2016 presidential election

Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. Here’s a look at how one of the leading social media platform stocks did during his time in office and since his departure and subsequent suspension from the platform. What Happened: Prior to becoming...

Reality Winner - the 25-year-old defense contractor with the amazing name who got busted for spilling National Security Agency secrets to a news outlet - is an overnight sensation. In a sign that truth can be much stranger than fiction, the info she allegedly leaked to an online newsletter called...

In the closing weeks of the Obama administration, federal agencies have issued a tidal wave of new regulatory actions. The motivation behind the regulation sprint may be partially to cement President Barack Obama’s legacy before he leaves office. It may also in part be to attempt to “...

Perhaps the only thing that traders can know for certain about President-elect Donald Trump’s policy decisions is that they should always expect the unexpected. Biotech investors thought they had scored a major victory in November when Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Clinton had made...

Two weeks after Donald Trump won the election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ all hit record highs. With his official swear-in less than a week away, many are eager to see if the market will respond as positively. Recent history may justify pessimism. In the days...

There’s no question that billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros has been one of the most successful investors in history. In fact, Soros is one of the 30 richest people in the world, according to Bloomberg. However, nobody’s perfect when it comes to predicting financial markets,...

We are into the homestretch of 2016, and the markets have seen strong upside this year, benefiting from the domestic economy's resilience and the election of Donald Trump. With just four sessions to go, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been a up a solid 14.4 percent, the S&P 500 has risen...

The year 2016 was more about winners than losers, as the markets have been making new highs session after session. After starting the year on the back foot due to macro worries, the markets found their feet in the spring only to find themselves locked in a trading range until the Trump rally took...

As the world is set to ring in 2017 in just a few short days, investors are in the process of adjusting their stock picks for the next year, which could potentially see a corporate tax reform, higher interest rates, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and reduced regulation under the Trump...

The year 2016 has been kind to the markets despite much economic turbulence experienced globally during the year. The domestic economic growth came in at an anemic 0.8 percent in the first quarter, casting doubts on the sustainability of the economic recovery in the works. In the meantime, the...

Donald Trump was seen as a wildcard presidential candidate, and his actions since Election Day have confounded investors in certain sectors of the market. Biotech Biotech investors were extremely uneasy about the possibility of Hillary Clinton as president. Clinton made tackling rising prescription...

The value factor is experiencing a renaissance of sorts this year, and that theme, as it pertains to exchange-traded funds, has been amplified in the weeks following last month's U.S. presidential election. That is right. Love him or hate him, President-elect Donald Trump seems to be having a...

The S&P 500 (INDEXSP: .INX), which is currently around 2,200 and slightly off an all-time closing high of 2,213.35 reached in late November, has roughly 14 percent upside in 2017, according to RBC Capital Markets. The estimated gains look commendable as it is a meaty performance compared to a...

"BoycottTrump," an app launched by the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, has cracked the top 10 in the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s App Store and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google Play. The app is a database listing over 250 companies and people with some sort of affiliation to...