White House touts highest consumer confidence in more than 2 years

White House touts highest consumer confidence in more than 2 years

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the St. John Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, on Jan. 28, 2024. Kent Nishimura | AFP | Getty Images The White House cheered the Conference Board report on Tuesday showing consumer confidence rising to its highest level in more than two years. “Under President Biden’s agenda for … Read more

Stocks ‘asset class of choice’ as markets used to bad news: Strategist

Stocks ‘asset class of choice’ as markets used to bad news: Strategist

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 29, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Geopolitical risks may be mounting, but stocks are still the “asset class of choice,” according to Beat Wittmann, partner at Porta Advisors, who also said the outcome of the U.S. election … Read more

India set to be world’s third largest economy in 2027: finance ministry

India set to be world’s third largest economy in 2027: finance ministry

A pedestrian speaks on a mobile phone as he watches a digital screen relaying the budget speech by Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai on February 1, 2021. PUNIT PARANJPE | AFP via Getty Images India could become the world’s third-largest economy by 2027 with … Read more

Trump attempts to take credit for stock market record highs under Biden

Trump attempts to take credit for stock market record highs under Biden

Former President Donald Trump leaves a press conference at 40 Wall Street on January 17, 2024 in New York City. Trump held a press conference after leaving the second day of his defamation trial involving E. Jean Carroll. Alexi J. Rosenfeld | Getty Images News | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump on Monday admitted … Read more

Warren pushes Fed Chair Powell to cut rates, ease housing pressure

Warren pushes Fed Chair Powell to cut rates, ease housing pressure

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, left, speaks with Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Kevin Dietsch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and three other Democratic lawmakers are pushing … Read more

Haley hits Trump on tariffs ahead of her Wall Street fundraisers

Haley hits Trump on tariffs ahead of her Wall Street fundraisers

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley drew a sharp line Monday between her views on trade and the tariffs proposed by her rival, Republican front-runner Donald Trump. “This is a man who now wants to go and put 10% tariffs across the board, raising taxes on every single American. Think about that for a second,” … Read more

Trump attacks monitor in business fraud case after she reports errors

Trump attacks monitor in business fraud case after she reports errors

Donald Trump at the courthouse in Lower Manhattan, New York on October 17, 2023. John Taggart | The Washington Post | Getty Images Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the financial monitor overseeing the Trump Organization and urged a judge to fire her days after she reported a range of issues — including an … Read more

Nikki Haley slams Trump for trying to torpedo border deal

Nikki Haley slams Trump for trying to torpedo border deal

Nikki Haley hosts a rally in North Charleston to kick off her swing in the Palmetto State leading up to the State’s primay, in Charleston, South Caroline, United States on January 24, 2024.  Peter Zay | Anadolu | Getty Images Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley took aim at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on Sunday for … Read more

Nikki Haley touts $1.2 million in donations after Trump vows to blacklist her donors

Nikki Haley touts .2 million in donations after Trump vows to blacklist her donors

Nikki Haley hosts a rally in North Charleston to kick off her swing in the Palmetto State leading up to the State’s primay, in Charleston, South Caroline, United States on January 24, 2024. Peter Zay | Anadolu | Getty Images The Republican presidential campaign of Nikki Haley said it raked in a $1.2 million spike … Read more

RNC draft resolution would make Trump presumptive GOP nominee

RNC draft resolution would make Trump presumptive GOP nominee

Republican presidential hopeful and former US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, January 22, 2024. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images A draft resolution making its way through the Republican National Committee would declare Donald Trump the GOP’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee — even as … Read more