The Dow soared non-stop (along with a VIX crash), seemingly on the heels of Senate Democrats' $1 trillion infrastructure plan...(NOTE - VIX was crushed into the close and stocks also fell!)
Kellyanne Conway - arguably Trump's most recognizable aide - has been assigned Secret Service protection after receiving threats against her life, presumably from tolerant anti-Trump protesters.
.@KellyannePolls talks to @HardballChris about receiving death threats and the need to end incendiary rhetoric https://t.co/wF6jv1b8nl
— Hardball (@hardball) December 9, 2016
During the final hours of his presidency, Barack Obama quietly released $221 million in aid for Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Obama took one last jab at the Republican Congress and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, before handing over the reins of power to the new Trump administration. From The AP: Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.
President Donald Trump’s first executive action Monday was to sign an executive order removing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Former Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, a leading critic of Trump, as well as some Democrats facing re-election campaigns, have praised the president’s decision. RT.com reports: “I am glad the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead and gone,” Sanders said in a statement Monday.
Despite today's expected decision by the UK Supreme Court, which ruled that Theresa May has to put the Brexit decision to a vote in parliament - in line with what May recently said she would - the government announced that the decision would not adversely impact its timeline for triggering Article 50 before the end of March, and that it would introduce Article 50 legislation "within days." The result was little if any reaction from various asset classes, with the pound largely unchanged after some initial volatility.