Fifa and Infantino face subpoenas after Democrats blitz Trump in US midterms Sport Business Fifa and Gianni Infantino face being issued with subpoenas over their ties to Donald Trump after Democrats routed the US President’s administration in the midterm elections. The Democrats’ majority in the House of Representatives hands them legal powers to compel testimony after Fifa and Infantino ignored previous attempts to investigate the close relationship between football’s [...]
US 2026 midterms: it’s the economy stupid! Opinion Donald Trump has suffered a historic defeat in the US 2026 midterms, as voters across the country put aside their doubts about pro-Gaza, pro-trans, pro-abortion Democratic candidates who promised to tackle inflation, says Tom Harwood Something remarkable has happened in the United States of America. Something that had been thought to be completely impossible. The [...]
Global markets cheer to ‘gridlock’ after Democrats sweep US midterms Markets Global stocks rallied after the Democratic party swept the US midterm elections settings the country up for political “gridlock”. Democrats flipped control of both the House of Representatives and Senate, handing the party greater domestic control over US policy and introducing a major blocker to President Donald Trump’s agenda. In the US, a bill must [...]
Schroders: congressional gridlock may prove costly this time September 14, 2026 | 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. [...]
Trump could gain £2.4bn in Truth Social public float March 22, 2024 Former US President Donald Trump could be in the money to the tune of £2.4bn after investors approved his plan to launch online platform Truth Social on the stock market.
Super Tuesday has ‘never mattered less’: Donald Trump to seal Republican presidential nomination March 5, 2024 Donald Trump will likely secure the Republican nomination in the weeks after a major day of primaries - Super Tuesday - being dubbed a “formality”.
‘Had enough of experts?’ Record level of Brits now want them in charge April 6, 2023 Record levels of Britons now want experts to run the country, a global democracy survey has found. Almost two thirds of the British public – 61 per cent – in 2022, said having experts, not politicians, make decisions according to what they think best, was a good way of governing. The finding comes six years [...]
US Democrats want more EV charging point funding to lower emissions in $1 trillion spending bill August 10, 2021 A group of 28 US House Democrats says the $1 trillion (£725bn) infrastructure bill poised for vote in the Senate falls short in electric vehicle (EV) funding. The current one trillion dollar bipartisan bill includes $7.5bn in electric vehicle infrastructure funding. The 28 Representatives have asked congressional leaders to add $85 billion towards an EV [...]