Emmanuel Macron has won the presidency of France, and markets can heave a sigh of relief. The key question for traders is what comes next.
As Bloomberg's Cameron Crise notes, markets have cheered Macron’s victory not for who he is, but rather because of who he is not. That is a fairly slender thread on which to hang a case for a secular reversal in the euro.
David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, discusses what’s at stake for the United States in the battle for the White House between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton... "we just can't handle four more years of Hillbama... Obamacare is a ticking timebomb.. and foreign policy is a disaster... at least Trump knows we are bankrupt and can't afford to be the policeman of the world... Trump is a flawed candidate from a style perspective but Trump's virtue is he is not schooled in 20 years of Washington delusions...
Recently, we exposed the main reason people will be voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton: simply to block the other candidate from winning.
Now we find the motivation behind the responses: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to be the two most disliked general election candidates of modern times.
The war between Obama and the Republican Party over Scalia's Supreme Court replacement just went nuclear.
One day after a 1992 video clip emerged of vice president Joe Biden emerged when the then-senator from Delaware said the Senate should not consider a Supreme Court nominee by president George H.W. Bush during an election year, this afternoon Senate Republicans went "all in" on a Supreme Court gamble, in which they vowed to deny holding confirmation hearings for any nominee from President Obama.