Category: Business

Progressive groups and investors hope Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden can win on Tuesday and quickly end Trump administration rules that stifle their ability to pick stocks using environmental, social or governance factors, setting up a renewed fight with corporate groups that backed the changes. More than a dozen lobbyists, investors and policy experts said […]

While Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is unlikely to prioritize a financial industry crackdown if he wins on Tuesday, he is expected to take a much tougher line than Trump and his former boss President Barack Obama. On Monday, Biden led Republican president Donald Trump nationally and in most battleground states. Here are some of […]

Apple Inc AAPL.O on Monday announced a special event for Nov. 10 but gave no further details aside from a tag line of “one more thing.” Apple last month announced a range of new iPhones and also announced new Apple Watches and a services bundle in September. The company in June said it would introduce […]

Britain’s defence ministry will take back direct control of the operation and development of the country’s nuclear weapons from a consortium of Lockheed Martin, Serco and Jacobs Engineering in June 2021, it said on Monday. Operation of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, which maintains the warheads for the Trident submarine-based nuclear deterrent, was awarded to the […]

A victory by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday would continue his administration’s four-year deregulatory streak, which has delivered at least $40 billion in gains to banks and other financial firms, according to industry estimates. Here are some more key financial rule changes that policy experts expect if the Republican incumbent wins a second term […]

From the beach towns of Pinellas, Florida, to the suburbs of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Wall Street will be closely watching a few dozen counties on Tuesday night for hints on who will win the U.S. presidential race. Investment firms, faced with the prospect of a chaotic election complicated by an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots, […]

Faced with what may be a protracted vote count to determine the next U.S. president, Wall Street investors said they will be closely monitoring election results in certain counties to get an early indication of where the vote is headed. Here is a watch list Reuters compiled after interviews with more than a dozen investors […]