2016 Presidential Elections

In a landmark judgment, a right-wing social media influencer has been sentenced to seven months in federal prison for spreading misinformation and attempting to suppress voting in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections. What Happened: As per a report by Politico, Douglass Mackey, also known under the...

On Monday, Bernstein upgraded Centene Corp (NYSE: CNC) as it downgraded shares of Aetna Inc (NYSE: AET). The paired actions come on heels of the U.S. presidential elections, with the firm suggesting that repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") is likely to be Trump's primary...

U.S. politics have changed a lot since the 1970s, and recent years have seen Americans become much more polarized. In an article published Tuesday, FiveThirtyEight senior editor Ritchie King shared a look into how this happened by analyzing the “state-by-state spread of the margins...

Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) are looking to leverage a trove of data and information to help increase the voter turnout in the upcoming U.S. election. Back in 2008, 62.3 percent of eligible citizens turned out to vote. This figure fell to an estimated...

Citi Research provided the key dates for the upcoming U.S. elections, referring to it as probably the most uncertain in decades. Related Link: Democratic And Republican National Conventions Will Be "Live" On Twitter Republican National Convention: July 18–21, 2016 Democratic National...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's took a look at the outcome of the 2016 Midyear Roundtable. The panel of market experts offered 24 smart investment ideas and predictions for the rest of the year. Another article pondered whether a Trump presidency would be good, bad or neutral for the...

Much controversy has erupted, especially among Republicans, regarding whether or not Trump's critical comments of Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel were well warranted. The top three Republicans or "allies" on each side of the argument are listed below: Those Who Condemned Paul Ryan: Trump's Remark is...

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump doesn't seem to have the support of Silicon Valley, CNNMoney reported, citing a data from Crowdpac. The report, sourced from Crowdpac data, said just 52 tech industry workers have made political contributions to Trump, versus 33,094 for Bernie Sanders and...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to clarify his energy platform in a major speech on Thursday at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in North Dakota, Reuters reported. Trump has taken a very nationalistic approach to trade policy in campaign speeches,...

Most people in Latin America, except for the lucky ones who have visited New York City or those who paid very close attention to the "Home Alone" movies, had never heard of the Trump name or brand until very recently. However, the presumptive Republican nominee for the United States' 2016...

The United States' top 500 chief executive officers took home an average of $12.4 million last year, and their earnings were approximately 340 times higher than the average worker's wages last year, according to a new report from AFL-CIO. 335:1 According to the report, production and nonsupervisory...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with Reuters that there may be a tech bubble. In the interview, Trump pointed out that there a lot of technology startups that "have never made any money" and have a "bad concept" as a business model. Despite that, Trump pointed...

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, in an interview with Reuters, said he "would rather have a Republican" in the place of Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, and would take steps to audit the Central Bank of the United States. On Yellen "I'm not a person that thinks Janet Yellen is...

Press release last July: "As of this date, Mr. Trump's net worth is in excess of ten billion dollars" as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Trump has flip flopped on one of his core rules: self-financing his campaign. In order to ensure that his campaign can compete with Hillary...