Schroders: congressional gridlock may prove costly this time City Talk This year’s US midterms look set to produce a divided government in Washington. Investors have historically viewed congressional gridlock as market-friendly, but that assumption may no longer hold, says George Brown Midterm elections are often a painful reckoning for the party in power, with current polling suggesting the Republicans are unlikely to escape that fate. [...]
A post-midterms, lame-duck Trump could be the most dangerous yet Opinion Trump is obsessed with sealing his legacy by any means. The next two years will probably be Trump's most violent yet, writes Michael Martins.