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London-based fintech firm Trading.co.uk is launching an app that will generate trading alerts for shares based on Donald Trump social media comments. Watching the U.S. President-elect's personal Twitter feed has become a regular pastime for the fund managers and traders.
Trump knocked several billion off the value of pharmaceutical stocks a week ago by saying they were "getting away with murder" with their prices. Comments earlier this week on China moved the dollar and a pair of December tweets sent the share prices of Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) and Boeing (BA.N) spiraling lower.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @06:30AM
Cash for Clunkers 2.0, anyone?
The first one was such a lovely market distortion we are just starting to get out from under it. "I can't afford a car" is what I hear from all young people. Guess what, they are right. The very cars they would have been buying to start out, are smashed into little cubes or run through the car shredder and melted down.
It's not clear whether the most attention will be paid to Mars or to solar system science missions
It is also not clear what the benefits are. Both the moon and mars are desert wastelands and deep gravity wells. The asteroid belts look much more promising for actual gain in both the science and material (win-win).
Iran but it is not clear what his policy is
My bet is box them in and back them down and then negotiate a deal with them.
ISIS-inspired attacks seem likely to continue forever,
My bet is a gang up on them with Russia and a cutting of funding. Look to the oil and the pipelines and money and you will see why Syria is happening. Also look for oil prices to shoot up again. The house of Suad is not going to like it.
Taiwan policy is negotiable
Everything is negotiable with him. It is a mater of what you are willing to pay and what he will part with.
enough to redirect money to say, NASA
Look back at the history of the moon shot. NASA's greatest feat as a contractor negotiator. They basically got existing material and personnel from the Air Force. We had (and still do) have enough ICBMs to make it so you can walk from crater to crater around the world. Pealing off a small portion of the defenses budget to make the biggest statement ever. We can put a bomb wherever we want too (sputnick was the USSRs way of saying it). The space shuttle which was supposed to save us money ended up costing us so much more because its design became muddled in the bureaucracy of the CIA, NSA, and the AF with an unclear mission goal. Every administration since Ford has has a very erratic line of what should go on with NASA. It is at this point a very capable organization that knows what it is doing but gets jerked around depending on the political winds. Expect nothing very great out of them anymore other than the occasional science win.
It's easy to be optimistic about Trump when his positions are so unclear.
If you only ignore all of his websites and speeches.
As for the wall. If it puts even a slight dent in the human trafficking and graft that goes on I will call it a win.
Also do not watch his misdirection if you want to see what is going on. For every big thing he does there will be a silly crisis (odd rant, weird twitter posting, slightly wrong data). Guess who will eat it like a starved maniac that has not ate anything but crackers for a month. I watched one this weekend and just marveled how the media ate it up.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 23 2017, @07:00AM
That seems likely. But an ISIS-inspired attack doesn't require an actual ISIS. Anyone can say that "ISIS made me do it", and many have. It's more hip and cool than Al Qaeda ever was, and it's not clear that crushing the organization will stop people already living in the West from committing attacks and doing it for the hypothetical utopian Caliphate. Of course, taking the free ISIS teen pussy out of the equation will deliver a severe blow to the cause, but c'est la vie.
Sorry, you said it yourself with:
Including his policy positions and alternative facts like whether it was raining at his inauguration [nytimes.com], etc. This is a man who will literally lie about the weather.
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