(Reuters) -Berkshire Hathaway sold about 33.9 million shares of Bank of America for around $1.48 billion over multiple transactions this week, a regulatory filing showed. After the sale, Berkshire owned about 999 million BofA shares. Berkshire is one of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender’s largest shareholder. It also invests in several other banks, including Wells…
(Reuters) -Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined to endorse either Donald Trump or Joe Biden and said he does not plan to be involved in the upcoming U.S. presidential election in any way, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. In an interview with the publication on Thursday, the tech executive said former President Trump’s immediate…
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week, a fashion trend with a difference has emerged — fake ear bandages, donned by attendees as a symbolic gesture of support for Donald Trump. Trump has appeared at the convention wearing a large bandage where a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his right ear…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by seven Republican-led states to put on hold parts…
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican former President Donald Trump is planning to fundamentally alter the U.S. relationship with NATO should he win a second four-year term in office. On the campaign trail, he has also floated sending armed forces into Mexico to battle drug cartels and slapping expansive tariffs on friends and foes…
By Caroline Valetkevitch and Isla Binnie NEW YORK (Reuters) -World stock indexes and Treasury yields rose on Monday while the dollar dipped as investors weighed the prospect of Republican Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential race after he survived an assassination attempt over the weekend. The Dow hit a record high early, helped by some…
By Costas Pitas, Susan Heavey (Reuters) -Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump will face each other in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, after a divisive contest that included an assassination attempt on Trump. Several third-party hopefuls are also running. Here is a list of the candidates: REPUBLICAN PARTY DONALD TRUMP…
By James Oliphant and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a country already on edge, the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has enraged his supporters, paused the Democratic campaign and raised fears of further political violence in the run-up to November’s election. Trump’s Republican allies painted him as a hero on Saturday, seizing…
By Hyunjoo Jin and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, publicly endorsed Donald Trump for the first time in the U.S. presidential race, calling the Republican former president “tough.” Musk tweeted the endorsement with a video of Trump pumping his fist after multiple shots rang out at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania,…
(Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman endorsed Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race on Saturday. “I just endorsed him,” Ackman posted on social media platform X after former President Trump was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally earlier Saturday. “But you know me. I write long posts on important…
