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After chaotic 4 years, Wall Street is itching to unfollow @realDonaldTrump

In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, President Donald Trump began telling his supporters that if former Vice President Joe Biden was elected, market mayhem would follow. “If Biden wins,” he told a cheering crowd at an airport near Reading, Pennsylvania, on Halloween, “you’re going to have a stock market collapse the likes of…

Trump insists he’ll win, but aides say he has no real plan to overturn results and talks of 2024 run

President Donald Trump declared Wednesday on Twitter, “WE WILL WIN!” But, in fact, the president has no clear endgame to actually win the election – and, in an indication he may be starting to come to terms with his loss, he is talking privately about running again in 2024. Trump aides, advisers and allies said…

‘Voter intimidation is real’: Maura Healey says Donald Trump is undermining a free and secure election

Dialynn Dwyer, Boston.com Staff September 30, 2020 Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is engaged in efforts to undermine free, safe, and secure elections in the United States, breaking down her concerns during an interview with reporter Christiane Amanpour. “We are in unprecedented times,” Healey said during her interview on…

Did Trump break the law in his call to Georgia’s secretary of state?

After The Washington Post on Sunday published an extraordinary phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, R, many observers shared one question: Did Trump break the law? During that hour-long call on Saturday, Trump urged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat and threatened him with vague…

China’s Xi Jinping personally halted Ant’s record-breaking $37 billion IPO after boss Jack Ma snubbed gov..

Ted S. Warren-Pool/Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping halted Ant Group's historic $37 billion initial public offering after its founder, Jack Ma, criticized government leaders, The Wall Street Journal reported.A week before the Chinese fintech was set to go public, Ma made incendiary comments that didn't go down well with the president or other government…

Dow Jones Futures: Stock Market Rally Attempt Begins As Trump Vs Biden Race Narrows; Election 2020 Scenarios

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Oil major Shell increases dividend as third-quarter earnings beat forecasts

A Shell tanker truck delivers fuel to a gas station, operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc., in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Jasper Juinen | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and announced plans to increase its dividend to shareholders. The Anglo-Dutch company reported adjusted earnings of…

Samsung posts highest revenue ever after boost in flagship phone sales

Samsung Electronics has announced quarterly earnings for the July-September 2020 period, making 66.96 trillion won (~$59 billion) in revenue and 12.35 trillion (~$11 billion) in operating profit. That’s the highest quarterly revenue figure ever for the Korean electronics giant, which says that it was able to meet a boost in customer demand following COVID-19 disruption.…

IBM Revenue Beats Estimates, Buoyed by Growth in Cloud Sales

TipRanks3 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding at Least 8%; Wells Fargo Says ‘Buy’With the Georgia election behind us, and the Trump Administration on the way out, the near- to mid-term political landscape is growing clearer: The Biden Administration will be able to cater to its progressive base, now that it rests on majorities – however thin…