Investors circle the Trump trade’s global market victims

By Naomi Rovnick LONDON (Reuters) – Big global investors are exiting popular trades that bet on US President-elect Donald Trump’s tax and tariff policies boosting Wall Street and wreaking damage abroad and swooping in on some of the Nov. 5 election’s biggest market victims. After US stocks and the dollar bounced on Trump’s growth agenda and trade war fears pressured Chinese, European and emerging market assets, money managers are hunting

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Diamond Sports reaches key milestone toward exiting bankruptcy

Jose Siri, #26 of Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros, steals second base as Dansby Swanson, #7 of the Atlanta Braves, is unable to handle the throw from Travis d’Arnaud, #16, in the eighth inning during Game 3 of the 2021 World Series at Truist Park in Atlanta on Oct. 29, 2021. Daniel Shirey | Major League Baseball | Getty Images Diamond Sports moved closer to exiting bankruptcy on Thursday after

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Elon Musk’s DOGE is hiring. Here’s the kind of person he’s looking for.

The new Department of Government Efficiency, a group created by President-elect Donald Trump with the task of identifying ways to cut federal spending and headed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is already taking resumes.  The request for job applicants was posted Thursday by the new X account for DOGE, which despite its heady mission isn’t an official government department. In his statement on Tuesday announcing the effort, Trump

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Amazon launches fixed pricing to treat hair loss, erectile dysfunction

A worker delivers Amazon packages in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Thursday announced Prime members can access new fixed pricing for treatment of conditions like erectile dysfunction and men’s hair loss, its latest effort to compete with other direct-to-consumer marketplaces such as Hims & Hers Health and Ro. Shares of Hims & Hers closed down more than 24% on

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Why is the euro falling and could it hit $1? By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) -The euro has fallen to one-year lows, reviving talk the currency could hit the $1 mark. Donald Trump’s U.S. election win raises the prospect of a hike in tariffs that could deal a fresh blow to the euro zone economy. At around $1.05, the euro has slumped 6% from more than one-year highs in September when a weakening economic outlook stopped it in its tracks. Euro/dollar is the

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Donald Trump Names Former SEC Chair Clayton to DOJ Office, the Same Office That Prosecuted Sam Bankman-Fried

In the week since his reelection, the former and now future president has named a number of individuals he intends to nominate to cabinet and other positions, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the Department of Health and Human Services, Representative Matt Gaetz to be the U.S. Attorney General, Senator Marco Rubio to be Secretary of State and former Representative Tulsi Gabbard to be the Director of National Intelligence. Source

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