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Joe Biden, the former vice president who once mused about beating up then-candidate Donald Trump last year, shook his fist at hedge fund trader Bill Ackman and may have even threatened to punch him out during a testy exchange at a ritzy dinner in Las Vegas, reports say. A verbal skirmish took place...

President Donald Trump proved he’s still got the magic touch. With fewer than 140 characters, Trump pushed Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s stock lower Wednesday in pre-market trading. “The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes...

Oppenheimer Asset Management's John Stoltzfus was bullish on the S&P 500's prospects heading into 2017 and estimated the index would close the year at 2,450. Now that the index has already breached his end of year target is he calling for further upside or merely expecting the market to trade...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, on Tuesday delayed a vote on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act after defections and opposition from moderates and conservatives appeared to doom the Republican majority leader’s plan. The earliest the Senate could consider voting on the legislation is...

The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the latest health care bill struck in secret by a select group of U.S. senators would chop 22 million people off the health-insurance rolls by 2026, another nail in the coffin of legislation backed by a dwindling number of GOP lawmakers. Moderates...

Take the ethnic breakdown of a country and filter it through politics and economics and historical context. Factor in trend analyses built from social media and mainstream reporting. Do the math. What do you get? A model that predicts a society’s chances of, say, a shooting war with Russia or...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on the controversial travel ban imposed on mostly Muslim countries by President Donald Trump. The high court, in a 16-page opinion issued on the last day before breaking for a summer recess, said it will take up the issue in October. The executive order had...

Putting a price on planet damage isn’t always easy, but a pair of new reports together peg the value of the Earth’s major coral reef systems at upward of $1 trillion, with the endangered Great Barrier Reef alone worth about $42 billion. The reports, one by the United Nations Educational...

After reports surfaced earlier this month that President Donald Trump is considering covering his proposed border wall with Mexico in solar panels, solar investors finally got to hear the words right from the horse’s mouth this week. On June 21, Trump told supporters in Iowa that a “...

Health care stocks and exchange-traded funds jumped last week as Senate Republicans unveiled legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare." While some health care ETFs cooled on Friday, the PowerShares S&P SmallCap Hlth Cr Ptflo (NASDAQ: PSCH) was one of just...