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While many across the United States and the world, including President Joe Biden, are urging Americans to lower the political temperature in the country in the wake of a failed assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, some stocks on Wall Street looked upbeat this week.

JD Vance is supposed to help Donald Trump win the Midwest this fall. But almost immediately after the Ohio senator was announced as Trump's vice presidential pick on Monday, one thing became clear: Vance, a 39-year-old Republican with less than two years in Congress, is not well-known among many in his party, even in the swing states Trump hopes he'll deliver. Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra offered a blunt response when asked about Trump's pick minutes after it was announced: «We don't know him.» «If he's from Ohio, he understands our state and the other northern battlegrounds,» Hoekstra said, standing on the floor of the Republican National Convention (RNC). «But we haven't had a chance to take his measure yet.»

Trump and Republican Party Presidential nominee is ahead of his counterpart from the Democratic Party, not all is good with Trump. While the Republican party is aggressively campaigning, it may soon have to face its ‘Taylor Swift Nightmare’. Incumbent President Joe Biden who is on the backfoot with many of his own party members calling for his replacement, attacked Trump while addressing his supporters in Michigan. The party is planning to counter Trump and mount a counter attack that can push Trump and his team on the backfoot. There are many challenges that can be exploited.

Intense general election campaigning in the UK and France, coupled with cracks appearing in President Joe Biden's attempts to retain office, has seen faith in UK, US and European markets dwindle, with HL's Investor Confidence index falling by 6.5% in July. According to the index, faith in UK economic growth decreased by 3.7%, while confidence in the UK market fell by 6.4% in the run up to the general election. Data released by the Office for National Statistics last week revealed the UK economy grew faster than expected the month prior in May, expanding by 0.4% thanks to strong perfor...

Wisesoft Co., a software maker whose Chinese name “Chuan Da Zhi Sheng” implies victory for Donald Trump in Mandarin, rose by the maximum 10% daily limit in Shenzhen. The gains came as the dollar rose and Treasury futures fell as traders took stock of the likelihood of Trump winning in November after the shooting incident over the weekend.

The failed assassination of Donald Trump has spurred a lot of questions and concerns since Saturday, one of the biggest being how the U.S. Secret Service could let something like this happen.

Bitcoin rose above $60,000 after Donald Trump’s defiant response to an assassination attempt spurred speculation that his chances of winning the presidential election have climbed. The former president, who has positioned himself as pro-crypto, said he was shot in the right ear after gunfire erupted at his political rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. His campaign said he was “fine” after the incident and looking forward to going to the Republican National Convention that begins on Monday in Milwaukee.

Donald Trump is now a martyr for the 'cause', no longer an ordinary candidate against Joe Biden. His supporters believe nothing less than the hand of god came between him and the assassin's bullet. Within hours, Republicans were sharing an image of Christ with his hand on Trump's shoulder. Political benefits were instant. Elon Musk endorsed Trump, as did another billionaire. The script flipped: it was the Democrats' demonisation of the Republican candidate that led to the assassination attempt, not the general political tinderbox that American politics has become over the past decade to which Trump has generously contributed, as have fringe Left groups. For the Democrats, an already dicey election just got harder. Internal turmoil is currently their signature tune. Biden has been fighting polls and party leaders to insist he is their best bet even though voters vehemently disagree. Debates on TV channels are a sad reflection on a party seeped in doubt, despair and disarray. Biden hopes the assassination attempt will unite Dems behind him, but the opposite may happen now that Trump is stronger.

Donald Trump, having just survived an attempted assassination, enters the Republican National Convention having not yet announced his vice presidential pick — but he said he'd make that choice on Monday. It remains unclear whether the shooting Saturday at his Pennsylvania rally has changed the former president's thinking about his potential second-in-command. He told Fox News Channel host Bret Baier in a call that he planned to make his pick on Monday. After the shooting, Trump's choice carries considerably more gravity. If a bullet had struck just a little bit to the right, Trump likely would have been killed or seriously injured. The close call puts in stark relief the significance of a position that is a heartbeat away from the presidency. Trump has repeatedly claimed that choosing someone who was qualified to take over as commander in chief was his top consideration for the role.

Donald Trump cements his hold on his Republican Party at its 2024 convention this week, having survived an assassination attempt and navigated numerous legal tangles on the road to the party's presidential nomination. During the four-day event beginning on Monday, the former president will announce his choice for a running mate, having cited as frontrunners Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, all of whom will speak at the gathering. While the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be a festive affair to formally nominate Trump, it occurs at a tense moment in U.S. history on the road to the Nov. 5 election rematch between President Joe Biden, 81, and Trump, 78.

Donald Trump a security lapse? Though there is no foolproof security anywhere in the world, the question being asked is why it happened, and how it can be prevented in the future. Also, it was not the first assassination attempt on a former president or an incumbent one. Ronald Reagan was attacked in 1981 when he was the US president. Former Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, who defended Reagan from a gunman, has compared the recent assassination attempt to the Reagan shooting. Talking to the local television channel 'WGN News', he said that it was a plain and simple security failure. He added that when President Regan was shot, that was also a failure.

As world financial markets reopened after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, one thing was clear: The Trump trade is gaining momentum. 

Donald Trump goes into the Republican National Convention with some bold promises about the U.S. economy, but he has sketched out notably few details about how his plans would actually work

Asian stocks were mixed as the US dollar rose after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump reinforced bets that his chances of winning the presidential election have increased. A Bloomberg gauge of the greenback’s strength against major peers climbed 0.2% in Asia while S&P 500 contracts were little changed. US Treasury futures fell, indicating yields will rise when cash trading begins in London. Cash trading of US bonds is closed in Asia due to a holiday in Japan.

President Joe Biden warned Sunday of the risks of political violence in the U.S. after Saturday's attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, saying, «It's time to cool it down.» In a prime-time national address from the Oval Office, Biden said political passions can run high but «we must never descend into violence.» The president acknowledged the passions of an election year, and that he and Republicans offer different policy visions, but implored Americans to «recommit» to resolving their differences peacefully. «There is no place in America for this kind of violence — for any violence. Ever. Period. No exception. We can't allow this violence to be normalized,» Biden said.

assassination attempt on former US President and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over the weekend could well be the gamechanger of the 2024 US presidential polls. The picture of Trump with an injured ear, blood streaming down his face but resilient and in fighting spirit — punching the air with a clenched fist — is expected to become the defining image of US politics for some time to come. It presents a stark foil to the image of incumbent President Joe Biden, who is facing ever louder calls to step down from the presidential race given the uncertainties over his age and health. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to “strongly condemn” the assassination bid. “Deeply concerned by the attack on my friend, former President Donald Trump. Violence has no place in politics and democracies. Wish him speedy recovery. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased, those injured and the American people,” the PM posted on X. In the US, both the Republicans and the Democrats have condemned the attack. President Biden spoke to Trump after the incident. “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence… It’s sick,” the President said. “That’s one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. You cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this,” Biden has been quoted as saying.

Joe Biden is to address the nation Sunday afternoon after a Situation Room briefing about the apparent assassination attempt on his predecessor, Donald Trump. The announcement of Biden's planned remarks came after homeland security and law enforcement officials briefed Biden, and the White House continued to call for national unity and condemn the stunning act of violence. Vice President Kamala Harris joined Biden for an update from top investigators, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Also participating were White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Kim Cheatle, director of the US Secret Service. Biden quickly denounced the shooting and talked to Trump on Saturday night. His campaign team, meanwhile, is grappling with how to manage the political implications of an attack on the man who Biden hopes to defeat in the November election.

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 on the image of him with his ear bloodied and fist raised, appearing to mouth the words «Fight! Fight! Fight!» Whereas Trump has regularly used violent language with his followers, advisers and allies of the former president flipped the script on his Democratic opponent President Joe Biden, saying it was the demonization of the Republican presidential candidate that led to the assassination attempt.

Trump's Republican allies painted him as a hero on Saturday, seizing on the image of him with his ear bloodied and fist raised, appearing to mouth the words «Fight! Fight! Fight!» Whereas Trump has regularly used violent language with his followers, advisers and allies of the former president flipped the script on his Democratic opponent President Joe Biden, saying it was the demonization of the Republican presidential candidate that led to the assassination attempt. «Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination,» U.S. Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, a top candidate to be Trump's running mate, said on X.

Narendra Modi has become the world's most followed leader on the social media platform 'X' with over 100 million followers. While comparing the followers of various Indian politicians on X, PM Modi stands out significantly in terms of numbers. The Leader of Opposition (LoP), Rahul Gandhi has 26.4 million followers, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has 27.5 million, Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav has 19.9 million, and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has 7.4 million.

The largest Donald Trump-themed memecoin, MAGA (TRUMP), experienced a price surge of over 50% following an assassination attempt on the former United States president while he was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.