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Investors must remember when President Donald Trump does something to make the stock market go down, in short time he’ll say something to help stocks go back up, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. Wall Street is the “equivalent of his Nielsen ratings,” the “Mad Money” host said, which is why it’s a mistake to dump an entire portfolio on a tweet-induced sell-off by Trump, such as in last Friday’s 623-point…

Video Gov. Steve Bullock on his presidential campaign, DNC debate controversy Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Steve Bullock joins Dana Perino for an exclusive interview on ‘Fox News Sunday.’ With the deadline to qualify for next month’s third round of Democratic presidential debates closing in, the Democratic National Committee is facing an angry chorus of criticism from the candidates not likely to make the cut. At issue is the DNC’s criteria for…

A judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled against Johnson & Johnson, the deep-pocketed corporate giant, and ordered it to pay the state $572 million in the first trial of an opioid manufacturer for the destruction wrought by prescription painkillers. Johnson & Johnson, which contracted with poppy growers in Tasmania, supplied 60 percent of the opiate ingredients that drug companies used for opioids like oxycodone, the state had argued, and aggressively…

Erin Cunningham August 26 at 2:18 PM ISTANBUL — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday that he was open to talks amid an economic crisis at home and rising tensions with the West, a move that could set the stage for eventual negotiations with the United States.  Rouhani, a moderate, said Iran should use diplomacy to find solutions following the U.S. withdrawal last year from a landmark nuclear deal between Iran…

John Wagner August 26 at 1:20 PM Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) continued Monday to press the case for a U.S. acquisition of Greenland, decrying the “historical ignorance” of those who criticized President Trump for his interest in buying the island from Denmark. “After news leaked last week that President Trump had expressed interest in acquiring Greenland from Denmark, his critics predictably derided him as crazy,” Cotton wrote in a an…

As President Donald Trump mentioned his wife, a camera cut to Melania in the audience, who cocked her head slightly and looked somewhat quizzically at the president. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo White House By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 08/26/2019 03:32 PM EDT The White House issued a clarification Monday stating that first lady Melania Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not, in fact, know each other personally as President…

Chinese newspaper editor debunks Trump’s trade war claims President Donald Trump said China is ready to come back to the negotiating table, but one Chinese insider is calling Trump’s bluff, saying, “China didn’t change its position.” Marketsread more

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Donald Trump has skipped a meeting about climate change and biodiversity attended by other world leaders at the G7 on Monday, in the latest sign that the American government does not view the global threat as a priority. Separately, meeting German chancellor Angela Merkel, the US president claimed there was “great unity” on how to deal with the Iran crisis. Ms Merkel, however, said there was a long way to go on the…

President Donald Trump defended the idea of hosting next year’s G-7 summit at his Miami golf resort, extolling the amenities of his club and insisting he would not profit off the venture. “I’m not going to make any money,” Trump said at a Monday news conference at the G-7 in Biarritz, France. “I don’t care about making money.” But the president, after saying his team surveyed a dozen possible sites…

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Biarritz, France — President Trump lauded his Chinese counterpart on Monday and said Beijing was actively reaching out to Washington to resume trade negotiations and “make a deal.” He made the remarks at a Group of Seven (G-7) summit in France with fellow world leaders, many of whom are gravely concerned about the impact of a deepening trade war between China and the U.S. On Friday Mr. Trump announced that…

A US recession is ‘the biggest concern’ amid tariff war, says… As Washington and Beijing continue to up the ante in their protracted trade fight, the potential of a recession in the U.S. is now “the biggest concern,” according to Standard… US Economyread more

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People walk past an electronic board showing Japan’s Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, October 15, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai August 26, 2019 By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares sank on Monday as the latest salvos in the Sino-U.S. trade war shook confidence in the world economy and sent investors steaming to the safe harbor of sovereign bonds and gold, while slugging emerging market currencies. But…

President Trump has reportedly suggested to advisers that the United States should fend off hurricanes with nuclear bombs. According to a report Sunday evening in Axios, Mr. Trump suggested dropping atomic bombs into the eyes of hurricanes to disrupt the storm systems while they’re in the middle of the ocean. “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” the web-based news organization quotes Mr. Trump as saying,…

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CLOSE French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump attend a working session on “International Economy and Trade, and International Security Agenda” on the second day of the annual G7 summit in Biarritz, France. (Photo: ANDREW HARNIK, AFP/Getty Images) Behind-the-scenes drama at G7 summit as Trump claims all is well Fears of a global recession and other troubling issues awaited President Donald Trump and fellow leaders of the world’s most industrialized economies…

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