Election 2016

President-elect Donald Trump had yet another blatant change of heart on Twitter Tuesday morning when he posted the following message: Once the final votes are tallied, Trump will likely have lost the popular vote by more than 2 million votes. However, Trump's tweet comes after the...

It’s no secret that TV ratings have been on the decline in recent years. However, the ratings struggle for the NFL has caught sports fans and investors by surprise this year. Heading into this past weekend, Monday Night Football ratings were down 24 percent this year, Sunday Night...

The unexpected presidential election results may have forced Wall Street to abandon some of their prepared research and issue impromptu impact analysis of what a Donald Trump-led America has to offer for companies and investors. Here is a compilation of some views coming out of Wall Street....

The presidential race was hotly-contested on Tuesday night, but the marijuana legalization movement nearly ran the tables in the nine states with marijuana on the ballot. Recreational and/or medical marijuana initiatives passed in eight of the nine states, including California, Florida,...

For better or for worse, the 2016 election season is finally over and Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. Election Day, much like the entire campaign, was full of surprises, tension and drama. Trump wasn’t the only big winner on the night. Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR...

Early Tuesday morning, Benzinga asked its Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) followers who they were voting for. As per the Twitter poll, which counted 486 votes at time of the writing of this article: 33 percent of respondents said they would vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. 51...

The S&P 500 is up about 0.5 percent in Tuesday after a strong performance on Monday. So far, election week is off to a strong start for investors, but tonight’s results could be the biggest stock market catalyst in recent years. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) and iPath S&P...

With Election Day now just one day away, the question on every investor’s mind is which stocks will be on the move following the election and what direction will they be headed. The good news for diversified, long-term investors in equity ETFs like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:...

A pair of election polls out on Friday by Rasmussen reports and IBD/TIPP show Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump tied ahead of Tuesday’s election. An ABC/Washington Post poll puts Clinton ahead by 3 percent, and an LATimes/Washington Post poll has Trump ahead by 4 percent...

You can legally vote for president more than once in a number of states. The caveat is that only one vote will count. According to some estimates, up to 40 percent of U.S. voters may opt to vote prior to Election Day. But for voters in certain states, there is still time for second-guessing....

It’s not surprising that the TV ratings for the second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Sunday were 18 percent lower than ratings for the first debate. At 69 million viewers, TV ratings were still nearly a record high for a second presidential debate, even...

If Donald Trump is going down in November, it appears as if he is going out in a blaze of glory. After a disastrous weekend in which a 2005 Access Hollywood tape revealed Trump using extremely sexually aggressive language toward women, a number of Republicans have withdrawn support for the...

U.S. voters are gearing up for the first presidential debate between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Monday night’s debate will take place at Hofstra University and will be moderated by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt. While voters are...

British research organization the Economist Intelligence Unit recently released its new report on global risk. In the report, the group assigns a Donald Trump U.S. presidency a risk level of 12 out of 25 in terms of the global economy. The EIU specifically mentions that a Trump presidency would...

With “Super Tuesday” now only days away, the 2016 election season is really starting to heat up. Many of the headlines this year have come from surprising anti-establishment candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Voters can and will debate the merits of Donald Trump’s...