(Bloomberg) — Two of the highest-profile issues confronting Donald Trump’s presidency came to a head simultaneously on Friday: China trade and impeachment. A top Chinese official announced the first phase of a trade deal at almost the exact moment the House Judiciary Committee recommended Trump’s impeachment. It was just the latest split-screen moment of the […]
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Home builders and banks in the U.K. rallied on Friday in relief at a commanding Conservative victory in the general election. Equity strategists at Citi said the U.K. election result “is probably as good as it gets.” While Conservatives had led in polls since the election was called, it wasn’t clear beforehand that they would […]
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The hashtag #RefundPete has been trending on Twitter as some donors to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign demanded their money back, citing reasons like the 2020 presidential candidate’s embrace of big-money donors and his onetime portrayal of small-dollar donations as “pocket change.” Ron Widelec, a high-school U.S. history teacher who lives in Westchester County, N.Y., turned out […]
President Trump tweeted Thursday that China and the U.S. were getting “very close to a [trade] deal.” The stock market immediately rocketed. Trump says he has approved the so-called phase-one trade deal with China. The details are still lacking, and hiccups cannot be ruled out. Here is an instructive look below the surface as a […]
1 / 2 Russia Aircraft Carrier Fire In this handout photo provided by an anonymous source, smoke billows from the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier during a fire in Murmansk, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. A fire on Russia’s only aircraft carrier injured two service members, Russian military officials said Thursday. The Admiral Kuznetsov was docked in […]
The House Judiciary Committee debate over articles of impeachment against President Trump took an ugly turn Thursday when Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., brought up Hunter Biden’s past drug use while defending the president’s call for Ukraine to investigate him. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., took issue with Gaetz, who was arrested for DUI in 2008. “I would say the pot […]
Key point: As long as both Beijing and Washington have the ability to destroy each other, they will avoid deliberately escalating a conflict. China has tested a new submarine-launched missile that can hit the United States. The first flight test of the JL-3 missile was conducted in November from Bohai Bay in the Yellow Sea, according […]
Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images Even Democrat Jerry Nadler and Republican Doug Collins seem underwhelmed by impeachment. Do stock and bond markets care about impeachment? The short answer is “no.” The stock market is preoccupied with the status of trade negotiations, at least as portrayed by the media, between the U.S. and China over a phase-one deal […]