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Millions of Americans risk losing subsidies next year that help them pay for health insurance following President-elect Donald Trump’s election win and Republicans’ victory in the Senate. Even Democratic control of the House likely won’t save the subsidies, he added. As of Thursday afternoon, House Republicans had won 209 seats, just nine short of the majority, according to an NBC News tracker. In 2024, more than 20 million people got health insurance through the ACA, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “This means fewer people will know their rights under the law and many will not sign up for ACA health care plans.

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☆ What Trump's win means for retail giants like Walmart, Target, and Costco
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Dominick Reuter | Nora Redmond | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump's second term likely means changes are on the way that will impact retailers. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementDonald Trump's return to the White House is likely to usher in sweeping changes that will impact retailers like Walmart, Target, and Costco — ranging from new tariffs to tax cuts and a new regulatory environment. Trump's campaign promises, along with his prior term record, offer some insights into what major retailers can expect from his second term. Advertisement"That's actually very unhelpful for a lot of retailers, especially in areas like technology, which a lot of retailers are involved," he said.

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"You want the toy to be 90% child and 10% toy," says child psychologist Roberta Golinkoff, PhD, author of "Becoming Brilliant." The best gifts for a 10-year-old boy will encourage age-appropriate development and meet the interests of that individual child. Because interests extend beyond outdated masculine stereotypes, great gifts include everything from sports to arts. And while the newest trending toys are great, some classic toys and games shouldn't be overlooked. Below, we've rounded up our top picks for the best gifts for 10-year-old boys, including STEM toys, games, and outdoor toys.

Persons: Roberta Golinkoff Organizations: Business

☆ Stock futures are little changed as Wall Street looks to extend postelection rally: Live updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Hakyung Kim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the morning trading on November 07, 2024 in New York City. U.S. stock futures hovered near the flatline Thursday night after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite hit records in a postelection rally and investors weighed the Federal Reserve's latest interest rate cut. S&P 500 futures and futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added just 0.03% and 0.05% each. The moves higher continue the market rally from Wednesday in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's victory, during which the Dow and S&P 500 rose to their best days since November 2022. The postelection surge put all three of the major averages are on pace for strong weekly gains, with the S&P 500 up about 4.3% and the Dow higher by nearly 4%.

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☆ Jennifer Lopez reacts to ex Ben Affleck praising her
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Jennifer Lopez is keeping it professional. A video making the rounds on social media shows Lopez on a red carpet for her latest project, the film “Unstoppable,” where she was asked about her former husband Ben Affleck’s praise of her performance. Affleck is one of the producers of her film which also stars Don Cheadle, Jharrel Jerome, and Bobby Cannavale. “We believed in the right people, and ‘Unstoppable’ is another example of that.”In the video being widely shared on social media, Lopez opted to extend kind words to the entire cast and crew. We really believe in the power of storytelling when the people involved in it are deeply connected to the story.”He and Lopez split months ago.

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☆ NFL midseason predictions for every team: Kirk Cousins wins comeback award; NFC East champ is …?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( The Athletic Nfl Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +28 min

Our NFL writers addressed these topics and more in making one prediction for every team heading into the season’s second half. The fourth-year back is on pace to finish with 1,256 yards, which would be the fourth-highest total in team history. Every other NFL team has put a player in at least one of those categories during that stretch — and most teams have checked both boxes. Minnesota has one of the most productive defenses in the NFL and an offense loaded at the skill positions. And the Eagles have managed to win games despite bad luck and bad decisions.

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Leading the way was Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the company that owns the Truth Social media platform. Shares of Tesla, the electric automaker owned by Elon Musk, also saw a sizable gain — up 12%. Finally, the price of bitcoin saw an increase of 6.5%, briefly touching an all-time-high of more than $75,000. Trump served as keynote speaker at this year's annual Bitcoin conference in Nashville. Trump has generally pledged to extend or enact major tax cuts while loosening regulations, something that the business community is set to embrace.

Persons: Donald Trump —, Trump, Elon Musk, Musk, Kamala Harris, Isaac Boltansky Organizations: Trump Media, Technology, Social, TMTG, Tesla, Elon, Democratic, Trump Locations: Nashville

Major stock indexes soared Wednesday morning in the wake of Donald Trump's decisive victory in Tuesday's presidential election. The last time the Dow, which represents larger, more established firms, saw a 1,000-point jump in a single day was November 2022. NBC News is projecting that Trump will finish with 276 Electoral College votes in his defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent. Trump has promised to extend or enact sweeping tax cuts and deregulatory policies that are widely supported across the business community. That represents market pushback on one of Trump's key policy planks: A weaker dollar that would support U.S. exports.

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☆ Trump's first 2 years will be shaped by who wins the House. We may not know the outcome for days.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

We still don't know who will control the House next year, and it could take days to count votes. But we still don't know who controls the House of Representatives, and the outcome will have major implications for the first two years of Trump's second term. "As more results come in it is clear that, as we have predicted all along, Republicans are poised to have unified government in the White House, Senate, and House," said House Speaker Mike Johnson in a statement on Wednesday morning. A Democratic House would be a major constraint on Trump's powerHistorically, newly elected presidents have typically enjoyed unified government at the beginning of their terms. Allowing those provisions to simply expire would cause most Americans to experience a major tax hike.

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Business leaders have been reacting to Donald Trump's presidential election victory. Silicon Valley was politically divided in the run-up to the election. Throughout the campaign, Silicon Valley has been divided on which candidate to back. Although Silicon Valley has historically leaned left, some of tech's biggest names, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks, tilted right this election season. Here is what some of the wealthiest and most influential business figures have to say about the election outcome.

Persons: Donald Trump's, —, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Harris, VCs, Trump, Joe Biden's Organizations: Service, Fox News, CNN, Trump, Electoral, Tesla, Labor Locations: Silicon, Ukraine

☆ Financial stocks are leading Wednesday's market rally. We're buying the one left behind
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Following Wednesday's trade, Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust will own 45 shares of BLK, increasing its weighting to 1.3% from 0.86%. We're taking some of the sale proceeds from our morning trims of Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley to buy more BlackRock shares, which curiously were not participating in Wednesday's broad rally in financial stocks. Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley shares surged more than 14% and 11%, respectively, after Donald Trump won the presidential election. And yet, BlackRock stock has given back all its gains from earlier in the session. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

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☆ Here's what President-elect Trump's tariff plan may mean for your wallet
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's plan would reduce average after-tax incomes by almost 3%, according to the tax think tank. "If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer," Daniele said in September. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests a 10% across-the-board tariff would be roughly equivalent to a $320 billion tax on consumers, Cross said. "The administration could take tariff revenue and redistribute to households via tax cuts in some form or another," explained Pugliese of Wells Fargo. However, the typical U.S. household would still lose $2,600 a year from Trump's tariff plan, even after accounting for an extension of the 2017 tax cuts, according to an analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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☆ Fade the euphoria? Here's what could go wrong with the Trump trade
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Stocks exploded higher, bonds tanked and crypto boomed to historic peaks, indicating lofty hopes for when the president-elect takes office in January. However, there's still a lot of game left to be played, and the score could change a lot in future days. Essentially, strategists worry Trump's plan for punishing tariffs, higher spending and lower taxes will send bond yields higher, generally a recipe for trouble in stocks. "The question for me is how much can the Trump rally extend in the short term, but it strikes me that selling long positions into a rally makes a good deal of sense." "This suggests an asymmetric risk/reward framework with a much higher probability of downside than upside," said Lisa Hornby, head of U.S. fixed income at Schroders.

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☆ Toyota posts nearly 20% drop in second-quarter operating profit, missing estimates
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Lim Hui Jie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Japanese automaker Toyota Motor on Wednesday reported its first quarterly operating profit drop in about two years, as it strives to navigate the market shift toward electric vehicles. Revenue : 11.44 trillion yen vs. 11.41 trillion yen: 11.44 trillion yen vs. 11.41 trillion yen Operating profit: 1.16 trillion yen vs. 1.24 trillion yenThe world's largest automaker by sales volume saw a 20% year-on-year drop in operating profit during the quarter. Net profit attributable to company more than halved to 573.7 billion yen from 1.28 trillion a year ago. "If electric vehicles simply become the only choice, including for our suppliers, those people's jobs would be lost." The company maintained a full-year operating profit of 4.3 trillion yen.

Persons: Akio Toyoda, Toyoda, Suzuki Organizations: Toyota, Toyota Motor, LSEG ., Reuters, National, Traffic Safety Administration, Japan's Transport, Ministry of Land, Transport, Honda, Yamaha Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Infrastructure, Tourism

Detailed below is how a second Trump presidency is expected to impact American wallets. Trump's plan to cut the corporate tax rate is generally viewed as bullish for earnings, particularly for the consumer-discretionary, communication-services, and financial sectors. Further, if Trump's presidency is inflationary and leads to interest-rate hikes, that would hit housing affordability in the form of higher mortgage rates, which track the Federal Reserve's benchmark. AdvertisementThe former president has also said he plans to extend his slew of tax cuts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 — also known as the "Trump tax cut." Trump's plan for universal tariffs is seen as offsetting a positive tax impact and would be especially costly for lower-earning Americans.

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Detailed below is how a Trump presidency is expected to impact American wallets. Trump's plan to cut the corporate tax rate is generally viewed as bullish for earnings, particularly for the consumer-discretionary, communication-services, and financial sectors. Trump's plan for universal tariffs is seen as offsetting a positive tax impact and would be especially costly for lower-earning Americans. Trump has proposed expanding the child tax credit, which currently provides up to $2,000 per child. In August, the vice presidential candidate JD Vance floated a child tax credit proposal that would include $5,000 per child for families of all income levels.

Persons: Donald Trump, —, Trump, bitcoin, Vance Organizations: Trump, Service, Biden, White Locations: Americas

☆ Here’s what Trump is proposing for the economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Katie Lobosco | Tami Luhby | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

This includes, among other things, an increase to the standard deduction, lower marginal income tax rates for most income brackets, and an increase to the estate tax exemption. Though his campaign hasn’t released details on the proposal, Trump has indicated that he would eliminate both federal income taxes and payroll taxes, which fund Social Security and Medicare. However, these workers would then get smaller Social Security payments after they retire. Around half of beneficiaries – mainly those with higher incomes – pay federal income tax on their Social Security payments. Trump has also floated ending the federal income tax and replacing it with revenue from tariffs.

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☆ What Steve Kornacki is watching for tonight: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Welcome to an Election Day edition of From the Politics Desk, where we’ll get you set up with everything you need before the results start coming in tonight. Nash County, North Carolina: The county voted for Barack Obama in 2012, Trump in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020. 🗞️ Today’s top stories 🕛 Final countdown: Harris and Trump made their closing pitches at battleground state rallies on Monday night. Read more → 🔎 Disinfo watch: Election officials, legal experts and researchers are bracing for a flood of disinformation and legal claims as vote counting begins. Read more →Election officials, legal experts and researchers are bracing for a flood of disinformation and legal claims as vote counting begins.

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk and his business empire stand to reap massive rewards if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House. Elon Musk joins former US President Donald Trump during a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024. “I love Elon Musk,” Trump said at a rally in July. It’s not clear how Musk and Trump would navigate the ethical questions around a possible government role for the tech billionaire. “He would be in much less trouble in a Trump administration because Trump shares his hostility to regulation and regulators,” Richard Pierce, a law professor at George Washington University specializing in government regulation, told NBC News in an interview earlier this year.

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Voting has now wrapped up in all seven swing states and most others. But no swing states have been called, and the race will hinge on their results. Bomb threats roiled polling places in swing states, including Georgia, Arizona and Michigan. Though the election is by no means over, Mr. Trump is showing strength, winning states like Texas and Florida easily. Democrats will have to run the tables in the Republican states of Ohio and Montana to maintain their one-seat control of the Senate.

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☆ Non-credible bomb threats against Atlanta-area polling places were from Russia, secretary of state says
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Chris Boyette | Ryan Young | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Several non-credible bomb threats that briefly disrupted voting at two Georgia polling places originated from Russia, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters Tuesday. “Anything that can get us to fight amongst ourselves - they can count that as a victory.”Raffensperger, a Republican, did not elaborate on how exactly state officials determined the bomb threats came from Russia. The non-credible threats caused the temporary closure of polling places at the Etris Community Center and Gullatt Elementary in Union City, just outside of Atlanta, according to Fulton County Police. An officer told him and other voters they couldn’t enter the site to vote because of a bomb threat. “They had to remove all the workers, they couldn’t let anyone in until they assessed the threats,” said Osborne.

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☆ Trump still has 4 criminal indictments waiting for him — here's what happens if he wins or loses
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

AdvertisementNot only is the presidency on the line for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, but so are his four criminal indictments. Here's what will happen with Trump's four criminal cases — two federal and two state — if he wins or loses this year's presidency. AdvertisementDonald Trump confers with hush-money defense lawyer Todd Blanche before New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. If reelected president, Trump could ask his attorney general to fire Smith. In July, the US Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion that provides presidents with broad protection from being prosecuted for their official acts.

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☆ Bolster your portfolio for any Election Day outcome
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

With Election Day underway, income investors should soon find out how their portfolio may — or may not — be affected by the outcome. Harris has said she wants to boost the corporate tax rate to 28% and increase the top rate for long-term capital gains to 28% for those making more than $1 million. That means that those who are buying AMT bonds but not paying AMT are getting free income, he said. Lastly, a higher corporate tax rate could also spur banks and insurance companies to return to the muni market. The companies owned a lot of municipal bonds when the tax rate was 35% and many bought more corporate bonds when the tax rate fell to 21%, Brandon said.

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☆ How CNN projects elections
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

CNN —Millions of Americans will be tuning in to CNN and other networks on election night as returns roll in. They’ll be waiting to see who wins, something CNN will determine with a series of projections. I talked to Jennifer Agiesta, CNN’s director of polling and election analytics, about how CNN approaches the job of projecting a winner. But it tends to be after Election Day in a place like Pennsylvania. Is there a precedent in your career for a race that’s this close heading into Election Day?

Persons: They’ll, Jennifer Agiesta, It’s, that’s, they’re, what’s, We’ll, Carter Smith, There’s, we’re, they’ll, we’ll, Megan Varner, Donald, Trump, Kamala, Harris, it’s Clark, That’s, I’m Organizations: CNN, White, Democratic, Republican, Bloomberg, Getty, Reuters, Democrat, New, Electoral College Locations: Houston, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Atlanta, Nevada , Michigan, Wisconsin, Maricopa, In Nevada, Washoe, Milwaukee, Dane County, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Florida . New Mexico, New Hampshire

☆ Lobito Corridor: Angola’s US, Europe-backed railway could change how minerals move in Africa – and globally
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Amy Gunia | Jackelyn Prager | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —In late August, a container vessel sailed out of Angola’s Port of Lobito carrying railway operator Lobito Atlantic Railway’s first shipment of copper from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the US. That’s about 30 days faster than a road journey, according to Francisco Franca, the CEO of Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR), a consortium of firms that took over operations of the railway in January. The ship took Lobito Atlantic Railways first shipment of copper to the US. “Lobito Corridor is not just a railway line, but is the economic development along the corridor,” said Franca, the CEO of LAR. For companies like his, the benefits of the Lobito Corridor are clear.

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