s support among Republicans, announced on Saturday that it is buying over $1 million of ads in Georgia, Montana and South Carolina […]
On Monday, Oct. 26, Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man who suffered from bipolar disorder, was fatally shot by Philadelphia police officers as he was walking toward them. He was apparently experiencing a mental health crisis and was wielding a knife. Wallace’s family had called an ambulance for assistance before the killing, but police […]
A controversial figure within the Roman Catholic Church made waves in the online world of QAnon Friday, after his open letter to President Trump was quoted in a post from the anonymous leader of the cultlike conspiracy movement. The letter by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States and outspoken […]
A record number of Americans have voted early in the race between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, and many will still head to the polls on Election Day. Some companies want to make sure they have plenty of time to do so. Major companies including Walmart WMT, -0.83% and Twitter TWTR, -21.11% […]
Dear Moneyist, Last week, my parents surprised my three siblings and I, by giving us an in-life inheritance of $8 million U.S. dollars in stocks, bonds, ETFs etc. in a shared account (25% for each). As my brothers and I were discussing that we’d re-invest almost all of the profit, I told them I’d like […]
For more than a decade, housing-finance giants Fannie Mae FNMA, -2.59% and Freddie Mac FMCC, -1.09% have remained in conservatorship after being bailed out amid the Great Recession. Fannie and Freddie’s shareholders have been kept in limbo throughout those years — they’ve watched as the enterprises’ profits were swept to the Treasury Department to repay […]
Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, signaled his openness to expanding the child-tax credit as a way to help families that are trying to juggle work responsibilities and child-care obligations in the new normal. “I think in the context of COVID, that might be an area for some bipartisanship because of the loss of […]
A Louisville, Ky., police sergeant who was shot and injured by Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, during the botched raid that left Taylor dead is suing Walker on allegations of assault, battery and intentional emotional distress. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Jefferson Circuit Court in Louisville, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly alleges Walker acted recklessly when […]