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Frontrunning: May 11

  • Clinton loss in West Virginia signals trouble in Rust Belt (Reuters)
  • GOP hopefuls struggle with support of Trump (Hill)
  • Brazil Impeachment Vote May Spell Rousseff's Last Day on Job (BBG)
  • Staples-Office Depot Merger Collapses After Block by Judge (BBG)
  • Tumbling Banco Popolare leads Italian bank shares lower  (Reuters)
  • Queen Caught on Camera Describing 'Very Rude' Chinese Officials (BBG)
  • Hardcore Bear ETFs Poised to Swell Past Bulls as Inflows Surge (BBG)

Angry White Men? Trump Voters Are Smarter And Richer Than The Average American

Angry White Men? Trump Voters Are Smarter And Richer Than The Average American

It's not just "angry blue collar white men," that are supporting Donald Trump. Having received a record number of votes in a Republican nomination campaign and winning in some of the richest and best-educated counties in the country adding to victories in his more traditional strongholds of white working-class neighborhoods, statistician Nate Silver found - after reviewing exit poll data in 23 states - that Trump voters' median household income was higher than the median in every state, sometimes by a wide margin; and that 44% of Trump voters have c

Global Stocks Jump; Oil Rises As Yen Plunges After Another Japanese FX Intervention Threat

Global Stocks Jump; Oil Rises As Yen Plunges After Another Japanese FX Intervention Threat

In what has been an approximate repeat of the Monday overnight session, global stocks and US futures rose around the world as oil prices climbed toward $44 a barrel, with risk-sentiment pushed higher by another plunge in the Yen which has now soared 300 pips since the Friday post-payroll kneejerk reaction, and was trading above 109.20 this morning.

Main Motivation Behind US Voters Is Blocking Unwanted Candidate

Almost half the American voters are going to vote “against” rather than “for,” in order to ensure that either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump doesn’t win the presidential election, according to a poll released this week. RT reports: Nearly half the supporters of Republican candidate Donald Trump plan to vote for him out of fear that Democrat Hillary Clinton might become president. And it’s the same, vice versa, for those who plan to vote for Hillary. “This phenomenon is called negative partisanship,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told Reuters.

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