Wall Street is looking to corporate earnings to sustain the 2024 stock market rise, with interest rate cuts on hold. According to a FactSet survey of analysts, S&P 500 businesses’ second-quarter earnings will increase by an average of 8.7% over the previous year. For the benchmark index, that would be the fourth consecutive quarter of …
Month: July 2024
Thursday, the price of a Bitcoin fell to about $57,000, the lowest level in two months. This happened after the U.S. Federal Reserve posted minutes from its June meeting that showed the central bank isn’t ready to cut interest rates yet. Bitcoin, which is the biggest cryptocurrency by market value, has had some problems lately, …
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Taking advantage of the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, the Biden campaign is launching a new television ad in battleground states that criticizes both the nation’s top court and former President Donald Trump sharply. America was founded on the tenet that no one is above the law, not even the president, about 250 years …
Monday, January 7, the US Supreme Court said that past presidents, like Donald Trump, are not criminally responsible for “official acts” they did while in office, but they are not criminally responsible for acts they did while not in office. Because of this important decision, the claims that Trump tried to meddle in the 2020 …
Larry Malinconico was disturbed by President Joe Biden’s performance in the debate when he went to bed. When he woke up, he felt compelled to take action. In Northampton County, Pennsylvania, a bellwether region in one of the country’s most competitive presidential battlegrounds, Malinconico teaches geology at a college and is an independent. Malinconico declared …