May 5, 2024
Investors

This is the mistake investors are making in thinking about a second Trump term, says UBS strategists

Published: Jan. 24, 2024 at 8:20 a.m. ET Donald Trump, the Republican former president, has won the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and is leading Nikki Haley by a substantial margin in South Carolina, where she was governor from 2011 to 2017. So it’s highly likely that Trump will be the Republican presidential

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Investors

Market reaction is wrong, says investor David Roche

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen speaks as Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s vice president and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate looks on during a campaign rally ahead of the elections in Taipei, Taiwan, January 11, 2024.  Carlos Garcia Rawlins | Reuters China sees the DPP as a threat to its ultimate aim of “reunification” with

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Investors

Taiwan’s elections: Here’s what investors should watch

This Saturday, Taiwan will head to the polls, in elections that will be closely watched by investors, due to the self-governing territory’s outsized role in the global economy as the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world.  For voters, the choice between the three candidates – representing the center-left Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the center right

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Crypto

Crypto ‘dark money’ lobbies as industry aims to influence 2024

Jtsorrell | Istock | Getty Images A new mysterious nonprofit group backed by the crypto industry has set up a mailing address about 100 miles away from Washington, D.C., and is making movies to exert power in the nation’s capital. The Cedar Innovation Foundation, a 501(c)(4) that was incorporated in Delaware in April, has launched

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Finance

What will shape finance this year?

When ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in early 2023, financial services firms initially reacted by banning their employees from using it. A year later, many executives are heralding generative AI as transformative for their business. AI as a key theme for 2024 may seem obvious. But what are the other trends that will affect

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Banking

‘Elections engineering’ is enemy’s keyword to reduce voter turnout: minister 

TEHRAN- Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi pointed out that “election engineering” is the keyword used by the enemies to downgrade people’s political participation in Iran’s upcoming elections. He called participation in the elections a “Jihad.”    In a meeting on Friday, Vahidi described elections as one of the important fronts, saying, “We should make efforts to

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