Marco Longhi, the former Conservative MP for Dudley North, has joined Nigel Farage’s Reform UK after accusing his old party of having been “captured by a left-wing influence masquerading as conservatism”. He is the third ex-Tory MP to defect to Reform UK since last year’s general election, following Aidan Burley and Dame Andrea Jenkyns. Longhi, who lost his seat in ...
Apple has pledged to pay $95 million (£77 million) to settle a US class-action lawsuit alleging that Siri, its virtual assistant, recorded private conversations without users’ consent. The proposed settlement, filed in a federal court in Oakland, California, comes after a five-year legal dispute and covers tens of millions of Apple device owners. Although Apple denies any wrongdoing, it has ...
Half of the cash balance at Pitch@Palace Global, the commercial arm of the Duke of York’s entrepreneurial platform, has been withdrawn in the space of a year, newly filed accounts reveal. The latest figures from Companies House show that the company’s funds fell from £454,979 to £220,990 in the 12 months to 31 March 2024. The document, signed by sole ...
The Russell 2000 ETF managed a double-digit gain in 2024, but did it the hard way with several deep pullbacks. Pullbacks within uptrends are opportunities and we can find such opportunities using %B. The chart below shows the Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) with the Zigzag(8) indicator. This indicator changes direction when there is a move greater than 8%, which means ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., narrowly held onto the gavel in a nail-biter vote on Friday afternoon. Republicans eager to swear in President-elect Trump later this month and capitalize on their control of the House, Senate and White House avoided the same fate of the past two drawn-out speaker elections. After some wrangling by both Trump and Johnson, ultimately Rep. ...
The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker. House lawmakers voted 215-209 along party lines to set the chamber’s rules for the 119th Congress. Among them was a measure to raise the threshold for calling a ‘motion to vacate the chair’ – which sets off a House-wide ...
: President-elect Donald Trump slammed Judge Juan Merchan for denying his request to dismiss the charges against him in New York v. Trump, telling Fox News Digital Democrats ‘just want to see if they can get a pound of flesh because every case has failed.’ Merchan denied Trump’s request to toss his guilty verdict in New York v. Trump, brought ...
Has it been a while since the broader market indexes closed in the green? It certainly seems that way. After what looked like a weak start to the new year, the stock market showed us it still had legs. The week’s trading day ended with the broader stock market indexes all closing in the green. But in the first half ...
In this video, Mary Ellen analyzes the divergence between the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq while highlighting some of the areas driving Growth stocks. She also talks about the continuation rally in Energy and Utility stocks and shares which stocks are driving these areas higher. This video originally premiered January 3, 2025. You can watch it on our dedicated page for Mary ...
Michael Chapman Although the incoming Trump administration says it will cut taxes, reduce regulations, and slash wasteful government spending—all of which are good things—it also intends to enact an industrial policy to bolster US manufacturing, using interventionist tools such as tariffs, subsidies, Buy American rules, and similar commands—all of which are bad things and inherently anti-liberty. “On January 20th, as ...