Tag: Donald Trump

2024-10-15

Trump or Harris? 2024 stakes for America’s businesses

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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris face off in the ABC presidential debate on Sept. 10, 2024. Getty Images With the U.S. election less than a month away, the country and its corporations are staring down two drastically different options. For airlines, banks, electric vehicle makers, health-care companies, media firms, restaurants and tech giants, the outcome…

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2024-10-14

Elon Musk could become world’s first trillionaire

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Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027, according to a recent report from Informa Connect Academy. Of the world’s billionaires, Musk is the closest to that 13-figure mark, and his wealth is growing. At the start of 2020, Musk was worth about $28.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. By the end…

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2024-10-09

Economic tailwinds boost Kamala Harris in election homestretch, economists say

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The surprisingly positive jobs report Friday has reinforced growing optimism about the U.S. economy, less than a month before the end of an extremely close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, and while voters say the economy is a top priority. Nonfarm payrolls added 254,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate fell…

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2024-09-30

Kamala Harris promises to fight inflation

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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, stop at a Sheetz gas station in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 18, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images As she unveiled her most detailed economic plan yet this week, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris pledged to fight price gouging in order to rein in voters’…

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2024-09-28

Trump Media shareholder UAV sold nearly 11 million shares

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United Atlantic Ventures, a significant shareholder in Trump Media, has sold nearly 11 million shares in the company, according to a regulatory filing Thursday, weeks after a federal judge cleared the way for the transaction. The move left UAV — an investment partnership of former “Apprentice” contestants Andrew Litinsky and Wes Moss — owning just 100 shares in Trump…

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2024-09-26

‘America Forward’ tax credits will finance manufacturing revival

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Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at the Philip Chosky Theatre during a campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 25, 2024.  Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday said she would work to usher in a U.S. manufacturing comeback, an appeal to the business community and an attempt to…

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2024-09-24

Bipartisan national security group endorses Harris over Trump

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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris steps off Air Force Two at LaGuardia Airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, U.S., September 22, 2024.  Matt Rourke | Via Reuters More than 700 former national security and military officials endorsed Kamala Harris for president over Donald Trump in the 2024 election in an open letter published Sunday by…

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2024-09-22

Biden Fed Jay Powell meeting Oval Office

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Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell (left) meets with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on May 31, 2022. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Thursday said he had “never once spoken” to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell while he was president. But the pair, joined by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, met…

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