Tom Lee has called for a stock rally after rate cuts, but even after the Fed cut 50 basis points, he's wary on stocks ahead of the election.

Five candidates start off an election campaign, but only one will emerge victorious, chosen by the people. Sounds like democracy in all its soaring possibilities and frustrating perils.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that Iran would “double down” its efforts to interfere with the United States’s presidential election so long as there is no resistance from the Biden administration.

The Economist’s forecast model suggests that the state—with its 19 electoral-college votes, the most of any swing state—is the tipping-point in 27% of the model’s updated simulations, meaning it decides the election more often than any other state.

Neuberger Berman senior portfolio manager Steve Eisman said he has “no idea” who will win the US presidential election — reversing an earlier prediction that Donald Trump would triumph — but said the markets will be fine in any scenario apart from a sweep by Democrats.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pledged Thursday that the US Postal Service will undertake “heroic efforts” to deliver all mail-in ballots on time this year and urged people to put their ballots in the mail at least one week before Election Day on November 5.

Michaels confirmed that “SNL” alum Maya Rudolph will return to portray Vice President Kamala Harris. He also said that Steve Martin will make an appearance this season but not to portray Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, despite calls from people on the internet lobbying for it.

Donald Trump’s obsession with election fraud that doesn’t exist in any significant form could drive the country into a government shutdown — and may even put the Republican House majority at risk.

Five competitive House seats are shifting slightly in the final weeks of the 2024 election, with three shifting toward Democrats and two toward Republicans as the GOP works to widen its razor-thin majority in the lower chamber next Congress.